Underground

UNDERGROUND

The term originated in the US towards the end of the 50s and applied to US experimental filmmaking, which was rooted in the European Avant-Garde but was strongly connected to the American Beat movement that emerged at that time. Maya Deren’s Meshes in the Afternoon (1943) was one of the first independent underground films. The mode of campness was exploited by Andy Warhol films such as Flesh (1968) and Blow Job (1963).