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	Underground film - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the late 1950s, "underground film" began to be used for pockets of early independent film makers operating first in San Francisco, California and New York City, New York, and soon in other cities around the world as well.
		The term "underground film" is occasionally used as a synonym for cult film.
		The films of Kenneth Anger, for example, could arguably be described as underground, experimental and cult.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Underground_film (429 words)

	2nd Boston Underground Film Festival Profile, 2/00
		David Kleiler, organizer of Boston's Underground Film Festival, is helping me out: "Anything labeled underground has to be in part subversive, in part potentially offensive." These are films that stretch the boundaries and push buttons, sometimes tastefully, sometimes not.
		Often, the largest obstacle underground films face, aside from being made, is being seen.
		The Underground Film Festival's mission is to fill a gap that's not currently being filled in the Boston area.
	www.newenglandfilm.com /news/archives/00february/underground.htm (629 words)

	Underground . Nashville Scene . 03-30-98
		By the film's final section, when father loses son and brother kills brother, the zaniness of the first two-thirds has given way to a long, sustained note of regret and to indelibly surreal images of devastation: a flaming wheelchair creeping in circles, a body suspended from the rope of an incessantly pealing church bell.
		Underground closes with a coda of extraordinary sweetness and beauty, as Kusturica literally reassembles his country before casting it adrift forever on a sea of memory.
		Underground is scheduled to play only a week at the Watkins Belcourt; we can only hope it draws more of an audience than the excellent Welcome to Sarajevo did a few weeks ago.
	www.filmvault.com /filmvault/nash/u/underground1.html (1125 words)

	Film Festivals - The Boston Globe
		Films are chosen for their ability to push the envelope in their genre, but they must also meet a high standard for production...
		Underground film, Irish film, out-of-the-way-places film, and film about women — the hills are alive with the sound of many film festivals
		Films are chosen for their ability to push the envelope in their genre, but they must also meet a high standard for production values, according the festival’s managing director, Anna Feder.
	www.boston.com /ae/events/articles/2006/03/15/the_joy_of_film (1183 words)

	Columbia Abuzz Over Underground Film - Campus Watch
		The film, about anti-Israel sentiment at the school, has not yet been released to the public, but it has been screened for a number of top officials of Columbia, and talk of its impact is spreading rapidly on a campus where some students have complained of anti-Israel bias among faculty members.
		The film is the creation of the David Project, a 2-year-old group based in Boston that advocates for Israel and is led by the founder of the American Anti-Slavery Group, Charles Jacobs.
		Brinkley would return calls seeking comment about the film, though at a meeting in Washington this week with women active in Jewish charitable work the Barnard president is said to have spoken of how emotionally affected she was by the film.
	www.campus-watch.org /article/id/1321 (1124 words)

	Montreal Underground Film Festival
		As such, film scholars consider the experimental or avant-garde film to be one of the major modes of filmmaking, along with the narrative film, the documentary film and arguably animation."
		As the term suggests, the experimental film is often but not necessarily made to test an audience's reaction to certain performances or types of presentation not normally found in mainstream cinema.
		Such films are usually avant-garde and may shock or surprise their viewers, intentionally or otherwise.
	www.montrealundergroundfilmfestival.com /home.htm (245 words)

	CUFF Fund - The 10th Annual Chicago Underground Film Festival
		The Chicago Underground Film Fund was established five years ago by the Chicago Underground Film Festival to aid underground and independent film and video makers who share the festival's maverick spirit and defiant attitude.
		Cash grants of between $500 and $2,000 will be awarded to selected film or video makers for completion of works-in-progress that are in keeping with the festival's mission to promote works that push boundaries, defy commercial expectations and transcend the mainstream of independent filmmaking.
		Film projects in 35mm, 16mm or super-8 will be considered as well as all video formats.
	www.cuff.org /2003/cufffund.php (466 words)

