New York underground cinema

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New York underground cinema was a 1960s avant-garde film movement centered in New York City, known for its experimental, low-budget, and often transgressive works by artists such as Andy Warhol.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf avant-garde cinema movement
film movement
underground film movement
associatedArtForm conceptual art
happening
performance art
associatedOrganization Anthology Film Archives
Film-Makers' Cooperative
associatedWith The Factory
commonTechnique found footage
improvisation
long takes
non-linear editing
static camera
commonTheme anti-establishment politics
drug culture
queer identity
sexuality
urban life
country United States of America
surface form: United States
distributionModel artist cooperatives
self-distribution
era postwar American cinema
hasCharacteristic avant-garde
experimental
independent
low-budget
non-commercial
transgressive
influenced American independent film
New York no wave
surface form: No Wave cinema

music video aesthetics
punk cinema
influencedBy Abstract expressionism
Beat Generation
Dada
European avant-garde cinema
Surrealism
language English
location New York City
movementCenter Greenwich Village
Lower East Side
Manhattan
SoHo
notableFigure Andy Warhol
Barbara Rubin
Carolee Schneemann
George Kuchar
Gregory Markopoulos
Hollis Frampton
Jack Smith
Jonas Mekas
Kenneth Anger
Marie Menken
Michael Snow
Mike Kuchar
Paul Morrissey
Ron Rice
Shirley Clarke
Stan Brakhage
opposedTo Hollywood studio system
screeningVenueType artist-run cinema
film cooperative
loft
underground club
startTime 1960s
typicalFormat 16 mm film
8 mm film

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Chelsea Girls associatedWith New York underground cinema
Mario Montez movement New York underground cinema
this entity surface form: New York avant-garde cinema
Andy Warhol’s Factory scene partOf New York underground cinema
this entity surface form: New York underground scene
Barbara Rubin influenced New York underground cinema
Chafed Elbows movement New York underground cinema