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z BERBERIAN SOUND STUDIO (Dir. Peter Strickland)
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UNMADE IN CHINA (Dir. Gil Kofman)
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z KEYHOLE (Dir. Guy Maddin)
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SESSION 1 - SAT 8 SEPT 12:00pm z DESPITE THE GODS (Dir. Penny Vozniak) 12:00pm SICK (Dir. Nick Danger) 12:00pm THE DISCO EXORCIST (Dir. Richard Griffin) SESSION 2 - SAT 8 SEPT 2:00pm
z THE SUBSTANCE: ALBERT HOFMANN’S LSD (Dir. Martin Witz)
JEFF KEEN RETROSPECTIVE 2:00pm 2:00pm
ANIMATION FORNICATION (Short Film Program)
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z FRANCOPHRENIA (Dir. James Franco & Ian Olds)
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BAD BRAINS: A BAND IN DC (Dir. Mandy Stein & Ben Logan)
SESSION 5 - SAT 8 SEPT 8:00pm z MR DOODLEBURGER Presents new Summer Bay Slaughter! 8:00pm THE SHEIK AND I (Dir. Caveh Zahedi) 8:00pm HIT SO HARD: The Life & Near Death of Patty Schemel (Dir. P.D Ebersole) SESSION 6 - SAT 8 SEPT 10:00pm z EGGSHELLS (Dir. Tobe Hooper) 10:00pm PRESIDENT WOLFMAN (Dir. Mike Davis) 10:00pm DONKEY LOVE (Dir. Daryl Stoneage)
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WELCOME As purveyors of dissent, subversion, provocation, and civil disobedience, The Sydney Underground Film Festival always have our task cut out for us each year. But we have outdone ourselves this time and have provided only the finest deviancy for your viewing pleasure! We wanted to start the festival with a healthy dose of fun and warped humour, so we are treating you to the Australian premiere of Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie. What follows is a diverse range of goodies – from Tobe Hooper’s rarely seen first film from 1969 Eggshells, to James Franco and Ian Old’s Documentary-horror hybrid Francophrenia, to the divisive documentary Wikileaks: Secrets and Lies to the entertaining and shocking documentary Donkey Love!
On Behalf of the Sydney Underground team we hope you enjoy this years celebration of fearlessness, intellect, humour and creativity!
We also have some special underground guests including first public appearance of Mr Doodleburger with a new installment of Summer Bay Slaughter, an expanded cinema performance in Werner Herzog presents Eddie Sharp and a ton of great films, documentaries and short films. We have even created a shorts program (SIN CITY pg, 41) dedicated to showcasing Sydney Indie film talent. So peruse the program at your leisure, but make sure you come spend some time at the festival in September.
SUFF 2012 \\ Welcome \\ Page 5
OUR PARTNERS & PATRONS The SUFF HQ kindly sponsored by Sydney College of the Arts.
CULTURAL & EDUCATIONAL PARTNERS
SCREENING / MEDIA PARTNERS
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ORGANIC LAGER
SUPPORTING PARTNERS
OUR FESTIVAL PATRONS ARTHUR CANTRILL
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DAVID PERRY
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JOHN CLARK
GABRIELLE DALTON
JACK SARGEANT
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It’s easy to buy single session tickets, opening night tickets, day passes and 4-film passes to the 2012 Sydney Underground Film Festival. Buy online and find all the information at:
www.suff.com.au/tickets There may be a limited number of tickets available for purchase at the door, if not sold out prior.
HOW TO BUY TICKETS
$14 each
SINGLE SESSION TICKETS
Concession $12
> Want freedom of choice? Choose any film from any session on Friday 7, Saturday 8, or Sunday 9 September. For discounted group bookings, please contact The Factory on 02 9550 3666.
OPENING PARTY THU 6 SEPT
$40
Concession $35
> Love a party? Watch, eat, drink, enjoy, listen and laugh with the annual Sydney Underground opening night festivities on Thursday 6 September.
DAY PASS FRI 7SEPT
$30
Conc. $24
DAY PASS SAT8SEPT
$54
Conc. $48
DAY PASS SUN9SEPT
$36
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> Want value for money? A great way to experience the festival for cheap. Spend the day with SUFF whilst watching great films and soaking up the festival atmosphere!
4-FILM PASS
$42
Concession $38
> Know what you like? You’re in control with the new 4-film Pass! Choose any four films from the festival program (excl. Thursday Opening Night).
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INFORMATION
• Ticket prices include GST. Tickets incur a booking fee. Transaction Fee may apply. • Phone and online bookings incur a booking fee between $1 - $5 based on the amount spent. Transaction fees apply per transaction for bookings made over the phone only.
• Seating is limited, therefore early purchases are always recommended. Please be advised you are requested to arrive at least 15 minutes before the session starts. Festival passes do not guarantee a seat if session is sold out, so please arrive early.
• All sessions are unclassified 18+ • LATECOMERS may only be admitted at the discretion of the usher on duty. • Concessions available to SUFF Members, full-time students, pensioners, seniors, health care card and companion card holders. Concession cards or Member Cards must be shown.
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TIM HEIDECKER & ERIC WAREHEIM \\ 2012 \\ USA \\ 93 MINS The long-awaited feature film from the twisted minds of cult comedy heroes Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim (“Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job”)! Tim and Eric are given a billion dollars to make a movie, but squander every dime… and the sinister Schlaaang corporation is pissed. Their lives at stake, the guys skip town in search of a way to pay the money back. When they happen upon a chance to rehabilitate a bankrupt mall full of vagrants, bizarre stores and a man-eating wolf that stalks the food court, they see dollar signs—a billion of them. Featuring cameos from Awesome Show regulars and some of the biggest names in comedy today! Absurdity at it’s best!
“The funniest film I’ve seen in years.” - Chris Krapek, The Huffington Post
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OPENING NIGHT PARTY Join us for the opening to the 2012 festival on Thursday 6th with the Australian premiere of Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie!
