The Trap Door (1980)
A Nietzschian parable on the fate of innocence, THE TRAP DOOR follows the mishaps of Jeremy (John Ahearn) as he is fired by his boss (Jenny Holzer), gets laughed out of court by Judge Gary Indiana, loses his girlfriend to sleazy Richard Prince, is hustled by prospective employer (Bill Rice) and mauled by predatory bird-women. Finally, he seeks the help of a shrink (the legendary Jack Smith) who turns out to be the most demented of all.
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Cast
Jenny Holzer
as Ms. Fist
Jenny Holzer (born July 29, 1950, Gallipolis, Ohio, U.S.) is an American installation and conceptual artist who utilizes original and borrowed text to create works that explore and question contempora...
Gary Indiana
as Judge
Gary Indiana is an American writer, actor, artist, and cultural critic. He served as the art critic for the Village Voice weekly newspaper from 1985 to 1988. Indiana is best known for his classic Amer...
Marcia Resnick
as Bird Woman
William Rice
as Fuller Brush Man
William Rice was a member of the avant-garde art scene in the East Village in New York City for many years. A painter, film actor, and an unaffiliated scholar, Bill Rice was one of the central figures...
Jack Smith
as Dr. Shrinkelstein
Jack Smith was an American filmmaker, actor, and pioneer of underground cinema. He is generally acclaimed as a founding father of American performance art, and has been critically recognized as a mast...
Director
Beth B