Bob Moricz says: Here is a photo my wife Irina took of me and our two lovely cats. Auggie is on the left and Anton on the right. Anton is named for Anton Lavey for his devilish hair tufts on his ears, making him look like he has horns. He’s also pretty devilish by nature.
Underground Film Journal says: Bob Moricz is an incredibly prolific underground filmmaker based in Portland, Oregon. Bob makes down and dirty pictures, runnin’ and gunnin’ in a dizzying tailspin of cinematic madness, just like his mentor George Kuchar taught him.
We first noticed him via his disturbing short film Slut Shack and have grown to love his work, which includes the controversial teen pregnancy drama Bumps, the tale of disorderly madness Felony Flats and the web series Overdose in the Hospital of Love.
Bob’s work is challenging, thought-provoking, provocative and damn good fun.
Underground Film Journal says: Bob Moricz is an incredibly prolific underground filmmaker based in Portland, Oregon. Bob makes down and dirty pictures, runnin’ and gunnin’ in a dizzying tailspin of cinematic madness, just like his mentor George Kuchar taught him.
We first noticed him via his disturbing short film Slut Shack and have grown to love his work, which includes the controversial teen pregnancy drama Bumps, the tale of disorderly madness Felony Flats and the web series Overdose in the Hospital of Love.
Bob’s work is challenging, thought-provoking, provocative and damn good fun.
- 3/20/2014
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
March 13
7:00 p.m.
Northwest Film Center
1219 Sw Park Ave.
Portland, Oregon 97205
Hosted by: Northwest Film Center
Portland-based underground filmmaker Bob Moricz will be in attendance at the Northwest Film Center to present a selection of his short films and excerpts from his features spanning his prolific career from 1991 to 2012.
Although Moricz has been making films his entire life, he kicked into high gear after participating in classes taught by the legendary George Kuchar at the San Francisco Art Institute.
Moricz brazenly employs the Kuchar aesthetic of shooting his films dirty and cheap, focusing his attention on melodramatic, sleazy and degenerate behavior. His work also embraces and celebrates his lo-fi filmmaking techniques, blurring the lines between the end product with the processes of their making.
Also, in recent years, Moricz has become an increasingly integral part of the Portland indie film scene, having taken over the Portland Underground Film Festival...
7:00 p.m.
Northwest Film Center
1219 Sw Park Ave.
Portland, Oregon 97205
Hosted by: Northwest Film Center
Portland-based underground filmmaker Bob Moricz will be in attendance at the Northwest Film Center to present a selection of his short films and excerpts from his features spanning his prolific career from 1991 to 2012.
Although Moricz has been making films his entire life, he kicked into high gear after participating in classes taught by the legendary George Kuchar at the San Francisco Art Institute.
Moricz brazenly employs the Kuchar aesthetic of shooting his films dirty and cheap, focusing his attention on melodramatic, sleazy and degenerate behavior. His work also embraces and celebrates his lo-fi filmmaking techniques, blurring the lines between the end product with the processes of their making.
Also, in recent years, Moricz has become an increasingly integral part of the Portland indie film scene, having taken over the Portland Underground Film Festival...
- 3/12/2014
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
A recent Underground Film Journal article titled “Web Series Or Movie: Which Should You Make?” inspired a lively and spirited discussion on Facebook between several independent filmmakers that explored their personal ideas on the future of digital distribution. The provocative back-and-forth has been reprinted below. (With all the filmmakers’ permission.)
The dialogue was particularly kicked off by Australian indie filmmaker Dominic Deacon (Only the Young Die Good, Burlesque) and also included filmmakers Nathan Wrann (Burning Inside, Hunting Season), Bob Moricz (Felony Flats, Bumps), Robin Franzi (Susan for Now), Michael Galinsky (Battle for Brooklyn, Horns and Halos) and Journal editor Mike Everleth.
(Filmmaker comments below have not been edited except for some extremely minor format/style changes and typos. Otherwise, these are their exact words.)
Dominic Deacon
“No filmmaker claims their feature-length film is only seven minutes and nobody is making 90 minute webisodes. But, why the hell not? Easy answer: Nobody...
The dialogue was particularly kicked off by Australian indie filmmaker Dominic Deacon (Only the Young Die Good, Burlesque) and also included filmmakers Nathan Wrann (Burning Inside, Hunting Season), Bob Moricz (Felony Flats, Bumps), Robin Franzi (Susan for Now), Michael Galinsky (Battle for Brooklyn, Horns and Halos) and Journal editor Mike Everleth.
(Filmmaker comments below have not been edited except for some extremely minor format/style changes and typos. Otherwise, these are their exact words.)
Dominic Deacon
“No filmmaker claims their feature-length film is only seven minutes and nobody is making 90 minute webisodes. But, why the hell not? Easy answer: Nobody...