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Tim and Eric’s perverse sense of humour has always had a special place in SUFF’s heart over the years, so what better way to kick of the opening night festivities then with their first feature film? We also have an expanded cinema performance “Werner Herzog presents Eddie Sharp”, music, and complimentary food and beverages thanks to our opening night partners. Enjoy Rosnay Organic Wines Burragumbilli Organic Beer, freshly cooked Doughboy Pizza and canapés of Huon Aqualculture salmon straight from Tasmania and a range of delicious cheeses thanks to Paesanella Cheese Factory in Marrickville. It will be a night full of laughs, music and like-minded company, so come and launch the festival with us! ORGANIC LAGER
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JEFF KEEN RETROSPECTIVE DIR. JEFF KEEN \\ 1967-1993 \\ UK \\ 90 MINS Jeff Keen is a legend of avant-garde cinema and fine art. His unique and imaginative filmmaking has outlived the various scenes in which it thrived: the sixties counter-culture, punk and beyond. Making work of immediate power and raw intensity on a range of film stocks. He started filmmaking in the post-war Britain of the late 1950s and continued to work nearly sixty-years later. Keen’s movies emerge from a unique visionary sensibility, an interest in comic books, pop culture, Hollywood ephemera, westerns, melodramas, science fiction and everyday art. This self-taught artist and pioneer of radical British independent filmmaking continues to defy catagorisation. Mixing rapidfire animation, live action, home movies and occasional performance interventions, Keen’s movies offer a visually rich, rapid paced, often loud and lurid, celebration of all that is cinema!
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Thanks to Stella Keen (daughter and often star of Jeff Keen’s films) for providing access to his archives.
“The most important man in cinema. Period.” – Jack Sargeant (Author)
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LIVE ON STAGE - JAY KATZ & MISS DEATH 2012 \\ 90 MINS Years before YouTube Jaimie and Aspasia Leonarder aka Jay Katz and Miss Death had started collecting by snail mail a myriad of obscure media that became the foundation of their Mu-Meson Archive. Since the early 90’s they have been presenting compilations of some of the weirdest material that has crossed their path. For the 2012 Sydney Underground Film Festival they will be presenting a 1.5 hour program of the best of the worst. So what in the hell is this lost media.... bizarre adverts and public service announcements, excerpts from vintage educational films guaranteed to send you into fits of hysteria, music clips that never should have been made, film trailers you can’t believe were made, instructional and promotional videos from the 70’s and 80’s made by people that should never have picked up a camera and of course lets not forget the subject of sex with some of the most inappropriate segments ever committed to the screen. Jay Katz and Miss Death will be on hand to guide you through this screening with live commentary. Think Ponderland on steroids and LSD.
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LIVE ON STAGE! \\ AUSTRALIA \\ 90 MINS It’s your lucky day c*nts! All the classics will be screened PLUS Make your friends jealous when they find out you get an EXCLUSIVE peek at the new Summer Bay slaughter!
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“Anybody that would find this amusing would have to have a pretty warped sense of humour.” - Peter Ford, A Current Affair
With a special Q&A with the man whose bassy vocal tones are more devastating to your colon than a bad case of bowel cancer. (Questions regarding missing children will be fielded by an expert P.R team under advisement of Doodleburger’s crack legal team pending trial).
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DIR. PETER STRICKLAND \\ 2012 \\ USA \\ 90 MINS Director Peter Strickland lifts the curtain on cinematic sound production in this story of hapless audio engineer Gilderoy (Toby Jones, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), who finds himself transplanted from the safety of his garden shed to Italy’s cheapest, sleaziest post-production studios to work on a sordid horror film. As the mayhem manufactured for the big screen begins to reflect the world this side of the camera, the exploitative environment of his new job – a huge departure from the nature documentaries he’s used to – begins to take its toll on Gilderoy, sending him into a world of turmoil, and ensuring his grip on reality grows ever more loose. With a soundtrack by revered UK band Broadcast, Berberian Sound Studio is a nostalgic tribute to the giallo films of the 70s. (- MIFF 2012)
“(Strickland is) a British director who is independent in the truest sense.” – The Guardian
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KEYHOLE DIR. GUY MADDIN \\ 2012 \\ CANADA \\ 90 MINS For those of you who loved Brand Upon The Brain and My Winnipeg, is in for a treat with Guy Maddin’s long-anticipated new feature film. After a long absence, gangster and father Ulysses Pick (Jason Patric) arrives home to a house haunted with memories, towing the body of a teenaged girl and a bound and gagged young man. His gang waits inside his house, having shot their way past police. There is friction in the ranks. Ulysses, however, is focused on one thing: journeying through the house, room by room, and reaching his wife Hyacinth (Isabella Rossellini) in her bedroom upstairs. The equilibrium of the house has been disturbed and his odyssey eventually becomes an emotional tour, as the ghostly nooks and crannies of the house reveal more about the mysterious Pick family.
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“R-rated riff on Cocteau’s “Beauty and the Beast,” while the gangland material is straight out of a ‘40s Warner Bros. gangster pic -- if ‘40s gangster pics had rough inspiration from Homer’s “Odyssey” while taking place in a haunted house right out of a LSD-soaked episode of “Scooby Doo….Maddin is on the edge, and that perspective gives him visions and insights others never dare to attain.” – JAMES ROCCHI, IndieWire
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DIR. FRANKIE FRAIN \\ 2012 \\ USA \\ 90 MINS A young nurse is pressured to get married and have children. Her first and only boyfriend of ten years makes a hilariously inappropriate Internet video. A gay friend gets dumped for throwing his cat off the bed. Their best friend is a balding, 24-year-old virgin, and quickly becoming a ‘creepy old man.’ Sex is the theme in this ensemble piece, in which stigmas are challenged and a group of friends bare all.
“The coarsest, most vulgar and funniest films about sex I’ve seen since Kevin Smith’s Clerks.” – Cary Conley, Rogue Cinema With live introduction by Frankie Frain & members of the cast in attendance!
