1 . Lux programme March-April 1999.
2 . See David Curtis English Avant-Garde Film: An Early Chronology published in Studio International (Nov./Dec. 1975) (p.176-182). also Deke Dusinberre's unpublished thesis on the History of English Avant-Garde Film (1974) available at the B.F.I. Library.
3 . See Elizabeth Nelson (1989)The British Counter - Culture 1966-73, Macmillan, London.
4.The first event at the Roundhouse launched I.T. , the next Technicolour Dream took place at Alexandra Palace and the last Christmas On Earth Revisited at Olympia.
5. See Malcolm Le Grice,(1986) A Reflection On The History of The London Film Makers' Co-Op, L.F.M.C. Catalogue, London. (1993) (P.163)
6. The Co-Op's own magazine "CINIM' first published in 1967 folded after three issues, but through the late sixties, early seventies a host of titles appeared including , CINEMANTICS, PLATINUM, CINEMA RISING, AFTERIMAGE and INDEPENDENT CINEMA.
7. David Curtis English Avant-Garde Film: An Early Chronology published in Studio International (Nov./Dec. 1975) (p.182)
8. See David Curtis A Tale O f Two Co-Ops in David E. James To Free The Cinema, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey (1992). (P.253-265.)
9. Cinemantics 3, 2nd July 1970, available at the BFI Library.
10. The scope of this text will not allow a detailed discussion on the cultural/technological specificity of cinematic, video or digital media . Moreover the contemporary Underground Cinema effectively makes no distinction between media. Often a filmmaker will shoot on Super 8 cine film, edit digitally and finally distribute on video.
11.Deke Dusinberre SEE REAL IMAGES ! Afterimage 8/9 Spring 1981. At the muddy edge of St. James's Park lies the Institute of Contemporary Arts (I.C.A.)
12. Ghosts In The Machine (Channel 4, 1986, 1988), White Noise ( BBC 1990)
13. From What You See Is What You Get : Catalogue Essay for the 3rd ICA Biennial of Independent Film and Video 1995'.
14. See The Raw and The Cooked catalogue for the 4th ICA Biennial of Independent Film and Video 1997'.
15. Steve McIntyre The Very Model Of A Modern Funding Agency Vertigo 5 , 1996.
16. A review of this event appears as The State Of Independence by Andrea Corbett in VERTIGO Vol 1 No. 9 Summer 1999. The review is written in a kind of up beat admin speak which completely misrepresents the frustration and anger voiced at the debate. Corbett was at the time Projects Officer at the L.F.V.D.A.
17. See forinstance Margaret Dickinson (1999) Rogue Reels , Oppositional Film In Britain 1945-90 . BFI Publishing London, and the spate of personal histories appearing in the pages of FILMWAVES magazine.