The Other Side of the Underneath

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The Other Side of the Underneath
DVD cover
Directed by	Jane Arden
Written by	Jane Arden
Produced by	Jack Bond
Starring	Sheila Allen
Cinematography	Jack Bond Aubrey Dewar
Edited by	David Mingay
Music by	Sally Minford
Production company	Jack Bond Films
Release date	October 1972 (1972-10)
Running time	110 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

The Other Side of the Underneath is a 1972 British experimental psychological drama film written and directed by Jane Arden and starring Sheila Allen, Suzanka Fraey, Liz Danciger, Ann Lynn, and Penny Slinger. Other members of the Holocaust Theatre Company appear in the film. Jane Arden herself also appears in the film.

It is the only British feature film in the 1970s to be solely directed by a woman.^{[citation needed]} The title of the film is taken from a line in Arden's play Vagina Rex and the Gas Oven, which was a huge success at the London Arts Lab in 1969. The film is an adaptation of Arden's 1971 play A New Communion for Freaks, Prophets and Witches.^[1] The film had almost mythical status amongst fans of radical, experimental cinema, partly because of its visionary and disturbing depictions of the mental state of its schizophrenic protagonist, and also its unavailability.