These are the films shown at the 12th New York Underground Film Festival, held from March 9–15, 2005
| Film Name | Director | Type | Length | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 Video Hits | Kent Lambert | Experimental Video | 6 | |
| A Family Finds Entertainment | Ryan Trecartin | Experimental Video | 41 | World Premiere |
| A Gentleman's Agreement | Fabrice Gygi | Experimental Video | 7 | |
| A Thirsty Man | Amir Shabab Razavian | Experimental Video | 3 | |
| All About a Girl | Cecelia Condit | Experimental Video | 5 | |
| All I Can Be | Erica Hill | Experimental Video | ||
| All Right | Aleesa Cohene | Experimental Video | 7 | International Premiere |
| America's Biggest Dick | Bryan Boyce | Experimental Video | 3 | |
| Annemiek | Rineke Dijkstra | Experimental Video | 4 | |
| Anodyne | Sheri Wills | Experimental 16mm | 4 | |
| Ausziehen | Jochen Dehn | Experimental Video | 7 | |
| Baby's Room | Rosy Boyer | Experimental 16mm | 4 | |
| Beat Time | Joost Rekveld | Experimental Video | 9 | |
| Big Bug Attack | Martha Colburn | Animation Video | 3 | |
| Big Screen Version | Aaron Valdez | Experimental Video | 3 | |
| Big Shtick | Courtney Egan | Experimental Video | 3 | |
| Bigger Better | Ton Meijdam | Experimental Video | 5 | |
| Boxes, Jesus and Sandwiches | Jennifer Matotek | Experimental Video | 1 | |
| Buried in the Backyard | Sarah Prior, Monica Bigler | Documentary Video | 30 | |
| bye bye bye | Jeremy Bailey | Experimental Video | 5 | |
| Captain Milkshake | Richard Crawford | Feature 35mm | 89 | New York Premiere |
| Carfire | John Ayala, John Furgason | Documentary Video | 17 | |
| Carnival in Rio | Documentary Video | 5 | ||
| Circus | Swann Thommen, Annelore Schneider, Claude Piguet | Experimental Video | 2 | |
| Code 33 | David Bellinson, Michael Galinsky, Suki Hawley, Zachary Werner | Documentary Video | 80 | New York Premiere |
| Coded Language (DJ Krust) | Ben Dempsey, Joe Dempsey | Experimental Video | 6 | |
| Cone Eater | Takeshi Murata | Animation Video | 4 | |
| Danse Macabre | Persijn Broersen | Experimental Video | 3 | |
| Definitions of Art | Yuri A | Experimental 16mm On Video | 5 | |
| DISED 2604, Prof. Catherine Poplar | Eileen Maxson | Experimental Video | 5 | |
| Don Quatro | Alexander Herzog | Experimental Video | 3 | |
| don't leave without news | Christine Khalafian | Experimental 16mm | 22 | |
| Don't Mouse Around | Jeremy Bailey | Experimental Video | 2 | |
| Don't You Bring Me Down Today | Keith Wilson | Experimental Video | 4 | |
| Double Dummy | Jennet Thomas | Experimental Video | 6 | |
| Dramaturgische Ikonologie | Jose Miguel Biscaya | Experimental Video | 5 | |
| Dream Invasion | Jackie Martin | Animation Video | 1 | |
| el moro | Jim Finn | Experimental Video | 2 | |
| Electrocute Your Stars | Marie Losier | Experimental 16mm | 8 | |
| Exist: not a protest film | Esther Bell | Feature Video | 80 | New York Premiere |
| Exoticore | Nicolas Provost | Experimental 35mm | 27 | US Premiere |
| Fabel | Mariska Van Gelder | Experimental Video | 3 | |
| Five | Vas Van Koolwijk | Experimental Video | 3 | |
| Floods, Ghosts, and Contamination | Jenny Stark, Mark Yzaguirre | Documentary 16mm On Video | 13 | |
| Flowergirls | Robert Todd | Documentary 16mm | 14 | |
