a Debut Teaser of Larry Wessel's Boyd Rice Documentary Iconoclast
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WHY does the most dangerous artist in the world today live in a
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“Boyd Rice is a black pimp” -Charles Manson
“Boyd Was My Mentor” -Marilyn Manson
“Boyd is an Iconoclast” -Anton LaVey, Church of Satan
Boyd Rice:
One of the most provocative and influential figures of the post-punk era, since the 1970s Boyd Rice has garnered a reputation as a musician, performer, artist, photographer, occult researcher, orator, deejay, writer, gallery curator and tiki bar designer, among others. First coming to prominence as an avant-garde audio experimentalist, recording under the moniker NON, Rice was a seminal founder of the first wave of industrial music in the late 1970s, alongside Throbbing Gristle and Cabaret Voltaire. Through collaborations with Re/Search Publications, Rice became known as an expert in obscure cult movies and garnered a reputation as a wry humorist whose legendary pranks explored human behavior. An expert in pop culture and outsider art, he is known for his interest in 60s girl groups, tiki culture and the TV show Dark Shadows. He has curated exhibitions of found photographs and readymade thrift store art. To the outrage of many fans, Rice became known in the 1990s for his interest in fascist aesthetics and affiliation with the Church of Satan. Friends and enemies argued if this was an anti-PC joke, a real position, or something else, Rice never let on, preferring instead to argue an anti-Christian message on syndicated Christian radio show, Talk Balk hosted by Bob Larson.
By the start of the millennium Rice had moved on again, leaving behind the Church of Satan, he co-founded the Unpop art movement and continued researching gnostic christian mythologies. Alternately amusing, insightful, confrontational and offensive, Boyd Rice has proven one of the most consistently influential and contentious characters of the last 30 years of American counterculture. He continues to write, record and cause mischief in both the underground and mainstream. Larry Wessel: Cult filmmaker Larry Wessel has directed 15 feature films, including Taurobolium (1994), Sugar and Spice (1995), Carny Talk (1995), Sex, Death and the Hollywood Mystique (1999) and Song Demo For A Helen Keller World (1999). Covering topics ranging from Mexican bull fighting to transvestite performers, artist Robert Williams and prankster John Trubee, old Hollywood and new Los Angeles, Wessel is known for getting access to his subjects and giving them the space to talk, while his trusty camera watches it all unfold. Conspiring with Anton LaVey to prey upon Mr. Rice with the aid of an electronic remote controlled whoopee cushion, Wessel was perfectly positioned to direct Iconoclast. The results speak for themselves.
“Boyd Rice is a black pimp” -Charles Manson
“Boyd Was My Mentor” -Marilyn Manson
“Boyd is an Iconoclast” -Anton LaVey, Church of Satan
Boyd Rice:
One of the most provocative and influential figures of the post-punk era, since the 1970s Boyd Rice has garnered a reputation as a musician, performer, artist, photographer, occult researcher, orator, deejay, writer, gallery curator and tiki bar designer, among others. First coming to prominence as an avant-garde audio experimentalist, recording under the moniker NON, Rice was a seminal founder of the first wave of industrial music in the late 1970s, alongside Throbbing Gristle and Cabaret Voltaire. Through collaborations with Re/Search Publications, Rice became known as an expert in obscure cult movies and garnered a reputation as a wry humorist whose legendary pranks explored human behavior. An expert in pop culture and outsider art, he is known for his interest in 60s girl groups, tiki culture and the TV show Dark Shadows. He has curated exhibitions of found photographs and readymade thrift store art. To the outrage of many fans, Rice became known in the 1990s for his interest in fascist aesthetics and affiliation with the Church of Satan. Friends and enemies argued if this was an anti-PC joke, a real position, or something else, Rice never let on, preferring instead to argue an anti-Christian message on syndicated Christian radio show, Talk Balk hosted by Bob Larson.
By the start of the millennium Rice had moved on again, leaving behind the Church of Satan, he co-founded the Unpop art movement and continued researching gnostic christian mythologies. Alternately amusing, insightful, confrontational and offensive, Boyd Rice has proven one of the most consistently influential and contentious characters of the last 30 years of American counterculture. He continues to write, record and cause mischief in both the underground and mainstream. Larry Wessel: Cult filmmaker Larry Wessel has directed 15 feature films, including Taurobolium (1994), Sugar and Spice (1995), Carny Talk (1995), Sex, Death and the Hollywood Mystique (1999) and Song Demo For A Helen Keller World (1999). Covering topics ranging from Mexican bull fighting to transvestite performers, artist Robert Williams and prankster John Trubee, old Hollywood and new Los Angeles, Wessel is known for getting access to his subjects and giving them the space to talk, while his trusty camera watches it all unfold. Conspiring with Anton LaVey to prey upon Mr. Rice with the aid of an electronic remote controlled whoopee cushion, Wessel was perfectly positioned to direct Iconoclast. The results speak for themselves.