Not exact matches
But the new
film Kiki avoids this mistake as it revisits a subject first explored in the landmark 1990 documentary Paris is Burning: the New York's
underground ballroom
scene.
The opening
scenes of unsavory S&M in the
underground club (think a slightly lighter version of «Salo: The 120 Days of Sodom») provide an inclination of the type of depravity hinted at in the
film's title.
He then immersed himself in the
underground art and music
scenes making short
films, album covers and music videos with a burgeoning group of influential and groundbreaking artists.
After all,
underground cinema is less in thrall to the establishment of a name (filmmakers may often either move on to independent
film or into other areas of activity), and much more likely to be a
scene of greater experimentation.
However, some of the
film's most immersive audio can be heard in District 13's
underground, echoey surroundings and of course, during the
film's explosive
scenes.
That a movie about the «
underground»
scene contains so much highly familiar British and American music was a source of much conversation following the
film's Cannes premiere — shouldn't a movie with characters based on real - life Leningrad rockers contain more actual Leningrad rock?
The
film falters slightly during an imagined
scene in which Churchill sneaks off for a ride on the London
underground and talks policy with a melting pot of commoners.
EXTRAS: There's a pair of featurettes on the returning cast and the
film's new characters, a behind - the -
scenes look at designing the Turtle's
underground lair and battle - ready garbage truck, deleted
scenes and more.
Independent filmmaker and
underground music aficionado David Markey's
films include 1991: The Year Punk Broke (1992) and the Los Angeles punk Super 8 cult classics The Slog Movie (1982), Desperate Teenage Lovedolls (1984), and its sequel Lovedolls Superstar (1986), all of which represent a unique record of the punk
scene in Southern California throughout the 1980s and 1990s.
(Synapse / CAV, Blu - ray, DVD), the 1975
underground cult
film by Curt McDowell and co-writer / star George Kuchar, is a gothic romp that veers into horror, sex, and camp parody, with explicit
scenes and graphic horror.
Both Goldin and Dick were key figures of the «No Wave» movement, an
underground music, art and
film scene associated with New York's avant - garde in the late 1970s.
A major figure in the American
underground scene, Tony Oursler has worked since the mid-1970s in a variety of mediums — video, drawing, photography,
film, sculpture, and sound.
If Dalwood demands of his viewers a certain art historical diligence and knowledge, so the Otolith Groups's
film works demand a familiarity not just with auteurs, but also goings - on in the
underground art and
film scenes of the patchouli - drenched late 1960s.
Living in New York City in the late 1970s and early «80s, Wool immersed himself deep into the
underground film and music
scene that centered around the East Village, finding a kind of nihilistic camaraderie in the punk rock aesthetic that thrived amidst the city's crumbling decay.
The exhibition is the first retrospective dedicated to John Giorno, American poet, performance artist, and iconic figure of the
underground scene of the Sixties, whose work was influenced by the encounter with artists like Andy Warhol (he played in many of Warhol's early
films), Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, John Cage, Trisha Brown, and Carolee Schneeman.
Conrad's work in
film ranged from experiments in physically transforming the
film's surface to theatrical productions featuring New York's
underground scene.
Livingston's influential, era - defining
film about New York City's
underground ballroom
scene introduced «voguing» to mainstream audiences.
A seminal influence on John Waters amongst many others, these uniquely irreverent
films were at the forefront of the New York
underground film scene alongside avant - garde filmmakers like Andy Warhol, Jack Smith, Stan Brakhage, and Jonas Mekas, who championed the Kuchars in his influential Village Voice column.