2010 Sydney Underground Film Festival Program

THURSDAY 9 - FRIDAY 10 - SATURDAY 11 - SEPTEMBER 2010

See the Australian premiere of Oliver Stone’s SOUTH OF THE BORDER, Harmony Korine’s TRASH HUMPERS, Gaspar Noé’s ENTER THE VOID, plus AMERICAN: THE BILL HICKS STORY, and films destined to be new cult classics: RED, WHITE & BLUE (starring Noah Taylor), THE TAINT, LIFE AND DEATH OF A PORNO GANG, BIKER FOX, EL MONSTRO DEL MAR!, and MEAT.

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Welcome

The Sydney Underground Film Festival is back for it’s fourth year and we are proud to boast that this is our strongest program by far - it will make you feel and experience cinema like you never have before! This September we have eighteen sessions and 100+ films over three nights. We are exhibiting some mind blowing feature films this year, starting with the Australian premiere of probably the most controversial film of 2010 - Oliver Stone’s new documentary South of the Border.

We are also screening the films of some contemporary masters such as Harmony Korine’s comedic social commentary Trash Humpers and Gasper Noe’s psychedelic and sensual trip Enter the Void.

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Not to mention a diverse collection of diamonds-in-the-rough, that you will most probably never get to see in Australia after their premiere at this year’s festival, such as the acclaimed Serbian mockumentary Life and Death of a Porno Gang, the weird and wonderful documentary Biker Fox, and there’s the sexually charged surrealist-noir film Meat. And of course we can’t forget The Taint, which is so ridiculous it is almost guaranteed to have you in tears – dishing out equal doses of teenage stupidity, misogyny and emasculation.

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We are also showcasing some local talent this year with Noah Taylor’s phenomenal performance in Red, White and Blue; Stuart Simpson’s wildy entertaining ozploitation-styled El Monstro Del Mar!, and Richard Baron’s documentary about Sydney’s underground scene in Lanfranchi’s Memorial Discothèque and a whole bunch of amazing, creative and evocative shorts.

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So come on down to The Factory Theatre for your dose of wonderful cinematic difference, grab a drink and chat with the directors about their films. We hope you enjoy 2010’s Sydney Underground Film Festival - it is guaranteed to be a memorable one!

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Viva La Underground!

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Un Chien Andalou OPENING NIGHT SHORTS +

SOUTH OF THE BORDER

Oliver Stone | 2010 | USA | 78’00” see PAGE

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SUFF Timeout After Party Food & Beverages served - After Party – Music till 12am

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Welcome Speeches Special performance to the film

The most controversial film of 2010. Stone’s docujourney to meet South American leaders and discuss US coup attempts, CIA involvement, economic assassins, and mass media control to acquire oil.

We also have all the favourite short film sessions such as ‘Love/Sick’, ‘Recycled Cinema’, ‘Animation Fornication’, and ‘Reality Bites’, plus we’re introducing 3 other sessions in 2010 - ‘Mother’s Milk’, ‘Mondo Bizzaro’ and ‘The LSD Factory’.

By having to watch 800 very diverse films each year, we quickly realize that we have our finger on the pulse of culture, and the film program invariably reflects the zeitgeist, with themes organically forming. Considering our current media driven, post-apocalyptic, corporate culture is awash in the pretense of goodness, niceness and strong ethics, it is no surprise that this year’s themes seem to rest in the realm of controversy, social disobedience, debauchery and indulgence of the senses.

These are all themes of resistance and resistance is always positive and necessary for a healthy and functioning culture. So we are proud to present a program that is a testament to this resistance.

Furthermore, the filmmakers represented at our festival seek to engage an audience that is willing to celebrate diversity and explore the outer-depths of their minds and emotions.

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LOVE ON THE ROCKS Justin Edwards

THE AMATUERS Usama Alshaibi

CROPSEY Joshua Zeman & Barbara Brancaccio

CAT LADIES Christie Callan-Jones

WAITING FOR WOMEN Estephan Wagner

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enter the void

dir. Gaspar Noé

Noé (Irreversible) brings us another controversial, stylised, bizarre, moving and beautiful cinematic experience, which is sure to go down in the cinema history books.

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dir. Victor Nieuwenhuijs and Maartje Seyferth What seems like a normal butcher’s shop reveals something quite sinister. A favourite at Rotterdam, this gothic-noir, sexual drama will excite and disturb the audience with its surrealist perversity.

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Turning the world upside down and inside out one cane toad, extra-terrestrial, and decaying mermaid at a time.

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el monstro del mar! dir. Stuart Simpson

Three gorgeous but deadly hired killers hole up in a small beachside community to keep a low profile.

But this town has a dark secret.

Valley of the Dolls meets Creature from the Black Lagoon. Special Q&A with filmmakers.

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american: the bill hicks story dir. Matt Harlock, Paul Thomas

The outlaw comic who tried to save the world. With humour, wit and eloquence Hicks identified inherent contradictions of religion, government, capitalism, social mediocrity and mass media.

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life and death of a porno gang

dir. Mladen Djordjevic

A razor-sharp mockumentary about a failed filmmaker who forms a “porno cabaret” to perform across rural Serbia in an attempt to pay off a serious debt. Includes live skype Q&A with director.

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red, white and blue dir. Simon Rumley

Noah Taylor¹s best film to date, Red White and Blue is a gritty, uncompromising revenge thriller and love story that will surprise you at every turn. Includes live cross to the UK with the director.

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A delightfully sloppy, laughout-loud sillyfest thriller, which is sure to delight b-grade horror fans. *Note: comes complete with ejaculating zombies* Plus special guest Drew Bolduc for Q&A

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A outrageously diverse and imaginative session of films made by talented female directors. What woman wouldn’t make a film about seductive monks or a serial killer wedding?

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From the sick mind that brought you KIDS, GUMMO & MISTER LONELY – this wacky new offering will have you laughing, gagging and well, thinking. Set in the capitalist post-apocalyptic landscapes of suburbia.

