THURSDAY 4 until SUNDAY 7 SEPTEMBER 2014
100+ films Live performances Talks & Special guests suff.com.au
8th FACTORY THEATRE, 105 victoria rd marrickville
Program at a glance
THURSDAY 4 SEPT Doors Open 6.00pm opening night Doors Open 6:00pm
Opening Night
WELCOME
Special Performance Renny Kodgers
FEATURE FILM: Housebound Dir. Gerard Johnstone
OPENING NIGHT PARTY until 12am Film & Party Page 8-9
friday 5 SEPT Doors Open 6.00pm SUBURBAN SUPER OZPLOIT! Session GOTHIC DUPER CINEMA 3 one ALICE CINEMA 1 Page 49 COOPER Page 23 6.30pm -
8.30pm10.00pm
Session Three
Devil’s Tower
REALITY BITES
SHADOW ZOMBIE
KIDNAPPED FOR CHRIST
CINEMA 1 Page 15
CINEMA 2 Page 50
CINEMA 3 Page 22
CINEMA 4 Page 36
TRAILER MY NAME PARK BOYS IS JONAH : Don’t CINEMA 2 Legalize it Page 38
10.30pm 12.00am CINEMA 1
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BECKONING LSD THE FACTORY BUTCHER CINEMA 4 CINEMA 3 Page 14
saturday 6 SEPT Doors Open 11.30am WTF LOVE TEENAGE Session one SHORTS CHILD CINEMA 3 12 noon 1.30pm Session TWO 2.00pm 3.30pm
Session THREE 4.00pm 5.30pm
CINEMA 4 Page 36
CINEMA 2 Page 42
8.00pm
Session Two
LOVE CHILD
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NOVA EXPRESS
CINEMA 1 Page 51
CINEMA 2 Page 37
MR. X
FREELOAD THE APOCALYPTIC CINEMA 2 IMMORTALISTS CINEMA 4
CINEMA 1 Page 39
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CINEMA 3 Page 35
CINEMA 4 Page 20
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Evolution AMERICAN TRAILER SUPER of a ARAB PARK BOYS : DUPER criminal CINEMA 2 Don’t Legalize ALICE it COOPER CINEMA 1 Page 28 Page 33
CINEMA 3 Page 24
CINEMA 4 Page 42
saturday 6 SEPT [CONTINUED] I BELIEVE IN THE Session FOUR UNICORNS IMMORAL 6.00pm 8.00pm Session FIVE 8.30pm 10.00pm Session SIX
CINEMA 1 Page 15
CINEMA 2 Page 19
HOUSEBOUND LOVE/SICK
CINEMA 3 Page 30
CINEMA 4 Page 14
THE DOG
PROXY
CINEMA 2 Page 31
CINEMA 3 Page 21
BEST OF THE FETISCH FILM FESTIVAL
CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST
Sunday 7 SEPT Doors Open 12.30pm FREELOAD MY NAME IS THE ANIMAL Session one JONAH CONDITION CINEMA 1 1.00pm 2.30pm Session TWO
5.00pm 7.00pm
CINEMA 4 Page 52
Teenage CINEMA 4 Page 43
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CINEMA 2 Page 38
CINEMA 3 Page 29
GMO OMG
SUBURBAN GOTHIC
I BELIEVE IN UNICORNS
CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST
CINEMA 2 Page 23
CINEMA 3 Page 15
CINEMA 4 Page 17 [Note
CINEMA 1 Page 34
3.00pm4.30pm
Session Three
CINEMA 4 Page 22
BECKONING THE BUTCHER
CINEMA 2 Page 47
CINEMA 1
CINEMA 3 Page 25
SHADOW ZOMBIE
BREADCRUMB TRAIL
CINEMA 1 Page 9
10.30pm - Page 17 [Note 12.30am change - The Green Inferno Page 18]
WHY DON’T YOU PLAY IN HELL?
change - The Green Inferno Page 18]
THE SEARCH THE WHY DON’T MR. X FOR WENG IMMORTALISTS YOU PLAY IN CINEMA 4 WENG HELL? CINEMA 2 Page 39 CINEMA 1 Page 41
CINEMA 3 Page 25
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Sunday 7 SEPT 7.30pm Closing Night
7.30pm
Closing Night
FINALE Jury and Awards
FEATURE FILM: WETLANDS Dir. David Wnendt
Film & Party
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CLOSING NIGHT PARTY until 12am Page 10-11
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Our partners This project was supported by funding from Marrickville Council
Educational partners
Screening and media partners
Food and beverage partners
printERS
YOUNG HENRYS
Supporting partners
The SUFF HQ is kindly sponsored by Sydney College of the Arts.
