2008 Sydney Underground Film Festival Program

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FREE courtesy bus to and from Newtown train station. Check the website for more details.

THURSDAY 11 SEPTEMBER

FRIDAY 12 SEPTEMBER

6pm

Doors open

6pm

Doors open

6:30 – 7:30pm

Entrees served

6:30 – 8pm

Main: SLIPSTREAM (Anthony Hopkins)

7:30 – 8pm

Welcome speeches

8pm – 9:45pm

Shorts from Martha Colburn

Fuse Box: MELTING POT

THE MISCREANTS (George Gittoes)

8 – 8:30pm

Intermission

8:30 – 10pm

Main: RE:ANIMATION Fuse Box: THE MISCREANTS (George Gittoes)

9:45 – 10:45pm

Food & Beverages served

Katherine Berger, Liz Berger, Elmo-Deam Kumalic. Sam Findley, Pamelah Otto, Michelle Berger & Stefan Popescu Photo credits: Director Stefan Popescu / Camera Ivan Buljan

10 – 10:30pm Intermission 10:30 – 11:30pm PONYCLUB MASSACRE LIVE 10:30 – 12am Main: QUALITY TIME (Chris Lamont) 11:30 – 12am

Lounge Music

Fuse Box: MATERIAL AFFECTION 12 – 1am

Lounge Music

SATURDAY 13 SEPTEMBER SUNDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 6pm

Doors open

6:30 – 8pm

Main:

SEX GALAXY & RECYCLED SHORTS Fuse Box: AUSSIE ASYLUM

8 – 8:30pm

Intermission

8:30– 10pm

Main: GOD BLESS AMERICA Fuse Box: MOCK UP ON MU (Craig Baldwin)

10 – 10:30pm

Intermission

10:30 – 12am

Main: SEVERED CINEMA Fuse Box: POLYESTER (John Waters)

12 – 1:30am

ON EVIL GROUNDS

4pm

Doors open

4:30 – 6pm

Main: Fuse Box:

6 – 6:30pm

Intermission

6:30 – 8pm

Main: Fuse Box:

WELL-TANNED COMEDY THE MISCREANTS (George Gittoes)

LOVE/SICK LOST HOLIDAY (Lucie Kralova)

8 - 8.30pm

Awards

8.30 – 10pm

Closing Night Film: SONG SUNG BLUE (Greg Kohs)

10 – 12am

Closing Night Party with sets by OLLO and Groovescooter djs LIVE + free drinks

Guests please be aware that we now have two cinemas operating at The Factory Theatre, often simultaneously. We have the MAIN CINEMA and the smaller cinema called, FUSEBOX CINEMA (you’ll notice the FUSEBOX programs and films will be in a blue coloured box in the program).

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Welcome to the second installment of the Sydney Underground Film Festival. After the overwhelming success and support we received in our inaugural year (plus receiving a high standard number of entrants) we are back with two cinemas now at The Factory Theatre! This means we can bring you bigger and better program of over 9 sessions including such favourites as “Love / Sick” and “Re:Animation”, and 8 must-see features. Filmmakers on the list include George Gittoes, Bill Morrison, Craig Baldwin, John Waters, Martha Colburn, Anthony Hopkins, Paul Winkler, and Larry Clark plus not to mention excellent and entertaining films by local, national and international talent. The events also continue on after the festival with the SUFF Symposia including talks by George Gittoes, Jaimie and Aspasia Leonarder, John Conomos, and Richard Wolstencroft plus the ‘History of Disappearance’ exhibition at Sydney College of the Arts (see page 34 for more information). We will also be offering a courtesy bus this year thanks to Ralf Otto from Otto Boas Auditing, which means guests can get to and from Newtown Train Station quickly and easily. We would love to thank our fellow team members: Liz Berger, Michelle Berger, Samantha Findley, Brooke Hemphill, Pamelah Otto, Elmo-Dean Kumalic, Anita Huyhn, Stefanie Loffel, and to all our amazing, dedicated, and supportive volunteers and sponsors – thank you!

CON TEN TS welcome note ............................. 3 aims of the festival ................ 4 how to buy tickets.................. 5 our partners .................................. 6 pre-festival events ................. 7 opening night : thursday .. 8 session 1 : friday ..................10 session 2 : friday ..................12 session 3 : friday ..................16 session 1 : saturday ..........19 session 2 : saturday ..........22 session 3 : saturday ..........24 midnight session : sat .....27 session 1 : sunday ..............28 session 2 : sunday ..............30

Katherine Berger & Stefan Popescu Festival Directors

closing night : sunday .....32 suff symposia ..........................34

PO BOX 202 SUMMER HILL NSW 2130 info@suff.com.au www.suff.com.au

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AIMS OF THE FESTIVAL Our aims are simple. We want to support filmmakers who operate outside of established film industry infrastructures by providing a platform for exhibition, exposure and critical discussion.

We want to pay homage to pioneers in experimental and avant-garde film circles and constantly re-ignite local interest in alternative film, as part of an international underground film culture. We want to help produce and distribute quality independent, artistic shorts and features and always be a hub for networking, not for industry politics.

Finally, we hope the festival will inspire passion for subversive and experimental cinema by providing audiences with quality, creative and diverse programming.

PATR O N S • ALBIE THOMS • PAUL WINKLER • DAVID PERRY • JOHN CLARK • ARTHUR CANTRILL • CORINNE CANTRILL

The Sydney Underground Film Festival would like to warmly welcome our new patrons in 2008. Albie Thoms, Paul Winkler, David Perry, and John Clark (all members of the historically and culturally important UBU Films Group and Sydney Filmmaker’s Cooperative), and Arthur and Corinne Cantrill (a couple who have been making experimental films together for over 50 years) are all pioneering filmmakers who have contributed greatly to Australia’s avant-garde film movement, producing some of our most important experimental works.

how to buy tickets It’s easy to buy passes and tickets to the Sydney Underground Film Festival.

You can purchase passes and tickets through www.factorytheatre.com.au

FESTIVAL PASSES & TICKET PRICES: ADULT PRICES:

Festival passes are only $70 ($65 conc) and are valued at over $150. Receive a festival pack when you buy a pass, which includes a collector dog tag (this acts as your entry pass to all four nights).

• Festival Pass ......................................... $70 • Opening Night (includes food & drink) .... $35 • Closing Night + after party .................... $25 • One day pass ......................................... $25 • Individual session tickets ........................$12

Festival passes can be collected at the box office during the festival.

CONCESSION / PENSIONER PRICES:

BE C OME AN UND E RGROUND FRIEND

• Festival Pass ......................................... $65 • Opening Night (includes food & drink) .... $30 • Closing Night + after party .................... $20 • One day pass ......................................... $20 • Individual session tickets ........................$10

This is a great way to support the festival for those with big hearts but smaller pockets! Your support will give you ‘underground friend’ status and for only $95 you will receive the following; • One full festival pass to the 2008 festival.

Festival passes give the pass holder access to all festival screenings including the opening and closing nights and selected pre-festival and post-festival events.

• SUFF 2007 films DVD. • A special goody bag with a t-shirt, bumper sticker, and badge and more.

• Your name listed on the web site as an official ‘underground friend’ of the festival.

Paul Winkler, Albie Thoms, David Perry and Festival Director Stefan Popescu

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Arthur & Corinne Cantrill

Become a ‘underground friend’ now!

Just visit www.suff.com.au for details.