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THE DISCO EXORCIST DIR. RICHARD GRIFFIN \\ 2011 \\ USA \\ 90 MINS
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“A brutal, blasphemous, horror, sex comedy... a howl from start to finish.” - Twitch
BLOOD, BOOBS AND BELL-BOTTOMS! SUFF 2012 \\ Feature Films \\ Page 20
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SICK DIR. NICK DANGER \\ 2012 \\ AUST \\ 93 MINS One night. A party. James and Rachel are best friends in high school. When Kelly Alexander, a sure thing, is invited to the party James has only one thing on his mind, not knowing that Rachel’s feelings for him are more than a friend. ‘Clerks’ meets ‘The Breakfast Club’. A truly indie, low-budget film made for $5,000. No special effects, tricky locations, or big cast names, just a good script with clever dialogue and entertaining and heartfelt characters. SUFF is proud to be able to screen Nick Danger’s film, SICK (sadly his first and last feature film), at the 2012 festival.
“Themes that could easily fall into cliché are done with intellect and fresh sensitivity. ” – Independent Filmmaker Showcase
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SCREENING REPEATS: SUN 9 SEPT 5pm “Harmony Korine’s most comically focused effort to date... Laughter... rathan than nervous chuckles.” – Sean Gillane, Indiewire
DIR. HARMONY KORINE, ALEKSEI FEDORCHENKO, JAN KWIECINSKI \\ 2012 \\ USA.RUS.POL\\ 90 MINS Three visionary filmmakers: Harmony Korine (Trash Humpers, Gummo), Aleksei Fedorchenko (Silent Souls) and Jan Kwiecinski have created three unique stories that provides a different perspective on what the Fourth Dimension is whilst still being thematic woven together a common theme— changing your perspective on life, you can pave your own path to enlightenment. The film opens with Harmony’s hilarious short, The Lotus Community Workshop. In this story Val Kilmer plays a motivational speaker who doesn’t conform to any norms one might expect. In the next chapter, we travel to Russia where Grigory believes that pure intellectual pursuits and his groundbreaking time machine is the key to finding the fourth dimension and true happiness. Despite his convictions, we can see that Grigory is leading an unfulfilled life, and unappreciative of the beauty around him. A sudden turn of events, changes everything. The last chapter takes place in Poland where Pace and his friends are also in search of the Fourth Dimension. They are a group of outcasts partaking in the simple comforts of village life, till an approaching flood threatens them.
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EGGSHELLS DIR. TOBE HOOPER \\ 1968 \\ USA \\ 90 MINS Many people think that 1974 horror classic The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was Tobe Hooper’s feature debut, emerging out of nowhere to rip the genre to shreds and leave audiences reeling. Not so. Four years earlier, Hooper gathered together a ramshackle crew and an eager young cast, and made Eggshells – aka An American Freak Illumination, a surreal, psychedelic drama about University undergraduates sharing a house at the tail-end of the Sixties. For want of a better description, this is a film that defies easy categorization. Lost for 40 years, the film has been immaculately restored by Watchmaker Films and is available for licensing in Australia and New Zealand. “Eggshells makes explicit what many have long assumed — that Hooper’s sense of cinema is the defining characteristic that makes [The Texas Chainsaw Massacre] great. Eggshells is a true 1968 film, psychedelic and political” – Louis Black, founder of SXSW Overflowing with creativity and positivity, full of Godard-like film trickery and playful pop art inflections, populated not only with nubile nudes but a “cryptoembryonic hyper-electric presence”, and scored with the music of Austin psych folk legends Shiva’s Headband, Eggshells is the headiest “head” film you’ve never heard of.
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“I’ve always described it as being a mixture of Andy Warhol’s Trash & Walt Disney’s Fantasia.” – Tobe Hooper
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PRESIDENT WOLFMAN DIR. MIKE DAVIS \\ 2012 \\ USA \\ 90 MINS The President of the United States has been bitten by a werewolf and is loose on the streets of Washington on a killing rampage! This comedy/ horror/political satire is also a ‘green movie,’ created entirely out of recycled stock and public domain film footage culled from over one hundred grainy government instructional shorts, classroom education movies, vintage stag reels and features. This labour intensive film was created by non-other than Mike Davis (Sex Galaxy, SUFF 2008), who has made it his life’s ambition to make new films out of old media. His talent for creating wild scrips from reused footage is definately a highly recommended experience!
SCREENS WITH: Ebbs and Flows Dir. Clint Enns // 2012 // Canada 3:00
SCREENS WITH: Progressive Evolution Dir. Clare Ferra // 2011 // Aust // 7:00
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DIR. BOBCAT GOLDTHWAIT \\ 2011 \\ USA \\ 90 MINS Frank (Joel Murray) has had enough of the downward spiral of American culture. Divorced, recently fired, and possibly terminally ill, Frank feels he has nothing left to live for. However, instead of taking his own life, he embarks on a killing spree with cohort Roxy (Tara Lynne Barr), who shares his sense of rage and disenfranchisement, and together they embark on a nation-wide assault on our country’s dumbest, most irritating celebrities.
“Darkly comedic, subversive, rage-filled and infinitely charming.” – Film School Rejects “The best american comedy of the year. Savage and wise” – Twitch “…My favorite film of the year - as acidic and funny a movie as you’re likely to see this year.” – Huffington Post PRESENTED BY See page 48 about the closing party after GOD BLESS AMERICA
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DIR. TANNER KING BARKLOW & GIL KOFMAN \\ 2012 \\ USA/CHINA \\ 90 MINS If you love American Movie or Living in Oblivion, then your going to love this absurd and hilarious documentary about an overeager American striving to make art in a Communist regime. This documentary follows the experience of a Los Angeles filmmaker (Gil Koffman) who finds himself in Xiamen, China trying to direct a thriller, in Chinese, using a translator. He soon discovers that the old adage of making a film three times – in the writing, shooting, and editing – is in fact the opposite in China, where his film is “unmade” three times - in the writing, shooting, and editing - with each subsequent stage of the process even more excruciating and devastating than the one that came before it. Determined however to make his film happen, even under the most adverse conditions, the eager filmmaker can’t even begin to imagine the complications of making a government sanctioned film in Communist China. Aside from a fun and frivolous tale that documents the trials and tribulations of an Angeleno making a film in China, this is also a cautionary tale, redolent with political resonance, about what compromises an artist suffers in order to make their work, and the measures he or she must take in order to sometimes right a wrong.
