Other Interesting Links

This is not your Hollywood robot.

Here are some links that showcase, discuss or in some way relate to alternative film and video, as well as a few personal favorites thrown in for flavor. Be sure to come on back, now!

Alternative Cinema Showcases

• 40 Frames -- a volunteer-run mini-cine showing quality experimental and documentary work in Portland, Oregon
• 911 Media Arts Center -- eclectic and innovative programming in Seattle, Washington
• Andy Warhol Museum -- occasional screenings of avant garde cinema, with a healthy dose of Mr. W's ouevre
• Anthology Film Archives -- an avant garde film archive and exhibition center in New York City
• Arcata Theater Lounge -- alternative renderings from California's far north
• Artists' Television Access -- subversive and provocative media art from San Francisco
• Art Office -- emerging and established artists working in time-based media in the Los Angeles area
• Aurora Picture Show -- year-round film/video screenings in a converted church in Houston, Texas
• Babylon-Mitte -- from Berlin: old films, new ones, never screened films, movies, documentaries, experimentals, avant-garde
• Balagan Experimental Film/Video Series -- Boston, Massachusetts' regular series featuring local, national and international makers
• Basement Films -- a volunteer venue hosting screenings by visiting and New Mexico film and video artists
• Berks -- the tiny and ever-lasting cinematic oasis in Reading, Pennsylvania
• Blinding Light -- a lively and intimate alternative cinema space in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
• Bluish Barn -- a colorful, friendly little venue in Ann Arbor, Michigan
• Blue Screen -- giving blue screens a good name in Austin, TX
• Brooklyn Babylon Cinema -- screening the outrageous in Brooklyn, New York
• Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers -- a non-profit, artist-run centre in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
• The Centre for Contemporary Art -- an exciting art center in Warsaw, Poland, featuring regular avant garde film & video shows
• Centenary Film Society -- features and experimental works in Shreveport, Louisiana
• Center for Visual Music -- bridging boundaries between sound and visual art in Los Angeles
• Centre Pompidou -- the high-end Parisian showcase for all things cinema
• Charm Bracelet -- putting on the charm in Portland, Oregon
• Chicago Filmmakers -- Chicago's most active alternative media space
• Cine Salon -- an informal screening and discussion group in Hanover, New Hampshire
• ciné16 -- odd cinematic offerings in San Jose, California, including vintage educational and training films
• Cine Fantom -- an ambitious alternative venue in Moscow, Russia
• Cinema Project -- creative doings in Portland, Oregon
• Cinémathčque Française -- film art in Paris
• Cinematheque Ontario -- cutting edge cinematic fare from Canada
• Cleveland Cinematheque -- indie and alternative cinema in Cleveland, Ohio
• Detroit Film Center -- main/indie/alt offerings in the midwest motor town
• Diagonal Film Archive -- moving image art in Seoul, South Korea
• DIVA Center -- media and more in Eugene, Oregon
• Pacific Cinémathčque -- telepoetics and virtual resources in Vancouver, BC
• Echo Park Film Center -- film/video resources, classes and microcinema in the heart of Los Angeles
• El Rio Outdoor Cinema -- a monthly outdoor barroom cinema event in San Francisco
• Enana Marón -- a bright substellar mass of cinematic purity in Madrid, Spain
• Eiga Arts -- Saga City, Kyushu, Japan: work that shifts between the vague boundaries of 'documentary' and 'experimental'
• The Expatriate Cafe (Television Show) -- a Chicago screening venue for short video, film and audio work created by independent national and international artists
• Expermenta -- media arts and experimental film organisation based in Melbourne, Australia
• Experimental Response Cinema -- roving avant garde cinema in Austin, Texas
• Exploding Cinema -- a no-budget underground cinema group that runs regular screenings in London
• Eyedrum -- Atlanta, Georgia's locus of contemporary art, music and new media
• Film Arts Foundation -- San Francisco's indie film membership organization and occasional showcase
• Filmforum -- Los Angeles's island of artistic integrity in the ocean of the Hollywood megalopoly
• Film Forum -- New York's leading moviehouse for independent premiers and repertory programming
• Filmgruppe Chaos -- a German super-8 collective that's been going strong since 1975
• Film and Video Center at UC-Irvine -- screening alternative, "fiercely independent" works in Irvine, California
• Film and video umbrella -- video and interactive media in the U.K.
• First Person Cinema -- in person artist presentations in Boulder, Colorado
• Flicker Film Festival -- an 8mm lover's paradise in Chapel Hill, North Carolina; what's in a name?
• Glitter Films -- serving up bi-monthly no-budget films in Raleigh, North Carolina
• Grand Detour -- Portland, Oregon's hub for innovative video and media related artworks
• Haciendo Cine -- independent and experimental screenings in Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Hallwalls -- Buffalo, New York's multiple media arts center
