Recent Posts Tagged With underground film festival news

• Outrageous! Empire

  Posted on Wednesday January 27th, 2010 at 07:00 am in andy warhol jonas mekas underground film festival news outrageous underground film moments

  This is the 6th post in a series covering the most outrageous moments in underground film history. You can follow the entire series here. Film: Empire Director: Andy Warhol Year: 1964 During his entire filmmaking career, artist Andy Warhol filmed l...

• Underground Film Blogging Is Hard … But Not Impossible

  Posted on Tuesday January 26th, 2010 at 07:00 am in underground film festival news underground film resources

  So, since I’ve identified — with a generous assist by Jennifer MacMillan and Clint Enns — what the current underground film blogs and websites are, it’s now time to encourage others to get in on the fun. It’s been my be...

• Underground Film History: AFI’s Maya Deren Award

  Posted on Friday January 22nd, 2010 at 07:00 am in kenneth anger george kuchar ken jacobs shirley clarke stan brakhage

  I just found out the other day that the American Film Institute (AFI) used to give out an annual Maya Deren Independent Film and Video Artists Award to celebrate achievements in underground and non-commercial independent filmmaking. Information abou...

• Outrageous! Pink Flamingos

  Posted on Thursday January 21st, 2010 at 07:00 am in john waters underground film festival news outrageous underground film moments

  This is the 5th post in a series covering the most outrageous moments in underground film history. You can follow the entire series here. Film: Pink Flamingos Director: John Waters Year: 1972 On the one hand, choosing only one moment in Pink Flamin...

• Martin Scorsese: Champion Of The Underground

  Posted on Wednesday January 20th, 2010 at 07:00 am in david lynch jonas mekas george kuchar underground film festival news mike kuchar

  On Sunday, Martin Scorsese was given the Golden Globes Cecil B. DeMille lifetime achievement award honoring him equally for his long filmmaking career and for his film preservation work. In 1990, Scorsese created The Film Foundation along with seve...

• Four Iraq War Documentaries On DVD

  Posted on Tuesday January 19th, 2010 at 07:00 am in underground film festival news garrett scott usama alshaibi amazon underground netflix underground

  Bad Lit was painfully disappointed that neither The Hurt Locker nor its director, Kathryn Bigelow, won a Golden Globe the other night. We can only hope that the film fares better — way better — on Oscar night. Other than that Golden Glo...

• Todd Phillips: From The Underground To The Golden Globes

  Posted on Monday January 18th, 2010 at 07:00 am in new york underground film festival underground film festival news

  Congratulations to director Todd Phillips for winning the Best Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical Golden Globe for his hit film The Hangover. Phillips, it may not be popularly known by anyone other than regular readers of this site, holds a s...

• Outrageous! Window Water Baby Moving

  Posted on Saturday January 16th, 2010 at 07:00 am in stan brakhage underground film festival news outrageous underground film moments

  This is the 4th post in a series covering the most outrageous moments in underground film history. You can follow the entire series here. Film: Window Water Baby Moving Director: Stan Brakhage Year: 1959 Today, having an excited father-to-be stand ...

• Are All Underground Film Festivals The Same?

  Posted on Friday January 15th, 2010 at 07:00 am in underground film festival news underground film resources

  Asking the question “Are all underground film festivals the same?” is a bit of a trick question. Of course, no two film festivals of any kind — underground, overground, international, mainstream, indie, whatever, whatever — a...

• 2010 Projections Festival: Official Lineup

  Posted on Wednesday January 13th, 2010 at 07:00 am in jonas mekas matt mccormick underground film festival news sadie benning

  Hey, it’s a film festival masquerading as an art gallery show! Or is it an art gallery show masquerading as a film festival? Whatever it is, it’s the Projections Festival of Rare and Hard to See Films curated by Aaron Rose and screening...

• What’s An Underground Film, Anyway?

  Posted on Tuesday January 12th, 2010 at 07:00 am in underground film festival news underground film resources

  The term “underground film” has never enjoyed a popular definition. Oh, some writers have attempted formal definitions, but I doubt there will ever be one that is popularly agreed upon. It’s not even a term that can be agreed upon ...

• Underground Film Sites: Who’s In The Loop?

  Posted on Friday January 8th, 2010 at 07:00 am in underground film festival news underground film resources

  Recently, I posted up my theory about “film loops”, but I’m not sure if that’s the best term to use anymore. To review: A film loop is a collection of film websites — or other media outlets — generally grouped tog...

• Outrageous! Heavy Metal Parking Lot

  Posted on Thursday January 7th, 2010 at 12:08 pm in heavy metal parking lot underground film festival news jeff krulik outrageous underground film moments

  This is the 3rd post in a series covering the most outrageous moments in underground film history. You can follow the entire series here. Film: Heavy Metal Parking Lot Director: John Heyn and Jeff Krulik Year: 1986 On May 31, 1986, filmmaker John H...

• 2010: Year Of The Underground Film Loop?

  Posted on Monday January 4th, 2010 at 01:11 pm in underground film festival news underground film resources

  Traditionally, a “film loop” is just that: A strip of film that has its beginning and its end spliced together so that it runs in a projector as an endless cycle. Creating film loops is a staple of underground film and expanded cinema pe...

• Outrageous! Scorpio Rising

  Posted on Saturday January 2nd, 2010 at 07:00 am in kenneth anger underground film festival news amazon underground netflix underground outrageous underground film moments

  This is the 2nd post in a series covering the most outrageous moments in underground film history. You can follow the entire series here. Film: Scorpio Rising Director: Kenneth Anger Year: 1964 Did Kenneth Anger unintentionally make the first under...

