Other Interesting Links

This is not your Hollywood robot.

Here are some links that showcase, discuss or in some way relate to alternative film and video, as well as a few personal favorites thrown in for flavor. Be sure to come on back, now!

Alternative Cinema Showcases

• 911 Media Arts Center -- eclectic and innovative programming in Seattle, Washington
• alliance cinema -- foreign, art, independent, experimental, and underground cinema in Miami Beach
• Andy Warhol Museum -- occasional screenings of avant garde cinema, with a healthy dose of Mr. W's ouevre
• Anthology Film Archives -- an avant garde film archive and exhibition center in New York City
• Artists' Television Access -- subversive and provocative media art from San Francisco
• Babylon-Mitte -- from Berlin: old films, new ones, never screened films, movies, documentaries, experimentals, avant-garde
• Basement Films -- a volunteer venue hosting screenings by visiting and New Mexico film and video artists
• Berks -- the tiny and ever-lasting cinematic oasis in Reading, Pennsylvania
• The Centre for Contemporary Art -- an exciting art center in Warsaw, Poland, featuring regular avant garde film & video shows
• Chicago Filmmakers -- Chicago's most active alternative media space
• Cine16 -- odd cinematic offerings in San Jose, California, including vintage educational and training films
• Cine Fantom -- an ambitious alternative venue in Moscow, Russia
• Cinematheque Ontario -- cutting edge cinematic fare from Canada
• Corrosive Material -- a cable tv video magazine showing experimental film & video in Knoxville, Tennessee
• Edison Electric -- a lively and intimate alternative cinema space in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
• Eger Film Day -- an ambitious program of experimental work from Hungary
• Exploding Cinema -- a no-budget underground cinema group that runs regular screenings in London
• Film Arts Foundation -- San Francisco's indie film membership organization and occasional showcase
• Filmforum -- Los Angeles's island of artistic integrity in the ocean of the Hollywood megalopoly
• Film Forum -- New York's leading moviehouse for independent premiers and repertory programming
• Film and video umbrella -- video and interactive media in the U.K.
• FilmVideoTrips -- an experimental film-friendly gallery in New York City
• Flicker Film Festival -- an 8mm lover's paradise in Chapel Hill, North Carolina; what's in a name?
• Hallwalls -- Buffalo, New York's multiple media arts center
• Harvard Film Archive -- occasional avant garde screenings at the big HU
• IMAGE Film & Video Center of Atlanta -- Georgia's own alternative
• The Kitchen -- a New York center for video, music, dance, performance, film and literature
• The Knitting Factory -- another New York center for cinema, performance, music, theater, club, more
• The Lighthouse -- sex, violence and paranoid fantasies in NYC
• Melbourne Super 8 Film Group -- shows, resources and more in Melbourne, Australia
• Metro Cinema -- alternative screenings in Edmunton, Alberta, Canada
• Millennium Film Workshop -- New York City's non-profit, film arts and community membership organization, since 1966
• MINI-CINE -- a volunteer experimental venue in Shreveport, Louisiana
• Museum of Modern Art/Cineprobe -- New York's high-end presentation of in-person personal cinema
• Other Cinema -- subversive and provocative media art from San Francisco
• Pacific Film Archive -- Berkeley, California's venerable cinematic institution for overlooked and marginalized cinema; regular avant garde film and video programs
• Pleasure Dome -- a Toronto exhibitor of Canadian and international artists' film and video
• San Francisco Cinematheque -- the longest running fine art film/video showcase is still going strong
• Scratch Projections -- weekly fine art cinematic offerings from Paris
• Seattle Independent Film and Video Consortium -- an impressive consortium of arts organizations in Seattle, Washington
• Squeaky Wheel -- a noisy little film/video showcase in Buffalo, New York
• Third Text -- an annual experimental cinema event in Boston, Massachusetts
• Threat Theater -- a struggling Pennsylvania underground cinema
• Total Mobile Home/MicroCinema -- an intimate and unusual San Francisco underground showcase
• Video In -- alternative screenings and distribution in Vancouver, British Columbia
• VideoSpace -- Boston's emerging underground showcase
• Video Spaces -- the Museum of Modern Art's gallery of video art sculpture and space
• Walking Picture Palace -- low profile and highly inspired cinematic alchemy in New York City
• Wall Movies -- free weekly outdoor screenings of 16mm film in Mountain View, California, ranging from experimental, documentary, music, animation...
• The Werepad -- one of the more offbeat venues in offbeat San Francisco