| Folk Music and Documentary | Seth Price | Experimental Video | 5 | |
| Folklore in Landscape | Arno Coenen, Rene Bosma | Experimental Video | 3 | |
| Foo-Foo Dust | Gina Levy, Eric Johnson | Documentary Video | 37 | |
| Freak Magnet | Kellie Mcgregor | Experimental Video | International Premiere | |
| Getting Nowhere Faster | Tiffany Morgan, Nicole Morgan, Lori Damiano, Lisa Whitaker | Feature Video | 45 | |
| Getting to Homebase: The All American Pastime | Irena Fayngold | Experimental Video | ||
| Grand Luncheonette | Peter Sillen | Documentary 35mm | 4 | International Premiere |
| Grounded | Matt Mccormick | Documentary 16mm On Video | 4 | |
| Harmony | Jim Trainor | Animation 16mm | 12 | |
| Heartzburst | Lovid | Experimental Video | 4 | |
| Hephaestus of the Airshaft | Jeanne Liotta | Experimental Video | 3 | |
| Here After | Patrick Jolly, Rebecca Trost, Inger Lise Hansen | Experimental 35mm | 12 | |
| High School Record | Ben Wolfinsohn | Feature Video | 90 | New York Premiere |
| How to Get Rid of Head Lice | Erica Norman | Experimental Video | ||
| I am a Boyband | Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay | Experimental Video | 5 | |
| I'd Rather Be Dead Than Live in This World | Andrew Semans | Short 16mm On Video | 17 | |
| Invisible Cities | Julio Soto | Experimental Video | 6 | |
| It Could Happen To You | Elizabeth Henry | Experimental 16mm On Video | 8 | |
| It Only Takes a Second | Short Video | 3 | ||
| Kings of the Sky | Deborah Stratman | Documentary Video | 68 | |
| la ardilla | Jim Finn | Experimental Video | 2 | |
| Land Marked/Marquette | Thomas Comerford | Experimental 16mm | 23 | |
| Let the Good Times Roll | Stanya Kahn, Harry Dodge | Experimental Video | 15 | |
| Life is for Living | Short Video | 3 | ||
| Living a beautiful life | Corinna Schnitt | Experimental Video | 13 | |
| Long After The Thrill | Erika Robo | Experimental Video | ||
| Look at Me | Peter Stel | Experimental Video | 3 | |
| Lovely Lonely | Ariana Hamidi | Animation 16mm | 2 | |
| Lucky 7 | Roberta Beck Memorial Cinema | Experimental 16mm | ||
| Manager's Corner | Skizz Cyzyk | Animation 16mm | 2 | |
| Manimation | Clare Rojas | Animation Video | 1 | |
| Mercenaries! | Robert Banks | Experimental 35mm | 3 | |
| Miles Above | Michael Welt | Documentary Video | 25 | |
| Milk and Honey | Kate Mccabe | Experimental 16mm | 16 | |
| Monologue Exterieur | Francien Van Everdingen | Experimental 16mm | 2 | |
| Mulberry Commons | Michael Lucid, Amanda Barrett | Short Video | 4 | |
| My Mother's Pants | Mary Addison Hackett | Experimental Video | ||
| My Sisters' Friends Always Seemed So Old | Ted Passon | Experimental Video | 5 | |
| Nate Preston, King of Portland | Andrew Dickson | Documentary Video | 7 | |
| Neighbors | John Rose | Documentary Video | 5 | |
| New School Union Diary | Joel Schlemowitz | Documentary 16mm | 30 | |
| Newspaper Only | Carola Dertnig | Experimental Video | 1 | |
| Not 360 | Ra Di Martino | Experimental 35mm | 7 | |
| Nuthin' But the Blues | Rebecca Conroy | Documentary 16mm On Video | 7 | |
| Oh My God | John Bryant | Short Video | 10 | |
| Papillon d'amour | Nicolas Provost | Experimental Video | 4 | International Premiere |
| Pecking Disorder | Sara Kaye | Experimental Video | ||
