You Killed Me First is a sizable, black and white, typewriter font, xerox copy, spit-in-your-face time capsule of the influential films made by a group of notable artists who resided in the Lower East Side in the 1980s: Sylvere Lotringer, Carlo McCormick, R. Kern, Susanne Pfeffer, Jack Sargeant and Nick Zedd. Edited by Susanne Pfeffer, this anthology describes the films as an “account of the coarse brutality of life on the lower east side and a response to the hypocritical double standards emphasized by the Reagan administration.”

The book walks you through over a dozen films, presenting the poster/flier for the work alongside a description (with German translations) displayed either next to, on top of, or around a poignant still-frame transferred from Super 8.