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TOTAL BADASS DIR. BOB RAY \\ 2010 \\ USA \\ 90 MINS In the critically acclaimed and hilariously bizarre documentary, drug-fueled Austin icon Chad Holt, a weed-dealing, sex-crazed provocateur, singer, writer/publisher, Guinea pig enthusiast and criminal mastermind, confronts the unholy trinity of life-warping hazards as the law, financial hardship, and some major family responsibilities threaten to undermine his uniquely brazen and chaotic way of life. “Meet Chad Holt, Austin’s own Hunter S. Thompson reincarnate, in this gutsy, bare bones (to be taken literally, of course) independent documentary following the notoriously unapologetic, shit-stirring legend of sorts during his last year of felony probation” - April Swartz
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SXSW INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2012
TUCSON INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2012
MINNEAPOLIS UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL 2012
CHICAGO UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL 2012
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“Unexpectedly poignant” – New York Times
THE LIFE AND NEAR DEATH OF PATTY SCHEMEL
DIR. P. DAVID EBERSOLE \\ 2011 \\ USA \\ 103 MINS When Nirvana burst onto the national scene in 1991, the music they played spoke directly to a generation that had emerged from the Reagan-Bush years angry and disenfranchised. As grunge took off, the music industry was completely transformed in a way nobody expected... Just three years later, the drug-related deaths of several prominent musicians, capped by the suicide of Kurt Cobain, closed the books on an all too brief era. As the acclaimed drummer of Courtney Love’s seminal rock band Hole, Patty Schemel was right in the middle of all of it. The openly gay woman who always felt “different” never dreamed she would be part of a multiplatinum selling band, touring with legends, or on the cover of Rolling Stone. Or that, thanks to drug addiction, she could lose it all. HIT SO HARD tells the story of Patty’s rise to fame (and nearly fatal fall from it), with no punches pulled... and it’s one hell of a story. Told with insider interviews and stunningly intimate, never-before-seen footage shot by Patty and her friends (Patty was given a Hi-8 camera just before Hole’s infamous Live Through This world tour), HIT SO HARD is not only an all-access backstage pass to the music that shaped a generation, but a harrowing tale of overnight success, the cost of addiction, and ultimately, recovery and redemption.
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DESPITE THE GODS DIR. PENNY VOZNIAK \\ 2012 \\ AUST \\ 90 MINS
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In 2008, Jennifer Lynch (daughter of cult director David Lynch) had just returned to the Hollywood fold after spending nearly 15 years in exile since being vilified by press and feminist groups for her debut film, Boxing Helena. Wounded by the harsh response of her critics, Lynch retreated from the public eye. Her second film, Surveillance, had just premiered at Cannes. Bolstered by this success she felt ready to take on more challenging projects. As fate would have it Jennifer meets maverick Indian producer Govind Menon, who invites her to write and direct Hisss. Things go wrong very quickly. Lynch’s western need for order, systems and schedules is completely at odds with the Indian crew’s decidedly non-linear way of working – and lack of experience with films of this scale. But that’s the least of their worries. Unable to control the chaos surrounding her, Lynch slowly and steadily spirals into a depression as her worst fears are realized: this could be the biggest disaster of her career...another Boxing Helena. With uncensored candour, Lynch shares the heart- breaking and at times hilarious experience of being a director at the helm of a sinking ship. The camera becomes her confessional; a record of the madness within and without.
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Jennifer Lynch’s Bollywood Odyssey “It is one of the strongest films about the trials and madness of moviemaking that you will ever encounter.” - Fantasia
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THE SUBSTANCE: ALBERT HOFMANN’S LSD SATURDAY
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DIR.MARTIN WITZ \\ 2011 \\ SWITZERLAND \\ 90 MINS In 1943, the year in which the first A-bomb was built, Albert Hofmann discovered LSD, a substance that was to become an A-bomb of the mind. Fractions of a milligram are enough to turn our framework of time and space upside down. The story of a drug - its discovery in the Basle chemistry lab, the first experiments by Albert Hofmann on himself, the 1950s experiments of the psychiatrists, the consciousness researchers, the artists. Could it actually be possible to find a path to the core of our human existence by means of a chemical? Spirituality at the flick of a switch? Do the enigmatic effects of this drug really help us to better understand the human soul? Could LSD be an instrument of contemporary psychiatry? Of modern brain research?