- 1/28/2014
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Here’s the official trailer for the 8th annual Portland Underground Film Festival, which is curated and run by Portland filmmaker Bob Moricz for the first time this year.
The trailer includes clips from films showing at the fest, such as Damon Packard’s amazing SpaceDisco One and Bob Moricz’s controversial Bumps.
For more on the fest, please check out it’s official lineup. It runs June 29 to July 1 at the Clinton Street Theater — and looks to be total effin’ blast!
Promotional still from Bumps:...
The trailer includes clips from films showing at the fest, such as Damon Packard’s amazing SpaceDisco One and Bob Moricz’s controversial Bumps.
For more on the fest, please check out it’s official lineup. It runs June 29 to July 1 at the Clinton Street Theater — and looks to be total effin’ blast!
Promotional still from Bumps:...
- 6/29/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
The 8th annual Portland Underground Film Festival is back with a vengeance and under new management! Superstar Portland filmmaker Bob Moricz has assumed total control of Puff and promises to keep the fest’s traditional raucous spirit, but covered with a more artful sheen. The shenanigans will once again take place at Puff’s beloved home, the Clinton Street Theater.
Things kick off on June 29 with a live Skype appearance by none other than sex guru Annie Sprinkle as part of the “Ecosex Symposium,” a frank celebration of sex in the natural world. This will be followed with the traditional “Bike Smut” program of short films celebrating the power and the glory of the bicycle.
Then, on June 30, there will be a selection of short films by some of the most notorious names in underground film today, including Carey Burtt, Neil Ira Needleman, Greg Hanson and Jim Haverkamp, plus filmmakers Jenn Keyser,...
Things kick off on June 29 with a live Skype appearance by none other than sex guru Annie Sprinkle as part of the “Ecosex Symposium,” a frank celebration of sex in the natural world. This will be followed with the traditional “Bike Smut” program of short films celebrating the power and the glory of the bicycle.
Then, on June 30, there will be a selection of short films by some of the most notorious names in underground film today, including Carey Burtt, Neil Ira Needleman, Greg Hanson and Jim Haverkamp, plus filmmakers Jenn Keyser,...
- 6/28/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Vimeo has consistently been the video sharing site of choice for filmmakers, with their high-quality uploads and file-size permissions that have allowed filmmakers to upload complete, longer-length films without the irritating time-limit restrictions of YouTube.
Now, as of last week, Vimeo has upgraded their Vimeo Plus user accounts to allow filmmakers to upload full 5Gb videos in one shot. That means that Plus users can now upload a full 2.5 hour long feature film in quality HD to the site. As of this writing, this file-size increase is in Beta mode, meaning that not all the kinks may have been worked out yet. A Vimeo Plus membership costs either $9.95 per month or $59.95 per year.
Prior to this change, several filmmakers have already taken advantage of Vimeo’s higher upload limits without time restraints to put their longer films online. On Bad Lit, we tend to consider films over 47 minutes or so...
Now, as of last week, Vimeo has upgraded their Vimeo Plus user accounts to allow filmmakers to upload full 5Gb videos in one shot. That means that Plus users can now upload a full 2.5 hour long feature film in quality HD to the site. As of this writing, this file-size increase is in Beta mode, meaning that not all the kinks may have been worked out yet. A Vimeo Plus membership costs either $9.95 per month or $59.95 per year.
Prior to this change, several filmmakers have already taken advantage of Vimeo’s higher upload limits without time restraints to put their longer films online. On Bad Lit, we tend to consider films over 47 minutes or so...
- 1/10/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
“Ho Ho … What the hell is this?”
If that’s the type of reaction you want to get out of somebody — or everybody! — on your Christmas list, then pick something out of this collection of bizarro movies, gross-out flicks and mind-bending reads.
The New Underground Classics
Altamont Now, dir. Joshua von Brown
Chosen as Bad Lit’s 2008 Movie of the Year, this balls-out, punk-rockin’ apocalypse comes firing at you like a nuclear missile. (Seriously, it was filmed in an actual missile silo.) Part social commentary, part fame whore busting, part punk rock musical — and all freakin’ hilarious! (Review)
Every Other Day Is Halloween, dir. C.W. Prather
Screw Santa. Who you’ll really want to see on Christmas is Count Gore De Vol, Washington D.C.’s beloved TV horror host who for years thrilled late night viewers with scares and laughs before taking his act online for the whole world to enjoy.
If that’s the type of reaction you want to get out of somebody — or everybody! — on your Christmas list, then pick something out of this collection of bizarro movies, gross-out flicks and mind-bending reads.
The New Underground Classics
Altamont Now, dir. Joshua von Brown
Chosen as Bad Lit’s 2008 Movie of the Year, this balls-out, punk-rockin’ apocalypse comes firing at you like a nuclear missile. (Seriously, it was filmed in an actual missile silo.) Part social commentary, part fame whore busting, part punk rock musical — and all freakin’ hilarious! (Review)
Every Other Day Is Halloween, dir. C.W. Prather
Screw Santa. Who you’ll really want to see on Christmas is Count Gore De Vol, Washington D.C.’s beloved TV horror host who for years thrilled late night viewers with scares and laughs before taking his act online for the whole world to enjoy.