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F ESTI VA L PA RT N E R S CULTURAL & EDUCATIONAL PARTNERS

pre-festival events O F F I CI A L LAUNCH

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THURSDAY 7 AUGUST

The official launch of the 2008 program

MEDIA PARTNERS

By attending the launch at Oxford Art Factory you will be amongst the first to receive the complete 2008 festival program while experiencing film, music, food, drinks, and weird and wonderful live performances in the glass cube.

The night is presented by 2SER 107.3 with DJ’s DAZ CHANDLER (Celluloid Dreams) and PARIS POMPOR (Jumping the Gap), and special music / visual guests ‘SUPERMARKET’ (Dan Monceaux & Emma Sterling from SA). Free drink on arrival* thanks to TITAN BEER and yummy nibblies by BILLY & ROSE and INSPIRE FOODS.

FOOD & BEVERAGE PARTNERS

‘SUPERMARKET’ Dan Monceaux & Emma Sterling

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THURSDAYS FROM 7 AUGUST

Sydney Underground Film Festival on TVS VENUE & ACCOMMODATION PARTNERS

“XFILM – Presented by Sydney Underground Film Festival” is a 6-episode series that will air weekly leading up to this year’s opening night on Thursday 11th September (first episode airs on 7th August and runs through to 11th September 2008). The program will broadcast on TVS - Sydney’s not-for-profit community television station, which engages in and appreciates artistic ventures that mainstream stations in Australia wouldn’t touch.

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SUPPORTING PARTNERS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

SYDNEYFRINGE.ORG.AU

All programming and time schedules were correct at the time of print. All details subject to change although all care is taken.

Adam Washington, Aiden Desmond, Aimee Keep, Albie Thoms, Alma Ryan, AM Peters, Anthony Hopkins, Arthur & Corinne Cantrill, Aspasia Leonarder, Atanas Djonov, Ben Carter, Ben Ferris and Sydney Film School, Benedetta Martins, Bill & Lyn Lark from Lark’s Distillery, Bill Morrison, Bon Fleur Florist, Brett & Kat from Breakout Design Print & Web, Brett Bentley, Brietta Hague, Celia & Drum Media, Chris Robinson, Colin Altman and Sydney Posters, Collin Rhodes, Con and Last Drop Café, Craig Baldwin and Other Cinema, Dan Monceaux & Emma Sterling (SUPERMARKET), Dan Sokolowski, Danielle Spurr (for the very generous computer loan), David Firth, Daz Chandler, Dov and Filmink, Elisa Chaffer, Eloise Snape, Francois Aoun, Gabrielle Dalton, Gail and Virginia and Realtime, Garry Maddox, Gary Shead, Geoff Weary, George Gittoes, George Papadopoulos and Accent Film, Gillian Leahy and UTS Media Arts and Production, Glen Remington, Grace Spurr, Grant Crompton, Greg Khoury, Greg Kohs, Hanna Chiha, Helena & Michael Berger, Henri De Gorter from TVS, Holly O’Neil, Ian Howard, Isobel Spurr, Ivan Buljan, Jaimie Leonarder, Jenny Brown, John and Maria from Decolata Café Summer Hill (best Café in Sydney – thanks for helping us wake up in the mornings), John and Southern Cross Merchandise, John Clark, John Conomos, John Gillies and COFA, Kamrul Hai from Austic Printing, Katy Cluclas, Kurt Eckhart, Leah Taylor, Lincoln Mitchell, Lucia Kralova, Maja, Matt O’Brien at B’Side, Marc at Hopscotch, Margaret Purcell and Northern Sydney Institute of TAFE, Milly Jenkinson, Marie Fergusson, Marie Schleimer, Maritza and Vintage Glamour, Mark Gerber and Oxford Art Factory, Mark Wotherspoon, Martha Colburn, Mardi Connor, Mary Kotselas and Campus IT Apple Store Sydney University, Melinda Stanley from ILG, Merilyn Fairski, Merwyn Lim, Michael Daley and Marrickville Council, Michelle Carey, Michelle Vartuli, Mitchell Bowker, Naomi Radom (welcome Valley!), Natalie Clarke, Natasha Prendergast and Crumpler, Nathan Martin, Nerida Olsen, Nic Connaughton, Nick Sallese and Anvers Confectionery Tasmania, Nikita Byrnes, Nischal Maharaj, OLLO, Paris Pompor and Groovescooter Records, Paul Hunt from Hunt’s Lawyers, Paul Winkler, Pearl Clustre, Peter Campbell, Peter Koller, Phil and Mancini’s Pizzeria Summer Hill (thanks for letting us have meeting there every fortnight), Ralf Otto and OTTO BOAS Auditing, Raylene Bliss, Rebecca Newell and Rydges Camperdown, Richard Wolstonecroft, Rob Gravestocks, Ron Sia from Arvato, Rosie Braye, Roselyn Yap and Inspire and Billy & Rose (mad about food), Ry Russo Young, Ryan Leech, Sandra Sutherland, Siouxzi Connor, Soda_Jerk (Dan & Dom), Soh, Sontaya Subyen, Stephanie Gal, Stephanie Little, Suze Moxham (for the MC’ing – you are too good!), Sylvia Raptus, Tabitha Laffernis, Tanya Rolls from Beelgara Winery, Tatiana Pentes, Toni & Phillip Powell, Tony Cosentino, Travis Spiteri, Tricia Kennedy, Tristan Fawley at @www digital agency, Virginia Hilyard, William Mansfield, Yolanda De Bois, Zsolt Nagy and to anyone we may have missed.

DESIGNED BY LIZ BERGER phone 0435 260 100

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DOORS OPEN 6pm

6pm -midnight

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OPENI N G N IG H T O PENI NG NIGH T FEAT URE The 2008 opening night is not to be missed with THE MISCREANTS, George Gittoes

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THE MISCREANTS

anticipated feature and follow up to Rampage and Soundtrack to War, plus great shorts, PONYCLUB MASSACRE live on stage, complimentary fine foods by Inspire and Billy & Rose, Titan Premium Lager, SQ3 wine cubes - bottle quality vintage wine, and Anvers chocolates direct from Tasmania.

THE MISCREANTS SPECIAL PREVIEW AUS / 2008 / 90mins / dir. GEORGE GITTOES George Gittoes’ eagerly anticipated new film, THE MISCREANTS (follows Soundtrack to War, Rampage) will be given three special Preview Screenings at this year’s festival.

A mind blowing and entertaining mix of doco and drama, darkness and light, THE MISCREANTS does some serious film rule bending and asks: what is real, what is unreal, what is too real?

PONYCLUB MASSACRE ‘In Ponyclub Massacre, Maja and Naomi access a melancholic beauty, and listening to them is a deep, unusual and intimate experience.’

Some songs sound like they come from a twisted fairy tale, some reminiscent of an East European TV soap. Maja sings in a haunting Bosnian gypsy language and they sound like two old souls reunited.

OPENI N G N I G H T S H O R T S DON’T KILL THE WEATHER MAN! AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

USA / 2007 / 5 mins dir. MARTHA COLBURN Using scans of an apocalyptic 15thcentury French manuscript mixed with gas-guzzling, eco-destroying 21st-century imagery, Martha Colburn shows that past and present apocalypse is not too dissimilar.

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MARTHA COLBURN MYTH LABS

Gittoes takes us on an extraordinary journey to a forbidden zone, gathering an astonishing cast of characters and dodging the anti-entertainment forces to make the ‘last tele movie’, an over the top action drama, played out in what must be one of the craziest locations in the world - just a cave or two away from where the most wanted man in the world reportedly runs ‘Terror Central’.

AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

USA / 2008 / 7:30mins dir. MARTHA COLBURN Martha Colburn makes films that are fantastical and stubbornly rooted in the material.

Myth Labs is about “methamphetamines, faith and Puritans”.

Be the first to see what will surely be one of the most controversial and discussed films of 2009.

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6.30pm - 8pm

6.30pm - 8pm

session 1 : friday MA IN C I N EM A

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SLIPSTREAM SLIPSTREAM

session 1 : friday F US EBO X CINEMA

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MELTING POT

THIS SESSION CONSISTS OF AN ECLECTIC RANGE OF ORIGINAL AND CREATIVE SHORT FILMS FROM AROUND THE WORLD, RANGING FROM ROMANIAN DRAMAS TO ARCTIC CIRCLE ANIMATIONS.

AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE USA / 2007 / 96mins / dir. ANTHONY HOPKINS “The year’s most experimental film....Brilliant” Roger Ebert “...Slipstream itself is a very interesting outlook on cinema and artistic vision, but in such an experimental way, like David Lynch and sometimes like Terry Gilliam...” Alex Billington, FirstShowing.net

COLD ON COLD AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

Slipstream is the debut into independent filmmaking

by Academy Award-winning actor Anthony Hopkins. If it is ever possible to sense the liberation and creative passion unleashed by such a newfound freedom, we can experience it with Hopkins’s inventive and multilayered work. The film features a sterling ensemble cast, including Christian Slater, John Turturro, Stella Arroyave, Jeffrey Tambor, and Hopkins himself. Aided by acclaimed cinematographer Dante Spinotti and celebrated costume designer Julie Weiss, Hopkins takes us on an incredible journey into the combustion of a writer’s mind and the nature of the creative process.

At times, this film appears to be a conventional, concrete, and straightforward tale about a screenwriter, Felix Bonhoffer. Then it turns riotously hallucinogenic, taking off on tangents and down rabbit holes into dream worlds and streams of consciousness. As the characters from the writer’s fictional universe begin to appear in his “real” world, the audience starts questioning the limits of the human brain.

OFFICIAL SELECTION

OFFICIAL SELECTION

SEATTLE

SUNDANCE

FILM FESTIVAL

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INTERNATIONAL 2007

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FILM FESTIVAL

With a structured elegance, at times an overwhelmingly visceral kinesthesia, overflowing with film and artistic references, Hopkins announces he is a filmmaker with an unwaveringly artistic vision on a mission into the ineffable.

FOREST FROM TREES WORLD PREMIERE

DOG’S MERCURY AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

CAN / 2004 / 4mins / dir. DAN SOKOLOWSKI

AUS / 2008 / 7mins / dir. MATHEW ROBERTS

UK / 2006 / 23:30mins / dir. MARTIN RADICH

A meditative view of dawn from the arctic circle combining photography and painterly effects.

A minimalistic Cinéma vérité inspired piece with a hint of black comedy. Forest From Trees juxtaposes the detrimental and trivial decisions in life.

Worlds collide, interactions take place. Dog’s Mercury is a microcosm of a moribund community.

CROOKED (ORCUS) ROT

LEAVING TOGETHER

WALKING TOGETHER AUS / 2007 / 3mins / dir. ATANAS DJONOV Observational video work accompanied by “Vmeste Veselo Shagat” - a Russian children’s song from the 1970’s.

LIGHT YEAR - A TRIP AROUND THE SUN AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

CAN / 2002 / 3mins / dir. DAN SOKOLOWSKI A trip around the sun which reminds us that even in a world where our lives are seemingly controlled by exterior political and economic forces, we still only exist because of a ball of fire 92.9 million miles away.

AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

UK / 2008 / 4:20mins / dir. DAVID FIRTH A stop-frame experiment using an SLR and strange items and toys found in his backyard, results in Firth’s rich and bizarre visually impressive short.

TICKETWEAVELS

LUNCH WITH FRIENDS

AUS / 2004 / 2:15mins / dir. CAROLINE HUF

AUS / 2007 / 3:30mins / dir. PETER HUMBLE

Two Sydney train tickets weave themselves together and apart like weavels - their weaving is their undoing. It is the simulation of growth and decay and the inbuilt obsolescence of industrial society.

We see a woman sharing her food with some friends during lunch hour in downtown Melbourne. Are we watching madness or are we mad to judge such innocence?

STONE BRUISE WALKING TOGETHER AUS / 2007 / 3mins dir. ATANAS DJONOV Observational video work accompanied by “Vmeste Veselo Shagag” - a Russian children’s song from the 1970’s

AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

CAN / 2007 / 4mins / dir. DAN SOKOLOWSKI Linked by a road and a battered windshield, hand processed/tinted 16mm images flow past the viewer in an ever changing mosaic of landscape, form and colour.

AUS / 2005 / 2mins / dir. KATE MURPHY Kate works within a documentary mode, creating both single and multi-channel video work. She is interested in how documentary, in its many forms, surrounds and influences us and adopts the use of multiple synchronised cameras to observe and capture her subjects.

SYNOPSIS DOCU-DRAMA AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

Romania / 2008 / 23:20mins dir. VLAD TRANDAFIR Marius, a film directing graduate, employs his friend to line up a documentary directing gig. This delightfully synical film explores industry and politics as Marius’ passionate yet awkward entry into the world of filmmaking is stunted as soon as it starts.

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8.30pm - 10pm

8.30pm - 10pm

session 2 : friday MAI N C I N E M A

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session 2 : friday

RE:ANIMATION

MA I N CI NEMA

A CWERKY, COMICAL CLEVERLY CRAFTED COLLECTION PRESENTED BY CRUMPLER.

THE WONDERFUL WONDERFUL AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

2 IN THE AM PM AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

GREASELAND

WORLD PREMIERE

UK / 2008 / 6:50mins dir. PETER BOYD MACLEAN

ROBOT DREAMING WORLD PREMIERE

USA / 2006 / 7:30mins / dir. JG QUINTEL

A stop animated short that explores the construction and culture of the soap opera. It illuminates the surreal generic environments in which soap operas seemingly attempt to recreate reality.

What happens when two teenagers are left alone to run a gas station on Halloween night?

They feed each other candy... filled with drugs.

This comedy is set in a road side cafe in the middle of the middle off nowhere. The Café owner Leroy likes to reminisce about the days he used to be Elvis Presley’s minder.

A robot captures a man and performs a series of experiments on him in order to learn exactly what makes a human a human.

I SLEPT WITH COOKIE MONSTER WORLD PREMIERE

VIDEOTAPE

ZANY DICK

PRICK

USA / 2008 / 3:30mins dir. KARA NASDOR-JONES The film details a woman’s struggle with and triumph over domestic violence.

ANIMAL INSTINCTS

WORLD PREMIERE

AUS / 2008 / 2:00mins dir. ANDREW GOLDSMITH

USA / 2008 / 2:40mins dir. RICKY SPRAGUE

Videotape is a live-action stop-motion short about a man who abuses technology until it fights back

An eccentric, bald surgeon grafts a sexual deviant’s penis onto the pianist husband of a woman he loves.

A BREAK IN THE MONOTONY

I LIVE IN THE WOODS

AUS / 2007 / 5mins / dir. CAMERON EDSER AND MICHAEL RICHARDS

AUS / 2007 / 4mins / dir. DAMIEN SLEVIN

USA / 2008 / 3:30mins / dir. MAX WINSTON

Animal Instincts is an action packed claymation of epic proportions. A cow and a sheep battle it out in a fight for ultimate farmyard supremacy.

