Activist & Political · Documentaries · Experimental & Underground
Navigating a haunted, and haunting, world In 1994, film historian and programmer Jenni Olson’s friend Mark Finch, a critic who was co-director with Olson of the San Francisco International Lesbian[…]
Essays · Experimental & Underground
As the covert bottom-line interests of capitalist film distribution circumscribe our viewing options as much as overt censorship ever could, we should earnestly applaud the arrival of the new “INDEX”[…]
Directors · Drama · DVD & Blu-ray · Experimental & Underground · Reviews
The master of improv gets his due courtesy of Criterion’s extras-laden box set
Drama · Experimental & Underground
On the seventh day … he should have kept working
Drama · Experimental & Underground
Von Trier’s America may be too cartoonish for its own good
DVD & Blu-ray · Experimental & Underground
A Cruel and Rebellious Plot to Pervert the Minds of Viewers to Unholy Uses
Directors · Experimental & Underground · Festivals & Awards
Painter, photographer, sculptor, composer, musician and here, seminal experimental filmmaker
“An infinite number of possible worlds … and this is the worst one.”
Experimental & Underground · SF & Fantasy
Through the looking glass darkly
Directors · Experimental & Underground
Those crazy “cut-ups” Burroughs, Gysin, and Balch restored to their rightful place in avant-garde film history Preface This is the first serious critical study to contextualize the films of Burroughs,[…]
Directors · Experimental & Underground · Interviews · Visual Artists
“I have been making art for 50 years and have never allowed myself to be corrupted. Quite the opposite, I was locked up.” – Otto Mühl As I tremulously reflect[…]
Experimental & Underground · LGBT & Queer · Reviews
Warhol’s timeless, trashy “girls” come a-callin’ More talked about than seen since its debut, The Chelsea Girls, Andy Warhol’s infamous double-projected dive into a demimonde he created, is getting a[…]
Documentaries · Experimental & Underground · LGBT & Queer · Reviews
The legendary campsters of the counterculture take a bow in this diverting documentary The Cockettes – fondly, if sometimes barely remembered as curios in the camp canon – are reborn[…]
Experimental & Underground · Reviews · SF & Fantasy
If only “little” Otik had stayed that way! Despite its tortured history, Eastern Europe, but particularly Czechoslovakia, has managed to produce an almost uninterrupted flow of the world’s great animation[…]
Documentaries · Experimental & Underground · Music & Musicals
Every social movement needs a soundtrack, and, despite widespread reports of apathetic youth and political stasis, the twilight years of the twentieth century were rife with both. The indie movements[…]
Experimental & Underground · Reviews
Kern’s trashy teens fight and fuck their way through an incomprehensible world Transgression seems more like concept than reality in these no-boundaries days, but in the ‘80s and early ‘90s[…]
Experimental & Underground · Horror · Silents
Poe’s favorite story dressed to kill by a legendary surrealist auteur Poe has proven to be one of the more enduring sources for filmmakers, not only because there’s something modern,[…]
Experimental & Underground · Exploitation & Erotica · Reviews
Feminist screed or fetish-screwfest? Flip a coin Female revenge films aren’t exactly an unknown quantity, especially in the exploitation circuit. Pam Grier was one of the genre’s superstars in the[…]
Directors · Experimental & Underground · Reviews
Free-associating with a master of free cinema “Free cinema” has the dull ring of an oxymoron. The extreme level of control required and the mass of pressures that collide in[…]
Directors · Experimental & Underground
Abigail Child’s compulsive visual collages are visual and aural legerdemain Since the 1970s, experimental filmmaker and poet Abigail Child has been engaged in a kind of cultural archaeology. Unearthing found[…]
