Underground Screen Action
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A tiny selection of films unearth themselves from the American underground and hop across the pond to the Star and Shadow…
Check out the the individual film descriptions, but we've tried to cover plenty of bases: horror, sci-fi rock and roll, old and new films, sexual politics, comedy… Behind the trashy front these films show, there lies a serious subversive intent.
Situationism and satire aimed striaght at that amorphous beast which dominates the American image: Hollywood.
It's a big, easy target ripe for attack because it takes itself so seriously whilst being incredibly silly and American conscious artists have, since the fifties at least, always had a brilliant way of responding to it and getting things done in general.
Mostly these films are just to enjoy though for their sex and their sass, they're also to be admired for their DIY energy.
See you on Sunday at the S&S.
Films in the Underground Screen Action:
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Film: Flesh For Frankenstein A.K.A. Andy Warhol’S Frankenstein (1974)
1 Feb 2009, 7:30 p.m.
Frankenstein but not as you know it.
08
Film: Desperate Teenage Lovedolls (1984)
8 Feb 2009, 7:30 p.m.
This no budget super 8 feature film was an instant cult classic when released in the underground LA punk scene.
15
Film: American Astronaut (2001)
15 Feb 2009, 7:30 p.m.
Combines conventions of Sci-Fi, Western and Musical genres without actually being conventional at all…
22
Film: Sirens Of The 23rd Century (2003)
22 Feb 2009, 7:30 p.m.
A neoclassical, sci-fi, fairytale satire set in the 23rd century after cosmetics and modeling have been outlawed by a fascist, government regime called The Men's Plainness Advocacy.