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love / sick

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These films are fascinating real-life narratives you won’t want to miss – meet adult babies, original Lanfranchi’s Memorial Discotheque members, loveable Helmut and cougars!

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From the sick mind that brought you KIDS, GUMMO & MISTER LONELY – this wacky new offering will have you laughing, gagging and well, thinking. Set in the capitalist post-apocalyptic landscapes of suburbia.

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Have fun fornicating with this festival favourite, bringing with it everything from traditional handdrawn techniques to the world’s first glass animation.

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A jam-packed session featuring recycled footage of burlesque performances, vintage erotica, The Wizard of Oz, and photos of Jesus and Hitler to create wild new narratives!

No need to take psychedelics to this session, come on this wild cinematic trip - providing we can get the films past the sniffer dogs on the way in.

Kinky is to use a feather, perverted is to use the whole chicken.

From dodgy instructional videos and gynaecological instruments to awkward moments with friends – you know you love it.

dir. Jeremy Lamberton

Meet Biker Fox - a selfpromoting, love-spreading, sensitive new-age health enthusiast with police and anger management problems and an army of racoons.

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** FREE courtesy bus back to Newtown Train Station – see the website or Box Office during the festival for more information **

After watching the unforgettable RED WHITE & BLUE while enjoying your complimentary Serendipity Icecream, join us for the SUFF DRUM after party -with music, drinks, sweets and giveaways till late!

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OUR PARTNERS

Cultural & educational partners

OUR Patrons The Sydney Underground Film Festival warmly welcomes our patrons in 2010 and thanks them for their ongoing support.

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venue partner

ARTHUR & CORINNE CANTRILL (Pioneer Experimental Filmmakers) JOHN CLARK (UBU / Sydney Filmmaker’s Co-op)

food and Beverage partners

ALBIE THOMS (UBU / Sydney Filmmaker’s Co-op)

screening partner

DAVID PERRY (UBU / Sydney Filmmaker’s Co-op) PAUL WINKLER (UBU / Sydney Filmmaker’s Co-op)

Supporting partners

GEORGE GITTOES & GABRIELLE DALTON (Yellow House, Independent Filmmaker & Film Producer)

JAIMIE & ASPASIA LEONARDER (Mu Meson Archives)

SONTAYA SUBYEN (Thailand’s leading Film Critic and Film Author)

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OPENING NIGHT

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Join us for the opening of the 2010 festival with the Australian premiere of SOUTH OF THE BORDER by controversial director, Oliver Stone. Screening alongside Stone’s new offering will be the hilarious AWKWARD by Canadian filmmaker Kellie Ann Benz and also the new work LAID OFF by renown American new media artist, Natalie Bookchin.

Plus SUFF has a special surprise opening night performance to one of the greatest surrealist short films in history! You won’t want to miss it! Also enjoy complimentary food and beverages thanks to our opening night media sponsors TIMEOUT SYDNEY, PieFace, Fat Yak Beer and fine wine by Rosnay Organic Winery. Then groove the rest of the night away with DJ: NIK NAK (Toydeath).

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AWKWARD dir. Kelly Ann Benz | 2009 | Canada | 7’00” A dinner party conversation takes an unexpected turn in this study of social decorum.

Tickets only $35 ($30 concession) and includes everything you need for a good night out!

Laid off dir. Natalie Bookchin | 2009 | USA | 6’00”

Plus live musical score to

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Photo credit: 2009 SUFF by Jake Iesu

Using found videos from youtube, this is an astonishing testament to the intimacy and candid conversations presented to unsuspecting cyber audience.

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Oliver Stone | 2010 | USA | 78 mins

Don’t miss the Australian premiere of the world’s most controversial film for 2010!

Official selection

VENICE Film Festival 2010

“a necessary tilt at US

media paranoia”

There’s a revolution underway in South America, but most of the world doesn’t know it.

For more than three decades, Oliver Stone has challenged audiences to rethink historic events.

Now after tackling war, Wall Street and the Kennedy assassination, among many other subjects, the three-time Academy-Award winning director has set his sights on the continent of South America and the role the mass media has played in shaping U.S. perceptions and policy.

“The aim was straightforward. The IMF was making it clear to the world that the toppling of the Chavez was in the interest of global capitalism.”

What starts as a road trip through a misunderstood region, becomes an indepth look at the impact of American foreign policy and the real people and presidents behind the sensational headlines. Through Stone’s up-closeand-personal casual conversations with

Presidents Hugo Chávez (Venezuela), Evo Morales (Bolivia), Lula da Silva (Brazil), Cristina Kirchner (Argentina), as well as her husband and exPresident Nėstor Kirchner, Fernando (Paraguay), Rafael Correa Lugo (Ecuador), and Raúl Castro (Cuba), an alternate history of the South American continent begins to appear. A story of violence and conflict as well as one of powerful elected leaders struggling to help their countries emerge from under the heel of U.S. power.

Media Attacks on Oliver Stone, Classified CIA documents and the 2002 US coup against Chavez – you won’t want to miss the opening night of SUFF where Oliver Stone unveils of a different side of the ‘official’ story – one story the US and its media outlets don’t want you to see.

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Lanfranchi’s Memorial Discotheque Dir. Richard Baron | 2010 | Australia | 53’00”

Lanfranchi’s Memorial Discotheque was Sydney’s favourite artist-run space, situated on the second level of an inner city warehouse. Lanfranchi’s doubled as a residence and unauthorised performance venue for 5 years, growing from unlikely beginnings to become what director Neil Armfield described as a ‘major strand of our city’s cultural DNA’. The decaying warehouse hosted hundreds of shows and was an accessible starting point for Sydney’s emerging performers, artists and musicians. That is, until property development got in the way and Lanfranchi’s residents were given 60 days to vacate the building.

Despite the impending eviction, the parties roll on during the final days of Lanfranchi’s, until the building’s owners and police intervene. But with no replacement, and with Sydney’s vibrant underground art communities fractured, where will the city breed its cultural DNA? This guerilla-style documentary is Baron’s incredible directorial debut. The film is testament to the creative talent of Sydney’s artists, musicians and performers. Plus Richard Baron will be in attendance for a brief Q&A.

