About Underground Alice
- Year Released:
- 1968-1982
- Genres:
- Experimental
- Metadata:
- Directed by Multiple directors
Since the early years of cinema, Lewis Carroll’s
Alice’s Adventures
in Wonderland has been adapted many times over. This screening
features three “underground” adaptations, each of which in its
own way eschews conventional logic and narrative order—much in
the spirit of the original novel.
Curious Alice (1968), produced by
the National Institute of Mental Health, uses a psychedelic blend
of live action and animation to ostensibly counsel children on the
perils of drug use.
Malice in Wonderland (1982) is animator Vince
Collins’ reimagining of the story as a Freudian nightmare. Finally,
Bill Osco’s
Alice in Wonderland: An X-Rated Musical Fantasy
(1976) is a hardcore cult classic of the porno chic era that takes
itself equally seriously as a musical comedy. Viewed together, all
three make for an evening that—as Alice herself would say—just
gets “curiouser and curiouser.” Contains graphic nudity and sexual situations. (Digital presentation)
No one under 18 will be admitted.
