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Saturday, November 8, 2025

Still image from The Films of Sarah Jacobson.

This screening includes The Films of Sarah Jacobson

From 7–7:00 pm

A pair of films from the "Queen of Underground Cinema" which tackle the coming-of-age genre with radical politics and a raw DIY approach.

Year released:: 1993/1996
Series:: Underground Film Series

Friday, September 19, 2025

This screening includes Pink Flamingos

From 10–10:00 pm

The infamous underground-turned-canonical film from the Pope of Trash himself! The saga of the "filthiest woman alive" (Divine in her most iconic role) is as outrageous, political, and funny as ever.

Rating:: NC17
Year released:: 1972
Series:: Underground Film Series

Friday, January 31, 2025

New 4K Restoration

Still image from Flesh for Frankenstein.

This screening includes Flesh for Frankenstein

From 7–7:00 pm

Filmmaker Paul Morrissey's fleshy, flashy, and over-the-top cult film is among the most original and transgressive interpretations of Mary Shelley’s classic novel.

Rating:: R
Year released:: 1973
Series:: Underground Film Series

Saturday, November 16, 2024

Still image from Catechism-ically Flawed.

This screening includes Catechism-ically Flawed

From 7–7:00 pm

A blend of impressionistic camerawork, sumptuous cinematography, and deeply felt examinations of queerness, this program of films by Su Friedrich and Paula Gauthier is an intimate study of sexual expression and repression.

Year released:: 1987/1991
Series:: Underground Film Series

Saturday, November 2, 2024

Still image from Taboo and Transgression.

This screening includes Taboo and Transgression

From 7–7:00 pm

Unapologetically sensual, explicit, and controversial, this program features an incendiary short by provocateur Nick Zedd and a long-lost film about forbidden desire and sexuality from Charles Henri Ford.

Year released:: 1971/1988
Series:: Underground Film Series

Saturday, October 19, 2024

Live Music Event

This screening includes L'Inferno

From 7–7:00 pm

Indie chamber music group Montopolis returns to IU Cinema with their frighteningly unique score for what has been called cinema's first feature-length horror film, a vividly surreal adaptation of Dante's Inferno.

Year released:: 1911
Series:: Underground Film Series

Thursday, March 21, 2024

Still image from Otherness: The Films of Priyanka Das.

This screening includes Otherness: The Films of Priyanka Das

From 7–7:00 pm

Director Priyanka Das will re-familiarize you with the experience of otherness, her films stunning visual journeys in search of a definition of oneself among others.

Year released:: 2021/2019
Series:: Underground Film Series

Thursday, December 7, 2023

Still image from Structural Film at the Turn of the Century.

This screening includes Structural Film at the Turn of the Century

From 7–7:00 pm

Three films from the '90s and '00s interrogate the conventions of mainstream cinema and present their own unique visions of the avant-garde trend known as "structural film."

Year released:: Various Years
Series:: Underground Film Series

Thursday, November 30, 2023

This screening includes Normal Love

From 7–7:00 pm

Glamorous monsters, altars to false idols, camp, and highly composed aesthetics intertwine to produce a treatise on queerness, morality, and the repressiveness of social conventions.

Year released:: 1963
Series:: Underground Film Series

Saturday, February 25, 2023

Still image from Handmade: The Films of Stacey Steers.

This screening includes Handmade: The Films of Stacey Steers

From 7–7:00 pm

Fine artistry, animation, and filmmaking collide in the award-winning handmade cinema of Stacey Steers.

Rating:: Not rated
Year released:: Various Years
Series:: Underground Film Series

Saturday, October 29, 2022

This screening includes Me and My Brother

From 7–7:00 pm

A Beat Generation-inspired faux vérité that tackles bohemian artist life in 1960s New York via the malleability of truth.

Year released:: 1969
Series:: Underground Film Series

Saturday, September 24, 2022

This screening includes A Biography of Lilith and The House of Science: A Museum of False Facts

From 7–7:00 pm

A pair of films from singular filmmaker Lynne Sachs investigating the connection between the body, the camera, and the materiality of film itself.

Rating:: Not rated/Not rated
Year released:: 1997/1991
Series:: Underground Film Series

Thursday, April 28, 2022

Still image from Milking and Scratching: The Handmade Films of Naomi Uman.

This screening includes Milking and Scratching: The Handmade Films of Naomi Uman

From 7–8:00 pm

Rating:: Not rated
Year released:: 1998–2002
Genres:: Experimental
Series:: Underground Film Series

Thursday, January 27, 2022

Still image from Taka and Ako: The Iimuras’ Cine-Poetics.

This screening includes Taka and Ako: The Iimuras’ Cine-Poetics

From 7–8:13 pm

Rating:: Not rated
Year released:: 1962–85
Genres:: Experimental
Series:: Underground Film Series

Tuesday, March 9, 2021

This screening includes Invisible Adversaries

From 7–8:49 pm

Join us for a virtual film introduction and film screening with the Underground Film Series team.

Rating:: Not rated
Year released:: 1977
Genres:: Drama
Series:: IU Cinema Virtual Screening Room, Underground Film Series

Thursday, January 28, 2021

This screening includes Two Moon July

From 7–7:53 pm

Join us for a virtual film introduction and film screening with the Underground Film Series team.

Rating:: Not rated
Year released:: 1986
Genres:: Documentary
Series:: IU Cinema Virtual Screening Room, Underground Film Series

Friday, December 11, 2020

Still image from Ken and Florence Jacobs.

This screening includes Ken and Florence Jacobs

From 7–8:15 pm

Filmmakers Ken and Florence Jacobs are scheduled to be present for a virtual conversation and interactive Q&A moderated by IU Media School Associate Professor Joan Hawkins.