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Let’s Harvest the organs of death row inmates

For Sale, Cougar

Helmut’s House

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Jess Dickenson | 2009 | Aus | 7’00”

dir. Maya Newell | 2010 | Australia/UK |15’00”

With so many people on the waiting list for heart transplants, and capital punishment still occurring across 36 USA states, this film raises the question - shouldn’t we be harvesting healthy organs from executed inmates?

“Is Misogyny at home?” In For Sale, Cougar Asher Hartman and his wymyn exploit themselves in a comedic examination of film and power through the genre of MILF porn.

During a 50,000 km road tour the filmmakers encounter 89 year old Helmut. Living alone and remotely for nearly 40 years in a hand-built house on the bed of one of the largest rivers in Australia, he is wearing only a loincloth when they arrive unannounced.

A short documentary that follows Julian as he spends a weekend in an adult baby nursery to celebrate his 2nd Birthday (for the 40th time).

Chris Weller & Max Joseph | 2009 | USA | 1’50”

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Asher Hartman | 2009 | Canada | 14’00”

Plus the talented local documentarian Maya Newell in attendance. Maya is known for her previous documentary “Richard: The Most Interestingest Person I’ve Ever Met”

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Molten glass fuses with stop motion animation in this underwater fantasy set in Bondi. Nerida, a marine biologist who can talk to fish, learns of the trials and tribulations of life for the modern sea creature.

Mak is a horny guy and nothing will get in the way of his goals.

Mark Eliott & Jack McGrath | 2010 | Australia | 6’00”

Ian Miller | USA | 2009 | 1’07”

< Tentacles of Dimensions

A journey of a brain that decides to unplug its cultural programming and purely indulge in the senses. It accepts its sexuality and duality of existence and evolves with each painful birth.

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Aurelio Voltaire | 2010 | USA | 2’30”

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Nandita Kumar | 2009 | USA/NZ | 14’00”

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When a young woman drops by to greet her new neighbours, her preconceptions of who is responsible for a horrendous tragedy hinges on a face and a note. A stop-motion short with an original score performed by chamber rock ensemble, Rasputina.

Alex Moon Age & Shahriar Shadab | 2010 | Australia | 2’00”

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A psychedelic experiment of texture, form and structure exploring the transcendence through different levels of dreaming and perception.

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After parties days are ending too

Lou Beauchard | 2009 | France | 5’30” A pact with the Devil. The future, present and past intermingle in a closed world letting us feel the heroine’s anxiety.

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A young suburban couple dutifully enslaved to debt. The assembly line worker punished by others’ lust for cheap commodities. An exploration of the inherent and displaced violence of our domestic lives.

Another day, another drug deal gone wrong in this NC-17 bit of ultra-violence set in 8-bit isometric metropolis. N.A.S.A. A Volta is a hybrid genre offspring of a music video, short film and video game.

Stop-motion Garlic Man has had enough of his banal office job and longs to return to his roots. Can he escape the city to live his dream?

An abstract visual allegory of the current state of our ever-complicating, selfreferential civilisation.

Animals debate the sticky subject of body dysmorphia and the merits of reconstructive surgery in this short animation.

Richard Eames | 2010 | Australia | 3’40”

Alexei Tylevich | 2009 |USA | 4’23”

Bryden Williams & Amanda Jane Newing | 2009 | Australia | 2’00”

Daniel Lofredo Rota | 2009 | USA/ Ecuador | 3’26”

Jessie Mott & Steve Reinke | 2009 | USA | 4’10”

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Junko’s Shamisen

MEATWAFFLE

Taste

Anna Blume

INFECCIÓN

A young Japanese orphan and her mystical friend exact poetic justice on a malevolent samurai lord.

An old man recalls his strange and bizarre memories...

A man and woman are having dinner in a restaurant. A tasteful meal becomes something difficult to digest.

Lust and ingestion, disguised in love, drive the two characters to an end where love turns out to be a very lonesome and strange place.

The host gets infected by the foreign species; It’s all your fault you smelly old wasp! this interference leads to chronic wounds and even death.

Solomon Friedman | 2009 | Can | 10’00”

Leah Shore | 2009 | USA | 8’46”

Yvonne Grzenkowicz | 2009 | USA | 0’40”

Vessela Dantcheva | 2010 | Bulgaria | 9’00”

Viktoriya Gruzdyn | 2009 | USA | 3’22”

Willy Bum Bum

Daniel Fowler | 2009 | Australia | 2’00”

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JACOB Vera Freitag | 2010 | USA/Switzerland | 7’00” The music video White Monks is inspired by Milk67’s electronic beats. It visually narrates the story of a boy being set up by a mysterious girl, who he follows into a monastery. There he’s seduced by a group of monks who make him part of their ritual.

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Dena Curtis | 2009 | Australia | 12’00”

WHITE MONKS

Gina, a young Aboriginal mother, finds herself in a predicament when her husband Max returns home and learns the truth about baby Jacob.

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LIVELY, LOVELY (AND THE REST) HER SUGAR IS? Eve Gordon | 2007 | New Zealand | 3’00”

Dana Claxton | 2009 | Canada | 2’30”

A musical about a lovely pair of legs. Lively, Lovely (and the rest) is a modern take on musical cinema of the 1930’s. Sewing machine holes dart and dive through the stop motion mid-air dancing legs.

A playful burlesque performance peels away layers of history to reveal a persuasive and thought-provoking dance that informs as much as it delights.

RAPTURE

Angelica Mesiti | 2009 | Australia | 5’00” Filmed from a concealed position beneath the stage at a spectator event, the camera looks out at a sea of ecstatic young faces. Rapture depicts the joy of being alive while also hinting at the darker aspects of religious emotion.

UNTITLED THE CRIMSON WAVE

Terri Matthews | 2009 | UK | 2’28” How to ride the crimson wave is a well-kept secret.

A short animation about seeking mum’s advice on periods.