• Outrageous! Un Chien Andalou

  Posted on Thursday December 31st, 2009 at 07:00 am in underground film festival news outrageous underground film moments

  This is the 1st post in a series covering the most outrageous moments in underground film history. You can follow the entire series here. Film: Un Chien Andalou Director: Luis Bunuel Year: 1929 Co-scenarists Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali were the v...

• INCITE!: Filling The Void

  Posted on Sunday December 27th, 2009 at 01:45 pm in underground film festival news brett kashmere karl lemieux craig baldwin

  INCITE! is billed as the Journal of Experimental Media & Radical Aesthetics, so it’s a kindred spirit to Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film. INCITE! exists as an online journal as well as having a actual 147-page printed edition. Whi...

• Movie Of The Decade: Plaster Caster

  Posted on Tuesday December 15th, 2009 at 07:00 am in new york underground film festival underground film festival news chicago underground film festival plaster caster

  In the spirit of Bad Lit’s annual Movie of the Year pick, I’ve decided that I should equally pick just one film as a Movie of the Decade. And that movie is: Plaster Caster. The criteria I used to come up with this selection was to choos...

• 2009 Denver Underground Film Festival: Award Winners

  Posted on Sunday December 13th, 2009 at 11:23 am in underground film festival news tony gault denver underground film festival

  The Denver Underground Film Festival took place on Dec. 4-6 and gave out nine awards, plus lots of honorable mentions in most categories. Awards were given to feature films and short films, as well as one award given to two actors. However, the mos...

• Cinema Project Needs New Home!

  Posted on Friday December 11th, 2009 at 07:00 am in cinema project underground film festival news

  This has been a rough year for underground film organizations. The latest group to suffer serious indignity is Portland, OR’s Cinema Project, which finds itself in urgent need of a new home after abruptly losing the lease on its donated office...

• 2009 Minneapolis Underground Film Festival: Award Winners

  Posted on Thursday December 10th, 2009 at 12:13 pm in underground film festival news minneapolis underground film festival

  The Minneapolis Underground Film Festival wrapped up its second successful year on Dec. 6. The festival gave out six awards, the winners of which are listed below. Congrats to all of them! The festival appears to have been embraced by its home city....

• Sundance NEXT Lineup: The Speculation Ends

  Posted on Friday December 4th, 2009 at 07:00 am in sundance film festival underground film festival news

  Yesterday, the Sundance Film Festival released the final list of films to be included in their 2010 edition, which will run Jan. 21-31. That batch included the lineup of films in their newly created NEXT section, a part of the festival that, accordi...

• 2009 Denver Underground Film Festival: Official Lineup

  Posted on Thursday December 3rd, 2009 at 07:00 am in underground film festival news kenta mcgrath tony gault denver underground film festival matthew perino

  The Denver Underground Film Festival will run at the Starz Film Center on Dec. 4-6. The fest has an international flair this year, partially due to a couple programs of short films from Australia. That’s good for you because that means a scre...

• 2009 Zero Film Festival: Official Lineup (Los Angeles)

  Posted on Tuesday December 1st, 2009 at 07:00 am in jon clark modern love is automatic underground film festival news clint enns leslie supnet

  This is Year Two for the Zero Film Festival, but the first time I’m listing it on Bad Lit. ZFF is a bi-coastal event, with a week of films in Los Angeles, followed by a week in NYC. Looking over their schedules, it pretty much looks like the ...

• 2009 Minneapolis Underground Film Festival: Official Lineup

  Posted on Friday November 27th, 2009 at 07:00 am in underground film festival news minneapolis underground film festival anthony rivero stabley carey burtt paul von stoetzel

  Oh, it’s on for the second annual Minneapolis Underground Film Festival, which runs on Dec. 4-6. This is three days and nights of quirky and unique feature films, documentaries and short films, with several by native Minnesotans and some made...

• 2009 Mono No Aware: Official Lineup

  Posted on Sunday November 22nd, 2009 at 07:00 am in mono no aware underground film festival news

  Brooklyn, NY’s expanded cinema festival, Mono No Aware, is back for its third year with a half-dozen film performances that will take place on one night only: November 29. Mono No Aware is a totally unique cinematic event, especially these day...

• Underground Film: The Web Experience

  Posted on Friday November 20th, 2009 at 02:11 pm in underground film festival news underground film resources

  This is the kind of article an editor puts up when there haven’t been new posts in days and needs some time to develop some big pieces. Yes, it’s filler time… That said, I just wanted to point out to regular or new readers that the...

• 2009 Arizona Underground Film Festival: Award Winners

  Posted on Wednesday November 11th, 2009 at 07:00 am in modern love is automatic underground film festival news arizona underground film festival

  The second annual Arizona Underground Film Festival has announced its full list of award winners, which are all listed below. The festival gave a total of 14 awards to 15 films in categories such as narrative, documentary, horror and exploitation fo...

• 2009 Los Angeles As A Character: Official Lineup

  Posted on Monday November 9th, 2009 at 07:00 am in underground film festival news echo park film center screenings: los angeles charles doran los angeles as a character

  Once again, the City of Angels goes under the cultural microscope for the second annual Los Angeles as a Character short film event, which will take place on Saturday, Nov. 14 at 8:00 p.m. at the Echo Park Film Center. The screening is the brainchil...

• Robbed! Aurora Picture Show Needs Help

  Posted on Thursday November 5th, 2009 at 07:00 am in aurora picture show underground film festival news

  On Monday, Oct. 26, Houston, TX’s Aurora Picture Show had its microcinema broken into and several pieces of valuable equipment were stolen. The organization has put up a Wish List of replacement items and are looking for donors for the specifi...