Contents Opening night page 8 Closing night page 10 FEATURE Films page 13 Documentaries page 27 Short films page 45 Festival Directors Katherine Berger and Stefan Popescu
Jury & Awards page 53
WELCOME
A-z films page 55 #SUFF2014
As the directors of the Sydney Underground Film Festival, it’s with great and continued pleasure that we present another eclectic range of features, documentaries and short films to celebrate our eighth year. Our 2014 program is designed to arouse your senses, challenge your intellect and inspire your imagination – spanning the immoral and the immortal, horror and comedy as well as thought-provoking films about the colourful characters that inhabit and infect this planet. We pride ourselves in hosting the most adventurous and vibrant film festival possible. This year’s SUFF wouldn’t have been possible without the fantastic support of our loyal friends and patrons through our Pozible campaign, and we’d like to thank you all for making it happen. We are also proud to welcome a number of local and international guests, including SUFF alumni Leah Meyerhoff (I Believe in Unicorns), Andrew Leavold (The Search for Weng Weng), Dale Trott (Beckoning the Butcher), Jack Sargeant (presenting Nova Express), and Lars Daniel Krutzkoff Jacobsen (The Immoral) all the way from Norway. Whether you have come from near or far, this year’s festival is sure to be a trip - so, as Hunter S. Thompson says, “buy the ticket and take the ride!” See y’all at opening night over a Young Henrys beer, a Kooks wine and yummy Supreme Gourmet pizza!
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GETTING THERE
VENUE INFORMATION
• 20 min walk or a 5 min bus ride from Newtown Station. • 15 min walk from Sydenham and Marrickville railway stations. • Bicycle racks and limited street parking is also available nearby. • Go to 131500.com for latest transport times.
The venue bars offer confectionery, snacks, and both non-alcoholic and alcoholic beverages. Onsite food vans operate during the festival. There is also a SUFF info desk and a SUFF merchandise desk (where you can also get a Serendipity Ice-cream fix!).
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The cinemas There are 4 cinemas at The Factory Theatre (Cinema One, Two, Three & Four). Follow the signs or ask SUFF volunteers for directions!
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FESTIVAL PASSES AND TICKET PRICES
How to buy tickets Buying tickets to the 2014 Sydney Underground Film Festival is easy whether to a single session, or any combination of passes listed below. Buy online and find all the info at:
www.suff.com.au/tickets
There may be a limited number of tickets and passes available for purchase at the door, if not sold out prior.
TICKET PRICES (ADULT / CONCESSION) • Festival pass (includes opening and closing night) ..................$120 / 100 • Opening night (includes food and drink)......................................$40 / 35 • Closing night film and party..........................................................$20 / 15 • Friday all-day pass.........................................................................$30 / 27 • Saturday all-day pass.....................................................................$54 / 48 • Sunday all-day pass.......................................................................$40 / 36 • Individual session tickets...............................................................$14 / 12 • 4-film pass (excludes opening and closing night films) ...............$40 / 36 • 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. • A transaction fee may apply per transaction for
• Concessions are available to full-time students, pensioners, seniors, health care card and companion card holders. Concession cards must be shown. • All sessions are 18+.
bookings made over the phone only. • Seating is limited, therefore early purchases are always recommended. Please arrive at least 15 minutes before the session starts. Dog tag passes do not guarantee a seat if session is full.
tickets Our session times are film start times, don’t be late!
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t h g i N g n i n e p O Film and Party
It’s our night of nights, so what better way to commence this year’s SUFF festivities than with a performance by the infamous superstar Renny Kodgers! Then comes the main event, the hit New Zealand comedy Housebound, which will officially open the 2014 Sydney Underground Film Festival. Join us before the film where everyone can enjoy complimentary pizza thanks to SUPREME GOURMET PIZZA BAR. Kick on for the SUFF opening after party with beer courtesy of Newtown’s very own brewery YOUNG HENRYS and wine provided by the award-winning, sensational KOOKS wine co. Everything is included in your ticket price. Come, watch and party with SUFF!
Tickets
$40 ($35 concession)
Opening Performance by
Kodgers RennThey infamous superstar lounge singer with extensive aural abilities live at SUFF 2014!
