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A curated selection of our favourite underground films
- Anarchy in The UK: The New Underground Cinema
- Cathedral of New Emotions
- Frozen May
- Merzfrau: Portraits of The Muse, Anna Blume
- Suffering of Ninko
- The Camellia Girl
- Sleep Has Her House
- Still The Earth Moves
- Ten Years in The Sun
- The Kingdom of Shadows
Fabrizio Federico’s most accomplished effort to date is directed by his late alter ego Jett Hollywood who was none other than Ziggy Stardust’s illegitimate son from Mars, according to the happy-go-lucky auteur’s official page. Chronicling the UK’s ‘Misrule Cinema Movement’ boom of the period 2010-2016, this loud, deliberately out-of-tune documentar...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVTMe55QuoA The only fully animated (and the oldest) feature on the list marks the comeback of the psychedelic seventies in the weirdest style possible, resting upon Helmut Herbst’s TV movie The Fantastic World of Matthew Madson (Die phantastische Welt des Matthew Madson, 1974). Focused on the one-time members of a B...
In one step, we move from Germany to Hungary where we are put in the shoes of an unnamed protagonist who struggles to survive in a hostile environment of a bold, patience-testing subversion of the ‘cabin’ subgenre. Face to face with the big Unknown whose presence is sensed all throughout this avant-garde horror, we experience first hand what it fee...
The Scottish wizards of Super 8 processing (in so-called Caffenol) Sarahjane Swan and Roger Simian create their music as The Bird And The Monkey, whereby their cinematic wonders carry the label of AvantKinema. From the mind-boggling debut Alchemikal Sundays to these days, they have delivered a number of ‘miniatures’ showcasing their skills in handc...
What happens when a Buddhist monk strives for enlightenment, but instead keeps sinking in the sultry sea of lust? The answer to this question is offered in a weird genre-bender Suffering of Ninko (Ninkō no junan) which welcomes the audience in the world of alternative Edo-era Japan. In his first (and so far, sole) directorial outing, Norihiro Niwat...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFnnyG-eqxE Another Japanese offering is the ultra-campy adaptation of Suehiro Maruo’s ero guro manga of the same name which was already brought to life by Hiroshi Harada, in a 1992 controversial anime. The Camellia Girl (Shōjo tsubaki) tells the tragic story of a 14-yo orphan, Midori (played by a 27-yo model, Risa N...
Described as ‘the greatest filmmaker of the millennial generation’ by the founder of the Remodernist movement Jesse Richards, the Welsh-born artist Scott Barley is already the master of painting with black. His feature debut Sleep Has Her House – intended to be seen with headphones and lights off like his previous (and highly recommended!) offering...
Pablo Chavarría Gutiérrez is quite possibly the most talented biologist amongst the filmmakers and he has extraordinary films to prove that, his latest opus being the most fascinating of the bunch. Realizing the full potential of cinematic form, he favors associative imagery over all other aspects and defies the norms of dramatic structure, eschews...
One of the most prolific and prominent heralds of Remodernist Movement, the Iranian-born, Ireland-based director Rouzbeh Rashidi has made dozens of short and feature films alike, during his less-than-two-decades-long career. Never working with a script (or a budget), he does manage to conjure impressive images through improvisation and surprise the...
Shot in Portugal, the latest venture by Daniel Fawcett and Clara Pais – the UK’s mavericks of the Underground Film Studio– is a daring surrealist phantasmagoria which borrows from ‘dreams, biblical myths, alchemy and family history’, in the words of its creators. Marrying performative to cinematic art, it provides a unique, oneiric experience and d...
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- Hagazussa: A Heathen’s Curse (2017) Director: Lukas Feigelfeld. Set in a dark, medieval setting, Hagazussa puts us in the shoes of Albrun, a woman who, after living traumatic childhood events, leads a rather secluded life in the cold Alps.
- Resolution (2012) Director: Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead. After receiving a strange email, Michael, a soon-to-be father, becomes worried about his former best friend, Chris, who has become an unstable drug addict.
- Possum (2018) Director: Matthew Holness. Phillip, a visibly troubled man, returns to his childhood home as a disgraced child’s puppeteer. There, he is confronted with dark things that seem to be somehow related to his puppet, called Possum.
- They Look Like People (2015) Director: Perry Blackshear. Sometimes, horror isn’t blood, disturbing spirits or dark rooms. It can be subtle, like a deep, unknown sensation.
Underground Films also helped to produce Jimmy Savile: Untouchable with Shaun Attwood for the True Crime Podcast Youtube channel. This film features Mark Williams-Thomas, Christopher Berry-Dee, Matthew Steeples, Dr Sohom Das and Jason Farrell.
I really enjoy the works of some of the major historic experimental filmmakers, like Maya Deren, Stan Brackhage, Andy Warhol, Kenneth Anger, and the Kuchar Brothers. My personal favorite being "Hold Me While I'm Naked" ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akMfsF7FGkM ).
Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's homage to exploitation double features in the '60s and '70s with two back-to-back cult films that include previews of coming attractions between them.
