In 1997, the Chicago Underground Film Festival held its fourth annual edition and published a four-page pull-out section in the Chicago-based political magazine Lumpen.

The 8th annual Sydney Underground Film Festival is screening Usama Alshaibi’s Arab American, Leah Meyerhoff’s I Believe in Unicorns, Andre Perkowski’s Nova Express and loads more great films.

The 4th annual London Underground Film Festival is screening films such as Grasp the Nettle and Escape From Tomorrow; hosting a Jeff Keen tribute and much more.

The 7th annual Sydney Underground Film Festival opens with Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Dance of Reality, and will screen Don Swaynos’s Pictures of Superheroes, Drew Tobias’s See You Next Tuesday and loads more cinematic oddities.

The massive 20th Chicago Underground Film Festival gave out awards to Drew Tobia, Jodie Mack, Kent Lambert, Skizz Cyzyk, Joe Tropea and more.

The Chicago Underground Film Festival celebrates it’s unbelievable 20th anniversary with new films by Jon Moritsugu and Drew Tobia; and classic work by Usama Alshaibi, Matt McCormick and more.

The 7th annual WNDX Festival of Moving Image presents a four-part study of Beat cinema by Jack Sargeant, a moveable microcinema curated by Solomon Nagler, plus films by Clint Enns and much more.

Jack Sargeant and Linsey Gosper have co-curated a photography show that will have its opening at the ALASKA Projects gallery August 21 at 6:00 p.m.

Film festival directors Bryan Wendorf, Richard Wolstencroft, Jack Sargeant and Nina Riddel comment on the nature of the underground that they program at their fests.

The 5th annual Sydney Underground Film Festival is showing twisted films by Usama Alshaibi, Jeff Krulik, Jon Hewitt, Joseph Guzman and more.