Vivienne Linsley | 2010 | Australia | 5’50” The material of the body meets the material of the medium in this film that focuses on erosion and degradation, both sculpturally and symbolically the cycle in which both the body and technology inevitably falls victim to.

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HYBRISTO HONEYMOONERS

THE STORYMAKER

MASS ORNAMENT

FRANCES AND ANNIE

LUCKY GIRL

Why should serial killers be exempt from wedded bliss? Love is pain. Especially in hell.

A dark fable about a woman who kills herself with her imagination. Unfolding over the last day in her life, this window into her world tells of an age of imagining. A sinister allegory of creative freedom versus a commercial arts industry.

Mass Ornament choreographs hundreds of YouTube dance videos to create a dazzling artwork that also questions contemporary isolation and connection via screens, cameras and technology.

When a young woman drops by to greet her new neighbours, her preconceptions of who is responsible for a horrendous tragedy hinges on a face and a note.

Lucky Girl recalls a seemingly insignificant moment which could have turned out very differently.

Victoria Waghorn | 2010 | Australia | 9’00”

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Emma Rozansk | 2009 | Australia | 12’00”

Natalie Bookchin | 2009 | USA | 5’00”

Genevieve Clay | 2009 | Australia | 8’00”

Alexandra Grimanis | 2009 | Canada | 4’50”

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Trash humpers Harmony Korine | 2009 | USA / UK | 78’00” From the creator of kids Gummo Julian donkey boy mister loNELy

WINNER COPENHAGEN Film Festival 2009

Official selection

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Harmony was raised in Nashville, TN. He wrote the screenplay for Larry Clark’s Kids (95), and directed his first feature film, Gummo, in 1997. His new feature, Trash Humpers is a film unearthed from the buried landscape of the American nightmare. The film follows a small group of elderly ‘Peeping Toms’ through the shadows and margins of an unfamiliar world. Crudely documented by the participants themselves, we follow the debased and shocking actions of a group of true sociopaths the likes of which have never been seen before. Inhabiting a world of broken dreams and beyond the limits of morality, they crash against a torn and frayed America. Bordering on an ode to vandalism, it is a new type of horror - palpable and raw.

Described by the makers themselves as a movie “more like an artefact; it’s like something found somewhere and unearthed. An old VHS TAPE that was in some attic or buried in some Ditch”.

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“absolute genius! Peter Pan on LSD wondering through the capitalist post-apocalyptic landscapes of suburbia”

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“moments of pure humour, sadness and pure creep

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Josephine Starrs & Leon Cmielewski | 2009 | Australia | 4’53”

Campbell Farquhar | 2007 | New Zealand | 4’22” A tale of sleeplessness told with animation, dance and painted light.

A degraded riverbed landscape edited with footage of a cane toad. The piece illustrates the well-known fable of the boiling frog - a clear parallel to our current situation with human beings and global warming.

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PISS FILM

ROBOTIC PANIC

DEPARTURE

LACRYMAL

Two men are waiting and talking outside a hotel.

Gradually we understand what they are really doing and why they are recording everything with a cell phone.

A love story about two freaks, their fish, a baby and some dolls.

Alex is a little bit uncomfortable with robots. They are supposed to be safe and have love for mankind.

When Alex meets R591, a real robot, he discovers that maybe robots love man too much.

A train is depicted leaving a small country town to the lyrics of the Australian national anthem and the music of Greensleeves, a traditional English folk song.

Lacrymal tells the lyrical and sensitive journey of a professional weeper in search for her destiny.

Cesar Espada | 2009 | Vietnam/Spain | 6’00”

Clare Ferra | 2010 | Australia | 7’00”

Justin Crooks | 2010 | Australia | 10’00”

Atanas Djonov | 2009 | Australia | 2’25”

Pierre-Alexandre Girard | 2009 | Canada | 9’00”

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THE PACKAGE

THE MERMAID

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AWKWARD FIRST CONTACT

The Package is a film about Dave and Lisa, a fight, and a mysterious package.

A shipwrecked sailor cut off from human contact comes upon the body of a dying mermaid.

Isolated from society he satisfies base urges.

A man wakes up in a backwards world that he must walk forwards through alone. An anxious friend, a trail of blood and the horrible truth he must learn everyone has their breaking point.

Jade, caught in a dilemma of her own making, struggles to choose the right path. It becomes apparent to her, though, that she may have no choice at all.

Roswell is known as the site of human’s first contact with extraterrestrials. Various accounts exist, however few know the truth of that day. For the first time in human history, here is what really happened.

Oliver Waghorn | 2009 | Australia | 3’20”

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Oscar Molinaro | 2010 | Australia | 5’00”

Christian Doran | 2010 | Australia | 7’00”

Daniel Elliott | 2009 | UK | 15’40”

Clifton Schulke | 2010 | Australia | 3’40”

The taint DREW BOLDUC and Dan Nelson | 2010 | USA | 75’00”

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“…The Taint, the most entertaining pile of irredeemable trash I’v e seen in a long time.

Purporting to be a satir e really just an excuse to on misogyny, Taint is bash actresses’ heads in with rocks. (It also has ejaculating zomb ies and a humorous home abortion scene.) I can’t recommend this movie , pe stop thinking about it— r se, but I also can’t so maybe someone els e should see it, just to co nfirm for me that it’s real.” Dave Bow - Portla nd Mercury

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Drew Bolduc

The water is tainted. The Taint poisons the minds of men. It turns them into raging misogynists: monsters who want nothing more than to crush women’s heads with rocks (or other objects). When society is transformed into a land of sadistic violence and horrible brutality, it is up to Phil O’Ginny and his hot friend, Misandra, to combat the horrible evil that is The Taint. Can they survive a world brimming with castration and endless head crushing?

If you haven’t got it by now, The Taint is a delightfully sloppy sillyfest thriller, which is sure to delight b-grade horror fans and those of us who still have a bit of teenage sniggering left in us. And who doesn’t?

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A neighbourhood grocery (and a relationship) are not what they seem on the surface in this sexually charged drama from filmmakers Maartje Seyferth and Victor Nieuwenhuijs.