Movies Online

• AFI OnLine Cinema -- the Film Institute's web site features movies online
• Animation Heaven and Hell in 3-D -- obscure animated films
• The Dreamland -- monthly screenings of silent films
• Dr. Shah Khan -- home movies and public events shot in 16mm in 1930s and 1940s India: a real gem of a site!
• Green Fields -- a quasi-experimental, quasi-narrative environment aboard a research ship
• digita -- digital cinema, roms, forums
• ITV Net -- all kinds of movies (even some experimental shorts), in a broadcast-style format
• The Last Cowboy -- a cowboy, a cosmonaut, and karl marx
• Netcast -- daily webcast programming, from Free Speech TV
• OffLine Gallery: Video Room -- Free Speech TV's continually changing gallery of movies
• Rotterdam Video Room -- clips from the festival
• Zoo Liquid Prototype -- a serialized experimental feature film online

Films, Cameras and Items For Sale

• Cameraman -- movie equipment from Portland, Oregon -- honest and fair
• Cameras-Pro -- lots of movie equipment for sale
• cinematographica -- collecting vintage movie equipment; lots of good info and links
• Gloriously Colorful Kodaks -- a true Kodakophile shares his best
• Movie Cameras / 16mm & Super 8 Film Cameras -- movie equipment for sale
• Movie Cameras U.S.A. -- super-8 and 16mm cameras and equipment
• Ritz Collectibles -- lots of movie equipment for sale
• Toby's Films for Sale -- a page of links to film collectors and sales
• Video Lights -- movie lights for sale

Interesting Art

• @art gallery -- an electronic art gallery affiliated with the School of Art and Design, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• adaweb -- a point of departure for an interesting collection of online artist projects
• antifilm -- dazzling perceptual quandries
• Buttco -- an artist-run collective in Somerville, MA
• DepthProbe -- A cinematic e-zine and more
• Dread Mound -- lots of video clips dealing with overpopulation and other topics
• The Evil Brotherhood of Mutants -- an Australian online art gallery, and more
• Fluxus Online -- The venerable and pliable art movement goes digital
• Fringeware -- because your television doesn't love you anymore
• The Foundry -- a choice blend of art, technology and social critique
• kissing -- asian public affection; a forum to discuss and extend traditional views of public expression
• Kunst Brothers -- warning; do not enter. This site contains information that is ambigious and misleading.
• General Hospital -- General Hospital is all in your head
• irrational -- try and figure this one out
• Jenny Holzer -- stimulating awareness of our social conditioning in public spaces
• Lost in the Network -- meditations on media
• McCoy -- Jennifer & Kevin McCoy's tour through internal dwelling space
• Monty Cantsin: Quaintness Hereby Evens -- Inexplicable Meanderings
• Museum of Bad Art -- the seriously bad taken seriously
• New Realities -- some really strange videos
• Offline Gallery -- an elevator ride to photography, painting, videos, music, and digital art
• OTIS Art Gallery -- Eye-benders from the fringe
• Pulse.Time -- An Experimental Musical and Cinematic Suite of Poems
• SEEMEN -- industrial strength video immolation
• Scroll Bar Animations -- someone's figured out an art piece specific to computers
• Suspect Devices -- a collage of moving images and sound onto real space
• Telepoetics -- a decentralized network of artists, writers, and activists
• viDEO sAVant -- a taste of eye candy: ambient videos of any flavor
• Virtual Concrete -- Body Construction, Corpo Reality, Voyeurism, more
• Zero Tolerance -- disturbing video art and interactive user input

Dialog

• Avant-garde books from Ayers -- a large collection of literature about avant garde art
• Bright Lights Film Journal -- a hybrid of Hollywood and marginal cinematic exploration
• Cantrills Filmnotes -- writing on independent cinema, with an emphasis on experimental, published twice yearly since 1971
• CinemaSPACE -- an on-line cinema journal
• Discussion Groups on Film/Television -- a good listing of mailing lists
• Film books -- a listing of cinematic literature
• Filmbooks -- books, screenplays, periodicals related to cinema
• Film Threat Online -- the Web's "indie voice" from the far side of Hollywood
• The Film-Theory Web Page -- highbrow discussions of cinema and its meanings
• Illumination Gallery -- an online radio program devoted to cinema
• IndieZine -- electronic magazine dedicated to the independent filmmaker and screenwriter
• Literature for Super-8 Filmmakers -- a good listing of small gauge books
• Millennium Film Journal -- the Millennium Film Workshop's durable journal of experimental film
• Not Bored! -- a situationist-inspired, low-budget, irregularly published, photocopied journal of amateur radical socio-cultural critique
• nothingness -- another situationist resource
• 100 Years of Dream -- some thoughtful articulation on the centennial of a (possibly) dying art form, with some great images
• Paper Tiger Television -- destroying the paper-thin myths about media
• Pugzine -- an underground art and culture zine
• Reclaiming the Erotic -- exploring notions of erotica in cinema and personality
• Situationists International -- we are not.
• small movies -- "emergency cinema for people" -- a beautifully designed and informative site dedicated to 8mm and super-8mm movie making. A personal favorite!
• Variant - Mapping the Cross-currents in Culture -- an alternative arts journal from Scotland
• Videomaker Magazine -- camcorder and desktop video
• The Virtual Beret -- "Perceptions of the Artist in the Online World" and net ramblings
• Year One -- perspectives from the first year of the second century of cinema

