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… BOOM! charts the emergence of the collective from the art squats of Brixton to international infamy, from the analogue machines of the nineties to the contemporary digital online cinema. And although the key focus is the Exploding Cinema, this is also a history of the broader London underground movement and includes material from MyEyesMyEyes, Omsk, the Halloween Society, Undercurrents, the Volcano! Film Festival, Kaos filmmgruppe and many others. | https://explodingcinema.org/exploding-book-crowdfunder/

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The rise of this new live cinema culture was developed over 30 years by an underground movement of film makers, cinema clubs and media activists. BOOM! is the secret history of that movement told by its key activists.  And in particular it is the history of the Exploding Cinema collective, a radical unfunded experiment in total democracy, open access, collective ownership and voluntary action. For the last 3 decades, we have been staging regular monthly open access nights of short D.I.Y. underground film in pubs, clubs and squats across London; turning shabby interiors into temporary convivial utopias that seethe with multiple moving projections. We have screened thousands of short films and given thousands of filmmakers a live audience for their work. Yet this movement has been consistently dismissed and ignored by the film establishment and the art academics. | https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/boom-exploding-cinema-and-the-new-underground#/

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–> https://explodingcinema.org/ | https://explodingcinema.org/history/