YOUNG HENRYS
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PLUS PYRAMID SCHEME DJs, POPCORN & LIVE PROJECTIONS
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housebound
Opening Night Film It’s the next horror-comedy hit waiting to happen, with bumps, jumps, and a whole house full of frightening fun. Filmmaker Gerard Johnstone threatens Peter Jackson as New Zealand’s premier purveyor of scares and laughs in his creepy, kooky, and spooky first feature about a completely offbeat family. Living with a mother, Miriam (Rima Te Wiata), who is convinced their home is haunted is trying enough for Kylie Bucknell (Morgana O’Reilly), but not being able to leave tests her patience more than she could have ever expected. Her trapped status is her own doing, after she tries to smash and grab an ATM but ends up slapped with an ankle monitor. Kylie thinks being placed under house arrest is an unfair punishment, complete with an overdose of maternal superstition; however then the unsettling whispers and strange thumps begin. Soon, she realises that the scary sounds may not be a result of inheriting Miriam’s over-active imagination – their house might just be possessed by a hostile spirit who’s less than happy about the new living arrangement.
Dir. Gerard Johnstone 2014 New Zealand 109 mins
“Sometimes at the festival you walk into a room knowing nothing, sit down, and get your skull punched in by a movie that is calibrated perfectly … Housebound is one of those movies.” – Hitfix
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Closing Night Film and Party
Film from 7.30pm Party after ‘til 12am
Thanks to
End SUFF with the right kind of bang by securing tickets to the unapologetically vulgar and undeniably fun German film Wetlands where director David Wnendt and breakout star Carla Juri leave no bodily orifice unexplored! After the movie, the festival’s final evening for 2014 will then be celebrated with music and live performances – plus complimentary SERENDIPITY ice-cream! SUFF “Dead Oscar” awards will be presented at the closing night film
Tickets
Mark n poo Wothers
(Sydney-based Glass Artist) for creating the coveted SUFF Dead Oscar awards!
Complimentary Serendipity Ice-Cream
$20 ($15 concession)
#SUFF2014
Special Events page 10
“Like a middle finger to the very genre it effectively inhabits.” – Indiewire.
sun7 7.30pm
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official selection
SUNDANCE Film Festival 2014
Wetlands [Feuchtgebiete]
Closing Night Film Dir. David Wnendt 2013 Germany 105 mins
A letter of protest pleaded for Wetlands, the cult German-language novel by author Charlotte Roche, to never be made into a film – and it is this letter that opens director David Wnendt’s movie adaptation. Defiant in its spirit and performance as well as its mere existence, the feature tells of Helen, an average teenage girl empowered by a strikingly honest rendering. As punchily played by Carla Juri, Helen chases boys, explores sex and drugs, and attempts to cope with her parents’ divorce, mostly while hospitalised after an intimate shaving accident sparks an anal fissure. Bodily functions, unconventional uses of food, and skateboarding semi-naked down hallways – in perhaps the most frank and funny depiction of burgeoning female sexuality seen on screen, absolutely nothing is off limits.
“Wetlands takes a gross thing, teenagerdom, and makes it grosser.” – Quickflix.
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your perfect movie date
FEATURES Beckoning the Butcher i believe in unicorns Cannibal Holocaust Devil’s Tower The Green Inferno The immoral Nova Express PROXY Shadow Zombie Suburban gothic Trailer park boys: Don’t LegaLize it why don’t you play in hell?
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FRI5 10.30pm
hree Cinema T
SAT6 8.30pm
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Cinema F
official selection
MONSTER
FEST 2014
“A must see hidden gem for genre fans, especially those of the ‘sceptical-tillproven-scared senseless’ demographic.” – Critic’s Corner.
Beckoning the Butcher Dir. Dale Trott 2013 Australia 70 mins
With the director and several cast members in attendance.
FEATURE Films Page 14
Never-before-seen footage might just hold the key to the mystery of Chris Shaw, up-andcoming occultist and wannabe internet sensation – or it could cause more harm than good. The supernatural mythbuster attempted to test the legitimacy of spirit-summoning rituals he found online, until he disappeared – with his girlfriend Tara and their friends – after performing the Beckoning the Butcher invocation in a rural Victorian holiday house. Writer/director Dale Trott’s first feature tells Chris’ tale as compiled from his last video along with interviews with family members, detectives and psychics. The deeper the film delves into the fateful night and the attempts to entice a paranormal entity into this world, the more frightening it becomes.
