Casandra Stark
Director
Casandra Stark Mele is a New York City underground Icon, considered one of the "principal players in the Cinema of Transgression". She made all her films in the 1980s and early 1990s under the name Casandra Stark.
Movies6
Movie5.0HorrorMusicOddballs dancing, leering at camera, guy shaving a nontraditional part of his body and man ripping his own throat out, woman stabbing herself to death.
Submit to Me Now
1987 · 20 votes
Movie6.9DocumentaryIn the years before Ronald Reagan took office, Manhattan was in ruins. But true art has never come from comfort, and it was precisely those dire circumstances that inspired artists like Jim Jarmusch, Lizzy Borden, and Amos Poe to produce some of their best works. Taking their cues from punk rock and new wave music, these young maverick filmmakers confronted viewers with a stark reality that stood in powerful contrast to the escapist product being churned out by Hollywood.
Blank City
2011 · 19 votes
- Movie9.0
The apparent strangeness of two sisters becomes easily understood as they wreak appropriate revenge on one of their abusive husbands, by tying him up and imprisoning him on their rooftop. They slowly descend into madness as Stark wraps her head in bandages and paints her face white while clutching a baby doll.
We Are Not To Blame
1989 · 1 votes
Movie5.0DramaA junkie wakes up on the streets and walks around, seeing a woman dressed in all white and a heroin addict shooting up.
Go to Hell
1986 · 7 votes
Movie4.1Experimental film consisting of images of young women handling automatic handguns and rifles.
X Is Y
1990 · 14 votes
- Movie7.0
Casandra and Natz pose as a couple locked in a domestic dispute documenting the futility of human relationships and the pointlessness of love.
Wrecked on Cannibal Island
1986 · 1 votes