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An American Underground Cinema Movement is a film movement that encompasses non-mainstream experimental films and independent films produced in the United States.
- AKA: American Underground Film, American Avant-Garde Cinema, U.S. Underground Film Movement, American Experimental Cinema.
- Context:
- It can typically operate outside Hollywood Studio Systems with DIY production methods.
- It can typically screen in Alternative Cinema Spaces and art gallery venues.
- It can often challenge Commercial Film Conventions through radical experimentation.
- It can often influence Mainstream Cinema through aesthetic innovations.
- It can foster Artist Collectives and filmmaker communitys.
- It can preserve Counter-Cultural Values through independent expression.
- It can produce Transgressive Cinema and Experimental Films.
- It can range from being a 1960s Underground Cinema to being a Contemporary Underground Cinema, depending on its historical period.
- It can range from being a New York Underground Cinema to being a West Coast Underground Cinema, depending on its geographic center.
- It can range from being a Political Underground Cinema to being an Aesthetic Underground Cinema, depending on its primary motivation.
- It can range from being a No-Budget Underground Cinema to being a Grant-Funded Underground Cinema, depending on its financial model.
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- Example(s):
- Contemporary Underground Filmmakers, such as:
- Harmony Korine and the Nashville scene.
- Kenneth Anger and ritualistic cinema.
- Stan Brakhage and visual poetry.
- Historical Underground Cinema Groups, such as:
- New American Cinema Group of the 1960s.
- Cinema 16 film society.
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- Contemporary Underground Filmmakers, such as:
- Counter-Example(s):
- Hollywood Studio System, which operates commercially.
- Network Television Production, which targets mass audiences.
- Commercial Independent Film, which seeks theatrical distribution.
- See: Film Movement, Harmony Korine, Experimental Film, Independent Film Director, Transgressive Cinema, Counter-Culture, Lo-fi Film Aesthetic, Non-Linear Narrative Technique.