In a post Zombie holocaust world, a man laments his empty lifestyle and questions the futility of working in a corporate wasteland. But all is not as it seems.

A Woodsman’s fast-paced journey, fuelled by happiness, slaughter, and a confrontation with America’s God.

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WORLD PREMIERE

WORLD PREMIERE

RE:ANIMATION

A CWERKY, COMICAL CLEVERLY CRAFTED COLLECTION PRESENTED BY CRUMPLER.

AUS / 2006 / 6:30mins / dir. MARK LAGANA

WORLD PREMIERE

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USA / 2008 / 10mins / dir. ROY MAGNUS

UNTITLED

TELEPATHETIC

WORLD PREMIERE

WORLD PREMIERE

NETHERLANDS / 2008 / 1min dir. WYKPE JANNETTE WALDEN

USA / 2008 / 3:30mins dir. BRADLEY SCHAFFER

A one minute photoanimation of a girl in a room and the feeling of time passing by.

Can the human brain really move inanimate objects through scientifically unexplainable means? Or is it just a crazy myth created by desperate liars attempting to sell books to meatheaded morons?

NEW EDUCATIONAL SERIES CANARIES IN COLOUR

REVOLUTIONS

CANADA / 2008 / 3mins / dir. WRIK MEAD

NZ / 2007 / 3:30mins / dir. JILL KENNEDY

AUS / 2008 / 2mins / dir. SHAHRIAR SHADAB

Prick is a short animation where the technique used manipulates a penis whose desires become its own demise.

A nostalgic pastiche of found graphic material from AV learning programs of the 1970s. The viewer is taken on a psychedelic journey through a book of canaries, with animated excursions to scrolling landscapes in New Zealand and back again.

An Australian boy visiting his Persian Grandmother in post Islamic revolution Iran realises there is more to his heritage than he previously thought. He looks out the window to see a world in turmoil then his grandmother helps him understand why.

THE ORIGIN OF THE WORLD

MUTO

EMMANATION

AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

WORLD PREMIERE

USA / 2008 / 5:10mins dir. JON MONAGHAM Brutal, spiritual, and completely digital imagery based on Kundalini yoga and Alchemy.

AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

ITALY / 2008 / 7mins / dir. BLUBLU An incredibly captivating and at times bizarrely ambiguous animation painted on public walls.

AUS / 2008 / 1:25mins dir. EMMA PRESSMAN A fantastical exploration of a family portrait within a mountainous Mexican landscape.

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8.30pm - 10pm

session 2 : friday MA I N CI NEMA

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RE:ANIMATION (CONTINUED)

A CWERKY, COMICAL CLEVERLY CRAFTED COLLECTION PRESENTED BY CRUMPLER.

KARAOKE SHOW

ZOMBIE GETS A DATE

GERMANY / 2007 / 4:30mins / dir. KARL TEBBE

USA / 2008 / 2:30mins / dir. LEETAL PLATT

A mixture between sauna and disco, as a man imagines himself a rock star.

Zombie has a date tonight, but his poor partner isn’t so excited about what’s in store for her.

THE BIRTH OF BRAINFLY

PANEYE

USA / 2008 / 6mins / dir. NANDITA KUMAR

AUS / 2008 / 1:30mins / dir. JESSICA MUTASCIO

Birth of Brainfly charts a surreal course of a psyche’s evolution within the invisible landscape of the mind.

A visual interpretation of what happens when the weight of one’s mind exits through the eyes.

F US EBO X CINEMA

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THE MISCREANTS

AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

WORLD PREMIERE

THE MISCREANTS SPECIAL PREVIEW

AUS / 2008 / 90mins / dir. GEORGE GITTOES George Gittoes’ eagerly anticipated new film, The Miscreants (follows Soundtrack to War, Rampage) will be given thre special Preview Screenings at this year’s festival.

A mind blowing and entertaining mix of doco and drama, darkness and light, The MISCREANTS does some serious film rule bending and asks: what is real, what is unreal, what is too real?

Gittoes takes us on an extraordinary journey to a forbidden zone, gathering an astonishing cast of characters and dodging the anti-entertainment forces to make the ‘last tele movie’, an over the top action drama, played out in what must be one of the craziest locations in the world - just a cave or two away from where the most wanted man in the world reportedly runs ‘Terror Central’.

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10.30pm - 12am

10.30pm - 12am

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QUALITY TIME QUALITY TIME

session 3 : friday F US EBO X CINEMA

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MATERIAL AFFECTION

A UNIQUE PROGRAM OF ARTISTIC AND INNOVATIVE FILMS THAT INTERSECT NARRATIVE WITH MATERIALITY

USA / 2007 / 80mins / dir. CHRIS LAMONT Meet Stewart Savage – Stewart lives in an idyllic, soft-focus universe, where his girlfriend adores him and his family is as wholesome as the Osmond’s. He also lives in a world where he strangles his girlfriends, hates his meaningless job and prefers the psychotic solace of the world inside his head.

One day, Stewart brings home his latest girlfriend and victim to meet the parents for a family birthday celebration. Accustomed to their son’s antics, the helpless Savage’s play along with Stewart’s quickly devolving sense of reality while attempting to bag the fresh body of his girlfriend before others arrive.

Corin Nemec (Parker Lewis Can’t Lose), Nancy Allen, and John De Lancie stars in this dark, dystopian, surrealistic comedy, where a heightened and experimental execution of its visuals builds to an unstable and engrossing crescendo. Quality Time is all wrapped into a package that will keep an audience entertained with a fresh innovative style.

OFFICIAL SELECTION

BOSTON UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL

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LIGHT/STRIKE (AN OPEN WINDOW) WORLD PREMIERE

WHO BY WATER

AUS / 2008 / 3mins / dir. GEOFF WEARY Light/Strike is one of a series of short works created and recorded with the use of an original Sony Porta-Pak camera system, circa 1975. The unique properties of the camera render the subject matter of the film as a fragile, vaporous presence.

USA / 2008 / 18mins dir. BILL MORRISON

AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

Ship passengers are depicted staring wordlessly into the camera’s lens. All of their numbers have by now been called. And in staring back at them, we contemplate our own fate.

MANY BUDDHAS AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

AUS / 2008 / 15mins / dir. PAUL WINKLER Impressed by the enormous variety of Buddha figures seen in South-East Asia Winkler, creates a kind of homage to the Buddha figure.

THE PAIN WITH BEING THIRSTY AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE USA / 2007 / 6:20mins / dir. DAVID YUN

MONDAY MORNING

PAPERHOUSE – THE 5:19

AUS / 2007 / 2mins Editor NICHOLAS RYAN

AUS / 2008 / 4mins dir. PETER NEWMAN

An experimental underwater emulsion adventure.

Free-to-air television fuses at 5:19pm

Juxtaposing found footage of Japanese Internment camps in Arizona with a found letter written by Babar Ahmad (a Muslim prisoner accused of running AlQaeda websites and awaiting extradition to Guantanamo Bay) this film traces a connection between the way Japanese Americans were perceived during World War II and how Arabs and Arab Americans are being treated in a post-9/11 world.

AYVALI

CLOTH BIRDS

VESSEL

AUS / 2005 / 2mins / dir. DAVID MACKENZIE

UK / 2008 / 3:35mins / dir. DAVID FIRTH

In the first snows of winter, Ayvali a small Turkish village, is terrorised by a stray dog.

