The 48th annual Ann Arbor Film Festival is a celebration of underground film past and present with classic retrospectives and fantastic new work.

The 2009 AFI Film Festival offered this block of fantastic short films, including ones by Don Hertzfeldt, Guy Maddin, Kevin Jerome Everson and more.

The 2009 AFI Film Festival is screening a bunch of great underground films, including Mike Plante’s Lunchfilms, films by Don Hertzfeldt, Jim Finn and more.

The 12th annual Antimatter Film Festival features great experimental films by Martha Colburn, Clint Enns, Damon Packard, Leslie Supnet, and more.

The 16th annual Chicago Underground Film Festival will run on Sept. 10-17 at the Gene Siskel Film Center and screen films by Usama Alshaibi and more.

Lunchfilm is an ambitious and fun short film project organized by film journalist Mike Plante and includes work by Martha Colburn, David Fenster and more.

Echo Park Film Center presents an underground film screening of Lunchfilm, a series of short movies commissioned by film journalist Mike Plante.

The first Migrating Forms film festival includes underground films by Owen Land, Barbara Hammer, Bradley Eros, Jim Finn, Shana Moulton and Stephanie Barber.

The Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival is screening films by Clint Enns, Georg Koszulinski, Martha Colburn, Robert Todd, Vanessa Renwick and more.

Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead may be available on DVD, but — like the best of Troma — it was made for a midnight movie screening.