• Harvard Film Archive -- occasional avant garde screenings at the big HU
• Heaven Gallery -- regular screenings and installations in Chicago, IL
• IMAGE Film & Video Center of Atlanta -- Georgia's own alternative
• Image Forum -- (Japanese only) -- Tokyo's cutting edge media center
• Jefferson Presents -- monthly alternative screenings in Pittsburgh, PA
• The Kitchen -- a New York center for video, music, dance, performance, film and literature
• The Knitting Factory -- another New York center for cinema, performance, music, theater, club, more
• La Vista Downtown Cinema Club -- offbeat features and underground shorts in NYC
• Light Industry -- a multi-curator venue for film and electronic art in Brooklyn, New York
• Lux Centre for Film, Video and Digital Arts -- the avant garde moving image epicenter in London
• Mass Art Film Society -- Boston's experimental cinema blog and screening venue
• Mass Experiment -- a Boston, Massachusetts directory of experimental cinema events
• Moviate -- sound, cinema, festival, film camp and more in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
• Moving Image Coalition -- shows, resources and more in Melbourne, Australia
• Moviola -- a Canadian "short film" channel
• Millennium Film Workshop -- New York City's non-profit, film arts and community membership organization, since 1966
• MINI-CINE -- a volunteer experimental venue in Shreveport, Louisiana
• Museum of Modern Art -- New York's high-end presentation of in-person personal cinema, plus fabulous series such as Big As Life: An American History of 8mm Film
• Mustache Cinema -- high-brow and low-brow alternative cinema in San Francisco
• National Projects -- sponsoring microcinemas throughout the US
• Northwest Film Center -- Portland, Oregon's high-energy indie showcase
• Nova Cinema -- all kinds of alternative/indie media in Brussels, Belgium
• Ocularis -- independent and avant garde screenings in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York
• Olympia Film Society -- Olympia, Washington's film society with alt-space roots and indie rock tendencies
• Other Cinema -- subversive and provocative media art from San Francisco
• Otherfilm -- a Brisbane, Australia collective dedicated to avant-garde and experimental film screenings, workshops, performances, distribution etc.
• Pacific Film Archive -- Berkeley, California's venerable cinematic institution for overlooked and marginalized cinema; regular avant garde film and video programs
• Peripheral Produce/Rodeo Films -- Portland, Oregon's nexus of organic cinema
• Pioneer Theater -- a luscious New York showcase of independent cinema
• Pittsburgh Filmmakers -- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's independent media arts center
• Pleasure Dome -- a Toronto exhibitor of Canadian and international artists' film and video
• Pratt Film Series -- New York's Pratt Univerisity's sprightly avant garde screenings
• Prince Music Theater -- Philadelphia theater that puts alternative media into the mix
• Puget Sound Cinema Society -- monthly screenings extending the possibilities, near Seattle, Washington
• Redcat -- CalArts' downtown LA venue for innovative visual, performing and media arts
• Robert Beck Memorial Cinema -- the true New York alternative where anything can and does happen
• Rooftop Films -- the sky's the limit for underground films in New York's high-rise cinema
• Rutgers Film Co-op -- Jersey's alternative film/video space
• San Francisco Cinematheque -- the longest running fine art film/video showcase is still going strong
• Scratch Projections -- weekly fine art cinematic offerings from Paris
• Squeaky Wheel -- an artist-run media arts center and micro cinema in Buffalo, New York
• SnackOnArt -- a weekly avant tv show from New York
• stop-and-pause -- giving pause in Portland, Oregon
• STRÁNKY ČESKÉHO EXPERIMENTÁLNÍHO FILMU -- programs and a catalog about Czech experimental film, partly in English
• Subterranean Cinema -- going underground in Jacksonville, Florida
• Suparak, Astria -- the curator has a website of upcoming and past programs
• UCLA Film & Television Archive -- expanded cinema in the belly of the beast
• Undercinema -- screening underground and independent films in Minneapolis, Minnesota
• UnionDocs -- new and challenging documentary cinema in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York
• University of Wisconsin Cinematheque -- a coalition of student and academic film groups showing regular off-the-path fare
• Video Association of Dallas -- the Texas-based festival also runs a monthly screening series
• Video Lounge -- a New York City video screening series devoted to emerging artists
• The Werepad -- one of the more offbeat venues in offbeat San Francisco
• Wexner Center for the Arts -- high quality eclectic programming, and gallery installations as well
• White Light Cinema -- pure cinema from Chicago
• Whitney Museum of American Art -- New York's high end museum offers occasional avant garde fare
• Werkleitz Biennale: real[work] -- a border crossing, international forum for media and art
• Zeitgeist Theater Experiments -- flavorful fare from New Orleans, Lousiana

