SUBVERSION

Subversion is the first complete history of underground cinema, tracing the hidden life of subterranean filmmaking from its pre-history of Bohemian cabaret through the early cinematic avant-gardes of the 1920s to the worldwide blossoming of microcinema festivals in the 1990s. Part cultural history, part radical polemic, Subversion provides historic background and social context to such influential yet rarely discussed scenes such as the London Film Makers Collective of the 1960s, the New York Cinema of Transgression of the 1980s and the New London Undergound of the 1990s, plus original research into the world of amateur ciné culture from the 1930s onwards. Contextualising these movements within a broader historical and theoretical background of experimental media, and locating underground cinema as a popular and radical subculture distinct from both mainstream cinema and institutionalised avant-garde film, Subversion is set to become an essential text for all independent and guerrilla filmmakers. 

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January 2007
256 pages

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Duncan Reekie is a filmmaker, performer and underground cinema activist, and a founder member of the Exploding Cinema collective, a radical open-access screening group.

‘A gleefully anarchic and rightly biased schizo-history … An established filmmaker and part of the legendary Exploding Cinema collective, Reekie is not afraid to demand that underground film is seen as the revolutionary form it always was.’
Jack Sargeant, author of Deathtripping and Naked Lens

‘A must for makers, critics and lovers of underground film ... a book written with in-depth knowledge of filmmaking, film criticism and exhibition practices in this vital but unconventional realm of moviemaking.'
Xavier Mendik, Director of the Cult Film Archive, Brunel University

'Reekie delves deep into a subject matter that many independent filmmakers choose to ignore.'
Filmmaker