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unusual facts about underground film



Camp Blood: The Musical

Camp Blood: The Musical is a 2006 '80s style slasher musical underground film by Tanner Barklow, Jefferson Craig, and Thomas Hughes.

Deathtripping

First published as Deathtripping: The Cinema of Transgression by Creation Books in 1995 and subsequently republished as Deathtripping: The Extreme Underground by Soft Skull Press, Deathtripping is a book by Jack Sargeant which examines the New York based, post-punk underground film movement known as the Cinema of Transgression that formed around the manifesto written by underground filmmaker Nick Zedd.

I.K.U.

Producer Takashi Asai, founder of the underground and independent film production company Uplink, commissioned director and media artist Shu Lea Cheang to "make a sci-fi porn film".


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Hamilton Underground Film Festival

The 2008 event featured a live internet link to the Priorat region of Catalonia where the simultaneous 4th Hamilton Underground Film Festival was hosted by Oscar Hidalgo.

Marisa Olson

Through Nasty Nets and with the sponsorship of Rhizome she premiered a new DVD at the New York Underground Film Festival and was the subject of an exhibition at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.

Mod Fuck Explosion

Mod Fuck Explosion won "Best Feature" at the New York Underground Film Festival in 1995, as well as "Best Feature" in the 1996 Honolulu Underground Film Festival and "2nd Place Feature" in the Freakzone Film Festival in France.

Richard Bluestein

After working in the health care industry for several years and dabbling in radio hosting in Amsterdam, Bluestein moved to Chicago in 1998 and started becoming involved with the underground film and performance scene.

Robert Maier

Maier created the 30-minute underground film Love Letter to Edie, a documentary on the life and career of actress Edith Massey, and wrote the book Low Budget Hell: Making Underground Movies with John Waters about the making of the movies of John Waters.

The Sky Is Falling and I Want My Mommy

The project came about after Nomeansno and Biafra had collaborated (on the song "Falling Space Junk (Hold the Anchovies)") for the soundtrack to the underground film Terminal City Ricochet.

Tuli Kupferberg

An anti-police-brutality skit from his Revolting Theatre appeared in the 1971 Richard Pryor underground film Dynamite Chicken.