Inspired by early Surrealist documentaries, Mackenzie explores the uncertain worlds of observation and documentation.

Firth decided to make the most of the fact that his room was crawling with insects last summer and filmed them all close up. Music video for EVENT CHOKE by Datach’i.

GREECE / 2007 / 30 mins dir. ANTONIOS PAPANTONIOU

THE ACROBAT AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

AUS / 2008 / 6mins dir. CHRIS KENNEDY Inspired by a poem, the film is a consideration of the relationship of gravity and politics – the beauty and necessity of rising up, but also, perhaps the significance of allowing oneself to fall.

AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

A vehicle of unknown origins. A driver of unknown purpose. A trip inside the forest’s web.

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6.30pm - 8pm

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SEX GALAXY & RECYCLED SHORTS

MAKE LOVE NOT WAR... THIS PROGRAM IS SEXY, FUNNY, AND 100% GREEN.

SEX GALAXY WORLD PREMIERE USA / 2008 / 78mins / dir. MIKE DAVIS

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One hundred years in the future... Due to overpopulation and the effects of global warming, sex has been declared illegal on Earth. When a crew of astronauts hear of a distant planet inhabited by insatiable female creatures who exist only to satisfy man’s desires, they decide to take a detour from their routine mission in search of the mythical star system known as the Sex Galaxy. Written and directed by Mike Davis, ‘Sex Galaxy’ marks the auteurial debut of the twisted mind behind cult comedy sensation and Russ Meyer grindhouse horror homage ‘Pervert!’ starring Mary Carey.

ASTRO BLACK: A HISTORY OF HIP HOP (EP. 1) AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

AUS / 2008 / 6:30 mins / dir. SODA_JERK

AVAILABLE FROM: BORDERS, JB HI-FI FISH RECORDS Balmain Newtown and Leichhardt.

HUM Newtown & Darlinghurst REDEYE RECORDS Sydney TITLE Surry Hills

A tasty treat of 1970’s Blaxploitation featuring the legendary comedic prowess of Rudy Ray Moore, the hard hittin’ celluloid of Jamaa Fanaka and some of the wildest disco beats and funk ever laid to vinyl.

DVDs that will beat a Mutha F#%ker down - and raise him up with laughter...

So baaaad, they slapped the Black outta Michael Jackson!

ALIEN CHRIST

WORLD PREMIERE

AUS / 2006 / 2mins / dir. TONY LAWRENCE 8mm 50’s burlesque reels, ‘club films’ and 60’s American Mid-West home movies marry with the raw fuzz rock of Alien Christ.

EISENSTEIN’S MONTAGE AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

AUS / 2005 / 1:10mins / dir. ATANAS DJONOV Read aloud, each word in an excerpt from Eisenstein’s Film Sense is matched by the artist with an image found by searching for that word in Google.

A lesson in the intergalactic origins of hiphop turntablism, this narrative remix video is composed entirely of samples from existing film and music sources. Set in the Bronx in the mid 70s, this video remix kicks off with the alien abduction of three pioneers of the hip-hop ‘old skool’: DJ Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash and Afrika Baambattaa. Once on board the Mothership with Sun Ra and George Clinton, the three DJs are transported to Planet Rock where they are skilled in a secret alien technique – the scratch. Armed with this sonic intelligence, they are returned to the Bronx to unleash hip-hop turntablism onto the airwaves of planet Earth.

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6.30pm - 8pm

6.30pm - 8pm

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AUSSIE ASYLUM

“IT’S OK FOR AN AUSTRALIAN FILM” NEED NO LONGER APPLY...WELL AT LEAST NOT TO THESE FILMS.

BEFORE CLOSING

DOGS RUN LOOSE AROUND HERE WORLD PREMIERE

THE WIND CALLS YOUR NAME

AUS / 2008 / 6:30mins dir. MICHAEL HOATH

AUS / 2005 / 6mins dir. JOHN HOBART HUGHES

This is the story of a woman who loses her young daughter while out shopping and the subsequent confusion that leads to a man being accused of the young girls abduction.

The film is an open narrative, a collage of landscape and objects, a weaving of places, a rediscovery of moments, a reflection of the past, an arrival at a mound of dust, and a reinvention of self.

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AUSSIE ASYLUM

“IT’S OK FOR AN AUSTRALIAN FILM” NEED NO LONGER APPLY...WELL AT LEAST NOT TO THESE FILMS.

CHICKEN AUS / 2005 / 5mins / dir. JAMIL YAMANI An Indonesian woman prepares a chicken for a tourist customer.

THE BRIDGE NSW PREMIERE

AUS / 2008 / 4mins dir. ROD MCMILLAN In June 2007 massive rains swept across Gippsland, Victoria. How did one small swing bridge spanning the George Creek cope with the rising flood waters?

ESCAPE AUS / 2005 / 4mins dir. ATANAS DJONOV A little human figure made from wire is depicted in his film editing studio, where he is lured into embarking on a journey of exploration into the mysterious realm of photography and cinema.

WORLD PREMIERE

AUS / 2008 / 13:30mins / dir. ZAK HILDITCH Alex deals with the aftermath of his girlfriend’s ordeal, only to discover that his actions trigger a chain of events which prove nothing except his misguided love.

THE DISCOVERY OF DOCTOR M. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE A DIFFERENCE IN SHADOW NSW PREMIERE

AUS / 2007 / 3:30mins / dir. MICHAEL MIER As the sound of approaching soldiers grows louder an Old Man and a Young Girl must escape the darkness before too much light is shed on the situation.

THE MAKING OF A WINNING TROPFEST FILM AUS / 2007 / 4mins / dir. TIM MARICIC When “Australia’s Funniest Home Videos” rejects his entry, an ambitious filmmaker is forced to seek success in the most prestigious, respected, career-boosting, and quintessentially Australian film festival of all time.

AUS / 2008 / 4:24mins dir. VIRGINIA HILYARD An intriguing story, combines moving image, historical scientific data, photography and medical imaging. The physicality of the image takes us on a journey of disquiet.

WATER OFF A DUCK’S BACK WORLD PREMIERE

AUS / 2007 / 3mins / dir. PIA DULU A dark fairytale emerges in the western suburbs of Melbourne, where the backyard is the setting for sibling rivalry.

FLED AUS / 2003 / 4:30mins dir. MAHMOUD YEKTA ‘Fled’ is an experiment with the limits of becoming other. Fled is the story of becoming shadows and its “flesh”ing out.

WITHOUT A SHADOW AUS / 2006 / 12mins / dir. DAVID FARNJIC A prostitute acts as a confidant for a disturbed man who forces her to question the morals of every day people and reassess her place in life.

POLICE DEMONSTRATION

URBAN SPICE

WORLD PREMIERE

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BRASS MONKEY

SATURDAY 17TH

WORLD PREMIERE

WORLD PREMIERE

AUS / 2007 / 2:30mins dir. CHRIS ROBINSON

AUS / 2007 / 3:30mins dir. HAMISH CHARLTON

Real life is not as shocking as fiction.

Psycho with a truly psychotic twist.

AUS / 2006 / 1:20mins / dir. DOUG MASON During APEC, the scale and intensity of the state and federal agencies presence dwarfed the demonstration conducted by the public so much the event could be viewed as a police demonstration.

