Films
List of all the films in the Underground Film Guide, in the order that they have been added to the database.
Viva
Director: Anna Biller
Year: 2007
Synopsis: Viva is a cult freak-out retro 1970's spectacle, about a bored housewife who gets sucked into the sexual revolution. Abandoned by her perfect Ken-doll husband, Barbi is dragged into trouble by her girlfriend, who spouts women's lib as she gets Barbi to discard her bra and go out on the town. (From Anna Biller' website)
Serene Velocity
Director: Ernie Gehr
Year: 1970
Synopsis: "A literal 'Shock Corridor' wherein Gehr creates a stunning head-on motion by systematically shifting focal lengths on a static zoom lens as it stares down the center of an empty, modernistic hallway. (From Canyon Cinema)
Beaver Trilogy
Director: Trent Harris
Year: 2000
Synopsis: Beaver Trilogy is a series of three pieces about the same subject, a young man from a small town called Beaver who is obsessed with Olivia Newton John. The first piece, The Beaver Kid, is a documentary. (from Harris' website)
Susan For Now
Director: Robin Franzi
Year: 2007
Synopsis: This film is a memorably vivid and unflinching exploration of this widely practiced and yet little known genre of alternative sexuality. The individuals portrayed convey how BDSM is practiced in a consensual manner.
Quick Billy
Director: Bruce Bailie
Year: 1971
Synopsis: The experience of transformation between life and death, death and birth, or rebirth in four reels. (from Canyon Cinema)
Fingered
Director: Richard Kern
Year: 1986
Synopsis: A phone sex operator befriends a sleazeball and the two spend a torrid afternoon of talking dirty, wild sex and abusing a hitchhiker.
At Land
Director: Maya Deren
Year: 1944
Synopsis: At Land is another of Maya Deren's dream like films. The message which it transmits to and its main subject rests on the idea of the mutability of a personality. (from Film-Makers' Cooperative.)
Back Against the Wall
Director: James Fotopoulos
Year: 2000
Synopsis: In this "Lynch-like vision of the rotting underbelly of Middle America" (Stephen Holden, The New York Times), the downfall of a lingerie model is portrayed against the depressing, menacing milieus of the men she caters to, including an angry, jealous, middle-aged failure and his strange, no-necked friend. (from Facets)