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I am sue you have a fantastic collection of well stocked DVDs and blu rays in your film library which you can boast of to your neighbors and guests. But many of don't have access to underground films or probably don't even know about them. An underground movie is basically a film which is off beat. They are totally different in terms of financing, style and genre. They are the work of directors who used to pay an anti art role in Hollywood films.
The term underground film was first used by an American film critic in 1957. It was a clandestine and subversive culture beneath the legitimate and official media popularized by eminent directors who really fascinated the film critics of their time.
In the late 1950s underground films were made by successful and independent filmmakers who were very popular in cities like san Francisco, California, New York, London and Sydney who were basically experimental with their direction. In the late sixties these independent film makers matured and they created a mark for themselves and started to proclaim themselves as avant-garde or experimental and distanced themselves away from the run of the mill films.
In 1970 and 80s underground movies were considered as countercultural psychedelic part of original independent cinema and it were made popular both among the classes and the masses. No wave cinema' and cinema of transgression' are the new terms which became popular from 1970 to 1990.
In the 1990s a new style of cinema emerged in the forefront which were made in an ultra low budget and contained art as it main theme and they were a sort of rebellion against the underground film which were popular among the masses and were produced by distributors like Miramax and Newline. These were very popular in film festivals like film festivals (like the New York Underground Film Festival, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Melbourne Underground Film Festival, Sydney Underground Film Festival, Hamilton Underground Film Festival, Toronto's Images Festival, and others.