	WHATEVER HAPPENED TO ENGLISH UNDERGROUND FILM
		Apart from anything else the main historical chronicles weren't written until the mid-seventies by which time the Underground was defunct and the authors were only interested in it as an early stage of the avant garde in which they were entrenched.
		After 1970 the term 'Underground' was rapidly dropped to be replaced by "Avant Garde', "Experimental' and `Independent' in both the mainstream media and the journals of the movement.
		London's Underground film movement was an integral part of the counter culture, it shared the same venues and ideology which was a coalition of psychedelic youth culture and anarchist and ultra leftist agitation.
	hammer.prohosting.com /~explodin/underground.html (1474 words)

	Film Festival Today - Features - Dailies - Item (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		The festival's mission is to showcase under-the-radar films from today's up-and-coming directors that have not yet reached the masses via the multiplex, hence the idea of underground films.
		Pak's first feature film includes four stories in which utterly human characters struggle to connect in a world of mechanical office workers and robot babies, exploring love, death, family…and robots through "science fiction from the heart." Pak has been recognized by Movie Maker Magazine as one the top 25 faces in independent film.
		The Indianapolis Underground Film Festival began in 2001 when Joel Umbaugh and Chad Richards from The Film Commune had the inspiration to put on their own event after attending the Sundance Film Festival.
	www.filmfestivaltoday.com /dailies_item.asp?ID=220 (668 words)

	Underground film
		The term "Underground film" is ocassionally used as a synonym for cult film.
		This text evaluates the underground in general and the seminal films in particular, covering the history and scope of the genre.
		Underground U.S.A. offers a fascinating overview of this area of maverick moviemaking by considering the links between the experimental and exploitative traditions of the American underground.
	www.jahsonic.com /UndergroundCinema.html (1571 words)

	"Means of Production" California Underground Film 1989-2001
		In collaboration with the Scratch Film Junkies.Music by Soul Coughing The Scratch Film Junkies congregate once a week in a dank hole in the Mission District of San Francisco to manipulate film one frame at a time and inhale solvents and paint fumes.
		This film is based on the last recordings of Zijian, a visionary and a friend.
		She is currently working on three films (Hallowed,Grimm Enchantment, and Bodyscope) which comprise a visual invesitgation of the intersection between medicine, art, and religion.
	www.othercinema.com /euro/program2.html (1036 words)

	Synoptique - Underground Film, Into the Light : Two Sides of the Projected Image in American Art, 1945-1975
		The filmmaker, film organizer and avant-garde polemicist Maya Deren was one of the first in America to position experimental film as an “amateur” alternative to Hollywood, with its cumbersome technology and labour practices.
		Each film is projected onto opposite sides of a metal screen located in the centre of the room, requiring the viewer to circumnavigate the screen in order to perceive the whole piece.
		This is what the underground is all about.” [26] From the late-60s to the late-70s, the territory paved by the underground cinema and its more over-ground auxiliary, the New American cinema, provided carte blanche for visual artists looking to circumvent medium-specificity and the commodification of art.
	www.synoptique.ca /core/en/articles/kashmere_underground (3865 words)

	Underground USA: Filmmaking Beyond the Hollywood Canon Edited by Xavier Mendik and Steven Jay Schneider (London: ...
		His mind-bendingly puerile films are often exceptionally funny, because they literally appear to have sprung fully formed from the mind of an obnoxious 10-year old boy.
		In the '60s and '70s, film co-ops sprung up all around the world, in response to the lack of distribution options for avant-garde, independent and underground films.
		Williams does Mulvey one better, arguing that her theory that only “avant-garde” films are “oppositional” is all wet, because Mulvey's theory “became redundant with the emergence of a diverse number of theories associated with the fluid nature of visual spectatorship” (p.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/books/04/30/underground_usa.html (1758 words)

	The Velvet Underground - Films
		Notes: The Making of an Underground Film, a report about Piero Heliczer's film Venus In Furs, with the Velvet Underground performing Heroin, Heliczer joining in on saxophone was broadcasted on December 31, 1965 in the CBS Walter Cronkite Show.
		The spate of "hip" Hollywood films, which began to appear after 1966, was about as socially significant as the various Kennedy assassination "souvenirs", and was proffered with the same exploitive street-vending zeal.
		As if to authenticate the film's countercultural status, the second reel documents the arrival of the New York City police during the filming, apparently in response to a telephoned complaint about the noise level at the Factory.
	members.aol.com /olandem3/films.html (2023 words)

