The

Hellwood Archive

Cult cinema, true crime, strange history and cultural oddities.

Stories from the darker corners of film, television, music, literature, crime, history and the unexplained.

No Wave Cinema

Young underground filmmakers shooting a Super 8 movie on a grimy late-1970s East Village street in New York

No Wave Cinema: When Punk Took a Super 8 Camera to New York

No Wave Cinema emerged from late-1970s downtown New York with cheap cameras, tiny budgets and the useful conviction that permission...

25 Aug 2026 • Archive Note

what makes an artist underground?

Hellwood Culture

Was macht einen Künstler underground? Die ungeschriebenen Regeln der Rebellion

Was macht einen Künstler zu einem Underground-Künstler? Es geht nicht nur um geheime Gigs und Kassettentapes – es geht um...

02 Jun 2025 • Feature