A butcher operates what appears to be an ordinary meat market and Roxy is a pretty girl who helps out in the shop. She’s videoing everything as part of her search for answers, her limits, her life. As the butcher gets into her head, she gets into his.

After hours, there isn’t the ordinary employer/employee relationship as they take part in bizarre sexual game playing, with Roxy capturing the action on her video camera. Yet to Roxy’s horror, she discovers their kinky after-hours activities are not the only thing at the shop that would shock their customers.

When the miserable inspector comes to investigate the mysterious demise of the butcher, it seems that there is only one solution for the puzzle: recreate the death of the butcher.

A completely original and bizarre film sure to become a cult favourite! Don’t miss it at SUFF.

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enter the void Gaspar Noe | 2009 | France | 137”00”

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Gaspar Noé is infamously known for Irreversible, where the act of watching is in fact irreversible (Noé is credited with one of the most gruesome onscreen murders - executed with a fire extinguisher and a torturous 9-minute rape scene). This makes Enter the Void surprising because the film takes the viewer on a beautiful, visceral, gliding hallucinatory experience. Kurt Halfyard (Twitch) has described it as “my favourite film at the Toronto Film Festival, and perhaps my favourite of the year. It not only offers a unique view of Tokyo, but also tells one of those mega-sized ambitious stories that Stanley Kubrick chews on. Call it the fusion of 2001: A Space Odyssey and Eyes Wide Shut served up as the biggest ‘bread and circus’ act of arthouse cinema I’ve ever witnessed.”

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Oscar and his sister Linda are recent arrivals in Tokyo. Oscar is a small time drug dealer, and Linda works as a nightclub stripper. One night, Oscar is shot in a police bust, as he lies dying, his spirit, faithful to the promise he made his sister – that he would never abandon her – refuses to abandon the world of the living. It wanders through the city, his visions growing evermore distorted, evermore nightmarish, past present and future merge in a hallucinatory maelstrom. With a story out of sequence, this film shows the two characters of Oscar and Linda in their most intimate and poetic moments – it’s a cinematic experience you will certainly not forget.

An ambitious, deeply mystic and provocative movie with earth-shattering FX.

You don’t watch this movie, you experience it. too controversial and too bizarre.

In this film Noé combines hallucinations, POV shooting, and out-of-body experiences. If you are disturbed by strobe lights, drug use, shaky hand-held cameras, graphic sexuality, spinning cameras, psychedelic imagery, blood, abortion, breastfeeding or a graphic auto wreck then you should probably avoid this film.

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SUNDANCE

it will undoubtedly find its niche as one of the greatest cult classics of all time.

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Van Der Male | 2009 | Australia | 5’00”

A bleached out trip to the past, inspired by an old polaroid photo album found at the Melrose Trading Post flea market, Los Angeles.

Created by 12 filmmakers over a single weekend, the film uses physically reengineered cinema adverts to discover new emotions in the everyday world of advertising.

A vintage erotic film is cut into strips and reassembled. A playful, colourful look at what is shown and hidden in the image.

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Tony Lawrence | 2010 | Australia | 2’00”

AFTER THE RAINBOW

AT HOME WITH THE ANTS

After the Rainbow investigates the temporal dimensions of cinema through a re-imagining of The Wizard of Oz (1939). Here, the twister transports a young, hopeful Judy Garland into the future where she encounters her disillusioned adult self.

The 3rd installment from Jill’s New Educational Series – images from second-hand books are collaged into fantastical environments where the old-school aesthetic is reinvigorated with stopmotion techniques and sweeping movements of the camera.

Soda_Jerk | 2010 | Australia | 5’00”

HER SUGAR IS?

MY MEDS

PHOTOGRAPH OF JESUS

This fascinating work is made up of fragments from online video diaries of people proclaiming personal details about themselves, particularly about their sexual orientation.

A playful burlesque performance peels away layers of history to reveal a persuasive and thought-provoking dance that informs as much as it delights.

This work combines found youtube videos and unites various people from around the world who take similar types of medications.

Looking for photographs of Jesus, yetis and Hitler in 1948? Real-life archives become the stage where fact and fiction collide, belief runs amok and unruly images have a life of their own.

Dana Claxton | 2009 | Canada | 2’30”

Natalie Bookchin | 2009 | USA | 1’06”

Ann Steuernagel | USA | 2009 | 7’00” Created in reaction to public policies such as “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and the US “Defense of Marriage Act”, charades which deny gay and lesbian people their equal rights

MONSIGNOR BLOOD Tony Lawrence | 2010 | Australia | 5’20”

8mm and 16mm home movies from Mexico, Spain, Italy, Africa and America are merged with the hypnotic electronica of Galaxy Fuzz Band.

Laurie Hill | 2008 | UK | 6’40”

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CHARADES

Jill Kennedy | 2009 | New Zealand | 9’45”

I AM NOT

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Félix Dufour-Laperrière | 2009 | France | 5’00”

GIRL ON FIRE

Natalie Bookchin | 2009 | USA | 2’00”

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STRIPS

PREMIERE

This found footage of 8mm film has been hauntingly affected by time and localised oxidation.

IT’S A SMALL WORLD EARTH WIND FIRE Axel Roessler | 2009 | Germany/ ADVERTISING Editor: Richard

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SELF IMPROVEMENT Clint Enns | 2010 | USA | 2’43”

A self help video that rests somewhere between the realms of code hacking, archaic design and spiritual awakening.

LAID OFF

TRUE HEART SUSIE THE OLD HOUSE Jean-Baptiste Lenglet | 2009 | France | 7’50”

Kathleen Lee | 2009 | Australia | 5’00”

Using found videos from youtube, this is an astonishing testament to the intimacy and candid conversations presented to unsuspecting cyber audience.

(Originally in HD surround).

A conceptual video on the history of cinema. The original 1919 D.W Griffith movie is re-edited so that only the intertitles remain.

Set in and about an old tumbled down house this autobiographical film depicts the early memories of a young girl. An insight into the nature of memory and the surprisingly complex mind of a small child.

