Amateur Film and Underground Cinema: Early film, US Underground film, UK Underground film, and home movies.

A fascinating treatise by Stefan Szczelkun on the beginnings and rise of underground film, both here in the UK and in the US. A psychic battle ~ fought out between the desire for free personal expression in film ~ and the unyielding fiscal machinations of Hollywood. The cautionary example of Channel Four, who started off screening films like David Larcher’s extraordinary “E Etc” (at peak viewing time, no less) ~ but ended up with Noel Edmonds. All roads lead to the Exploding Cinema...