Underground Film Journal

Flashback: 2nd Annual New York Underground Film Festival

Ed Halter has graciously donated to the Underground Film Archive the program books for almost every edition of the New York Underground Film Festival.

While this donation does not include the still-elusive program for the first edition of the fest in 1994, it does begin with the 2nd edition held in 1995 at the Anthology Film Archives. This was the first year that Halter worked at the festival, as a volunteer, before he would take over and run the whole thing a few years later.

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Blazes — Robert Breer

Blazes by Robert Breer (1961)

Robert Breer is one of the few filmmakers who rose to prominence during the 1960s underground film movement who worked exclusively in animation. After graduating from Stanford with a degree in painting in 1949, Breer moved to Paris where he started making films a few years later.

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Desperate Living

After killing her husband, a harried housewife goes on the lam and ends up in a village that is is ruled over by an evil queen and is populated solely by degenerates and criminals.

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1945: Maya Deren Wins Honorable Mention For Meshes Of The Afternoon

In 1945, Maya Deren was awarded an Honorable Mention for her first film, Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), by the Amateur Cinema League. This film, co-directed with her husband Alexander Hammid, would go on to become one of the most influential avant-garde films of the 20th Century.

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Issue 21

Index of Film Culture issue 21 that has articles on Luis Bunuel, Cinema of the New Generation, the second Independent Film Award, and more.

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