Natalie Bookchin | 2009 | USA | 4’00”

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Director’s statement I remember when I was a child there was a small group of elderly people who would hang out in the back alleys and underbridges by my house, they always seemed to be getting drunk and dancing. One night I looked out my bedroom window and saw a group of them humping trash cans and laughing. It sounded like they were speaking a strange invented language. This movie is about them. (see page 11 for more)

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DRUMS AND TRAINS

EYE OF THE STORM

The drummer boy hits the drum hard and fast. Toy trains travel back and forth. These journeys come to a terrible end.

Reflective and idiosyncratic, this film juxtaposes disparate and disjointed moving images to develop an ambiguous and unsettling visual narrative.

Paul Winkler | 2010 | Australia | 12’00”

Mike Yuhasz | 2010 | Canada | 3’40”

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ATTACK, DECAY, SUSTAIN, RELEASE Kevan Funk | 2009 | Canada | 4’55”

During a 15 minute coffee break, an office drone is liberated from his mundane existence after accidentally discovering an exhilarating form of sonic therapy.

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Benjamin Ross Hayden | 2010 | Canada | 12’00” 1916: a Voyeur stalks a Damsel at a boudoir. Pick depicts the interactions of two trapped entities within a purgatorial world. The film itself is a ‘glitchy’ cinematic homage to a dark historical moment in Calgary, Alberta.

KIOKU

BOURÉE IN RED

One afternoon, a Japanese girl who lives in London comes across an empty snail shell and a lost ant on the double yellow line, and they somehow evoke her feelings of longing for home.

A music+video work: music meets a Dionysian image-fantasy; image and sound work together in seamless operation.

Rina T. Yang | 2010 | UK | 5’41”

Adam Geczy & Thomas Gerwin | 2007 | Germany/Finland/Australia | 2’30”

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Soyeon Kim | 2009 | USA/South Korea | 1’00” A series of moving images created from various composites of human silhouettes.

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FLYSCREEN

HOUSE

MAZE

BELIEVE

ONLY BY APPOINTMENT

An abstract fly’s-eye-view of the world featured in experimental 16mm cine-cubism.

300 empty houses lie stranded, floating above the ground on flimsy piers. They are typical Queensland houses: mining residences, army huts, migrant hostels, school rooms, farm houses and suburban homes.

Conflict is being. Primarily 3d computer animation and 2d After Effects animation, it also incorporates drawing, photography and ceramics.

The artist enters the word “believe” on Twitter to explore the common use of the word - with fascinating results.

A boy grows with a fear of balloons - or is it the balloons grow and the boy only moves?

Richard Tuohy | 2010 | Australia | 8’00”

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John Gillies | 2010 | Australia | 8’15”

Martin Gilbert | 2010 | Canada | 5’7”

Dee Hood | 2010 | USA | 4’21”

Rene Chandler / 2009 / Australia / 6’02”

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Three gorgeous but deadly hired killers, Beretta, Blondie and Snowball, hole up in a small beach side community to keep a low profile. But this town has a dark secret. The local old sea baron, Joseph, tries desperately to warn them to never go into the water. But these crazy vixens listen to no one, especially no crazy assed old fool. So the Kraken awakes! Now, along with Joseph and his beautiful granddaughter, Hannah, they must fight for their lives against this furious creature of the deep as the sea rises in a tidal wave of blood.

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“It’s got a trio of homicidal, heavily tattooed and equally heavily accented Aussie grrls sporting shotguns, mallets and alcohol against.... a cephalopod monster

from the deep! Yes, fetishists, come and play…hawt ladies, lots of squib-pack-heavy gore, Ed Wood-style tentacles flailing and a whole lot of grindhouse nostalgia.”

– Simon Abrams, Ugo.com

Starring film veteran Norman Yemm and newcomers, Nelli Scarlet, Kyrie Capri, Karli Madden and Kate Watts. Also starring Scott Brennan (Comedy Inc, Skithouse), Steven Stagg (Flipside, Demonsamongus), Richard Wolstencroft (MUFF), Rusty Benson (Review with Myles Barlow) & David Gannon (Eraser Children).

Music by The Stabs.

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Geoffrey Uloth | 2009 | Canada | 15’00” A dinner party of three couples careens into uncharted territory when the hosts make a shocking proposal. Tensions mount as this evening among friends puts each marriage to the test.

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HEART OF THE MATTER Tom Lenk | 2008 | USA | 7’00”

Awkward

CASPER & KITTY

A dinner party conversation takes an unexpected turn in this study of social decorum.

An erotically tongue in cheek recount of a relationship gone bad plays out in the mind of a broken playboy.

Kelly Ann Benz | 2009 | Canada | 7’00”

Franco Parente | 2008 | USA | 5’00”

This satirical short film mocks a rediscovered marriage counseling VHS tape from the late1980s. It focuses on a couple demonstrating how to strengthen marital vows and sexual intimacy, while noticeably in complete denial of their own sexual qualms.

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PORN GUIDE

Dick Thompson | 2009 | USA | 7’00” If you ever wanted to produce you very own, low budget, X-rated picture, then this film is for you! Satisfaction guaranteed. A 1970’s filmstrip series detailing practical lessons for the budding pornographer. This reel: casting etiquette.

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THEN SHE WAS GONE

LOVE BOMBING

Basil pursues Mia. But Mia is only interested in men who are masculine.

Four friends discuss cult recruitment techniques over a meal. Three of them know an awful lot about it. The fourth is about to.

Burleigh Smith | 2009 | Australia | 7’00”

Philip Lepherd | 2008 | UK | 6’36”

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Fantasme

DIRECT TO YOUR DOOR

They have nothing in common but a peculiar fantasy. And tonight they meet for the first time.

Aged movie and TV actress Betty Rose is more recently known A day in the mind of Geoffrey Dodd, a seemingly kind, gentle as the spokesperson for 1-800-MedicationForYourPet.com. and sane high school teacher. As we follow him through the No one loves her more than Our Hero! When her delivery course of a typical school day we see that something wretched, lands in his hands, he will make sure she gets what she insidious and foul is rotting him from the inside out. deserves...