- 12/6/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
The state of U.S. health care is about to get a whole lot worse now that Bob Moricz has unleashed Overdose in the Hospital of Love, a psychedelic, psychotic and schizophrenic 15-part webseries that’s guaranteed to make you feel ill. (In a good way). Episode One, “Fang,” which is embedded above, introduces us to the deranged Dr. Fang (played by Moricz himself) whose secret experiments are threatened to be exposed by a nosy detective. Plus, there’s a sex-crazed cannibal nurse on the loose and more crazies than you can shake a catheter at.
The episodes are all fairly short — in the three-minute range — so I’ve also embedded the next two below. Each one introduces a couple new characters, giving the series the feel of a real soap opera with an ever expanding cast.
But, with such short episodes, the action moves at a fairly intense pace.
The episodes are all fairly short — in the three-minute range — so I’ve also embedded the next two below. Each one introduces a couple new characters, giving the series the feel of a real soap opera with an ever expanding cast.
But, with such short episodes, the action moves at a fairly intense pace.
- 11/8/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Notorious Portland-based underground filmmaker Bob Moricz is a true cinematic pioneer.
These days, more and more indie and underground filmmakers are turning to self-distribution on the Internet when no distributor is willing to take a risk on their work. But, the problem is, how does one make an independently produced and distributed DVD really stand out in an already overstuffed, totally saturated marketplace?
Well, one solution is for filmmakers to turn their DVD release into unique pieces of collectible art.
While independent and underground filmmaking is considered a Diy artform, the actual physical product sold, i.e. the DVD, isn’t generally considered a piece of art, even though what’s contained on the disc is. That needs to change.
The Diy art movement is pretty big right now, particularly in our era when most manufactured goods are produced overseas. And the main hub of this movement is the merchant website Etsy.
These days, more and more indie and underground filmmakers are turning to self-distribution on the Internet when no distributor is willing to take a risk on their work. But, the problem is, how does one make an independently produced and distributed DVD really stand out in an already overstuffed, totally saturated marketplace?
Well, one solution is for filmmakers to turn their DVD release into unique pieces of collectible art.
While independent and underground filmmaking is considered a Diy artform, the actual physical product sold, i.e. the DVD, isn’t generally considered a piece of art, even though what’s contained on the disc is. That needs to change.
The Diy art movement is pretty big right now, particularly in our era when most manufactured goods are produced overseas. And the main hub of this movement is the merchant website Etsy.
- 6/23/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Bad Lit’s second ever Movie of the Year is at last available to view online, so audiences worldwide can now get to see what all the fuss was about. It’s the documentary Wanted New Talent! The Walt Gollender Story by underground filmmaking legend Mike Z. Hear one man’s true, heartbreaking story of trying to fulfill the ultimate American dream: Discovering a number one hit song that will set the entire country on fire. Sit back and let Walt bring you back to those golden years when music really meant something.
So, why did I choose this as my Movie of the Year? What I love about it is the film’s minimalism. Really, it’s just one guy plopped down in front of a camera and allowed to just ramble on seemingly unfiltered — and be completely engaging for the entire hour. There probably aren’t many people...
So, why did I choose this as my Movie of the Year? What I love about it is the film’s minimalism. Really, it’s just one guy plopped down in front of a camera and allowed to just ramble on seemingly unfiltered — and be completely engaging for the entire hour. There probably aren’t many people...
- 3/21/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Bumps, by Portland-based underground filmmaker Bob Moricz, is a brutally raw and honest fictionalization of the infamous “pregnancy pact” made by a group of teenage girls several years ago at Gloucester High School in Massachusetts. The film is a true collaboration between Moricz and his cast of six extremely talented, natural young actresses, all of whom share writing and directing credit with the filmmaker.
Actually, whether there ever was a real pregnancy pact made in Gloucester is up for debate. While several girls did get pregnant simultaneously at that high school, the idea that they did it in collusion may have just been a fever dream conjured up by the principal.
However, Moricz and his cast fiercely forge ahead as if the story is true and come up with a troubling tale of wayward girls gone wrong. I’m assuming the entire film was improvised through its painfully genuine and naturalistic overall feel.
Actually, whether there ever was a real pregnancy pact made in Gloucester is up for debate. While several girls did get pregnant simultaneously at that high school, the idea that they did it in collusion may have just been a fever dream conjured up by the principal.
However, Moricz and his cast fiercely forge ahead as if the story is true and come up with a troubling tale of wayward girls gone wrong. I’m assuming the entire film was improvised through its painfully genuine and naturalistic overall feel.
- 1/31/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
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