PEAR SHAPES WORLD PREMIERE

AUS / 2008 / 4mins dir. RICHARD TUOHY Super 8 pixilation, exploring seductive forbidden fruit and the borders between peoples.

NSW PREMIERE

AUS / 2007 / 3:30mins / dir. DAN MONCEAUX AND EMMA STERLING This turbulent portrait of the artist’s recent travels reanimates the inanimate (architecture, scultpure, concrete urband space) by camera technique, and contrasts this mechanical movement with the natural wonder of Niagra Falls.

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8.30pm - 10pm

8.30pm - 10pm

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GOD BLESS AMERICA

...ALL OTHER COUNTRIES ARE RUN BY LITTLE GIRLS. A UNIQUE, PATHOS DRIVEN AND SOMETIME HUMOROUS DOCUMENTARY PROGRAM PROVIDING AN INTIMATE LOOK INTO LOWER SOCIOECONOMIC EVERYDAY AMERICANS. STEPHEN LEAVES HOME AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

USA / 2007 / 18mins dir. BENJAMIN WILSON Adulthood comes with strings attached for Stephen, who at 17 years old has had twenty-seven surgeries. He must leave his childhood neighbourhood behind to reflect on his past, present and future.

NICK MOSHER’S HOMELESS KEG PARTY PART 2 AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

USA / 2007 / 19mins dir. NICK MOSHER Watch out, Nick Mosher is back with another wacky Homeless Keg Party.

Bring the family!

TRAILER TRASH - A FILM JOURNAL AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

session 2 : saturday F US EBO X CINEMA

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MOCK UP ON MU

MOCK UP ON MU NSW PREMIERE USA / 2008 / 114 mins dir. CRAIG BALDWIN It’s the year 2019 on the Empire of Mu -- aka the moon -- where L. Ron Hubbard (Damon Packard) is building theme parks, selling crater-naming rights and beaming corporate logos back to “that prison planet called Earth.” Craig Baldwin offers with his new feature MOCK UP ON MU, his usual blend of fantasy and bizarre satiric narrative. It combines existing footage from spy, sci-fi, Western, and even horror films and new footage, of real life and fictional characters. The result is a collage of stories (mostly true) about Californian post war subcultures and religions, including scientology and the ‘new age’ movement.

This combination of archival and newly-shot footage makes up a playful, exploratory trajectory through the now-mythic SoCal matrix of Jack Parsons (founder of the Jet Propulsion Lab), L.Ron Hubbard (sciencefiction author-turned-cult-leader), and Marjorie Cameron (bohemian artist and “mother of the New Age movement”). These intertwined tales spin out into a speculative, farcical critique of the militarization of space and the corporate take-over of spiritual fulfillment and leisure-time.

USA / 2007 / 48mins dir. DON RAMIREZ Trailer Trash - A Film Journal is an intimate documentary that chronicles nearly a three year period of intense turmoil in the filmmaker’s family. Don’s honest and open documentary of his familial decay, unfolds as a white trash story of deceit, illness and murder.

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SAN FRANCISCO

REVELATION

CINEVEGAS

INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2008

FILM FESTIVAL 2008

FILM FESTIVAL 2008

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10.30pm - 12am

10.30pm - 12am

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SEVERED CINEMA

MA I N CI NEMA

THIS PROGRAM CAPTURES THE VICIOUS MOMENTS IN BOTH IMAGINATION AND LIFE THROUGH EYE-CUTTINGLY BRUTAL NARRATIVES AND EQUALLY GRUESOME DOCUMENTARIES.

MISSING LIVES: DISAPPEARANCES AND IMPUNITY IN THE NORTH CAUCASUS

USA / 2006 / 26:45mins / dir. CHRISTINE UMALI, WITNESS.ORG

USA / 2007 / 14mins / dir. CHRISTINE UMALI, WITNESS.ORG

The film tells the stories of Khaled El-Masri and Binyam Mohamed, two men who have survived extraordinary rendition, secret detention, and torture by the U.S. government.

“Missing Lives” addresses the lack of accountability for the enforced disappearances of more than 3,000 people in the Russian North Caucasus.

SEVERED CINEMA

THIS PROGRAM CAPTURES THE VICIOUS MOMENTS IN BOTH IMAGINATION AND LIFE THROUGH EYE-CUTTINGLY BRUTAL NARRATIVES AND EQUALLY GRUESOME DOCUMENTARIES.

EEL GIRL

OUTLAWED: EXTRAORDINARY RENDITION, TORTURE AND DISAPPEARANCES IN THE ‘WAR ON TERROR’ AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

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AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

USA / 2007 / 19:50mins / dir. BEN HICKS

In a secure military laboratory, a scientist has become obsessed with the half-human half eel creature he’s studying. When she beckons him to her, it’s the call of a siren...

A teenage girl, her childish mother and her younger sister find themselves in a strange restaurant where her faith is put to the test.

F US EBO X CINEMA

AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

SQUARE PEGS

AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

New Zealand / 2007 / 5:20mins / dir. JENNIFER SCHEER

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POLYESTER

POLYESTER USA / 1981 / 86 mins / dir. JOHN WATERS Polyester revisits the twisted yet humorous perversity of Water’s earlier work as he explores the family of a messed up housewife including a cheating pornographer, pregnant teenager and foot fetishist. Polyester, by John Waters is a film that has been present in the film buff’s psyche since its 1981 creation.

Francine Fishpaw is a classic Baltimore housewife whose world falls apart when her sadistic pornographic husband admits he’s serially unfaithful to her with his secretary. Next, her teenage daughter who is dating the town delinquent and dancing lewdly for the boys at school falls pregnant. And finally Francine’s son winds up in jail because he stomps on women’s feet who wear nice shoes.

LITTLE SNAPS OF HORROR AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

UK / 2008 / 2:15mins dir. GRAHAM RATHLIN Don’t go into the booth!

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WHEN SALLY MET FRANK

MARION

AUS / 2008 / 8:35mins dir. VICTORIA WAGHORN

USA / 2005 / 7mins / dir. RY RUSSO YOUNG

Sally and Frank share an obsession. Accompanied by a nurse with a bedside manner to die for, their fantasy can become true: Over and over again.

AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

A contemporary de-construction of Hitchcock’s PSYCHO. This original piece reinterprets a classic film with contemporary insight. “Visually interesting and unexpected, a slasher film with a brain” -The New York Times.

FREE ODORAMA CARD!!

Divine seems completely sincere and feminine, managing a darkly funny portrayal of personal pain. With the help of her over-aged debutante gal pal Cuddles, her knight in shining armour Todd Tomorrow and her trusty chauffeur Heintz, Francine tries to stop the madness, all the while wearing the best in polyester clothes!

As a special treat, SUFF presents Polyester and provides a special opportunity to enjoy this cult classic as it was meant to be seen – and smelled! SUFF will be distributing original Polyester ‘Odorama’ cards that are scratched and sniffed at various times during the film.

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12am - 1.30am

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ON EVIL GROUNDS

ON EVIL GROUNDS

SPECIAL OFFER Tickets only $8 ($6 conc.)

AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE AUSTRIA / 2007 / 82mins / dir. PETER KOLLER

A pair of psychopathic young lovers purchase a decrepit loft in a rundown old factory in a desolate industrial region.

Neither realising the real-estate agent and owner are simply using the property to lure unsuspecting couples to satisfy their sadistic urges. However, this couple are everything but docile victims. A dead body and a few shovels of dirt later the couple are stuck in trouble.