“Taking in everything from Hofmann’s first experience in 1943, through to Millbrook, the military, medicine, psychology and of course the counter culture, The Substance is a fascinating documentary and serious analysis not just about LSD but implicitly the later half of the twentieth century.” - Revelation Film Fest
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FRANCOPHRENIA (or: Don’t Kill Me, I Know Where the Baby Is) SATURDAY
DIR. JAMES FRANCO & IAN OLDS \\ 2012 \\ USA \\ 90 MINS June 24, 2010. James Franco (the actor) prepares to film the climactic episode of his stint on the daytime drama General Hospital. “Franco” (his serial-killer character on the show) readies a murderous art installation at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. The day begins like any other for James – hair and makeup, interviews, hugs and autographs for the fans. But as night falls and the shoot begins, James becomes increasingly unhinged as “Franco’s” nefarious work becomes indistinguishable from his own. An experimental narrative comprised of repurposed documentary footage shot behind the scenes at the museum, Francophrenia tells the often comic, frequently horrifying story of the labor behind the television spectacle and the glorification – not to mention the destruction – of the celebrity at its center. OFFICIAL SELECTION
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A documentaryhorror thriller hybrid. PRESENTED BY
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DIR.MICHAL KOSOKOWSKI \\ 2011 \\ GERMANY/AUSTRIA \\ 81 MINS Since 1996 film director Michal Kosakowski has been asking people with different backgrounds about their murder fantasies. He offered them the chance to stage their fantasies as short films. The only condition was that they had to act in these films themselves, either as victims or perpetrators. More than a decade later, Kosakowski met these people again to ask them about their emotions during their acts of murder or victimization, and interviewed them about current social topics such as revenge, torture, war, terrorism, media, domestic violence, the death penalty, suicide etc. If someone murdered a person you love, how would you feel about it? Should torture be legalized? Are soldiers murderers? How to define good and evil? Their replies are juxtaposed with the short films based on these ‘non-criminal’ fantasies made accessible to viewers. Zero Killed’ takes the issue one step further: the film deciphers common clichés and patterns of visual violence with the aid of the protagonists’ immediate and direct comments. The result is an unconventional hybrid of feature film and documentary that makes viewers question their personal and social positions concerning ethical and moral values and taboos.
Murder fantasies are lonely affairs.
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BAD BRAINS: A BAND IN DC DIR. MANDY STEIN & BEN LOGAN \\ 2012 \\ USA \\ 90 MINS Bad Brains were already unique when they formed in 1977, gaining an immediate fan base in their native Washington DC for their blistering hardcore punk shows. But Bad Brains had already cut their musical teeth playing jazz fusion under the name Mind Power, and their version of punk was already pushing in different directions. While inspiring the likes of youngsters Henry Rollins (Black Flag) and Ian MacKaye (Minor Threat and Fugazi) and countless others, Bad Brains were already a step ahead of their contemporaries and embraced reggae, further adding to their musical palette. The group would go on to influence the likes of Living Colour, Faith No More and Fishbone. Following the band’s career through ups and numerous, often painful, downs, this absorbing documentary from director Mandy Stein (Burning Down the House: the Story of CBGB and Too Tough To Die: A Tribute to Johnny Ramone) and Ben Logan combines scorching live footage with interviews with all the major players and the band, as well as charting their comeback tour and the group’s often-fraught internal relationships. “The film is kinetic, frenetic… and well paced with lots to love for any Bad Brains, punk or music fans. Their tribute is long overdue and we should be thankful that a film recognizing their musical genius, originality and influence exists at all.” IndieWire
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SATURDAY
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THE SHEIK AND I DIR. CAVEH ZAHEDI \\ 2012 \\ USA & UAE \\ 90 MINS Commissioned by a Middle Eastern Biennial to make a film on the theme of “art as a subversive act,” independent filmmaker Caveh Zahedi (I AM A SEX ADDICT) goes overboard. Told that he can do whatever he wants except make fun of the Sheik, who rules the country and finances the Biennial, Zahedi decides to do just that. He turns his camera on the Biennial itself and gleefully presses every culturally sensitive button he can find. But his court jester antics fails to amuse. Zahedi’s film is banned for blasphemy and he is threatened with arrest if he returns to Sharjah.
“It’s a daring work made with reckless abandon - in other words, both irresponsible and necessary.” – Indiewire OFFICIAL SELECTION
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DONKEY LOVE SATURDAY
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DIR. DARYL STONEAGE \\ 2012 \\ USA \\ 84 MINS Funny, shocking and controversial, Donkey Love is a documentary that introduces the unknown tradition of Colombians having sex and falling in love with donkeys.
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It starts off as a rite of passage ritual that fathers initiate with their sons and is carried on into their adulthood where men often end-up cheating on their wives with donkeys. Colombians believe that boys should practice having sex with donkeys to prepare themselves for women, that it makes their penises bigger and also that it prevents them from becoming homosexuals. This cultural practice is so widely accepted in Colombia that musicians have written songs about it, an author has written a book about it and there is even a festival that celebrates it.
“I don’t have to buy her clothes. I don’t have to buy her shoes.”
IT’S EVERYTHING YOU DON’T WANT IT TO BE ABOUT! SUFF 2012 | Documentaries | Page 37
WIKILEAKS: SECRETS AND LIES DIR. PATRICK FORBES \\ 2011 \\ UK \\ 90 MINS Produced by Oxford Film and Television, Wikileaks: Secrets and Lies is Bafta winner Patrick Forbes’ divisive seventy-six-minute documentary of the Wikileaks affair as told by the people involved: personal, moving and frequently hot tempered, it documents history in the making and establishes a new frontier for technology and journalism. The film features the first major interview with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who, regardless of how he is portrayed, is a pioneer of change and purporter of civil liberties.
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LOVE/SICK Featuring short films from Australia to Singapore to Spain. This session presents everything you want in short films – comedy, absurdity and perversity! Well, if somebody keeps making them, then SUFF will keep screening them!
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CHILLY DYLAN KOHLER | 2011 | USA | 05:10 | AUS PREMIERE As the heat rises in a stuffy hotel room, a talking ice cube pitches the wonders of modern refrigeration to a strangely distracted man.
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1 SINK HOLE AUS PREMIERE DIR. GREG HANSON | 2012 | USA 1:00 A man is lured into a horrible sexual tryst by his sink.
2 FAMILIAR AUS PREMIERE DIR. ZACH GREEN | 2011 | CANADA | 23:00 | A middle-aged man
When Monday reveals her pregnancy to Ted, his less-than-mature response is the final straw in their relationship. Drunk and lonely, Ted orders a new form of state-of-the-art robotic woman from an infomercial, and the result is a series of misunderstandings that threatens the couple’s reunion.
THINGS MY FATHER NEVER TAUGHT ME DIR. BURLEIGH SMITH | 2012 | AUS | 07:00 Melvin gives dating advice to his 3-year-old son.
grows to suspect the negative impulses plaguing his mind may not be his own.