Movies Online

note: many of these sites are actively soliciting films and videos, and will digitize and display your work for little or no cost. Be sure and ask about your rights when negotiating any contract agreement.

• AboveStream.com -- a "streaming video sharing center," with some independent movies
• Acid TV -- eroding the barrier between corporate media and video anarchy; looking for avant garde submissions
• AFI OnLine Cinema -- the Film Institute's web site features movies online
• Animation Heaven and Hell in 3-D -- obscure animated films
• Anteye -- a collection of online short movies
• As de bastos, tijeras en cruz -- the hand contorted like a jellyfish blinds the sorrowful eye of the oil lamp
• Avidz.com -- shorts, documentaries, and a forum
• Bijou Cafe -- indie features, shorts, newsletter, message boards, more; looking for avant garde submissions
• blitzcinema.com -- digital movies of all sizes and shapes
• BroadcastAmerica.com -- independent movies, classics, series and cartoons
• Cashiers du Cinemart -- underground cinema at its deepest
• Channel-T -- transsexual documentaries from within the transsexual community
• Cinema Apocalypse -- cult/foreign/psychotronic/horror films, reviews, production
• CinemaShorts.com -- an ongoing short film festival, specializing in multi-culturalism
• Digital Video Documentaries -- Nathan Bramble's do-it-yourself site
• The Dreamland -- monthly screenings of silent films
• Dr. Shah Khan -- home movies and public events shot in 16mm in 1930s and 1940s India: a real gem of a site!
• FlickerTube.com -- films, cartoons, music videos, more
• Fluffy Time -- digital films for bent minds
• Green Fields -- a quasi-experimental, quasi-narrative environment aboard a research ship
• Evan's Internet Cinema -- spoofs and take-offs of big-name genres
• IFILM -- lots of streaming video in many categories, including experimental
• IFMP -- movie clips, a webzine, and networking opportunities
• Independent Exposure -- from Blackchair Productions, an online screening room of shorts
• IndieDVD -- an alliance of independent filmmakers and marketers
• IndieKino -- international independent film online
• indyflicks.com -- independent films and featured filmmakers
• Internet Movie Channel -- everything from home repair to real estate; looking for avant garde submissions
• Inventing Entertainment -- an interesting archive of early cinema, with downloadable clips
• ITV Net -- all kinds of movies (even some experimental shorts), in a broadcast-style format
• JediNet -- rogue reworkings of mainstream movies and more
• The Last Cowboy -- a cowboy, a cosmonaut, and karl marx
• The Little City -- energetic and subversive movies
• Love Underground -- underground radio and video, humanly erotic videos, moving art, footage of live events
• Nastified Media -- nasty tasting media that goes down hard
• NeoKino Films -- a non-corporate streaming media site, with no banners or advertisements
• Neovoxer -- a mytho-poetic fantasy epic feature film with live score
• Netcast -- daily webcast programming, from Free Speech TV
• The New Venue -- moving images designed specifically for the web
• NomIg -- DJ and VJ collective meshing sight and sound into a cohesive whole
• Percy & Ruth Crawford and the Birth of Televangelism -- an exhibit of the Billy Graham Center archives
• Planet01.tv -- video podcasting from around the globe
• plugincinema -- a do-it-yourself resource for digital and alternative cinema
• PureStream -- streaming from the U.K.
• Re-voir -- Pip Chodorov's high quality distribution site for experimental and hard-to-find European cinema
• Short Village -- a new vortal specializing in short films, documentaries and animation (english version too)
• Slam -- short films, videos, and animations, and episodic video content
• SmackDabMedia.com -- studies in transitional digital content
• StrikeTheSet -- independent features online
• Studio Next -- short films, independent clips, or just fun 'stuff' to watch
• Studio U-7 TV -- Russian collection of short movies in all categories, both online and for distribution
• Undergroundfilm.com -- committed to showing and selling the work of independent filmmakers
• urbanchillers.com -- original chilling short movies
• uxoomi -- digitized movies in various categories; looking for avant garde submissions
• Visionary Designs -- online experimental digital movies
• Whispered Media -- a collective that promotes the use of video, and other media tools, in progressive grassroots movements
• Wild Surmise -- an excellent list of independent films online
• Your Mother -- underground videos your mother wouldn't approve of
• ZeroOneFilms -- short/feature/documentary/specialty programming on the internet
• Zu Casa -- videoart is the photography is the action is the transmission is the image is zu casa television

Blogs and Podcasts

• Art Cinematic -- musings on experimental film, direct filmmaking, contemporary video art and more
• Cine Soiree -- Joel Schlemowitz's blog of experimental film screenings, film soirees, and expanded cinema extravaganzas in and around New York City.
• Hell on Frisco Bay -- has links to the Avant Garde Blog-a-thon as well as other bay-area-centric cine-information
• La Región Central -- An Argentinian blog devoted to Avant-garde / Experimental / Small Gauge film
• Left Field Cinema -- world, indy and alternative cinema podcasts and more
• Marco Milone -- interesting ruminations on the state and delight of alternative cinema
• Mellart -- blogging on video, sound, new media and installations
• More Milk Yvette -- London based web journal for artists' and experimental film, publishing reviews, responses, interviews, artists’ writings and online galleries of new work
• Preservation Insanity -- Archivist Mark Toscano's thoughtful musings on film preservation, particularly experimental film
• TopMovie
• Video Synthesis -- video art, performance, experimental film, & vanguard documentary
• Visionary Film -- from Albert Alcoz

Films, Cameras and Items For Sale

• Cameraman -- movie equipment from Portland, Oregon -- honest and fair
• Classic Home Cinema -- films of all gauges for sale
• cinematographica -- collecting vintage movie equipment; lots of good info and links
• Collectible Cameras -- lots of movie equipment for sale
• Derann -- a large distributor of 8mm and 16mm films
• ebay -- the online auction has just about everything
• Film Collector's Reference Center -- a great collection of useful information for film collectors
• FilmClassic.com -- brand new 16mm and Super 8 films and supplies, including the old Blackhawk collections
• Films4Auction -- an unusual way of distributing films
• Gloriously Colorful Kodaks -- a true Kodakophile shares his best
• HD Video Camera Accessories -- High definition “HD” video camera rentals, sales, accessories and production services
• Internet Moving Image Archive -- an online resource for ephemeral films founded by Rick Prelinger; contains many movies online
• JavaPhoto -- cameras, film and supplies for all formats, including 8mm
• JK Meritex -- the original source for optical printers and accessories
• Movie Cameras / 16mm & Super 8 Film Cameras -- movie equipment for sale
• moviecamerashop.com -- specializing in antique and recent cine equipment
• Old Timer Cameras Limited -- supplies operation manuals for old cameras of all sorts
• Phil's Vintage Movie Films and Collectibles -- movie films & projectors, memorabilia and other collectibles
• SuperCircuits -- surveillance and security cameras, cheap!
• Toby's Films for Sale -- a page of links to film collectors and sales