	Interview with Evonne Wetzner of Video Underground, 10/02
		Evonne is Jamaica Plain's Evonne Hyla Wetzner, founder of the underground film revolution ("ufr") and a vital part of Boston's independent film scene.
		They all told me that it was the mainstream films that ultimately make the money." Accordingly, Wetzner broadened her vision to include the moneymakers, but vowed pay more attention to the indies when it came to actually promoting rentals.
		Perhaps this all sounds too pat for the real world, but the very fact of The Video Underground's existence is testament to Wetzner's far-flung, well-established network of supporters, a network that has the reach to ensure that the Underground starts strong and builds momentum from there.
	www.newenglandfilm.com /news/archives/02october/evonne.htm (1055 words)

	PerformInk Online
		As the years passed we realized that in order to be underground, you have to represent all facets of the underground.
		Ed Halter and the folks at the New York Underground Film Fest (NYUFF) also recognize the increasing role their fest is playing in the development of independent careers, particularly in the experimental realm.
		As an established part of the NYC film scene, NYUFF is able to hook filmmakers into the cinematheque and museum network.
	www.performink.com /Archives/film/UndergroundFilm2002.html (1125 words)

	NPR : Children Underground
		They are the discarded legacy of the fall of a Communist regime -- and the focus of an Oscar-nominated documentary film, Children Underground.
		The film does not shy from documenting scenes of utter destitution and self-abuse.
		Children Underground, Belzberg's first film, gets its title from where the children sleep at night, a Bucharest subway station.
	www.npr.org /programs/watc/features/2002/mar/children_underground (440 words)

	Splendid: Departments: &: New York Underground Film Festival
		The charm of the film is largely due to Cynthia herself; she comes off as an incredibly sweet, slightly neurotic, slightly naive, wholly wacky woman who just happened to have had a really clever idea almost forty years ago.
		And while it might seem unlikely, by the end of the film you can't help but be awed by the fact that this sweet, awkward woman is still getting down with the occasional scrawny rocker boy, not to mention making casts of their cocks.
		The episode was re-staged and filmed by Dougherty and a small group of her actor/artist friends.
	www.splendidezine.com /departments/&/nyuff.html (4300 words)

	The New York Underground Film Festival (March 5-11, 2003) \| PopMatters Film Feature
		The term "underground" is loose and wild here, affixed to experimental video art, standard documentaries about not-so-standard subjects, skateboarding videos (some sponsored by Stussy), a retrospective of Joe Sarno's notorious sexploitation films of the '60s, and short films that range from giddy to punk rock to tranquil to simply incomprehensible.
		The film opens with footage from the War, almost unbearably disturbing: headless bodies dragged along the ground, men and women shot in their heads, and the aftermath of children's executions.
		The film's linear chronology makes the Weathermen's actions look necessary, fated, and understandable; they are not evil, but driven to extremes by an unjust and oppressive system.
	popmatters.com /film/features/030320-nyuff-2003.shtml (1358 words)

	Be Film The Underground Film Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Laurence Asseraf founded The Tribeca Underground Film Festival in March 2004 in her gallery "A Taste of Art" in Tribeca, focusing on short films and allowing the vibrant New York City community of filmmakers to use her space as a forum to show their films and discover shorts from all over the world.
		Aiming at becoming the largest short film festival on the East Coast, it provides a cultural and entertaining forum while recognizing and honoring independent emerging filmmakers through a panel of judges from the entertainment industry who reviews the films and gives the awards.
		TUFF has been threatened of a possible lawsuit by Tribeca Film Festival if it continued to use the word Tribeca in its name because it supposedly was infringing on their trademark, and created a possible confusion between the two festivals despite the fact that it had added the word Underground.
	www.tribecaundergroundfilmfestival.org (277 words)

	PRESS RELEASE Brooklyn Underground Film Festival Celebrates 4th Season (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Having received more than 1,000 film submissions, the fourth annual festival will showcase the freshest, most innovative voices in underground film including comedies, dramas, documentaries, and experimental work.
		The Brooklyn Underground Film Festival also hosts an art exhibit, which will be on display at the Brooklyn Lyceum for three months.
		The Brooklyn Underground Film Festival is an outlet for emerging and radical new voices from around the globe.
	www.marketwire.com /mw/release_html_b1?release_id=111226 (352 words)