3 HAIL SATAN! DIR. JOHN MICHAEL ELFERS 2012 | AUST | 16:19 A group of suburban Satanists are preparing for an arcane ritual, but something is amiss…
4 PORN MASALAN AUS PREMIERE DIR. KEN KWEK | 2011 SINGAPORE | 15:00 An amateur actor snags the lead in Sinapore’s first ‘romantic cumedy’, only to discover the role requires him to dig far deeper than he ever expected. This film pitches political correctness out the window of Singapore mainstream cinema.
A TALE OF OBSESSION DOWN BOB AUS PREM INSTRUCTIONS AUS PREM DIR. DAVE WADE 2011 | AUS | 13:33
DIR. ADAM SCHAFER DIR. CESAR ESPADA | 2011 2011 | CANADA | 10:00XX SPAIN | 3:00 An involuntary
Ashley is big - and she loves her food. But she loves Devin Cole more, and she’ll stop at nothing to have him.
All Bob Down wants to do is help. The problem is, no one wants his help. Until he meets Lucy...
film, a premeditated murder, an accomplished robbery. A man accidently records a shocking conversation on his mobile.
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REALITY BITES See fascinating real-life narratives and realities with blurred boundaries in short bite-size pieces. Everything from gnomes, grannies smoking weed, blood, tents, aware chickens, family nightmares and robot porn!
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DIR. NICK MCLAREN // 2012 // AUS // 12:25 Four protagonists, who recall first hand, events that shaped Aboriginal Australia’s most effective political action - the Aboriginal Tent Embassy.
DIR. DREA COOPER & ZACKARY CANEPARI // 2012 // USA // 10:00 About a group of elderly synchronized swimmers from Leisure World, a retirement community nestled in Orange County, California.
FAMILY NIGHTMARE
CLOSING BELL
DIR. MATT LENSKI // 2012 // USA // 4:00 The benevolent Mike Sullivan, age 65, has been shooting an epic stop-motion robot sex film in his apartment for the last 10 years.
DIR. QUICO MEIRELLES // 2012 // BRAZIL // 15:00 In a factory farm a chicken has a vision: she becomes aware of what rules her and her destiny - she believes a different life is possible.
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1 GASHBAG DIR. EMMA VARKER // 2011 // AUSTRALIA // 2:12 All good girls flood blood. 2 BLOOD DIR. GEORGE-ALEX NAGLE // 2011 // AUSTRALIA // 4:30 A self-reflexive documentation of the process and outcomes of developing a film in my own blood. Originally a 22-minute video installation loop, edited for cinema. 3 THE GNOME GARDEN DIR. ELENA HATTERSLEY // 2012 // AUSTRALIA // 5:13 “I started with about 20 gnomes and now I’ve got about 300-400.” Kerry, collector of all things gnome. 4 SMOKESTACK AUS PREMIERE DIR. PAUL TURANO // 2011 // USA // 3:00 The death throes of old energy smokestack witnessed by the innocent, inspired by the Bataille essay “Smokestack”. 5 01.39411.999 WORLD PREMIERE DIR. RAJE SAMARASINGHE // 2012 // USA // 4:44 Examines the effects of representational violence on spectators through a variety of formal abstractions. 6 GRADE 5 WORLD PREMIERE DIR. MICHAEL STRICKLAND // 2011 // AUS // 1:41 An autobiographical account of a traumatising childhood bullying event that took place in a school in rural Australia.
DIR. NICK MCLAREN // 2012 // AUSTRALIA // 12:25 Reliving a distracted child’s birthday, an emotionless wedding, and a Christmas marked with alcohol, drugs and perversion.
DIR. NICK MCLAREN // 2012 // AUSTRALIA // 12:25 It is September 2008 and as Congress contemplates a 700 billion dollar bailout for the banks, a broker must decide where to allocate his money.
YEARNING DIR. WALEED NESYIF // 2011 // CAN/
IRAQ // 4:00 A journey through my country, Iraq, with the subtext that sometimes we even miss the horrors of War because it reminds us of home.
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ANIMATION FORNICATION SATURDAY
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Have fun fornicating with this festival favourite! Outstanding animations from stick figures that move you to tears, disturbing stop-frame animations, hand-drawn erotica, to awardwinning cut-out collage animations.
NIGHT HUNTER
PEACH JUICE
DIR. STACEY STEERS // 2012 // USA // 15:30 NSW PREMIERE
DIR. CALLUM PATERSON, BRIAN LYE, NATHAN GILLISS // 2012 // CANADA // 7:45 AUS PREMIERE
Composed of more than 4,000 collages, the actress Lillian Gish is appropriated from silent-era cinema and plunged into a new and haunting role.
While on vacation at the seaside, a youth becomes attracted to his aunt.
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HUMAN MEAT FACTORY
DIR. SARA KOPPEL // DENMARK // 2012 // 6:30 AUS PREMIERE
DIR. ANNA HAN | 2011 | AUS | 4:00 AUS PREMIERE
A speechless erotic hand-drawn animated art-film. A sensual trip through Ea’s sexuallity in a surrealistic abstract poetic atmosphere.
Where does your nice juicy burger comes from? Discover the disturbingly shocking truth about the burger we eat everyday.
ONCE IT STARTED IT COULD NOT END OTHERWISE DIR. KELLY SEARS // 2012 // USA // 7:30 NSW PREMIERE Terrifying and strange happenings descend on a 1970’s high school.
GAINS+LOSSES DIR. LESLIE SUPNET // 2011 // CANADA // 3:26 AUS PREMIERE The filmmaker’s thoughts on death and other personal, day-to-day anxieties, tempered with a sense of humour and lo-fidelity charm.