Archival Footage

• Internet Moving Image Archive -- an online resource for ephemeral films founded by Rick Prelinger; contains many movies online
• Research Source -- a stock footage resource founded by filmmaker Andrew Noren
• Wavebreak Media -- broadcast quality footage and animation

Dialog: Magazines, Literature

• Afterimage -- the journal of media arts and cultural criticism; now with an online bulletin board
• Audio Visualizers -- a comprehensive forum for video performance artists
• Bright Lights Film Journal -- a hybrid of Hollywood and marginal cinematic exploration, with a good section on experimenal film
• Camper, Fred -- a compendium of FC's writings on film over the years, including many about experimental film
• Cantrills Filmnotes -- writing on independent cinema, with an emphasis on experimental, published twice yearly since 1971
• Cashiers du Cinemart -- a look at the world of underground cinema
• Expanded Cinema -- Gene Youngblood's milestone book on avant garde cinema is now available online
• Filmmaker Magazine -- catering to the independent filmmaker community
• Film Threat Online -- the Web's "indie voice" from the far side of Hollywood
• filmwaves -- the magazine for low/no budget filmmakers and audiences
• Full Alert Film Review -- "information, reviews, profiles and articles on films and filmmakers that are often ignored even by 'alternative' media"
• The Film-Theory Web Page -- highbrow discussions of cinema and its meanings
• greatindiefilms.com -- reviews, interviews, articles, classifieds and more
• Haciendo Cine -- an informative and lively magazine for independent and experimental cinema from Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Halter, Ed -- the vociferous film critic and programmer's web page
• INCITE! -- Journal of Experimental Media & Radical Aesthetics
• The Independent -- published by the Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers, with occasional avant garde articles
• Jump Cut -- looking at media in its social and political context
• Kinoeye -- in-depth looks at overlooked features and occasionally experimental cinema
• Literature for Super-8 Filmmakers -- a good listing of small gauge books
• Millennium Film Journal -- the Millennium Film Workshop's durable journal of experimental film
• Not Bored! -- an anarchist, situationist-inspired, low-budget, irregularly published, photocopied journal
• Paper Tiger Television -- destroying the paper-thin myths about media
• Pugzine -- an underground art and culture zine
• readme -- contemporary non-mainstream poetics and experimental film
• Senses of Cinema -- an online film journal devoted to the serious and eclectic discussion of cinema
• Situationists International -- we are not.
• 24framespersecond -- an online film journal for "uniquely personal reactions to films and filmmakers"
• Videomaker Magazine -- camcorder and desktop video
• The Virtual Beret -- "Perceptions of the Artist in the Online World" and net ramblings

Reference

• AbruptEDGE -- a good information resource for all aspects of filmmaking
• Ani-Mato -- a great resource for building your own filmmaking equipment
• Bolex -- Joel Schlemowitz's useful Bolex information site
• Camera Guides for Beginners - nifty guide to capturing video
• Cinematographers Online Bible -- a handy online production resource for shooters
• CinemaWeb -- a collective of independent film and video websites
• Cosmic Baseball Association -- an all-star lineup of avant garde film artists, playing for the home team
• Essential Media Counterculture Catalog -- books * cds * comics * videos * 'zines * more
• Film & Video for non-professionals -- Bernard Benoot's great web page and mailing list for low budget making
• Film Collector's Reference Center -- a great collection of useful information for film collectors
• Filmshooting.com -- an excellent and timely reference for celluloid-ists
• Hand Processing Information -- maďa cybelle carpenter's useful resource for doing it on your own
• Image Areas for Film & TV -- an explanation of image ratios
• Lux Online -- the single most extensive publicly available resource devoted to British film and video artists
• Old Timer Cameras Limited -- supplies operation manuals for old cameras of all sorts
• plugincinema -- a do-it-yourself resource for digital and alternative cinema
• shortfilm.de -- from Germany, an excellent and up-to-date newsletter for lovers of short film
• Wild Surmise -- an excellent list of independent films
• Women in Cinema: A Reference Guide -- where the sisters are doin' it for themselves

