What Does One Call An Underground Film???

 What the hell is an underground film? What the hell is the underground? IS THERE SUCH A THING???

Andy Warhol was 100% on the money when he or someone else said in the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes. It's literally happening now. The internet is crazy. Everything is out there. But there is so much out there, so much to sift through, that a whole lot of stuff is left unfound, remaining to be seen! Those are the things I want to see! Enough with the nostalgia. Blazing double barreled into a nihilistically naughty future is the way to go! So if anything can be seen, is there such thing as an underground? Perhaps not. But stuff can certainly get buried under all the cultural detritus.

I've heard other terms for underground film. I like "critical cinema" but it sounds too boring. Yes, we are critical of the art form and the work that came before us, but there's more to it than just that. Yes, my thesis is fuck movies, but that can look like a bunch of different things. My love for movies is profound. The moving image coupled with sound is a magical experience. But it's also a deceitful opiate. A time waster. 

Folks like to differentiate between the meaning of underground, experimental, or avant-garde film. Some see underground as narrative pieces, thereby not experimental nor avant garde. Experimental films most often have no actors consisting solely of often abstract imagery. Underground smacks too much of the conventions traditional film in contrast to the experimental, while the avant-garde may have elements similar to the underground, but with a perhaps more refined aesthetic more akin to European arthouse conventions than the down and dirty drive in antics of the underground.

To me it's all kind of the same. They all influence and rub up all around each other. This includes big budget Hollywood entertainment. Everything is out there leaving a weird trail of digital DNA.