Underground Film

Aubree

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 23:02:55 -0700

Thanks for using the time and effort to write something so interesting

Fans of the Kids in the Hall will recognize Paul Bellini from...

Tue, 08 Feb 2011 17:09:04 -0800

Fans of the Kids in the Hall will recognize Paul Bellini from the “Touch Paul Bellini” contest they ran. But, here he is solo in a beyond awesome music video that he wrote and performed: “We Love Disco.”

Directed to Josh Levy.

(h/t Noam Gonick for bringing this to my attention)

Happy Birthday, Paul Sharits!

Mon, 07 Feb 2011 12:37:53 -0800

He would have been 68 today. Please visit the official Paul Sharits memorial website, run by his son Christopher, in his honor. (It’s a really great website.)

Here’s a 2010 short documentary about seeing Sharits’ Shutter Interface at the Hirshhorn Museum:

Happy Birthday, Alejandro Jodorowsky!

Mon, 07 Feb 2011 12:29:46 -0800

He’s 82 today. And in case you didn’t feel like dropping acid today, watch the trailer for The Holy Mountain instead:

wreckandsalvage: Rockit SOTU - win the future (via...

Thu, 27 Jan 2011 09:47:41 -0800

wreckandsalvage:

Rockit SOTU - win the future (via wreckandsalvage)

Just in case you missed President Obama’s hour long State of the Union address, here’s a Rockit version to catch you up to speed in less than a minute.

I like the State of the Union when President Obama promises me lots of snacks!

Michael Lucid and Amanda Barrett camp it up in this history of...

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 14:08:31 -0800

Michael Lucid and Amanda Barrett camp it up in this history of “bad girls,” from Moses’ sister to Karen Carpenter. From their sketch comedy show Pretty Thingsss.

fuckyeahexperimentalcinema: Vinyl (Andy Warhol, 1965)

Sat, 22 Jan 2011 10:49:26 -0800

fuckyeahexperimentalcinema:

Vinyl (Andy Warhol, 1965)

Happy Birthday, David Lynch!

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 12:26:47 -0800

He’s 65 today.

I still think he’s wrong about the phone thing.

Best book on Eraserhead and other cult classics:

Tribute/spoof by Andre Perkowski:

This is the back of Lynch’s head in his early short film The Amputee:

Caged Fire on imdb

Wed, 19 Jan 2011 13:24:14 -0800

themoontheeye:

Caged Fire now on the Internet Movie Database: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1819487

Good, trippy short flick about an interrupted affair.

Filmmaker To Know: Mike Rollo

Tue, 18 Jan 2011 16:31:57 -0800

Mike Rollo is a Montreal-based experimental documentary filmmaker who specializes in making films that deal with issues of geography and identity. For example, his award-winning Ghosts and Gravel Roads features photographs placed in and around abandoned homes out in the middle of nowhere. Viewers are left trying to determine what relation, if any, there is between the people in the photos and the locations.

Rollo is also a founding member of the Double Negative Collective, a group of Montreal artists who both produce and curate experimental media shows. Plus, he teaches film production at Concordia University.

Learn more about this filmmaker at Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film.

Visit the filmmaker’s website.

Short Film: Patience (2006):

Meet the patron saint of wandering souls, Poppa Neutrino who has...

Tue, 18 Jan 2011 09:56:04 -0800

Meet the patron saint of wandering souls, Poppa Neutrino who has traveled the world and has had outrageous adventures such as running a Mexican circus and crossing the Atlantic on a homemade raft.

But still, the place he calls home is … Well, he doesn’t call anyplace home! He’s a cheerfully and aggressively homeless vagabond. Learn all about his adventures in the documentary Random Lunacy: Videos From the Road Less Traveled.

See more photos.

Read the Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film’s movie review.

Jeff Keen is an amazing underground artist and filmmaker based...

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 10:26:14 -0800

Jeff Keen is an amazing underground artist and filmmaker based in the U.K. He’s been making films since the ’60s, but has been having some trouble lately, both health related and financial. Do yourself a favor and learn about this wonderful filmmaker in the links below. Then, spread the word so we can all help him out.

(By the way, the above piece, which was found on Keen’s official website, contains artwork I believe that was obtained from the comic book The Shadow #5 (June-July 1975) illustrated by Frank Robbins.)

Watch Keen’s classic film Marvo Movie (1967).

Dig deep into the Jeff Keen archives.

Official Jeff Keen web site.

Jeff Keen Facebook page.

imageoscillite: The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye (Trailer)...

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 10:20:49 -0800

imageoscillite:

The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye (Trailer) by Marie Losier

An intimate, affecting portrait of the life and work of ground-breaking performance artist and music pioneer Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV) and his wife and collaborator, Lady Jaye, centered around the daring sexual transformations the pair underwent for their “Pandrogyne” project.

This looks like a beautifully strange film.

Currently Reading: John Waters' Role Models

Sun, 16 Jan 2011 12:22:11 -0800

Only a few chapters in, but it’s great. The one on Manson murderess Leslie Van Houten is particularly moving.

John Waters’ Role Models

stagnantpond: Tom Palazzolo talks about his film Jerry’s...

Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:27:00 -0800

stagnantpond:

Tom Palazzolo talks about his film Jerry’s Deli

You can also watch the 8-minute short on Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film and read more about Palazzolo here.

Happy Birthday, Stan Brakhage!

Fri, 14 Jan 2011 11:00:28 -0800

Stan Brakhage would have been 78 today.

Female Convict #1031 slices up her own foot in Oren Shai’s...

Fri, 14 Jan 2011 09:18:53 -0800

Female Convict #1031 slices up her own foot in Oren Shai’s women-in-prison movie tribute Condemned. You can get more flattering pictures of actress Margaret Anne Florence and her sultry cellmate Aprella in this photo gallery.

Or, just go ahead and watch this great noir short movie on Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film.

themoontheeye: Caged Fire On the Blue Sky Film Festival...

Fri, 14 Jan 2011 09:11:51 -0800

themoontheeye:

Caged Fire On the Blue Sky Film Festival schedule:

http://www.blueskyfilmfest.com/schedule/

Going to Blue Sky? Be to sure to check out UK-filmmaker Mr. Young’s short flick.

wreckandsalvage: Palin’s Breath (by wreckandsalvage) You can’t...

Thu, 13 Jan 2011 08:49:59 -0800

wreckandsalvage:

Palin’s Breath (by wreckandsalvage)
You can’t throw an extremely high res video up and expect me to ignore it. This is a quick chop.

Filmmaker To Know: James Fotopoulos

Wed, 12 Jan 2011 12:45:36 -0800

James Fotopoulos is an incredibly prolific filmmaker who has been turning out dozens — actually probably hundreds — of experimental and avant-garde feature films and shorts since the early ’90s. He made a huge splash in the underground film world in the late ’90s and early ’00s with a trio of acclaimed feature-length movies — Zero, Migrating Forms and Back Against the Wall — shot on 16mm film and which took semi-familiar concepts, such as the romantic drama and the gangster thriller, and twisted them through an unconventional prism of storytelling, disturbing visuals and unflattering characters.

Many of his short films and his more recent work are highly experimental in nature, shot on video and have been collaborations with other filmmakers and artists such as Raymond Pettibon, Ben Coonley and Cory Arcangel.

You can learn more about this filmmaker at his official website and on Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film.

Films Available:
Zero (Amazon | Netflix)
Migrating Forms (Amazon | Netflix)
Back Against the Wall (Amazon | Netflix)

Migrating Forms movie trailer (NSFW):