Kristin Calabrese as Mary, the eponymous killer, in I Was a Teenage Serial Killer Alex Brannan champions the rebellious ethos and audacious feminism of two works by underground film icon Sarah Jacobson. “We’re gonna f*ck sh*t up!” According to IndieWire, this was a phrase filmmaker Sarah Jacobson would repeat “with a big smile, to the… Read more »
Courtesy of Caleb Allison Ahead of our screenings of Perfect Days, IU Cinema’s founding director emeritus Jon Vickers spoke with student filmmaker Caleb Allison about Sol Folium, his new short that the Cinema will be playing before each showing of the Wim Wenders film. This article was originally published by CanopyBloomington. In a town like… Read more »
Still from Damned If You Don’t Underground Film Series curator Justin Bonthuys gives a brief introduction to the three shorts by Su Friedrich and Paula Gauthier that comprise the upcoming program Catechism-ically Flawed. Catechism-ically Flawed explores two different approaches to how cinema can be used to explore and express queer experiences and identities. Su Friedrich… Read more »
Still from Whoregasm Underground Film Series curator Pragya Ghosh contextualizes the controversial and provocative work of filmmakers Nick Zedd and Charles Henri Ford. In the dark days of fall, when the veil between the real and the magical seems to be the perfect time to go back to the land of mythologies, I would like… Read more »
Still from I Tried to Write a Love Letter with My Body Underground Film Series curator Ruth Riftin explains how filmmaker Priyanka Das interrogates the idea of “otherness” through the prism of the essay cinema form. A version of this article previously appeared in the March/April 2024 issue of the Ryder Magazine. Born in India… Read more »
Still from *Corpus Callosum What is structural film? Alex Brannan explains the term and its place in the experimental film genre. A wave of films deemed “structural” emerged in the North American avant-garde during the 1960s. This was a brand of minimalist and highly formalist cinema. P. Adams Sitney, who coined the term “structural” to… Read more »