These are the films shown at the 15th New York Underground Film Festival, held from April 2–8, 2008.
| Film name | Director | Type | Length | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1956 | Jenny Stark | Documentary Video | 7:30 | |
| 4 Films in 5 Minutes | Skizz Cyzyk | Experimental 16mm | 6:00 | |
| 4 Ways he tried to tell you | Jennet Thomas | Experimental Video | 6:00 | |
| Adventure Poseidon, The | Anne Mcguire | Feature 35mm On Video | 117:00 | New York Premiere |
| America's Biggest Dick | Bryan Boyce | Short Video | 3:00 | |
| Amy Goodrow: Tape 5925 | Eileen Maxson | Experimental Video | 6:00 | |
| Andre the Giant Has A Posse | Helen Stickler | Documentary Video | 20:00 | |
| Armored Cars: Protect Yourself from Ballistic Attacks | Angie Waller | Experimental Video | 8:26 | |
| Beirut Outtakes | Peggy Ahwesh | Experimental 16mm On Video | 7:00 | |
| Broad Day | Kevin Jerome Everson | Short 16mm | 1:00 | |
| CALIFORNIA/blue | Abbey Williams | Experimental Video | 7:27 | |
| Call and Response | Aaron Valdez | Experimental Video | 3:24 | |
| Cats and Pants | Jennifer Matotek | Short Video | 1:00 | |
| Chapters 1-12 of R. Kelly's Trapped in the Closet Synced and Played Simultaneously | Michael Bell-Smith | Experimental Video | 5:00 | |
| Chronicles | Kirsten Stoltmann | Experimental Video | 12:45 | |
| Crack | Jon Moritsugu | Experimental 16mm | 1:00 | |
| Decision 80 | Jim Finn | Experimental Video | 10:00 | |
| Degradation #1: X-ray: Part 2, Government Radiation | James June Schneider | Experimental 16mm | 3:30 | |
| Destiny Manifesto | Martha Colburn | Animation 16mm On Video | 8:00 | |
| Deviant | James Fotopoulos | Experimental Video | 2:52 | |
| Dirty Pictures | John Smith | Experimental Video | 14:00 | |
| Discoveries on the Forrest Floor 1-3 | Charlotte Pryce | Experimental 16mm | 4:00 | |
| Don't Be a Stranger | James Fotopoulos | Experimental Video | 1:00 | |
| Don't Forget About Me | James Fotopoulos | Experimental Video | ||
| Drowning | James Fotopoulos | Experimental 16mm | 3:00 | |
| East of the Tarpits | Feature Video | 74:00 | International Premiere | |
| Every (Text, Image, Sound, Movie) on My Cell Phone | Darrin Martin | Experimental Video | 7:40 | |
| False Future | Matthew Buckingham | Experimental 16mm | 10:00 | |
| Faustus's Children | David Jones, Tim Jackson, Michele O'Marah | Feature Video | 43:00 | |
| Figures in the Landscape | Thomas Comerford | Experimental 16mm | 11:00 | |
| Foggy Mountains Breakdown More Than Non-Foggy Mountains | Jessie Stead | Feature Video | 59:00 | |
| Hambone | Steve Hall, Cathee Wilkins | Experimental Video | 3:00 | |
| HANES | Mark Ther | Experimental Video | 4:50 | |
| Harmony | Jim Trainor | Animation 16mm | 12:00 | |
| Heavy Metal in Baghdad | Eddy Moretti, Suroosh Alvi | Documentary Video | 84:00 | New York Premiere |
| Hobbit Love is the Greatest Love | Steve Reinke | Experimental Video | 14:00 | |
| Hommes a Femmes | Gerard Byrne | Experimental 16mm On Video | 40:00 | |
| Hoopeston | Thomas Bender | Documentary Video | 78:00 | International Premiere |
| House | Ben Rivers | Experimental 16mm | 5:00 | |
| How to Behave or: A Story of Kindness | Tran Van Thuy | Experimental 16mm On Video | 43:00 | |
| Huge Flag | Jessie Stead | Experimental Video | 12:00 | |
| Hymn of Reckoning | Kent Lambert | Experimental Video | 7:00 | |
| I Am The Fred Astaire of Karate | Tommy Button | Experimental Video | 3:15 | |
| I Was a Teenage Serial Killer | Sarah Jacobson | Short 16mm | 27:00 | |
