Filmmakers
List of all the filmmakers in the Underground Film Guide, in the order that they have been added to the database.
Storm de Hirsch
Birth: 1922 (?)
UFG Entry: Peyote Queen (1965)
Notes: Was a poet before she became a filmmaker. Some of her published books of poetry are Alleh Lulleh Cockatoo and Twilight Massacre.
Owen Land
Birth: 1944 (New Haven, Connecticut)
UFG Entry: New Improved Institutional Quality: In the Environment of Liquids and Nasals a Parasitic Vowel Sometimes Develops (1976)
Notes: Originally born as George Landow.
Chick Strand
Birth: Dec. 3, 1931
UFG Entry: Fake Fruit Factory (1986)
Notes: Helped co-found Canyon Cinema with Bruce Baillie and edited three issues of the organization's Cinemanews newsletter.
Barbara Hammer
Birth: May 15, 1939
UFG Entry: Dyketactics (1974)
Notes: Has written a memoir entitled HAMMER!: Making Movies Out of Sex and Life.
Tom Palazzolo
Birth: 1937
UFG Entry: Sneakin' and Peekin' (1976)
Notes: In the '60s, was a member of the "Chicago Underground," a collection of about 10 filmmakers.
Marie Menken
Birth: May 25, 1909
UFG Entry: Go! Go! Go! (1964)
Notes: Married poet and filmmaker Willard Maas in 1931.
Tessa Hughes-Freeland
Birth: Unknown
UFG Entry: Baby Doll (1982)
Notes: Was a member of the Cinema of Transgression film movement in NYC in the '90s.
Naomi Uman
Birth: Unknown
UFG Entry: Removed (1999)
Notes: Before turning to filmmaking was a private chef for Malcolm Forbes, Calvin Klein and Gloria Vanderbilt.