The third annual New York Film Festival Downtown was once again organized and presented by filmmakers Tessa Hughes-Freeland and Ela Troyano in 1986. In the festival’s program notes, the pair continued to bemoan the lack of attention given to Lower East Side filmmakers in their own city: Three years later the situation remains virtually unchanged […]

Filmmakers Tessa-Hughes Freeland and Ela Troyano founded the New York Film Festival Downtown in 1984. In the program for the second annual edition in 1985, they laid out the need for such an event: “Most films made in this society fall into two categories: those financed and marketed commercially, and their counterparts in the arts […]

In September 1985, Nick Zedd published the fourth issue of his zine The Underground Film Bulletin, in which the most important article was Zedd’s “The Cinema of Transgression Manifesto,” which reads like a proclamation of war against avant-garde filmmaking and “academic snobbery.

This year, the Melbourne Underground Film Festival will be celebrating it’s 15th year, so please consider helping them bring Nick Zedd to Australia to celebrate.

Underground film actor and poet Taylor Mead has passed away at the age of 88 after suffering a debilitating stroke. He starred in The Flower Thief and Tarzan and Jane Regained.. Sort of.

Underground filmmaker Nick Zedd, who founded the Cinema of Transgression and who wrote that film movement’s manifesto, has crafted a new art manifesto that he has allowed us to reprint in full.

Nick Zedd, one of underground film’s leading figures is raising funds on Kickstarter for his latest film.

Feb. 18 & 19: This 2-day event features films by Cinema of Transgression leaders Nick Zedd and Richard Kern, plus a live performance by Lydia Lunch.

The 2011 B-Movie Underground and Trash Film Festival brings the best in international sleaze with films by Usama Alshaibi, Zach Clark and more.

Europe’s B-Movie, Underground and Trash Film Festival will be held this year in the city center of Breda in the Netherlands on Sept. 7-11. In addition to film, the fest also celebrates several other arts, including music, poetry and comic books. But, on the film front, this year’s special film guest of honor will be […]