American Film, 1 issue , 1978

• Vol. 3, No. 10. Contains “Aspects of the Avant-Garde: A Special Section” with articles by Jonathan Rosenbaum, Jonas Mekas, and Robert Sklar.

Boy From War, 1 issue , 2019

• Issue 1. Reprints of the art journals from 1988-89 kept by filmmaker Usama Alshaibi.

Canyon Cinemazine, 3 issues , possibly 2019 to 2022

• No. 6. No date, but possibly 2019. Contains letters from filmmakers written to Canyon Cinema, including ones written by Chick Strand, Peter Hutton, Zachary Epcar, and many more.

• No. 7. 2020/21. “Dear Folks: Notes And Letters From Bruce Baillie“. Contains writings and ephemera from Canyon Cinema founder Bruce Baillie.

• No. 9. 2022. “Canyon Cinema Discovered”. Publication as part of a fellowship program that invited four fellows to create special curated screenings of films in the Canyon Cinema collection.

Castle of Frankenstein, 1 issue, 1975

• Vol. 7, No. 1. Article on Andy Warhol’s Dracula and Frankenstein. Two promotional photos from John Waters’ Female Trouble. One of those photos includes actor George Stover, who also serves as a Contributing Editor to the magazine. (Watch Female Trouble online)

Cinematograph, 1 issue, 1988

• Vol. 3. Articles on Carolee Schneemann’s Fuses, Peggy Ahwesh, Abigail Child, Peggy and Fred in Hell, George Kuchar, and many more

Experimental Cinema, 1 issue, 1934

• No. 5. 1934. Primarily articles on Soviet cinema. (Archive has 2 copies.)

Film Culture, 21 issues (counting double and triple issues as one)

• Various, between Nos. 9-80. Click here for extensive index of issues in the Underground Film Archive.

Film Quarterly, 3 issues, 1961-1962, 1979

• Vol. 14, No. 4. “The Cinema Delimina: Films from the Underground” article by Stan Vanderbeek. Considered the first time the word “underground” was used to describe avant-garde and experimental films. Read about this article here.
• Vol. 15, No. 4. Advertisement for Contemporary Films distributor includes listing for Dan Drasin’s Sunday. A defense of Amos Vogel’s Cinema 16 screening series. Brief article by Jonas Mekas on his favorite films of the quarter, and also mentions the State Dept. destroying Film Loops by Shirley Clarke and others made for the Brussels World Fair. Reviews of Shirley Clarke’s The Connection, Jonas Mekas’s Guns of the Trees, and Drasin’s Sunday.
• Vol. 33, No. 2. “Chris Maclaine: The Man Who Invented Gold” review by J. J. Murphy. Ad for Stan Brakhage’s Film Biographies book

Filmmakers Newsletter, 1 issue, 1971

• Vol. 4, No. 8. June 1971. Published and edited by Suni Mallow and H. Whitney Bailey. Includes article “Beware of Underground Film Festivals” by Bob Pike.

Friends, 1 issue, 1970

• No. 16. October 16, 1970. Includes a review by Jerome Burne of the International Underground Film Festival, held in London, England on September 14-20.

Hollywood Quarterly, 4 issues. 1945-1946. (Bound edition)

• Vol. 1, No. 1. October 1945. Articles on contemporary Hollywood and global cinema. No underground film content.
• Vol. 1, No. 2. January 1946. Articles on contemporary Hollywood and global cinema. No underground film content.
• Vol. 1, No. 3. April 1946. Articles on contemporary Hollywood and global cinema. No underground film content.
• Vol. 1, No. 4. July 1946. Article on documentary film written by filmmaker and curator Willard Van Dyke. Brief article on short films produced by Hollywood studios gives a shout out to Jammin’ the Blues, directed by Gjon Mili.

Incite: Journal of Experimental Media, 6 issues. 2008-2017

• No. 1. Manifest, Fall 2008/Spring 2009. Articles by Brett Kashmere (editor), Jonas Mekas, Leslie Supnet, Clint Enns, Richard Kerr, Scott MacKenzie, Regina Muff, and more.
• No. 2. Counter Archive, Spring 2010. Articles by Brett Kashmere (editor), Cat Tyc, Dave Barber, Noam Gonick, Walter Forsberg, and more. Includes DVD with films by Noam Gonick, Bryan Konefsky, Jo SiMalaya Alcampo, and more.
• No. 3. New Ages, Fall 2011. Articles by Brett Kashmere (editor), Jaimz Asmundson, Christina Battle, Roger Beebe, Jesse McLean, Clint Enns, Walter Forsberg, Shana Moulton, and more.
• No. 4. Exhibition Guide, Fall 2013. Articles by Steve Anker, Christina Battle, Clint Enns, Kate Ewald, Sandra Gibson, Ed Halter, Chris Kennedy, Jeanne Liotta, Jesse Malmed, and more.
• No. 5. Blockbuster, Fall 2014. Articles by Steve Anker, Christina Battle, Jodie Mack, Lucy Raven, Oliver Laric, and more.
• No. 7/8. Sports, 2016-17. Edited by Astria Suparak and Brett Kashmere. Articles by Walter Forsberg, Brian L. Frye, Christina Battle, Karen Kraven, and more.

