Once upon a time, "Underground Films" were really that-underground. Small communities of filmmakers, critics, and fans would gather to watch films made on shoe string budgets by amateur filmmakers, trying things that Hollywood either never tried at all or hadn't tried since the earliest days of film making. Many of those filmmakers were either already artists (Andy Warhol's group) or would soon make a name for themselves in one way or another (John Waters, to name one). My old man told of being dragged to New York by a friend to see "some kind of underground movies, art movies" where nothing happened; I like to imagine this was a Warhol "Happening" but its impossible to tell at this point. I do know one thing: he didn't see one of George and Mike Kuchar's films. You can accuse the Kuchars' films of a lot of things; "nothing happened" is not one of them.![]()