Izabel Grondin | 2009 | Canada | 15’00”

Eddie Deirmenjian | 2009 | USA | 3’10”

WORM

Richard Powell | 2009 | Canada | 20’00”

«««« “An immersive, inventive delve into the life of a stand-up visionary.” - Empire

american: the bill hicks story Matt Harlock, Paul Thomas | 2009 | USA | 102’00” Official selection

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is going to be “The next revolution Bill Hicks a revolution of ideas.”

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GLASGOW

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REVELATION PERTH Film Festival 2010

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“ This inventively constructed, dyn amically executed docum entary will make you laugh a lot, but more import an off your arse and tly, it’ll make you wanna get DO SOMETHING .” – Bizarre.

The outlaw comic who tried to save the world – AMERICAN: The Bill Hicks Story brings the tale of one of modern culture’s most iconic heroes to the big screen.

Much more than a comedian, Bill Hicks was and still is an inspiration to millions. His timeless comedy tackled the contradictions of America and modern life head on. But his unique gift was to tease apart the essence of religion, the dangers of unbridled government power and the double standards inherent in much of modern society, using nothing but his hilarious ideas and the uncompromising observational style that continues to resonate with successive generations.

Like many who have a strong sense of their place in history, Hicks left a large unseen legacy; his collection of video recordings and hundreds of photographs. These became the starting point for this feature-length animated documentary.

But why animation? Bill Hicks’ complex story had never been adequately told and this demanded pushing documentary storytelling in a new direction to boldly recreate the key unseen scenes of Bill’s life, and for the first time fully reveal the worlds that shaped his character and his comedy.

Real locations, such as the bedroom window he snuck out of to perform with comedy partner Dwight Slade, the dark alleys of Houston where he nearly met his end, and the spellbinding theatre auditoriums where he played his most famous concerts are all meticulously recreated in stunning three dimensional photorealism to provide a fresh new sense of the challenges the lone comedian faced and a real sense of what his journey was like.

Bill’s story is told by the 10 people who knew him best; his family and closest friends who recount the twists and turns of his life with a freshness that hasn’t faded in 15 years. One of the most enjoyable documentaries we have ever seen, even if you don’t really know who Bill Hicks is – you soon will!

on my face the whole “I just loved it, I sat there with a huge grin .” Richard Linklater time. Really innovative. It needs to be seen

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fusebox “Biker Fox is a trib ute to the struggles of a true Am eccentric outsider.” erican Biker Fox is the story of Frank P. DeLarzelere III aka Biker Fox -Tulsa, Oklahoma’s eccentric answer to both Evel Knievel and Jack La Lane. As Biker Fox, he is an accidental advocate for bicyclists and their rights – road raging on two wheels in Technicolor riding gear, flashing dangling earrings, engaging in occasional brushes with the law, and spreading an empowering message to the world of peace and love. Frank P. DeLarzelere III is a nature conservationist, health food activist, and muscle car guru with ADHD who has an unforgettable and self-destructive penchant for hand feeding wild raccoons and other animals.

Part documentary and part self-help testimonial, Biker Fox navigates the uneasy relationships DeLarzelere has with both the city of Tulsa and himself, and chronicles Biker DeLarzelere’s complicated outsider psyche, his intentions of spirited goodwill and his flouting of conventions.

In a bold move, director Jeremy Lamberton hands the camera over to his subject, allowing Biker Fox/Frank the freedom to capture himself through his own lens, sharing his obsessions with car parts and bicycle tricks, feeding and nurturing wild animals and capturing thrilling footage of his roaming cycling trips throughout rural Oklahoma.

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life and death of a porno gang Mladen Djordjevic | 2010 | Serbia | 90’00” Plus Q&A with director Mladen Djordjevic

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This razor-sharp and often perversely comic metaphor about the social pathologies of Serbian life in the 1990s has been a hit at major European film festival - starts as a very funny mockumentary and slowly descends into madness. The film tells a story of a “porno cabaret” that travels from village to village across rural Serbia, performing live sex acts as a means of sexual confrontation, often provoking violent responses from the locals. Situations take a darker turn when the troupe are approached by a shady foreign war correspondent who makes them an offer they struggle against refusing — a ton of money in exchange for shooting actual murders, theatrically “performed” on willing, consensual victims who no longer care about living. This film is like nothing you have ever seen before and not for the faint-hearted! See it at SUFF, because there is a big chance you won’t see it anywhere else!

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s d r a w a t h g i n g n i clos Awarding filmmakers Even though SUFF believes every film we screen is great, we feel that filmmakers who push the boundaries of filmmaking ought to be acknowledged. Therefore, awards such as The Recycled Cinema Award, Taboo Film Award, Provocative Film Award, Innovative Narrative Award, Experimentation in Film award, and Unique Aesthetic Film Award will be presented to those daring enough to make the cut! The handcrafted SUFF award (affectionately known as The Dead Oscar) is created from recycled television screens found on the side of the road by local Sydney glass artist, Mark `.

DRUM ROLL PLEASE!

SUFF AUDIENCE

CHOICE AWARD

But for those in the audience who are closet critics, you can happily cast your judgments over the films at SUFF as we will be introducing the Audience Choice Awards in 2010! You can rate each film you see at the festival to help decide the SUFF Audience Choice Award recipients!

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closing night party

Drum Media presents the Sydney Underground Film Festival closing night film and party! Win lucky door prizes and enjoy complimentary Serendipity Icecream upon entry, and sit back and enjoy the intense and unforgettable film RED WHITE & BLUE

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red, white & blue Simon Rumley | 2010 | USA | 102’00”

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“ A beautifully scripted character drama, a horrifying revenge thriller and ultimately even a profoundly affecting love story.”

Plus special LIVE Q&A with simon rumley

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PRE-FESTIVAL EVENTS IN AUGUST 2010 Come celebrate and get warmed up pre-SUFF at Sydney’s most treasured underground cinema, Mu-Meson Archives. Enjoy a glass of complimentary Rosnay organic wine on arrival and supper during intermission, included in your ticket price!