	Boston Underground Film Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		The festival is particularly interested in films that explore musical components, topics and themes.
		The Boston Underground Film Festival seeks films that celebrate the alternative vision and sound, offering a platform that encourages new ideas work and ideas, and pushes the envelope in style and content.
		The Boston Underground Film Festival (B.U.F.F.) is an annual festival committed to the celebration of alternative vision and cultivation of independent, provocative and experimental filmmaking.
	www.bostonundergroundfilmfestival.com (218 words)

	Bringing the World to the Nation: Jia Zhangke and the Legitimation of Chinese Underground Film
		In addition, it is still the case, and remains a significant fact, that films that are actually banned in China are, thanks to the restrictions on theatrical release and advertising, often destined to be permanently unavailable to the vast majority of the domestic population.
		The claim that a film's legal status in China is always of more interest to foreign audiences than to domestic viewers is belied by the words of an anonymous poster on a Beijing-based website for film fans, words which document the unique complex of emotions and implications that, for certain Chinese audiences, surrounds Jia Zhangke.
		The complaint that China's artistically ambitious films are made for foreigners is a familiar one among the concerned critical community, and this is all the more true for illegal Chinese films, which are generally quite difficult for domestic viewers to access.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/04/32/chinese_underground_film.html (4213 words)

	Chicago Underground Film Festival
		Unfortunately, due to the graphic and often blasphemous nature of his work, most of Jodorowsky's films have seen limited release, at times drastically edited by the producers or distributors.
		The first feature film to be completed with a grant from the Chicago Underground Film Fund, the film is an unfussy, refreshingly direct exploration of the friendship between two men when one of them comes out of the closet.
		Following the film is CUFF's closing night party and awards ceremony at the Empty Bottle, featuring performances by Competitor (helmed by filmmakers Stephanie Barber and Sarah Price) and the Demolition Doll Rods.
	www.filmfestivals.com /int/overviews/2000/chicago_underground_00.htm (520 words)

	Tribeca Underground Film Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		New York, NY (July 10, 2006) - BE FILM ñ The Underground Film Festival (BTUFF) who also hosts a Shorts Screening Series today announced their partnership with the leader in New York luxury boutique standard, The Bryant Park Hotel.
		About BE FILM The Shorts Screening Series and Film Festival are organized by Be Film, The Underground Film Festival (BTUFF) previously known as Tribeca Underground Film Festival (TUFF).
		Aiming at becoming the largest short film festival on the East Coast, BTUFF provides a cultural and entertaining forum while recognizing and honoring independent emerging filmmakers through a panel of judges from the entertainment industry, who reviews the selected films and gives the awards.
	www.befilm.net /section5.html (333 words)

	Undergroundfilm On Demand Festival - Contest Rules (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Underground Film Festival Sweepstakes will begin at 12:00AM (PDT) on June 1, 2006 and ends at 12:00AM (PDT) on August 31, 2006.
		In the event that any such provision is determined to be invalid or otherwise unenforceable, these rules shall be construed in accordance with their terms as if the invalid or unenforceable provision was not contained therein.
		SPONSORS: Underground Film Festival Sweepstakes is sponsored by Comcast Spotlight, Inc. and UndergroundFilm.org, Northern California Toyota Dealers and ESurance.com, whose decisions regarding the selection of winners and all other aspects of the Sweepstakes shall be final and binding in all respects.
	vote.undergroundfilm.com /rules.html (1396 words)

	THE 11TH ANNUAL CHICAGO UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL
		The Chicago Underground Film Festival exists to showcase the defiantly independent filmmaker.
		Our mission is to promote films and videos that dissent radically in form, technique, or content from the "indie" mainstream and to present adventurous works that challenge and transcend commercial and audience expectations...if you suspect your film is "underground," it probably is.
		Although the art of filmmaking is not competitive, The Chicago Underground Film Festival does give awards.
	www.studentfilmmakers.com /news/article_26.shtml (433 words)

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