Distribution, Sales and Rentals

• Anarchist Cinema -- not sure if this site is safe for work...
• Arthouse Inc. -- an interesting collection of film/video, including lots of experimental work
• B-Movie Theater -- a distribution site dedicated to promoting obscure, low-budget movies and special-interest videos
• Boulevard Movies -- cult and independent films on DVD
• Brócolis VHS -- a Brazilian experimental film collective -- scroll right!
• Cambridge Documentary Films -- films that challenge
• Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Center -- a searchable catalog of Canadian experimental cinema
• Canyon Cinema -- the best source for experimental film rentals
• Cecile Starr -- an avant garde film collector with video sales and rentals
• Center for Visual Music -- video/DVD sales of abstract and experimental films; the organization also preserves and programs AG film
• D I P H U S A -- a non-profit Brazilian distribution center promoting moving image art
• EuroCinema -- a European landing place for "non-Hollywood films"
• Facets Video -- the big video distributor has some good avant garde titles, and it's searchable
• FCLS Film Center -- a great resource for film collectors; also lots of equipment information
• Film-Makers' Cooperative -- the east coast U.S. experimental film rental house
• Films4Auction -- an unusual way of distributing films
• First Run Features -- video versions of offbeat and indie features
• HAMACA -- media and video art distribution from Spain
• Heure Exquise ! -- from France, a non-profit promoting video art, video creation, sales and distribution
• Independent Filmmaker Cooperation -- a German distributor of independent and non-mainstream films and videos
• International Movie Market -- "targets and serves you, movie distributors and buyers from all over the world"
• The Kitchen -- the New York exhibition space's own distribution catalog
• Light Cone Films -- the premiere European distribution center for avant garde cinema
• Light Cone Video -- a great collection of experimental films on video cassette, from Paris
• Lowave -- an independent DVD label with the objective of discovering and promoting contemporary film and video art
• MediaRights.org -- making social issue documentaries and advocacy videos easy to find
• Microcinema International -- producing collections of avant garde film and video on DVD
• Monday/Wednesday/Friday Club -- represents video & film artists in consumer sales
• Movie Market -- a glitzy commercial distribution site; allows you to list your film
• National Asian American Telecommunications Association -- films and videos which showcase voices, issues and experiences from diverse Asian American and Pacific Islander communities
• New Day Films -- a cooperative of independent producers distributing work that is high in quality and social consciousness
• Other Cinema DVD -- alternative distribution of extraordinary works
• Outspoken Productions -- a catalog of lesbian and gay film and video
• ReelUniverse.com -- independent movies orderable online, some from the makers themselves
• reel.com -- a sprawling video sales and rental site, mostly mainstream but with some off-beat selections; searchable!
• Re-voir -- Pip Chodorov's high quality distribution site for experimental and hard-to-find European cinema
• Scarecrow Video -- alternative distribution in Seattle, Washington
• Seventh Art Releasing -- oddball indie distributors from Hollywoodland
• STRÁNKY ČESKÉHO EXPERIMENTÁLNÍHO FILMU -- programs and a catalog about Czech experimental film, partly in English
• Studio U-7 TV -- a Russian collection of short movies in all categories, both online and for distribution
• Undergroundfilm.com -- committed to showing and selling the work of independent filmmakers
• Video Databank -- the leading resource in the United States for videotapes by and about contemporary artists
• videos.com, Inc. -- web pages for video stores, distributors, and releasing companies, and collection of experimental, alternative, and unusual films and videos
• Visionary -- from the UK, the "bible of video sub-culture"
• Year Ocean -- underground video and digital filmmaking and distribution
• Zeitgeist Films -- an indie feature film distributor from New York

Dialog: Newsgroups, Mailing Lists, Forums

Note: Depending on your server's particular news feed, you may not be able to access all newsgroups.

• 16mm Collectors Forum -- forums, how-tos, resources for makers and collectors
• alt.movies.independent -- discussions about creating and distributing independent cinema
• alt.art.video -- a lively forum for the discussion of video as an art form
• alt.artcom -- a forum about art in all of its forms
• alt.binaries.multimedia -- postings of all sorts of movie clips
• alt.movies.cinematography.super8 -- good technical resource for the little gauge
• AMIA-L: Association of Moving Image Archivists -- an email list devoted to archiving
• Cinema Electronica -- a web-based discussion site about all things digital video, from an art p.o.v.
• Film & Video for non-professionals -- Bernard Benoot's great web page and mailing list for low budget making
• Film-Theory -- highbrow discussions of cinema and its meanings
• Filmmaking 101 -- a bulletin board for amateur filmmakers; tips, chat, networking and more
• Frameworks -- the internet mailing list for experimental film
• Lossless Video -- a web-based discussion forum for video art
• PopcornQ Film & Video Professionals List -- gay, lesbian, bi, and transgender film and video professionals
• VideoMaker Forums -- an excellent online forum for expert help on video production
• Wild Surmise -- an excellent list of independent films
• XFactor Online Conference for Experimental Media -- an interactive site discussing the current state of avant garde cinema

Databases

• Austrian Filmmakers Coop Database -- a growing repository for info about Austrian indie film
• Film and Video Art -- a somewhat uneven but interesting collection of information about film/video artists, written by film students
• Latin American Video Archives -- an on-line, searchable database and ordering service for thousands of Latin American film and video titles
• Internet Movie Database -- mostly mainstream movies, but great for searching
• cinovid -- the internet database for experimental film and video art -- over 2000 artists!
• World Wide Arts Resources -- a listing of art sites on the web

Experimental-friendly Festivals

• Also check out the Flicker Announcements page for current calls for entries
• Also see the Art Deadlines list for various arts announcements
  