LOCATION:

Mu-Meson Archives at Crn Parramatta Rd & Trafalgar St Annandale at the end of King Furniture building up the steel staircase. Phone 9517-2010

TIME:

Doors 7.30 for 8pm start

COST:

$10 with supper + wine on arrival

MORE INFO? Please visit www.mumeson.org

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Thursday 12 August

AUTISM: MADE IN THE U.S.A

Directed by Gary Null | 2009 | USA | 102’00” Award-winning director Gary Null (Vaccine Nation and The Drugging of our Children) investigates the highly controversial claim that mercury-tainted childhood vaccines are the culprits behind an upsurge in autism diagnoses. Fascinating and disturbing, join Null and celebs Jim Carrey, Jenny McCarthy, and Robert Kennedy Jr. exposing the pharmaceutical industry’s efforts to suppress the vaccine-autism link.

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FOUND FOOTAGE FILM FESTIVAL #4 Joe Pickett & Nick Prueher | 2009 | usa | 90’00”

Hosts Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher are back with a fourth installment of VHS relics they’ve salvaged from thrift stores, garage sales and garbage cans across the country. Found Foovtage Festival: Volume 4 is chock full of furniture salesmen, rapping celebrities, bachelors in bad sweaters, anthropomorphic Rubik’s Cubes, blowgun enthusiasts and piano-playing rabbits.

So sit back, adjust the tracking on your VCR, and enjoy the show!

Thursday 26 August LOVE ON THE ROCKS

Written and Directed by Justin Edwards | 2010 | USA | 105’00” Meet Gavin. Gavin is a dick. Gavin is breaking up with his girlfriend Amber for… well, for no good reason. In his words, he wants to try the “sample platter.” Amber, not taking lightly to being dumped for the worst reason ever, dives headfirst into a relationship with a dude named Patrick. Patrick doesn’t seem a match for Amber, but he’s just the kind of guy she needs after Gavin. Meanwhile Gavin hooks up with a hypnotist named Yasmine. So how does this end up with Amber wearing a ankle monitor and security cameras recording her every move and Gavin in a cage, after getting “fixed” by his new lady friend?

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Presents

POST-FESTIVAL EVENT ON SAT 18 SEPT 2010 We know you are going to be eager for more post-SUFF, so join us for a day of films and food in the beautiful surrounds of Sydney College of the Arts, Balmain Road, Rozelle on Saturday 18th September 2010. All films have been curated by Jack Sargeant (author of many books on underground film and culture and also current Revelation Perth Film Festival Program Director).

COST: $5 per session / $10 for all 3 sessions (free for

SUFF festival pass holders or SCA students)

10.30am - 11am

12.30pm – 1pm

CAFFEINE FIX Enjoy complimentary cake, coffee and tea prior to the first session.

BBQ LUNCH with complimentary Fat Yak beer or Rosnay organic wine

11am – 12pm

THE AMATUERS Usama Alshaibi | 2003 | USA | 49’00” Chicago-based filmmaker Usama Alshaibi is the modern master of transgressive cinema. A fictional comedy in which Alshaibi has cast himself as an amateur pornographer auditioning women to perform with his two male cohorts in front of a camera.

Most of the comedy of “The Amateurs” derives from the men being unable to fulfill Alshaibi’s outrageous requests.

While several moments of the film are laugh-out-loud funny, the precarious situations the men and women are placed in grows more-and-more uncomfortable and squeamishnessinducing, making for a complicated, unforgiving experience. Plays with a surprise short film from SUFF – pick one out of the box!

2.30pm – 4pm

1pm - 2.30pm

CAT LADIES

CROPSEY

WAITING FOR WOMEN

Joshua Zeman & Barbara Brancaccio | 2009 | USA | 84’00”

Christie Callan-Jones | 2009 | USA | 60’00”

Estephan Wagner | 2009 | UK | 35’00”

Growing up on Staten Island, filmmakers Joshua Zeman and Barbara Brancaccio had often heard the legend of Cropsey - the escaped mental patient who lived in the old abandoned Willowbrook Mental Institution and would come out late at night to snatch children off the streets. They just assumed Cropsey was an urban legend, but that all changed in the summer of 1987 when a 13-year-old girl with Down syndrome, named Jennifer Schweiger, disappeared from their community. Now as adults Joshua and Barbara have returned to Staten Island to create Cropsey, a feature documentary that delves into the mystery behind Jennifer and four additional missing children and uncovers a reality that is more terrifying than any urban legend.

Cat Ladies unravels the real story behind the oft-ridiculed and cultural stereotype of the ‘crazy cat lady’. Through the intimate portrait of four unique ‘cat ladies’, the film is a sensitive and emotionally honest portrait of women whose lives and self-worth have become intractably linked to cats.

In the remote Spanish village of Riofrio, most of the women left years ago. The men, not able to bear this situation any longer, organise a busload of single women to come from Madrid.

Their ideal aim is to fall in love. But having never learned how to deal with women, beside their mothers and some motorway prostitutes, their event goes in some unexpected directions.

Sydney College of the Arts –

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Courtesy Bus The Sydney Underground Film Festival, in conjunction with Marrickville Council, will operate a special courtesy bus back to Newtown Train Station toward the end of each night of the Festival. Please ask at the Box office during the festival for more information.

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The Factory Theatre is a 20 min walk or a 5 min bus ride from Newtown Station. Bus services 423 and 426 operate from Circular Quay, Central Station and Newtown Station directly to the Factory Theatre. The Factory Theatre is also a 15-minute walk from Sydenham and Marrickville Railway Stations.

Bicycle racks and limited street parking is also available nearby.

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The Factory Theatre has two Licensed Bars.

The Bars offer confectionery, snacks, soft drinks and alcohol. There is also an onsite grill (open at various times for those hungry for a quick snack). Various restaurants are also close by, within a 15 to 20-minute walk from the venue. www.factorytheatre.com.au

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