| I-Be Area | Ryan Trecartin | Feature Video | 108:00 | |
| i.Mirror | Cao Fei | Documentary Video | 28:00 | |
| Inside, Outside, Upside Down | Short Video | International Premiere | ||
| Internet Alphabet | Joe Nanashe | Experimental Video | 6:32 | |
| Interplay | Robert Todd | Experimental 16mm | 7:00 | |
| It Only Takes a Second | Found Footage Festival | Short 16mm On Video | 4:00 | |
| JME in MySpace: Tropical Feelings | Lev Kalman, Whitney Horn | Documentary Video | 3:51 | |
| Junky | Tony Nittoli | Experimental 16mm On Video | 5:00 | |
| Kenedi is Getting Married | Zelimir Zilnik | Feature Video | 80:00 | US Premiere |
| Key to the City | Kevin Jerome Everson | Short 16mm | 1:45 | |
| King of Porn | Jeff Krulik | Documentary Video | 7:00 | |
| Kittypie | Jennifer Macmillan | Experimental Super-8 On Video | 4:00 | |
| Light is Waiting | Michael Robinson | Experimental Video | 7:00 | |
| Little Flags | Jem Cohen | Experimental 16mm On Video | 7:00 | |
| Looks Like It's Going to Rain | Ken Nordine | Experimental Audio | 3:29 | |
| Lovely Andrea | Hito Steyerl | Experimental Video | 30:00 | |
| Market sentiments | Barbara Musil | Experimental Video | 4:00 | |
| Michael Dancing On New Year's Eve, 1985 | Michael Lucid | Documentary Video | 1:36 | |
| Mild People in Aggressive T-shirts | Lyn Elliot | Short 16mm On Video | 3:00 | |
| Mit Mir | Kerstin Cmelka | Experimental 16mm | 3:00 | |
| Nasty As U Wanna Be | Experimental Video | International Premiere | ||
| Neighbors | Robert Todd | Experimental Video | 4:30 | |
| New York Marathon | Koh Yamamoto | Experimental 16mm | 1:00 | |
| Night Tide (for Sailors, Mermaids, Mystics) | Drew Heitzler | Experimental Video | 17:09 | |
| Nook and Cranny | Experimental 16mm | 3:00 | ||
| Number One | Leighton Pierce | Experimental Video | 10:05 | |
| Observando el Cielo | Jeanne Liotta | Experimental 16mm | 19:00 | |
| Office Suite | Robert Todd | Experimental 16mm | 15:30 | |
| Oh Daniel | CC & BN | Short Video | 3:00 | |
| Oh Great, Now Look What Happened | Gerbrand Burger, Tijmen Hauer | Experimental 35mm | 4:04 | |
| On The Marriage Broker Joke as Cited by Sigmund Freud in Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious, or Can The Avant-Garde Artist be Wholed? | Owen Land | Experimental 16mm | 17:00 | |
| Orchard Gallery Presents | Experimental 16mm | 76:00 | ||
| P.R. | Bryan Leister | Animation Video | 1:10 | |
| Paradise (excerpts from a work-in-progress) | Michael Almereyda | Experimental Video | 13:00 | |
| Photography is Easy | Leslie Thornton | Experimental Video | 4:28 | |
| Playing Dead | Kevin Jerome Everson | Short 16mm | 1:30 | |
| Priciest Homes | Jesper Nordahl | Experimental Video | 3:00 | |
| Prison Images | Harun Farocki | Experimental Video | 60:00 | US Premiere |
| private_eyez.mid | Frankie Martin, Cory Arcangel | Experimental Video | 3:00 | |
| Raw Nerves: A Lacanian Thriller | Manual De Landa | Experimental 16mm On Video | 30:00 | |
| Rejected or Unused Clips | Seth Price | Experimental Video | 10:00 | |
| Return of the Black Tower | Experimental Video | 15:00 | ||
| Roberta Beck Mercurial Cinema presents REVOLUTION 9 | Experimental 16mm | |||
| Rock My Religion | Experimental Video | 55:00 | ||
| Rocket | Luther Price | Experimental 16mm | 7:00 | |
| Ruhe im Stalle furtzt die Kuh (Be Quiet, there is a Cow farting in the Stable) | Mark Ther | Short Video | 7:47 | |
| Serendipity 1967 | Aaron Valdez | Experimental Super-8 On Video | 6:00 | |