| PFFR: Legacy 2 | PFFR | Feature Video | International Premiere | |
| Planet of the Arabs | Jacqueline Salloum | Short Video | 9 | |
| Playground | Lauren Madow | Documentary Super-8 On Video | 13 | |
| Preserving Cultural Traditions in a Period of Instability | John Ford | Experimental Video | 3 | |
| Promised Land | Nora Meyer | Documentary Video | 27 | |
| PYT | Tara Mateik | Experimental Video | 3 | |
| Rap | Sarah Kuhn | Experimental 16mm | 7 | |
| Reckless Eyeballing | Christopher Harris | Experimental 16mm | 13 | |
| Resident of Earth | Paul Tarrago | Experimental Video | 15 | |
| Roberta Beck Memorial Cinema Presents: Lucky 7 | Feature 16mm | |||
| Sans Simon | Cory Arcangel | Experimental Video | 5 | |
| Sarah Nye | Sarah Hanssen | Experimental Video | ||
| SET-4 | Jan Van Neunen | Experimental Video | 3 | |
| Shit Eat Boy | Bobby Langlais | Documentary Video | 10 | |
| Soothsayer | Bobby Abate | Experimental Video | 14 | |
| Spicebush | Kevin Jerome Everson | Feature Video | 70 | |
| SSSkull | Lovid | Experimental Video | 7 | |
| Strongest Man | Jeremy Bailey | Experimental Video | 4 | |
| Sugar | Patrick Jolly, Reynold Reynolds | Feature 35mm | 80 | New York Premiere |
| Sugar and Spice | Rose Dabbs | Experimental 16mm | 2 | |
| Sunday | Justine Haemmerli | Experimental Video | ||
| Sundowning | Rob Kennedy | Experimental Video | 5 | |
| T.S.H. | Jesse Lerner | Experimental 16mm | 6 | |
| Take My Life Please or A List of Things to Do Today in One Act | Kelly Oliver, Keary Rosen | Experimental Video | 5 | |
| The Ant Hill | James Fotopoulos | Feature Video | 60 | World Premiere |
| The Bats | Jim Trainor | Animation 16mm | 8 | |
| The Bear Hunter | Mary Robertson | Documentary Video | 13 | |
| The Birdpeople | Michael Gitlin | Documentary 16mm | 61 | |
| The Fetishist | Jim Trainor | Animation 16mm | 38 | |
| The Forest for the Trees: Judi Bari v. the FBI | Bernadine Mellis | Documentary Video | 53 | |
| The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things | Asia Argento | Feature 35mm | 97 | New York Premiere |
| The Magic Kingdom | Jim Trainor | Short 16mm | 7 | |
| The Moschops | Jim Trainor | Animation 16mm | 13 | |
| The Ordovicians | Jim Trainor, Lisa Barcy | Animation 16mm | 5 | |
| The Party | Abigail Child | Documentary Video | 21 | |
| The Rock Music | Victor Alimpiev, Sergey Vishnevsky | Experimental Video | 7 | |
| The Slow Escape | Sativa Peterson | Experimental Video | ||
| The Stairway at St Paul's | Jeroen Offerman | Experimental Video | 8 | |
| The Student Nurses | Stephanie Rothman | Feature 16mm | 85 | |
| The Velvet Vampire | Stephanie Rothman | Feature 16mm | 82 | |
| The Will of Dean Snider | Jaime Kibben | Documentary Video | 60 | New York Premiere |
| Towlines | Matt Mccormick | Documentary 16mm On Video | 22 | |
| transit | Takeshi Inamura | Documentary Super-8 On Video | 11 | |
| Under Foot & Overstory | Jason Livingston | Experimental 16mm | 34 | |
| Unicorn | Candice Lin | Animation Video | 1 | |
| Video Paint 1.0 | Jeremy Bailey | Experimental Video | 3 | |
| Volcanica | Torsten Z. Burns, Darrin Martin | Experimental Video | 9 | |
| What Is It? | Crispin Hellion Glover | Feature 35mm | 72 | New York Premiere |
| Who's Your True Love | Karen Yasinsky | Animation 16mm On Video | 8 |