On Evil Grounds director, Peter Koller invites the audience on a twisted journey into the land of pain and sadistic joy, inhabited by perverted serial killers, sexist machos and a psychopathic femme fatale.

This film is full of dirt and heat; a rotten factory, filthy characters full of oddities, and a carefully handpicked dose of violence.

Koller’s adventurous cinematography including creative compositions and evocative, rich colours coupled with water tight editing makes for a darn sexy, gritty and entertaining film.

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CALGARY

AMSTERDAM

UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL 2008

FANTASTIC FILM FESTIVAL 2008

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4.30pm - 6pm

4.30pm - 6pm

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WELL-TANNED COMEDY

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MA I N CI NEMA

A DELIGHTFUL ASSORTMENT OF UN-PC AND DARKLY HUMOUROUS SHORT FILMS.

WELL-TANNED COMEDY

A DELIGHTFUL ASSORTMENT OF UN-PC AND DARKLY HUMOUROUS SHORT FILMS.

THE RAZORHEAD LUNCH

WORLD PREMIERE

AUS / 2007 / 3:30mins / dir. ARIEL KLEIMAN A man in a brown suit, with a brown briefcase, runs frantically up a series of wrought iron stairs.

DJ DAZZ

NSW PREMIERE

AUS / 2007 / 14mins / dir. TOM JACKSON In the town of Hobart, Tasmania, people are partying to the music and puppetry of Australia’s number one* mobile disc jockey, DJ Dazz.

SICKLY SWEET

WORLD PREMIERE

WORLD PREMIERE

AUS / 2007 / 4:30mins / dir. JACLYN HEWER Sickly Sweet tells the story of one woman’s obsession with perfection; that is...until the arrival of an unexpected gift.

COW JUICE

WORLD PREMIERE

AUS / 2007 / 7mins / dir. KYLE SPENCE How many milks does it take to get to the centre of it?

UK / 2007 / 2mins / dir. ANTHONY SUTCLIFFE A strange man decides his only way to salvation is to be found through a rather brutal haircut.

TRIPSWITCH

WORLD PREMIERE

UK / 2007 / 2mins / dir. ANTHONY SUTCLIFFE A master scientist has finally finished his greatest achievement. And now, history beckons.

SIDE EFFECTS MAY INCLUDE AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

USA / 2007 / 3:30mins / dir. SHAD CLARK

TURD ON A STRING AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

HEALTH REMINDER AUS FESTIVAL PREMIERE

UK / 2008 / 5:45mins / dir. HUGH GRIFFITHS

UK / 2007 / 3:48 mins / dir. DAVID FIRTH

Turd on a String tells the story of the archetypal modern man: depressed, lonely, and alienated; yet with a burning ambition to succeed. One morning he is presented with an unmissable opportunity.

This is a health reminder. May I remind you to pay attention? This will save your life and eliminate your worries. You have no choice but to realise this. You have no choice but to understand.

A STAPLE IN TIME WORLD PREMIERE

THE GRAVEDIGGERS WORLD PREMIERE

HOTEL MOTEL - DO NOT ADJUST YOUR SET SYDNEY PREMIERE

AUS / 2008 / 6:20mins dir. GEOFF ABESHOUSE

AUS / 2007 / 2mins dir. MICHAEL BURRELL

AUS / 2007 / 13:25mins dir. MICHAEL WANNENMACHER

John is a simple office worker who has discovered that his stapler has disappeared.

A comedy that mixes an age old profession with recent political issues.

Two on-the-run criminals spend the night in a lonesome Hotel Motel which brings them into contact with individuals even more desperate than they are.

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THE MISCREANTS

Reality ruptures commercial bubbles in this socially explosive short.

THE WOMAN IN RED WORLD PREMIERE

AUS / 2007 / 30secs / dir. CHRIS PIERAGS Things aren’t always what they seem, especially when you’re dealing with your health.

THE MISCREANTS SPECIAL PREVIEW

AUS / 2008 / 90mins / dir. GEORGE GITTOES George Gittoes’ eagerly anticipated new film, The Miscreants (follows Soundtrack to War, Rampage) will be given several special Preview Screenings at this year’s festival.

MY BALL

WORLD PREMIERE

IRELAND / 2007 / 3:55mins / dir. KEVIN O’NEILL The best story ever told about a man and his ball.

HOMELESS

WORLD PREMIERE

AUS / 2007 / 30secs dir. CHRISTOPHER PIERAGS Animals can’t ask for help, so we have to do it for them.

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CARL

WORLD PREMIERE

AUS / 2008 / 6:30mins / dir. JOSHUA FISHER Meet Carl, an abandoned mattress whose life’s journey is to find a loving home. Thrown out as hard rubbish on the footpath, Carl reminisces about Jenny, the woman of his dreams.

A mind blowing and entertaining mix of doco and drama, darkness and light, The MISCREANTS does some serious film rule bending and asks: what is real, what is unreal, what is too real?

Gittoes takes us on an extraordinary journey to a forbidden zone, gathering an astonishing cast of characters and dodging the anti-entertainment forces to make the ‘last tele movie’,an over the top action drama, played out in what must be one of the craziest locations in the world - just a cave or two away from where the most wanted man in the world reportedly runs ‘Terror Central’.

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6.30pm - 8pm

6.30pm - 8pm

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LOVE/SICK

session 2 : sunday MA I N CI NEMA

KINKY IS TO USE A FEATHER, PERVERTED IS TO USE THE WHOLE CHICKEN...

AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

AUS / 2007 / 8:50 mins dir. KAYLA DAVIDSON

OFFICIAL SELECTION

SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2006

CRITIC’S WEEK

CANNES 2006

TREEHUGGER

Impaled is a documentary about the accessibility of pornography and how it has influenced the sexual development of young people. Clark interviews men between the ages of 19 and 23 and questions how seeing pornography at such a young age shaped their views on sex and how their sexual fantasies are directly influenced by growing up with pornography. Clarke searches for a volunteer to star in a porn film and documents the way the experience impacts the young man’s life.

The honesty of the subjects and their responses to pornography makes for a truly accessible, intimate docu-experiment. Clark’s uncensored opinions can be refreshingly startling, shedding light on a more obscure corner of the cinematic world.

VIDEO DATING TAPE

AUST / 2006 / 6:30 mins / dir. PEARL TAN

AUS FESTIVAL PREMIERE

Mel’s girlfriend Rach is headed overseas... This is Mel’s goodbye video.

UK / 2004 / 2:20mins / dir. DAVID FIRTH A short cartoon about video dating.

ALEX AND HER ARSE TRUCK

AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

USA / 2008 / 4 mins / dir. DAVID BURNS The film depicts a young man’s erotic relationship to nature. The man’s clothes are cast off, in parallel to the stripping away of the politics of American culture.

USA / 2005 / 37mins / dir. LARRY CLARK

SEEYA RACH

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Being Barry is a dark, skewed comedic tale of Australian suburbia. The suburbs you don’t see on Australian soap operas or in glossy real estate development brochures.

NSW FESTIVAL PREMIERE

LOVE/SICK KINKY IS TO USE A FEATHER, PERVERTED IS TO USE THE WHOLE CHICKEN...

BEING BARRY

IMPALED

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HEARTBREAK MOTEL NSW PREMIERE

AUST / 2008 / 7 mins dir. AARON MCLOUGHLIN It wasn’t what he was expecting at Heartbreak Motel.