| Seven Days Til Sunday | Reynold Reynolds, Patrick Jolley | Experimental Super-8 On Video | 10:00 | |
| Slave #13 | Koh Yamamoto | Experimental 16mm | 3:00 | |
| Smells Like Teen Spirit | Jem Cohen | Short Super-8 On Video | 7:37 | |
| Social Visions | Redmond Entwistle | Documentary 16mm | 20:00 | |
| Songs of Azores | Adrienne Jorge | Documentary Super-8 On Video | 9:00 | |
| Stranger Comes to Town | Jacqueline Goss | Animation Video | 28:00 | |
| Super High Me | Documentary Video | 89:00 | New York Premiere | |
| The Black Tower | John Smith | Experimental Video | 24:00 | |
| The Disappearance | John Menick | Experimental Video | 8:00 | |
| The End of the Light Age | James June Schneider | Feature 16mm | New York Premiere | |
| The Fall of Communism as Seen in Gay Pornography | William E. Jones | Experimental Video | 20:00 | |
| The Film - An Epic Adventure, or The Other Kwai | Jesper Nordahl | Documentary Video | 11:00 | |
| The Golden Age of Fish | Kevin Jerome Everson | Feature Video | 60:00 | New York Premiere |
| The Juche Idea | Jim Finn | Feature Video | 62:00 | New York Premiere |
| The Lincoln Library of Essential Information Volume 20 | Kelly Oliver, Keary Rosen | Experimental Video | 2:28 | |
| The Magician's House | Deborah Stratman | Experimental 16mm | 5:45 | |
| The Manipulators | Andrew Jeffrey Wright, Claire E. Rojas | Animation 16mm On Video | 2:00 | |
| The Only Possible City, part 1 | Experimental 16mm | 73:00 | ||
| The Only Possible City, part 2 | Experimental Video | 60:00 | ||
| The Only Possible City, part 3 | Experimental Video | 93:00 | ||
| The Operation | Jacob Pander, Marne Lucas | Experimental 16mm On Video | 10:00 | |
| The People's Advocate: The Life & Times of Charles R. Garry | Hrag Yedalian | Documentary Video | 59:00 | New York Premiere |
| The Third Body | Peggy Ahwesh | Experimental Video | 9:00 | |
| The Vyrotonin Decision | Matt Mccormick | Experimental 16mm | 7:00 | |
| Throwing Paint Tins off the Roof | Vibeke Bryld | Documentary 16mm | 20:15 | |
| Tiger Me Bollix | Andrew Lampert, Moira Tierney | Experimental Super-8 On Video | 3:30 | |
| Toute la Memoire du Monde | Experimental 16mm | 21:00 | ||
| Tube Time! | Short Video | |||
| Two Black Towers | Short Video | |||
| Two Black Towers | Animation 16mm | International Premiere | ||
| Unfolding Continuum | Nate Boyce | Experimental Video | 9:00 | |
| Untied | Deborah Stratman | Experimental 16mm | 3:00 | |
| Untitled #1 (from the series Earth People 2507) | Nao Bustamante | Experimental Video | 5:00 | |
| Untitled (Pink Dot) | Takeshi Murata | Experimental Video | 5:00 | |
| Victory Over the Sun | Michael Robinson | Experimental 16mm | 13:00 | |
| We are Wizards | Josh Koury | Documentary Video | 79:00 | New York Premiere |
| We will live to see these things, or, five pictures of what may come to pass | Julia Meltzer, David Thorne | Documentary Video | 47:00 | |
| What I'm Looking For | Shelly Silver | Experimental Video | 15:00 | |
| What's On? | Martha Colburn | Animation 16mm | 2:00 | |
| When The Light's Red | Keith Wilson | Documentary Video | 10:45 | |
| Whispering Pines #5 | Shana Moulton | Experimental Video | 6:32 | |
| Window of Time | James Fotopoulos | Experimental Video | 22:32 | |
| Window of Time #2 | James Fotopoulos | Experimental Video | 15:28 | |
| X: The Baby Cinema | Robert Banks | Documentary 16mm | 16:00 | |
| Ya Private Sky | Stom Sogo | Experimental Video | 3:00 |
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