Lumpen, 1 issue. 1997.

• Vol. 6, No. 4. Political magazine that includes the program calendar of the 4th annual Chicago Underground Film Festival, along with reviews of several of the films that screened. View the festival lineup here.

Micro-Film, 2 issues + 1 announcement + 7 addendums. 1999-2005.

• The Warning Shot. March 1999. Six page photocopied announcement for the publication of Micro-Film’s first issue.
• Addendums vol. 1 nos. 1-7. August 1999 to April 2000. Double-sided photocopied pages with brief news updates, including an announcement for the 1999 Chicago Underground Film Festival.
• No 6. Winter 2004. Article on filmmaker Jeff Krulik (Heavy Metal Parking Lot). Reviews of Horns and Halos; and Reflections of Evil.
• No 7. Fall 2005. Article on Jon Moritsugu’s Scumrock. Review of the book The Encyclopedia of Underground Movies. A remembrance of Sarah Jacobson.

Modern Monsters, 1 issue. 1966.

• No. 4. No underground film content. Genre/cult filmmaker Don Glut is Assistant Editor. Articles on classic and modern horror movies.

Motion Picture, 3 issues. 1986-87.

• No. 1. Edited by Marjorie Keller and Susan Greene. Published by the Collective for Living Cinema. Includes biography of Stan Brakhage by his wife Jane; profile and filmography of Joe Gibbons; and more.
• No. 2. Edited by Marjorie Keller. Includes an article by Sidney Peterson, a continuation of a biography of Stan Brakhage by Jane, an article by Joyce Wieland, a “scenario” of Capriccio by Warren Sonbert, and more.
• No. 3. Edited by Marjorie Keller. Includes a review of Yvonne Rainer’s The Man Who Envied Women, an article on 8mm film by George Kuchar, a review of Mary Filippo’s Who Do You Think You Are, a continuation of a biography of Stan Brakhage by Jane, an article on the American Film Institute’s 1987 Maya Deren Award, Jonas Mekas on two films by Gunvor Nelson, and more.

The New Yorker, 1 issue. 1963.

• July 13, 1963. In the “Talk of the Town” section, article called “Cinema Underground” that profiles the Film-Makers’ Cooperative, including an interview with Jonas Mekas. The Cooperative at this time was located at 414 Park Avenue South. Impetus of the piece is the Bleecker Street Cinema no longer showing Cooperative films on Mondays at midnight. Also, the movie calendar indicates that Bleecker St. was showing a revival of John Cassavetes’s Shadows.

Nostalgia News, 2 issues. 1972.

• No. 14. No underground film content, but one article on amateur genre filmmaking by Steve Polwort.
• No. 16. No underground film content.

October, 1 issue. 1980

• No. 14. Arts journal that includes several essays by and about Maya Deren.

The Penguin Film Review, 1 issue. 1948

• No. 5. January 1948. Article by Jacques B. Brunius, “Rise and Decline of an ‘Avant-Garde'” looks at the avant-garde film scene of France in the 1930s.

Short Order Comix, 1 issue. 1974

• No. 2. Anthology of underground comix edited by Bill Griffith and Art Spiegelman. Includes two comix stories by George Kuchar.

Take One, 4 issues. 1968 – 1970

• Vol. 1, No. 8. 1968. (No month given.) Cover features actress Donna Kerness, promoting an interview with Kerness conducted by actor/filmmaker Bob Cowan, both of whom starred in Sins of the Fleshapoids by Mike Kuchar. Issue also contains illustrations by Joyce Wieland of Shirley Clarke, Barbara Rubin, and Wieland; plus ads for Adolfas Mekas‘s film Hallelujiah the Hills and Sheldon Renan’s book An Introduction to the American Underground Film.
• Vol. 2, No. 1. September-October 1968. (But has copyright of 1969.) Only underground film content is column “New York Letter” by Bob Cowan about Joyce Wieland.
• Vol. 2, No. 4. Mar-Apr 1969. (Publication date: Dec. 30, 1969). Only underground film content is column “New York Letter” by Bob Cowan about his spending time in San Francisco and offering a harsh critique of Film Culture magazine.
• Vol. 2, No. 7. Sept-Oct 1969. (Publication date: Sept. 17, 1970). Only underground film content is column “Letter from N.Y.C.” by Bob Cowan about film Almira 38 by Nancy Kendall and other experimental films.

The Underground Film Bulletin, 1 issue.

• No. 4. No date printed in zine. Have no way of determining if this is a first printing or a reprint. Contains the infamous “The Cinema of Transgression Manifesto.”