About the Outsiders & Independent Cinema collection
Not every great film follows the established rules. Some abandon conventional storytelling, reject familiar heroes and find extraordinary beauty in the lives of people who exist beyond society's comfortable boundaries.
The Hellwood Outfitters Outsiders & Independent Cinema collection celebrates filmmakers who approached cinema with an unmistakably individual vision, creating strange, intimate and frequently uncompromising portraits of the human condition.
Explore the deadpan humour and unconventional relationships of Hal Hartley's Amateur and Henry Fool, the minimalist worlds of Jim Jarmusch's Down by Law and Dead Man, and the haunting American landscapes of Wim Wenders' Paris, Texas.
From the independent filmmaking satire of Living in Oblivion to the existential journeys of Two-Lane Blacktop, these are films interested in the unusual, the overlooked and the quietly extraordinary.
Our independent cinema T-shirts pay tribute to distinctive filmmakers, unforgettable characters and stories that refused to conform to commercial expectations.
For the films that took a different road, and the audiences who followed.