Superimposed glass eyeballs from Han Richter’s Film Study, 1926. An introduction to the American underground film. 1967.
We’re coming to the close of a great retrospective of Joe Sarno’s works at New York’s Anthology Film Archives, ending September 26. Sarno was one of the sexploitation genre’s key auteurs, and his films evoke the independent spirit of the underground…
Dimitri Jeannottat, a Biel-based senior designer of Studio Joost Grootens developed a series of posters for the 2018 edition of the Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival (LUFF). The goal was to develop a visual langage that follows the same experimental path as most of
Photographer Bob Mazzer has been documenting the London Underground for 40 years.
The 'Banana Album' turns 50 years old today, and to celebrate, we've singled out some lesser-known gems about the history of the proto-punk pioneers
Ukrainian Photographer Sergey Melnitchenko Captures The Secret Side Of The China’s Underground Club Life. In his words: “Transvestites, girls bathing in tubs of beer, drunk actors and even more drunk visitors. All of this – club, the club where I’m working. Passed one year as I came to Asia to work as a dancer.
Bruce Conner's enormously influential follow-up to A Movie, Cosmic Ray (1962) was the original underground blockbuster—a frantic found-footage-plus-gyrating-naked-woman montage set to Ray Charles's ecstatic What'd I Say. Establishing Conner as the poet of sexual frenzy, the film anticipated the MTV aesthetic and, since it was first shown as a multi-screen projection piece installation at San Francisco’s Batman Gallery, also anticipated the cinema installations that are now commonplace if not ubiquitous. Douglas Gordon’s 24 Hour Psycho (1993) and Christian Marclay’s The Clock (2010) are exemplary instances of Cosmic Ray’s descendants.
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