  
• African American Retrospective Film Festival -- cultural alternatives in Boston, Massachusetts
• amateur film, akf sawa, unica -- a Polish festival and collective, going on its 30th year
• Ann Arbor Film Festival -- the venerable Michigan festival with an amazing experimental tradition
• Antimatter Festival of Underground Short Film & Video -- doing it up right in Victoria, BC, Canada
• Arizona State Short Film and Video Festival -- an ambitious festival sponsored by Arizona State University
• Art In Motion -- a festival of time-based media presented by the University of Southern California School of Fine Arts
• Athens Film Festival -- not sure what or where this is...
• Athens International Film Festival -- Athens, Ohio's alternative media festival
• Aurora -- Norwich, UK's fest fusing artist retrospectives and thematic film programmes with incisive debate, live performance and installations
• Blue Sky International Film Festival -- independent and world cinema in Las Vegas, Nevada
• Black Maria Film Festival -- a curated, touring program featuring the best of the recent avant garde offerings
• Britspotting -- a small but energetic festival focusing on British and Irish films, many experimental
• Brussels Gay and Lesbian Film Festival -- a gay/lesbian fest in Belgium, with some alternative fare
• Chicago Underground Film Festival -- defiant cinema from the midwest
• Chicago International Children's Film Festival -- youth-oriented offerings of all sizes and flavors
• Compass of Resistance International Film Festival -- from Bristol, U.K., a festival of survival, struggle, subversion, transgression
• Coney Island Underground Short Film Festival -- underground fare from Sideshows by the Seashore Brooklyn, Coney Island, New York
• CounterCorp -- The Anti-Corporate Film Festival
• Dahlonega International Film Festival -- filmmaker-friendly festival on Dahlonega, Georgia's Appalachian Trail
• Dallas Video Festival -- hot video shots from Texas, and "better living through video"
• DownStream Int'l. Film Festival -- Gainesville, Georgia's festival for fringe filmmakers of all genres, genders and film formats
• Edinburgh International Film & Video Festival -- pushing the limits in Edinburgh, Scotland
• Euro Underground -- an underground media fest in Krakow, Poland
• European Media Art Festival -- a touring festival program from Osnabrück, Germany
• The EX-change Project -- a traveling international exhibition of experimental films and videos
• EXiS - the Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul, South Korea
• film+arc -- an intriguing blend of cinema and architecture in Graz, Austria
• Film Arts Festival -- Northern California's biggest and best independent film fest
• Georgetown Independent Film Festival -- Washington, D.C. festival that shows all kinds of films
• Images Festival -- an expansive festival of independent media, installations, performances and more, in Toronto, Ontario
• immagine leggera -- an Italian festival featuring works that "obstinately refuse to conform to the laws of the market"
• Impakt Festival -- an alternative festival in Utrecht, The Netherlands
• IndieKino International Film Festival -- where digital technology and independent films meet
• Independent Film Festival of Boston -- Boston's largest festival with plenty of experimental fare
• International Surrealist Film Festival -- bending reality in Stamford, Connecticut
• Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen -- the prestigious European festival of cinematic art
• Johns Hopkins Film Festival -- budding in Baltimore
• L'Alternativa Festival de Cinema Independent -- alternatives in Barcelona, Spain
• L'Iimmane Leggera -- Palermo, Italy's international festival of video, film and media art
• Leeds Film Festival -- a U.K. fest with an underground sidebar
• London Film Festival -- London's premiere festival has an impressive "Experimenta" section.
• Los Angeles Independent Film Festival -- indies in the land of the beast doing their own thing
• Lost Weekend Film Festival -- inviting makers in L.A. to conceive and shoot a film in a weekend
• MadCat Women's International Film Festival -- a festival of experimental/independent films by women from around the globe
• Media City -- Windsor, Ontario, Canada's annual experimental film and video festival
• MicroCineFest -- a lively and low budget fest from Baltimore, Maryland
• MIX -- the New York Lesbian & Gay Experimental Film & Video Festival
• Montreal International Festival New Cinema New Media -- Montreal's avant showcase
• National Experimental Film Festival -- experimental gems from the Gold Coast of Australia
• New York Film Festival -- their Views from the Avant Garde series is a great annual program
• New York International Independent Film and Video Festival -- not much experimental work, but lots of indie fare
• New York Video Festival -- one of the more ambitious video fests (URL changes frequently -- search the site)
• New York Women's Film Festival -- showcases narrative, documentary, experimental, feature-length and short films and videos by women
• New York Underground Film Festival -- "A renegade festival of new films for countless, fiercely original new voices in filmmaking you won't see anywhere else..."
• NextFrame International Student Film Festival -- Philadelphia, PA's ambitious student fest; also info on film schools, catalogs, archives, more
• Night Visions -- the first (and only) horror / cult / trash / underground film festival in Finland
• Not Still Art Festival: Video Art and Music -- Cooperstown, NY's festival of "Visual Artists working in Non-Narrative and Abstract Motion Imaging Genres with Musicians and Sound Artists"
• Onion City Film Festival -- Chicago, Illinois's respectable alternative festival
• Red Bank Film Festival -- stirring things up in Red Bank, New Jersey
• Red Square -- regular marathon events in Cincinnatti, Ohio
• Reject Film Festival -- getting out the less-seen works in Philadelphia, PA
• RenderYard -- London's festival dedicated to the best experimental and animated work
• Rotterdam Film Festival -- the prestigious European festival in the Netherlands
• San Francisco Independent Film Festival -- indie features and some shorts
• San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival -- a broad range of genres and concerns from Asian America
• Sarah Lawrence College Experimental Film & Video Festival -- blowing minds in New York State
• Seattle Underground Film Festival -- bringing you the very best of avant garde, experimental and offbeat short and feature films from around the world...
• Short Attention Span Film and Video Festival -- catering to the attention-deficit elite; saying it all in 2 minutes or less
• Shorts International Film Festival -- industry-oriented, but worth a look
• Slamdance -- the hotshot alt-fest in Park City, UT
• Smogdance -- Pomona, California's dirty lowdown alternative
• Sound Unseen -- an underground film and music festival in Minneapolis, Minnesota
• South by Southwest Film Festival -- an alternative festival in Austin, Texas
• Split Film Festival -- new, creative, innovative, personal, radical, subversive work in Split, Croatia
• Studio 21 International Short Film Festival -- animation, documentary, experimental and more in Kyushu, Japan
• Thaw -- film, video, digital art fest in Iowa City, Iowa
• Twilight Trash -- an international outcast amateur film festival in Berlin, Germany
• VideoArt -- a video art festival in Locarno, Switzerland
• Videoex -- experimental-only film and video in Zurich, Switzerland
• VIPER - International Festival for Film Video and New Media -- an impressive avant garde festival in Basel, Switzerland
• The Virginia Film Festival -- independent work in Charlottesville, Virginia
• Women in the Directors Chair -- the home girls doin' it for themselves
• World Wide Video Festival -- an ambitious festival in Amsterdam, Holland

Digital and Online Festivals

• ResFest
• IndieKINO online Film Festival
• On-line International Film Festival
• Sundance Online Film Festival
• TJADER-KNIGHT inc.

