Contents:

The Underground versus the taboo on reality -- The exploding peephole of the Underground -- Toward exhibition and exhibitionism -- Popularizing peepshows : the infantile gimmick -- No establishment at all? -- Underground climb : from exhibitionism to art -- Underground infantilism : surfacing superstars -- Superstar space : the playroom -- Can the technician escape the Pad? -- The Pad can be commercialized -- Performing children, performing madmen -- The paranoiac : critical kick -- The Pad's predecessor : an archetype -- Underground film is primitive film -- Where the rub is -- The abstractness of avant-gardes -- The avant-garde laboratory -- Dotting the eyes of distortion -- Psychedelic anamorphosis and its lesson -- Dotting the eye of history -- Film aesthetics : rampant and purist -- The plot thickens : but seriously -- The plastic pulse ticks on -- In the Pad : plastique versus surplot -- Hard-core history -- The ethics of film history -- The population explosion and the remedy -- Basic film forms -- History and manifesto -- The shape of things to come? -- Coda -- Filmography.