Reference

• 3Delicious Guide to Grassroots Filmmaking -- how to do it for no money
• Cinematographers Online Bible -- a handy online production resource for shooters
• Essential Media Counterculture Catalog -- books * cds * comics * videos * 'zines * more
• Film & Video for non-professionals -- Bernard Benoot's great web page and mailing list for low budget making
• Image Areas for Film & TV -- an explanation of image ratios
• Women in Cinema: A Reference Guide -- where the sisters are doin' it for themselves

Distribution

• Art & Trash -- might want to buy your indie production
• Arthouse Inc. -- an interesting collection of film/video, including lots of experimental work
• Big Lizard Video -- an eclectic collection of off-Hollywood movies
• B-Movie Theater -- a Utah-based site dedicated to finding you the most obscure, low-budget movies and special-interest videos
• Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Center -- a searchable catalog of Canadian experimental cinema
• Canyon Cinema -- the best source for experimental film rentals
• D I P H U S A -- a non-profit Brazilian distribution center promoting moving image art
• Drift Distribution -- an excellent online experimental film/video catalog
• Fetching Pictures -- mail order house for rare and independent films
• FlixTour -- a traveling showcase of independent films; wants your work, and they pay
• Franklin Media -- a New York-based distributor of experimental works on video, including many Flicker artists!
• International Movie Market -- "targets and serves you, movie distributors and buyers from all over the world"
• The Kitchen -- the New York exhibition space's own distribution catalog
• Leather Tongue Video -- video that grabs you by the tongue
• Le Video -- possibly the best video store on the planet
• Light Cone Video -- a great collection of experimental films on video cassette, from Paris
• Monday/Wednesday/Friday Club -- represents video & film artists in consumer sales
• Movie Market -- a glitzy commercial distribution site; allows you to list your film
• Mystic Fire -- an audio and video catalog studying the blending of nature and humanity
• National Asian American Telecommunications Association -- films and videos which showcase voices, issues and experiences from diverse Asian American and Pacific Islander communities
• New Day Films -- a cooperative of independent producers distributing work that is high in quality and social consciousness
• Qualia-Net Underground Film Archive -- point-of-sale resource for unusual, independent, non-mainstream film and video
• Outspoken Productions -- a catalog of lesbian and gay film and video
• Scarecrow Video -- alternative distribution in Seattle, Washington
• Video Out -- exhibition and distribution from Vancouver, British Columbia
• videos.com, Inc. -- web pages for video stores, distributors, and releasing companies, and collection of experimental, alternative, and unusual films and videos
• World Artists Home Page -- an independent film distributor and home video label specializing in cutting-edge, artistic American and foreign films
• Zeitgeist Films -- an indie feature film distributor from New York

Newsgroups, Mailing Lists

Note: Depending on your server's particular news feed, you may not be able to access all newsgroups.

• alt.movies.independent -- discussions about creating and distributing independent cinema
• alt.art.video -- a lively forum for the discussion of video as an art form
• alt.artcom -- a forum about art in all of its forms
• alt.binaries.multimedia -- postings of all sorts of movie clips
• AMIA-L: Association of Moving Image Archivists -- an email list devoted to archiving
• Discussion Groups on Film/Television -- a good listing of mailing lists
• Film-Theory -- highbrow discussions of cinema and its meanings
• Low Budget Effects Discussion Forum -- actually a web site with a news-like interface
• Film & Video for non-professionals -- Bernard Benoot's great web page and mailing list for low budget making
  
• Also check out Frameworks, the internet mailing list for experimental film

Databases

• Austrian Filmmakers Coop Database -- a growing repository for info about Austrian indie film
• Left Wing Films -- an opinionated listing of movies to provoke social change
• Movies Database Browser -- Mostly mainstream movies
• World Wide Arts Resources -- a listing of art sites on the web

Experimental-friendly Festivals

• Other Fests -- a list of some festivals on Flicker without web sites
• Also check out the Flicker Announcements page for many calls for entries
  