Other Festivals

• Festival Deadlines by Month -- a useful list by month

Labs (for specialty film processing)

• Film Rescue International -- processing old and expired film is our business
• Plattsburgh Photographic Services -- the esteemed Martin Baumgarten and his great resource for 8mm and super-8mm filmmaking
• Rocky Mountain Film Lab -- the world's premiere developer of antique, esoteric, outdated and old film

General and Not-so General Interest

• Animation of Heaven Hell in 3-D! -- a good guide to alternative animation
• Association Française de R=echerche sur l'Histoire du Cinéma -- information about cinema histories and lovely images, all in french
• Association of Moving Image Archivists -- a web site and mailing list devoted to archiving
• Audio Visualizers -- a comprehensive forum for video performance artists
• Cinex -- eccentric cinema from Grenoble (in French)
• International Film -- information about the Persian film industry
• Dermatology in the Cinema -- which is thicker, skin or celluloid?
• Dutch Smalfilmmuseum -- a Netherlands organization that collects audiovisual material, documentation and material relating to amateur films
• The Early Video Project -- information about early video and early video art
• Free Speech TV -- A Progressive Voice in the Media Revolution
• The OMNIBUS:EYE Project -- a glossy exploration of digital media from Northwestern University
• PopcornQ -- the "ultimate online home for the queer moving image"
• the transmissor -- an "alternative information directory" for media
• Whispered Media -- a collective that promotes the use of video, and other media tools, in progressive grassroots movements
• XFactor Online Conference for Experimental Media -- an interactive site discussing the current state of avant garde cinema

Vintage and Pre-Cinema

• The Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture -- magic lanterns, 19th century optical entertainments, panoramas, more
• The Dreamland -- monthly screenings of silent films
• The Dead Media Project -- an extensive and fascinating catalog of "outdated" media, everything from the Incan quipu to the dead web site
• Dr. Shah Khan -- home movies and public events shot in 16mm in 1930s and 1940s India: a real gem of a site!
• Dutch Smalfilmmuseum -- a Netherlands organization that collects audiovisual material, documentation and material relating to amateur films
• Early Motion Pictures from the Library of Congress, 1897-1916 -- the Library of Congress's amazing collection of archival paper prints from long lost turn of the century films, reassembled into moving images. Awesome!
• The Early Video Project -- information about early video and early video art, and current activities connected with that topic
• Hollycombe Steam Collection -- the centenary of traveling fairground cinemas; magic lanterns, early cinema
• Lantern Slides -- magic lantern slides from early 20th century India
• Magic Lantern Shows -- national touring company recreating pre-cinema shows
• National Museum of Photograph, Film and Television -- lots of early cinema information
• The Projection Box -- publishing new research and archive documents in the subjects of pre-cinema, early film and optical recreations
• Silent Movie Links -- a great list of links to silent film information
• Photochrom Mystery -- an interesting color photography process from pre-1930s
• Vintage Film -- 9.5 and amateur film gauges

8mm Specialties

• The 8mm Film Format Metadirectory -- like it says, a massive directory of everything 8-ish. Awesome!
• Beaulieu Filmtechnik Gesamtprogramm -- in German, a useful site for Beaulieu lovers
• Classic Home Cinema -- from the United Kingdom, Super-8 stock, supplies, sound striping and more
• DVD Infinity -- sells and processes 8mm, super-8mm film and equipment, and transfers deteriorating film to digital
• Filmshooting.com -- an excellent and timely reference for celluloid-ists
• JavaPhoto -- cameras, film and supplies for all formats, including 8mm
• Kinotechnik -- a German resource for 8mm supplies
• LittleFilm.org a project of the International Center for 8mm Film, an educational organization founded by filmmaker/advocates Bob Brodsky and Toni Treadway
• Los Angeles Super 8mm Organization -- doing it small in a big way in the belly of the beast
• Merzbarn.com -- Nizo sales and repairs!
• Mike Brantley's Super-8 Filmmaking! -- super-8 filmmaking is not dead
• Northeast Historic Film -- an interesting catalog of small gauge films
• Plattsburgh Photographic Services -- extensive 8mm, 9.5mm and 16mm lab services in Plattsburgh, New York
• small movies -- "emergency cinema for people" -- a beautiful designed and informative site dedicated to 8mm and super-8mm movie making. A personal favorite!
• shortfilm.de -- from Germany, an excellent and up-to-date newsletter for lovers of short film
• Super 8 Camera -- much of useful ado about super-8
• Super8 Sound -- the venerable production resource for small gauge cinema in Burbank, California
• Super 8 Stuff -- info, parts and lots of useful stuff!
• Super 8 Today -- a bi-monthly print magazine
• Super8 Reversal Lab -- a high quality S8 lab in the Netherlands
• Super 8mm Torrid & Vapor Productions -- a no-budget 8mm production group in Doswell, Virginia
• Super 8 Wiki -- hundreds of informative articles in wiki format
• Video Workprinter -- high quality transfers for the do-it-yourself filmmaker
• www.super8camera.com -- an excellent starting point for 8mm web resources