DIR. MARY TRAN // 2012 // AUS // 4:30 Animated mayhem complete with dictators and octopi. 3 SECRET LIFE OF OBJECTS-
OUTHOUSE AUS PREMIERE DIR. NATHAN JONES // 2011 // AUS // 3:30 The story of a cynical, used up, toilet paper roll and a far less worldly new kid on the block. 4 UNHINGED AUS PREMIERE DIR. DAN HEYER // 2011 // AUS // 5:08 Believing himself to have summoned some mystical entity by rubbing a smudged DVD, Joe sets about alerting his friend Pete to a strange presence in the house. 5 THUMB SNATCHERS FROM THE MOON COCOON DIR. BRADLEY SCHAFFER // 2011 // USA // 6:50 A short tempered Texas Sheriff uses his cowboy logic to recklessly defeat a race of condescending, cocoon dwelling critters.
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LSD FACTORY SATURDAY
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LSD FACTORY is a staple session of SUFF as cinematic, mindbending freedom is a wonderful thing! There is no need to take psychedelics when you come on this wild visual trip - turn on, tune in, drop out and leave the session on a euphoric, cinemaloving high!
ELKO AUS PREMIERE
TOXIC TROPICAL
DIR. ALEXANDER YAN // 2012 // USA // 14:00 “I am 23 and want to die. I can travel anywhere.” A depressed young woman finds her prospective mercy killer in the form of an enigmatic teenage boy.
DIR. TURK LEES // 2011 // AUSTRALIA // 4:50 A demented host of a kids TV show with her own unique way of teaching children about the environment.
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BLOOD FILM AUST PREMIERE
SO POMO
DIR. LARA SALMON AND KEVIN WALKER // 2012 // USA // 2:30 Brakhage meets Bram Stoker in this film literally made with the filmmakers’ blood. Both directors took a paintbrush of blood and painted over eighty feet of film!
DIR. KALIL COHEN // 2012 // USA // 4:00 AUS PREMIERE Using camp, surrealism and fantasy, So Pomo celebrates queer desire and subverts the notion of fixed sexual and gender identities.
SKELETONS WORLD PREMIERE DIR. RYAN COONAN // 2011 // AUSTRALIA // 11:12
3 DOROTHY DIR. EROS ROMERO // 2011 // AUSTRALIA // 17:00 Two imprisoned clowns in a surrealistic horror setting must compete to make a young girl laugh. Explores desperation, survival and unsettling memories buried deep. 4 HEADS UP EXEC. PROD. ROBERT KRAKOVSKI // 2011 // USA // 12:46 An edgy, comedic story of two long time friends, partners in crime, and ‘surrogate’ brothers who love each other to death.
When Daryl and Amy advertise for a new housemate they get a little more than they bargained for! What secrets lie in their housemates cupboard?
THE KOOK
DIR. NAT LIVINGSTON JOHNSON, GREGORY MITNICK // 2012 // USA // 18:00 WORLD PREMIERE Fa is a gentle and unassuming member of an eccentric religious sect. On the eve of her group’s scheduled ‘departure from Earth’, Fa discovers that their alien leader, is crossing signals with a man named Malcolm.
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SIN CITY - SYDNEY SHORTS An outrageously diverse session of films made by a talented bunch of Sydney Filmmakers. Support homegrown talent, thriving in your backyard!
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7 HOLIDAY DIR. TONY LAWRENCE // 2012 // AUS // 6:42 A mysterious and alluring girl sees beyond her reflection in the mirror. This film shot on B&W Super8 was affected by use of a Refraction Chamber. 8 LOVE DIR. DAVID SPRÜNGLI // 2011 AUS // 8:20MIN An observation of 4 characters trying to deal with their crippled emotions by looking for love and acceptance in all the wrong places.
3 EXCUSE THE SIN DIR. LIVIA RUBIOLINI // 2011 // AUS // 4:42 A man living in a dark psychological space journeys through the sins of his mind and creates an alternate reality.
9 REFLECTION DIR. HEATH SIMS // 2012 // AUS // 3:00 While taking out the trash, a man sees his reflection and enters a symphony of perception and change.
4 FALSE TRUTHEFULNESS DIR. J.DE ANDRADE, M.RUTIRAKUL, K.PALM, C.EMANUEL, J.TERTRAIN // 2011 // AUS // 2:30 Short 16m experimental, based on the music of John Zorn and his renowned progressive Jazz saxophone.
10 SLEEPING IN BLOOD CITY DIR. SHAUN KATZ // 2011 // AUS // 8:30 The tale of a hitman who breaks the most important rule of his profession. Soon, one small slip up on the job finds him looking over his shoulder, as the crime underworld begins closing in.
5 FIRE AND ICE DIR. EMMA SANDERSON // 2011 // AUS // 4:06 Inspired by the lost ‘art’ of the karaoke video. A voyeuristic and grotesque journey into a dark and private place where Josh Wheatley’s performance pays homage to drag queen, ‘Divine.’
11 SPAGHETTI DIR. JESSICA HOLBURN // 2012 // AUS // 4:12 Cas has prepared a romantic Valentine’s meal for her boyfriend, but something has gone awry.
6 GET UP DIR. DAN BALCABAN // 2012 // AUS // 5:00 What do people really think when a pregnant woman gets on publictransport?
12 SOMEWHERE WITH US, TONIGHT DIR. GEOFFREY WEARY // 2012 // AUS // 4:15 This film was shot on an iPhone 4 and inspired by a poster featuring an image of Amy Winehouse.
13 TELL ME DIR. VANESSA DANG // 2012 // AUS // 1:00 Man up, Bitch. 14 THE OLD GANG DIR. TOM ABOOD. // 2012 // AUS // 2:54 Every city in the world has a gang; Jay and his friends are out to prove themselves as the best. The question is, can they survive against The Old Gang? 15 THE BUBBLE O’BILL MOVIE DIR. TURK LEES // 2012 // AUS // 6:50 The origin story of an Australian icon, starring Bill and Jill, ice cream addict lovers on an adventurous drug hallucination. 16 THE GARDEN DIR. GIOVANNI ZARRILLO // 2011 // AUS // 6:40 In a botanic garden where humans are the ones being observed by trees, there is only one man who can save the day from the Scribbly Gums imminent attack. 17 WHITE RUSSIAN DIR. EMMA VARKER // 2012 // AUS // 3:39 Ivan and Natascha show you how to mix the perfect White Russian. 18 ZOMBIE CASE STUDY DIR. SAM O’SULLIVAN // 2012 // AUS // 7:00 When the apocalypse strikes, two friends use an iPhone to document the effects of a zombie bite, in the hopes of saving humanity.
