The titles of Ian Kerkhofs films are both seduction and warning about what to expect from the underground cinema’s baddest bad boy: The Boy Who Masturbated Himself to a Climax, Confessions of a Yeoville Rapist, and Ten Monologues from the Lives of the Serial Killers, for example. Kerkhof is highly controversial in Europe but almost unknown here, though that may be changing with the help of a major profile in Artforum magazine and scattered retrospectives most recently one at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in March 2000. Wasted is the title of one of his films, an inside look at the Dutch rave scene, but also says much about his career and worldview.

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