Jack Sargeant (born 1968) is a British writer specializing in cult
film, underground film, and independent film, as well as subcultures,
true crime, and other aspects of the unusual. In addition he is a film
programmer, curator, academic and photographer. He has appeared in
underground films and performances. He currently lives in
Australia.Since 1995 Sargeant has written and contributed to numerous
books on underground film, including: Deathtripping: The Cinema of
Transgression, about Cinema of Transgression filmmakers such as
Richard Kern and Nick Zedd, Naked Lens: Beat Cinema, and Cinema Contra
Cinema, a collection of essays on alternative film. He is the editor
of the journal Suture, and has co-edited two volumes Lost Highways: An
Illustrated History of the Road Movie (with Stephanie Watson) and No
Focus: Punk on Film (with Chris Barber). In 2007 Deathtripping was
republished by Soft Skull Press, this was followed by a re-printing of
Naked Lens: Beat Cinema in 2008. In 2014 a collection of essays on the
world of William Burroughs and associated artists such as Brion Gysin
was published as Against Control by Swedish publisher Eight
Millimetre. In 2016 Amok Books published Flesh and Excess: On
Underground Film.He has contributed to numerous books on subjects
ranging from Andy Warhol movies to road rage and car crash songs and
his work has been included in collections such as Mikita Brottman's
Car Crash Culture, Mendick & Harper's Underground USA, Wollen & Kerr's
Autopia, among others. Jack Sargeant (writer) Top Movies & Young Movies