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2012 SUFF SHORTS-HIGHLIGHTS SUNDAY
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The crème de la crème scooped from the top of each short film program at SUFF 2012! We hope you will support the short film programs, but if you do happen to miss them - make sure you catch this final showing of the unmissable shorts from SUFF 2012! SESSION PROGRAM ANNOUNCED DURING THE FESTIVAL!
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Stuck for what to go see? There is plenty of variety at the 2012 festival and lots of great shorts programs, but here is just a quick overview of some stand-out films as voted by the festival directors.
UNMADE IN CHINA
KEYHOLE
DIR. GIL KOFMAN & ? AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
DIR. GUY MADDIN NSW PREMIERE
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THE SUBSTANCE
MR DOODLEBURGER
DIR. MARTIN WITZ NSW PREMIERE
LIVE ON STAGE WORLD PREMIERE
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THE DISCO EXORCIST
DONKEY LOVE
DIR. RICHARD GRIFFIN AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
DIR. DARYL STONEAGE NSW PREMIERE
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See page 37
SEXUALLY FRANK
TOTAL BADASS
DIR. FRANKIE FRAIN AUSTRALIAN REMIERE
DIR. BOB RAY AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
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See page 29
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CLOSING
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NIGHT PARTY SUNDAY 9 SEPT Drum Media presents the 2012 Sydney Underground Film Festival closing night film and party! Enjoy delicious complimentary Serendipity Icecream upon entry while watching the outrageous new dark comedy GOD BLESS AMERICA by the hilarious filmmaker and actor, Bobcat Goldthwait! Then party with SUFF after the film with music and drinks till late. Plus entertainment provided by wild and unruly underground figures in Sydney’s burlesque scene. Plus win lucky door prizes thanks to Monster Pictures and Madman.
Closing Night of the festival Sunday 9th September 2012
Bent.
An assemblage of Sydney’s most dynamic performance artists will present their own unique brand of hybrid theatre.
Untamed and unruly drama, humor and sex are bound to flow freely from the stage as these artists expose themselves via their own ‘Bent’ theatrical vernacular.
2012 SUFF
AWARDS Although SUFF believes all the films screening at the Festival are equally good, we still like to commend filmmakers that go the extra mile in transgressing the status quo when it comes to film form and content. Plus we like to give the power to the audience to vote for their favourite shorts! VOTE AND WIN! Thanks to our 2012 Judges: JANE MILLS (Author, Senior Rsearch Fellow, Film Critic) ALEX MUNT (Feature Film Director, Film Lecturer) Thanks to Mark Wotherspoon (Sydney-based Glass Artist) for creating the coveted SUFF Dead Oscar awards!
ADVANCE TICKETS $20 + Booking Fee ON SALE FROM 1/9
Sydney Underground Presents
GRINDHOUSE MOVIE MARATHON
REFRESHMENTS available at the ATOMIC bar
SEATING Chairs available or bring your own bean bag!
“Pay to get in. Pray to get out.” Program announced soon!
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Dragonslayer. SUFF 2011
siaf.uts.edu.au
12-14 October 2012
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THE FESTIVAL TEAM Stefan Popescu ..........................................Festival Director Katherine Berger .......................................Festival Director Michelle Berger ..................................... Event Coordinator Stephanie Gal ..................................Volunteer Coordinator Nicola Walkerden ....................................Web Coordinator Belinda Dyer ...................................... Publicist (Kabuku PR) Liz Berger.................................................Graphic Designer Rhys Turner ....................................... Iphone App Designer Nicolas Szmidt ................................. XFilm TV Co-Producer Luke-Dominic Butterworth..............Programming Assistant
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SUFF ON THE TUBE! Don’t forget to tune into TVS (digital channel 44) to catch XFILM-Presented by the Sydney Underground Film Festival on Thursdays at 9:30pm (with repeats). We program all the great shorts that have screened at the previous festivals!
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for the ongoing support!
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Alex Munt, Amy Wooding, Belinda Dyer, Ben Carter, Ben & Ira Ferris and Sydney Film School, Brett Dayman and all at the Drum Media, Cash & Simone and everyone at d/ Lux/Media Arts, Catherine McElhone, Charlie McCagh, Chris Fullagar, Christina Guiffrida, Charlie and the team at Avant Card, Chris and Koala Beer/Burragumbilli Organic Lager, Colin Rhodes, Dean Francis, Emily Walkerden, Emma Yuille, Eddie Sharp, Francois Aoun, Frankie Frain & Keith Sadeck, Geoff Weary, Gil Kofman, Greg Ferris and UTS Media Arts and Production, Helena & Michael Berger, Henri and everyone at TVS, Jack Sargeant, Jaimie & Aspasia Leonarder, Jess Waal, INTERACTIVE ART Jane Mills, Jamie Brewer, Joel & Matt and Mr Doodleburger, Keshore and the team at Summer Hill Post Office, Khira and Sam Nardo and everyone at the Factory Theatre, Leah Consunji, Lawrence and City Hub, Mark Ward and 2SER, Martin Thorne and FSM, Massimo and Paesanella Cheese Manufacturers, Mark Wotherspoon, Mathieu Glissant, Michelle Carey, Neil Foley and Monster Pictures, Nerida Olson, Paul Tonta, Ruby Rodina, Robert Klein, Sam and the Statham Family, Sarah and Serendipity Icecream, Stefanie Loffel, Sharon Lim, Tyler Hubby, Ty Dunn, Terri Awad and Huon Aquaculture, Tym and Spit Press, and to everyone who submitted films and to all our amazing sponsors and volunteers and to anyone that we may have missed - thank you!
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