Underground Film Links: January 9, 2011
By Mike Everleth ⋅ January 9, 2011
- The prestigious Art in America magazine profiles and interviews Underground Film Journal favorite Brent Green.
- Filmmaker and curator Cecilia Araneda has a new website that’s very spiffy looking.
- If you need a zen moment, go stare at the wonder of filmmaker and artist Daniel Barrow’s snowglobe.
- Michael Varrati has a great new filmmaker to know: David DeCoteau, the king of beefcake horror. I was completely unfamiliar with his work until I read this!
- Rhizome goes through the career of pioneering video artist Nam June Paik in conjunction with a retrospective of his work running at the Tate in London. Plus, some staff changes at the media arts website.
- I think the Underground Film Guild is a project of TLA Video, but I can’t say for sure. (Hey guys, update your About page from the automatic WordPress-install text.) But, if you want to read/watch about exploitation films, this looks like a good place to go.
- SnagFilms is now offering many of their documentaries for the iPad, including Bob Ray’s Hell on Wheels.
- Wes of The Bloodsprayer shares his man-crush on writer Shade Rupe.
- Lenny Lipton remembers his good friend Chris Condon, an early 3D movie pioneer.
- Now this is when to issue a press release: Nude Nuns With Big Guns rockets up IMDB’s MovieMeter.
- WBEZ public radio has an audio interview with filmmaker Coquie Hughes to talk about her indie lesbian-themed films.
- Kenneth Price’s Americatown got some good press in the last week. First, his local paper the Wilmington StarNews ran a nice feature story. Then, indieWIRE’s Eric Kohn gave it a mixed, but mostly positive review.
- For INCITE!, Penny Lane interviewed filmmaker Jennifer Montgomery about her all-female remake of Deliverance, called just Deliver.
- Facets has up 10 great films experienced through their fine organization by cinephile Jason Coffman in 2010.
- Speaking of Penny Lane, I also found this interview she did with Jim Finn for the Brooklyn Rail back in May.
- Filmmaker Matt Wagner claims that an underground film festival in San Francisco will be returning this year. Is that true?
- Congrats to Jesse McLean for his Magic For Beginners winning the short film First Prize at the Three Rivers Film Festival.
- Jacob of Making Light of It names the best film he saw in 2010: T. Marie’s Slaveship.
- Cineflyer reviews Barbara Sternberg’s CD-ROM Illuminations: A Book of Letters, which is now available online in Flash format.
- Here’s some cute portraits, including a self, by Leslie Supnet.
- Amir George has directed a new music video, this time for Alicia Ya Yah Townsend.
- Bob Moricz is having good experiences playing with his new mini Zi8 camera. Plus, Moricz gets an insight into how the internet really works.
- Jonas Mekas is a filmmaker, but also a poet. Hear him read some poetry. Plus, shoveling out the Anthology.
- Chopping Mall reviews the year 2010 in zombies and vampires.
- Andrea Grover clues us into the event Visionary Ideas for This World Or Another.
- For Digital Retribution, Paul Ryan reviewed Nick Zedd’s Adventures of Electra Elf DVD collection, which wasn’t very positive, but fair.
- DINCA embeds and reviews the controversial B-17: A Mini Epic movie.
- Robert Putka is gearing up to direct another film, which is sounding on the ambitious and exciting side.
- Not underground: Chuck Tryon went on a trip to Universal Studios Orlando and filed an academic report of the good times.
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