Production Resources (non-profit) and Organizations

• 16mm Directory -- a great resource for all things celluloid and 16mm
• AbruptEDGE -- a good information resource for all aspects of filmmaking
• Artists' Television Access: Alternative media making and exhibition in San Francisco, CA
• Art Deadlines list -- listings of art events, deadlines, grants, etc.
• Art Matters -- funding and resources for artists!
• Association of Independent Film and Video Makers -- support and advocacy in the media arts
• Audio Visualizers -- a comprehensive forum for video performance artists
• Austin Film Resource -- Austin, Texas's non-profit resource for everything cinematic
• Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC) -- San Francisco's video membership organization
• Boston Film & Video Foundation -- Boston's regional arts center
• Film Arts Foundation: Northern California's independent media membership organization
• The Film Group -- cinematic products and services, with an eye toward the small gauge and low budget
• Filmgruppe Chaos -- a German super-8 collective
• Film Sound Design -- a vast resource for sound design
• Film Underground -- a variety of production resources for independent and underground filmmaking
• FL24-7 - The Online Guide to Florida Production -- a Florida media commission
• HarvestWorks -- digital media resources and contacts for artists
• Heure Exquise ! -- from France, a non-profit promoting video art, video creation, sales and distribution
• How to Produce Your First Feature Film -- some tips on doing it yourself, from one maker's experience
• IFFCON -- The International Film Financing Conference, "linking independent producers with international dollars"
• IMAGE Film & Video Center of Atlanta -- Georgia's own resource center
• Independent Feature Project -- the self-annointed "home of independent film"
• Independent Filmmakers of Oklahoma -- an Oklahoma resource center
• Independent Television Service (ITVS) -- government-funded organization "to fund and promote programming that involves creative risks and addresses the needs of underserved audiences"
• IndieClub -- an independent filmmaking networking site
• Insound -- movies, events, zines, forums
• iotaCenter -- an international community of artists, scholars, and anyone else interested in the art of light and movement
• Kasmei -- the "documentary and experimental film job and opportunity portal"
• Kinomidja -- great production resources for D.I.Y. filmmaking in Reykjavík, Iceland!
• LittleFilm.org a project of the International Center for 8mm Film, an educational organization founded by filmmaker/advocates Bob Brodsky and Toni Treadway
• The Mad Screenwriter -- everything you wanted to know about sceenwriting
• Media Alliance -- a nonprofit organization which serves media professionals, nonprofit organizations and the general public in the San Francisco Bay Area
• MediaRights.org -- making social issue documentaries and advocacy videos easy to find
• Moving Image Coalition -- equipment, resources, screenings and more
• Midwest Media Artists Access Center -- a community of emerging and independent film, photography, video and sound artists in St. Paul, Minnesota
• NAMAC: National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture -- a national association of non-profit media organizations and individuals
• New Brunswick Filmmakers' Co-operative Ltd. -- like it says, from N.B., Canada
• Pittsburgh Filmmakers -- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's independent media arts center
• Projector Films -- a collection of film and video makers based mainly, but not exclusively in the U.K.
• UNICA - Union Internationale du Cinéma non-professionnel / Film+Video -- from the Netherlands, a union of non-professional film and video makers
• Video University -- "the information source for hobbyists and pros"
• Women Make Movies -- national non-profit feminist media arts organization

Production Resources -- for-profit

• A Luna Blue - royalty-free stock footage and imagery
• Avidtech -- 8mm & 16mm transfers to DVD and film restoration services in Australia
• Black & White Film Factory -- Super 8, Reg 8, 16mm, Super 16 and 35mm film services, color/b&w, from Ontario, Canada
• Can Stock Photo -- stock photos for sale
• Cine-O-Matic -- DVD and Blu-ray authoring house providing professional encoding, authoring, and design, plus streaming
• Cinovation -- script writing software
• ConnectMedia -- access to the Northern California media community; labs, crews, nuts and bolts
• Digital Media -- free Avid post-production services to deserving low and medium-budget filmmakers in exchange for their particpation in the Filmcamp program
• Elasticmusic.com -- web-based, interactive music service for professional music buyers
• Foto Search Stock Footage -- allows users to search from more than fifty quality stock photo and footage vendors at one site
• Guerilla Opticals -- regular 8 and super-8 blowups to 16mm, and optical effects
• JK Meritex -- the original source for optical printers and accessories
• The Mercury Production Report -- a weekly production listing service, providing information about film projects in the preproduction and development stage
• MOD Opticals -- digitizing film to computer and back again
• Oddball Film+Video -- a great resource for stock footage
• Production Central (212)631-0435 -- an east coast equipment and editing suite rental house
• RetroFootage.com -- thousands of hours of great royalty free stock footage including newsreels, famous speeches, educational films, movie trailers, intermission commercials, and much more
• Royalty Free Music -- a large collection of usable music
• StudioDepot.com -- a resource for studio and camera gear
• Video Workprinter -- high quality transfers for the do-it-yourself filmmaker

Lists of Cinema-Related Sites

• CineMedia -- one of the Internet's largest cinema and media directories
• CinemaWeb -- a collective of independent film and video websites
• Gaycelluloid.com -- dedicated to reviews of both mainstream and independent gay cinematic works
• VM Productions -- resource lists of all sorts
• Wide World of Art -- an impressive listing of art on the web
• Filmmakers Anonymous -- a good list a bit more off the beaten path

Training and Workshops

• Cyber Film School -- that's right, you can learn how to make movies without taking your hands off your keyboard!
• Film & TV Connection -- a movie industry and broadcast educational program
• Home Video -- a do-it-yourself home video guide
• Directory of Film/Video Schools and Programs -- a comprehensive listing from the Ufva Student Film and Video Festival
• PCFE - Film schools at PCFE, Prague, Czech Republic.