  
• amateur film, akf sawa, unica -- a Polish festival and collective, going on its 30th year
• Athens Film Festival
• Bandits-Mage -- an unusual and idiosynchratic festival in Bourges, France, featuring lots of experimental film & video
• Carolina Film and Video Festival -- indies doing their thing in Greensboro, North Carolina
• Chicago Underground Film Festival -- defiant cinema from the midwest
• Euro Underground -- an underground media fest in Krakow, Poland
• film+arc -- an intriguing blend of cinema and architecture in Graz, Austria
• Film Arts Foundation Home -- Northern California's biggest and best independent film fest
• Fringe Film & Video Festival -- pushing the limits in Edinburgh, Scotland
• Honolulu Underground Film Festival -- doing it on the islands
• immagine leggera -- an Italian festival featuring works that "obstinately refuse to conform to the laws of the market"
• Impakt Festival -- an alternative festival in Utrecht, The Netherlands
• Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen -- the prestigious European festival of cinematic art
• Los Angeles Independent Film Festival -- indies in the land of the beast doing their own thing
• MicroCineFest -- a lively and low budget fest from Baltimore, Maryland
• MIX -- the New York Lesbian & Gay Experimental Film & Video Festival
• New York Video Festival -- one of the more ambitious video fests
• New York Underground Film Festival -- "A renegade festival of new films for countless, fiercely original new voices in filmmaking you won't see anywhere else..."
• NextFrame International Student Film Festival -- Philadelphia, PA's ambitious student fest; also info on film schools, catalogs, archives, more
• Night Visions -- the first (and only) horror / cult / trash / underground film festival in Finland
• Rotterdam Film Festival -- the prestigious European festival
• Rencontres Arts Electroniques -- a French fest for s-8, 16, hi-8, pixel, and more
• The Rough & Ruined Film Festival -- a festival of low budget, home-made trash, kitsch and cult
• Short Attention Span Film and Video Festival -- catering to the attention-deficit elite; saying it all in 2 minutes or less
• Shorts International Film Festival -- industry-oriented, but worth a look
• The Victoria Short Film and Video Festival
• VideoArt -- a video art festival in Locarno, Switzerland
• The Virginia Film Festival -- independent work in Charlottesville, Virginia
• The Virtual Film Festival -- an online festival that spends a lot of energy making you think you're really there

Other Festivals

• AFI Film Fest -- of questionable experimental value, but there nonetheless
• Gwynneth's Film Independent - Film and Video Festivals -- probably the best organized listing of festivals on the Net
• Film.com's Film Festivals Page -- a pretty good listing of national and international festivals
• Film Festival Directory -- another comprehensive festival list, in case you didn't find it above

General and Not-so General Interest

• Animation of Heaven Hell in 3-D! -- a good guide to alternative animation
• Association Française de R=echerche sur l'Histoire du Cinéma -- information about cinema histories and lovely images, all in french
• Association of Moving Image Archivists -- a web site and mailing list devoted to archiving
• Cinex -- eccentric cinema from Grenoble (in French)
• i_LINE -- the indieFILM CYBERnetwork
• International Film -- information about the Persian film industry
• Doris Wishman -- a loving look at the queen of sexploitation sinema, maintained by filmmaker Peggy Ahwesh
• Dermatology in the Cinema -- which is thicker, skin or celluloid?
• D.FILM Digital Film Festival -- a blending of film and digital sensibilities, we hope
• Free Speech TV -- A Progressive Voice in the Media Revolution
• The Independent Filmmakers Internet Resource Guide -- Mike Vidal's excellent resource for independent makers and aficionados
• MEDIANet -- a complete online guide to the Internet for Video and Filmmakers
• Museums and Fine Art Organizations -- a good listing of art sites on the Web
• Newton Television Foundation On-Line -- Media Nation's online indie gathering place
• The OMNIBUS:EYE Project -- a glossy exploration of digital media from Northwestern University
• PopcornQ -- the "ultimate online home for the queer moving image"

Vintage and Pre-Cinema

• The Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture -- magic lanterns, 19th century optical entertainments, panoramas, more
• The Dreamland -- monthly screenings of silent films
• The Dead Media Project -- an extensive and fascinating catalog of "outdated" media, everything from the Incan quipu to the dead web site
• Dr. Shah Khan -- home movies and public events shot in 16mm in 1930s and 1940s India: a real gem of a site!
• Early Motion Pictures from the Library of Congress, 1897-1916 -- the Library of Congress's amazing collection of archival paper prints from long lost turn of the century films, reassembled into moving images. Awesome!
• Hollycombe Steam Collection -- the centenary of traveling fairground cinemas; magic lanterns, early cinema
• Lantern Slides -- magic lantern slides from early 20th century India
• 9.5 millimeter -- information about a long-gone cinema gauge
• nitrate film -- for purists who like to live dangerously
• The Projection Box -- publishing new research and archive documents in the subjects of pre-cinema, early film and optical recreations
• Silent Movie Links -- a great list of links to silent film information
• Silent Star of the Month -- dedicated to show-casing a different star of the silent film era each month. Also see the Silent Movie page.
• Photochrom Mystery -- an interesting color photography process from pre-1930s