LOST HOLIDAY

AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

UK / 2008 / 17mins / dir. SEAN CONWAY The psychology of sexual jealousy is explored in this film about a scooter-riding zelophile (a person who gets their kicks from jealousy, apparently) called Baby Shoes, his nymphomaniac girlfriend Alex, her other lover Nylon, a mentalist named Pubelles, and a pair of drug dealing lesbians.

LOST HOLIDAY NSW PREMIERE

Czech Republic / 2007 / 84 mins / dir. LUCIE KRALOVA

While on holiday in Sweden Czech tourist Lada finds a suitcase in which there are 22 rolls of film.

Developing the films Lada discovers 756 photographs of six Chinese tourists; these are exhibited in a gallery in Prague and become a cult success. Lost Holiday examines the interest in these images in Prague before director Lucie Kralova and her crew start to retrace the tourists’ travels in the hope they can locate the six men amongst a billion Chinese nationals. By turns bizarre, funny, and fascinating, Lost Holiday becomes a gripping detective documentary and an absorbing study into the nature of travel, holidays, memory, and images, as the director asks “is our world really connected?”

BEST DOCUMENTARY

KARLOVY VARY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2008

OFFICIAL SELECTION

REVELATION FILM FESTIVAL 2008

DIE BEFORE ME AUST / 2007 / 7 mins / dir. ROBIN ROYCE QUEREE and MIKE KANE Klint has looked after his handicapped son for over 20 years. Since his wife left him, the responsibility and pain of seeing his son like this begins to take its toll on him.

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DOORS OPEN 4pm

8.30pm - 10pm

session 3 : sunday

CLO SI N G N IG H T PA RT Y Buy a closing night ticket for just $25 (Conc $20) and it gets you into all 3 sunday sessions + after party!

MA I N CI NEMA

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SONG SUNG BLUE

The story of a couple once on the precipice of fame... Sort of.

The closing night of the festival starts with the early sessions, WELL-TANNED COMEDY, LOVE/SICK and the features LOST HOLIDAY and THE MISCREANTS. Following on after a quick awards presentation will be the closing night feature from 8:30pm, SONG SUNG BLUE. The night finishes with an after-party with sets by OLLO and Groovescooter DJs. There will also be free drinks thanks to TITAN Premium Lager, SQ3 wine thanks to Beelgara Winery, and chocolates thanks to Anvers Confectionary.

AWARDS Awards include the Boundary-breaking feature award, Boundary-breaking short film award, Digital Effects award, Recycled Cinema award, Material Affects award, Provocative Film award, Experimentation in Film award, Unique Aesthetic Film award, and the Innovative Narrative award.

Award-winning filmmakers will receive a SUFF hand-made trophy and bottle of spirits from Tasmania’s Lark Distillery (Whisky, Gin, Vodka, or Bush Liquor). Australian filmmakers also receive a SUFF custom Crumpler bag and flowers by Ruby Slipper.

The trophies for the festival are created by Mark Wotherspoon, local Sydney glass artist. These trophies have been cast from recycled television screens sourced from discarded TV’s on the side of the road.

More information can be found at www.myspace.com/spoonglass

JURY • • • •

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Gary Shead (ex-UBU Films / artist) Jaimie Leonarder (Mu Meson Archivist / Filmmaker / FBi ) Aspasia Leonarder (Mu Meson Archivist / FBi radio presenter) Plus other guest jurors to be announced

NSW PREMIERE

USA / 2008 / 87:30mins / director GREG KOHS

Song Sung Blue is a documentary feature film that tells the alternately inspiring and tragic love story of Lightning & Thunder. Trading as the Neil Diamond tribute band Lightning & Thunder, husband and wife Michael and Claire Sardina once more or less shared a stage with Pearl Jam, and almost became world-class rock-stars in their Milwaukee hometown. But true fame eluded them in their 20-year career.

Rather than a standard white-bread-to-celeb rockumentary, Song Sung Blue takes a tragi-comic look at the delusion of celebrity, and the blinding appeal of the American Dream. Winner of both the Best Documentary and the Audience Award at this year’s Slamdance Film Festival. “Dysfunction and delusion run rife through a stranger-than-fiction saga that starts out kitschily amusing, then finds drama and pathos in its subjects’ rather hapless progress.” – Variety.

GRAND JURY AWARD

GRAND JURY AWARD

WINNER

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AUDIENCE AWARD

GRAND JURY AWARD

SLAMDANCE

WINNER

SLAMDANCE

PHILADELPHIA

IFF Boston

INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2008

2008

WINNER 2008

WINNER International film festival

2008

2008

MELBOURNE

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post festival events TUESDAY 16TH SEPTEMBER TILL FRIDAY 19TH SEPTEMBER

P RES E N T S

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SUFF SYMPOSIA

post festival events GALLERY OPENING MONDAY 15TH SEPT 6-9PM AND RUNS THROUGH TILL 25TH SEPTEMBER

EX HI B I TI ON AT SY DNEY COLLEGE OF T H E AR T S

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Join us for a week of lectures and interesting artist / filmmaker talks at Sydney College of the Arts from Tuesday 16th – Friday 19th September. We will be hosting a series of lunchtime lectures from 1 – 2pm except for Friday where it will be from 2 – 3:30pm, with a free BBQ and drinks.

Some artist / filmmakers giving talks include; Jaimie and Aspasia Leonarder (Mu Meson Archives) regarding about contemporary independent and underground filmmaking, John Conomos (lecturer and recent author of ‘Mutant Media: Essays on Cinema, Video Art and New Media’, Richard Wolstencroft about his own film practice (including his recent feature ‘The Beautiful and Damned’), and George Gittoes will give a captivating and insightful talk on his recent 6 months of working out of locations in Pakistan and his far reaching and unique film and artistic practice.

Keep your eye on the website www.suff.com.au for full details about the SUFF SYMPOSIA.

H I S T O RY OF DI SA PPEA R A N CE Curated by Jenny Brown

In 1976 in New York, Franklin Furnace Archive Inc. began as an archive of artist books, and soon after a gallery for exhibitions and installations, a performance space, and a publisher. Artists who showed and/or performed at Franklin Furnace in the early years of their careers who later achieved widespread recognition are notable as well as the established artists with their roots in the 1960s, Fluxus and the Judson Church Dance Theatre. The exhibition displays the graphic documents and videos of performance art from the Franklin Furnace / Museum of Modern Art collection.

Video works include those by Patty Chang, Coco Fusco, Annie Sprinkle, Yvette Helin, William Pope L, Matt Mullican, Nigel Rolfe and William Wegman.

HISTORY OF DISAPPEARANCE, Franklin Furnace’s 30th anniversary exhibition, organised in collaboration with the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK, circulated by Franklin Furnace and lent by Museum MAN, Director Adam Nankervis.

BooHoo Films

Cash and prizes to be won!

ENTER YOUR FILM NOW! w w w . b o o h o o f i l m s . c o m . a u Providing opportunities to promote local filmmakers on a regular basis. project was supported by 34 This funding from Marrickville Council

Lastdrop Café Coffee • Food • Art 538 Marrickville Road, Dulwich Hill, 2203 www.lastdropcafe.com.au

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THE FACTORY THEATRE IS THE PRIMARY VENUE FOR THE 2008 FESTIVAL

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This year, thanks to OTTO BOAS AUDITING, Ralf Otto will be operating a special courtesy bus to and from Newtown Station. This is to mainly ensure guests to the festival will get back to Newtown Train Station quickly and easily after the festival each night. Please check the website closer to the festival for all details on this courtesy bus.

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