8mm Specialties

• small movies -- "emergency cinema for people" -- a beautiful designed and informative site dedicated to 8mm and super-8mm movie making. A personal favorite!
• The Super-8 Home Page -- a homespun resource for S-8 makers
• Mike Brantley's Super-8 Filmmaking! -- super-8 filmmaking is not dead
• Super 8mm Torrid & Vapor Productions -- a no-budget 8mm production group in Doswell, Virginia

Production Resources and Organizations

• Artists' Television Access: Alternative media making and exhibition in San Francisco, CA
• Art Matters -- funding and resources for artists!
• Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC) -- San Francisco's video membership organization
• Boston Film & Video Foundation -- Boston's regional arts center
• ConnectMedia -- access to the Northern California media community; labs, crews, nuts and bolts
• Documentary Film Site -- a Netherlands meeting place for documentary filmmakers
• FAVA -- an independent film and video artists collaborative in Alberta, Canada
• Film Arts Foundation: Northern California's independent media membership organization
• The Film Group -- cinematic products and services, with an eye toward the small gauge and low budget
• Fine Cut -- meat and potatoes of moviemaking, in one bite-sized link
• FL24-7 - The Online Guide to Florida Production -- a Florida media commission
• HarvestWorks -- digital media resources and contacts for artists
• IFFCON -- The International Film Financing Conference, "linking independent producers with international dollars"
• IMAGE Film & Video Center of Atlanta -- Georgia's own resource center
• Independent Feature Project -- the self-annointed "home of independent film"
• Links and Tinks -- useful online resources for video makers
• Media Alliance -- a nonprofit organization which serves media professionals, nonprofit organizations and the general public in the San Francisco Bay Area
• Melbourne Super 8 Film Group -- equipment, resources, screenings and more
• Midwest Media Artists Access Center -- a community of emerging and independent film, photography, video and sound artists in St. Paul, Minnesota
• New Brunswick Filmmakers' Co-operative Ltd. -- like it says, from N.B., Canada
• Newton Television Foundation -- collaborations between independent producers to create films and videos on issues of contemporary social and cultural concern
• UNICA - Union Internationale du Cinéma non-professionnel / Film+Video -- from the Netherlands, a union of non-professional film and video makers
• Video University -- "the information source for hobbyists and pros"

Filmmakers and indie films with web sites

• Aldous Huxley: The Gravity Of Light
• Bleak Future
• California Redemption by Joshua Meisler
• Chains by Trinh T. Minh-Ha
• City Unplugged
• Complete Waste of Time by Raza
• Danny Hobart Loves You
• Daughters of the Dust
• El Frenetico & Go-Girl
• 519 Midwest Avenue
• Foiled by Henry Burrows
• Forgotten Tenor by Abraham Ravett
• Four Corners of Nowhere
• The Garbage Movie by Matthew Anscher
• Immortal
• Korea
• No Resistance
• Not Bad For a Girl by Lisa Apramian
• Plan 10 from Outer Space
• Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch
• Public Shelter by Jayne Loader
• Puppenhead -- by David Cox
• P L U N D E R S Q U A D by Charles Woodman and Scott Davenport
• Rodgriguez Brothers
• The Shot
• John Gagné's experimental film pages
• Ronnie Cramer's Cult Film Page

Lists of Cinema-Related Sites

• Cinema-Related Resources -- other points of departure
• CineMedia -- one of the Internet's largest cinema and media directories
• Film Resources -- another of the Internet's largest cinema and media directories
• Wide World of Art -- an impressive listing of art on the web
• Filmmakers Anonymous -- a good list a bit more off the beaten path

Training and Workshops

• LaMaMa Screenwriting Workshops -- learn from the pros on your works-in-progress
• International Film & Television Workshops
• Directory of Film/Video Schools and Programs -- a comprehensive listing from the Ufva Student Film and Video Festival
• S.O.R. Alphabetical Breakdown -- an alphabetical list of film/video schools
• The Cyber Film School -- that's right, you can learn how to make movies without taking your hands off your keyboard!