FRI5 8.30pm
ne
Cinema O
Devil’s Tower Sarah (Roxanne Pallett) has just moved into a block of flats to start a new life away from her abusive mother. There, she strikes up an unconventional friendship with squatter Sid (Jason Mewes). When Sid’s friend Paul goes missing, he and Sarah unearth a series of strange deaths and disappearances. Watched by a malevolent spirit controlling the building’s televisions and cameras, reality and fantasy merge as events are twisted into a sick movie on a TV set high in the block of flats. Sid and Sarah are thrown into a fight for survival when the vengeful ghost controlling a horde of zombies possesses Sarah’s mother (Frances Ruffelle). Evil suddenly has a familiar face. For those who love the films of the 70s & 80s such as Wes Cravens The Hills Have Eyes, or George Romeros Dawn Of The Dead and Day Of The Dead. You’ll find a lot to love here. Gritty and intense but also funny and touching Devil’s Tower is an impressive and entertaining Lynch-esque film. It’s a lot of fun and aims for several genres in one and achieves it’s target.
Dir. Owen Tooth 2014 UK 82 mins
Australian
PREMIERE
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“Buzzes with the veracity of early infatuation, coupled with a desperate need for escape.” – Movie Mezzanine.
SAT6 6.00pm
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SUN7 3.00pm
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microwavE presents
I believe in Unicorns Dir. Leah Meyerhoff 2014
Australian
PREMIERE
USA 80 mins official selection
official selection
SXSW Film Festival
ATLANTA
2014
Film Festival 2014
Leah will be ‘in conversation’ with Dr Gregory Ferris, coordinator of the University of Technology’s microbudget film initiative microWAVE, which will be followed by an audience Q&A on Saturday 6 September 6.30pm.
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Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Atlanta Film Festival, I Believe in Unicorns embarks upon a road trip through the stunning and complex landscape of adolescent romance. Davina is an imaginative and strong-willed teenage girl who often recedes into a beautifully twisted fantasy life, one of her coping mechanisms for growing up quickly as the sole caretaker of her disabled mother. Her other source of potential salvation comes in a new relationship with an older boy, but the enchantment of their pairing fades when a volatile side begins to emerge. The surreal slant of Jan Svankmajer, the fantasy of Michel Gondry, the natural eye of Terrence Malick and the teenage tribulations of Catherine Hardwicke combine in Leah Meyerhoff’s peering beyond the façade of tough lives and young loves.
SAT6 10.30pm
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Cinema F
Cannibal Holocaust Often advertised as “The Most Controversial Film of All-Time”, it is the definitive exercise in the sensational macabre of modern horror and was banned in Australia for 25 years.
Dir. Ruggero Deodato
The film centers on Harold Monroe (Robert Kerman), an anthropologist who travels to the depths of the cannibal-ridden Amazonian forest in South America to try and find out what happened to a documentary film crew who have been missing presumed dead for several months. After coming back with only the film canisters containing all the crew’s raw footage, he presents it to a board of television executives who want to present the footage in a documentary series. But upon initial viewings of the material, Monroe is adamant that what the footage contains cannot be shown to the public, but the executives (who are naturally only worried about ratings) still want to proceed.
95 mins
The second act is when Monroe screens for the executives (and the audience) the remainder of the footage that chronicles (in graphic and horrific detail) the inevitable fate of the ignorant film crew.
1980 USA
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“Boy, Roth sure knows how to kill people.” – Crave Online.
SAT6 11.30pm
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Dendy Cin
The Green Inferno
This screening has moved to a new location Dendy Cinema, Newtown (261-263 King St, Newtown) at 11.30pm Australian
PREMIERE
Dir. Eli Roth 2013 USA // Chile 100 mins
“A fun and interesting twist on the travelogue subgenre of horror ... far better than many horror movies with twice the budget.” ShockTillYouDrop.com
official selection
EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL Film Festival 2014
official selection
TORONTO Film Festival 2014
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Combine horror wunderkind Eli Roth with controversial Italian effort Cannibal Holocaust, and The Green Inferno is the end result. The director of Cabin Fever and Hostel gets a hilarious hunger for humans in his clever and comedic homage to the movie that was deemed so violent it was thought to be an actual snuff film and was banned in Australia for more than two decades! In his subversive spin on the ‘tourists in trouble’ trope, Roth sets a group of activists, including Skye Ferreira as Kaycee, into the wilds of the Amazon, wandering through the jungle looking to help but faced with becoming food for ravenous locals. Roth’s love for late 1970s and early 1980s genre films is obvious as he tests the limits of taste – for flesh, for fun, and for blood-curdling frights.
SAT6 6.00pm
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Australian
PREMIERE
Dir. Lars Daniel Krutzkoff Jacobsen 2013 Norway 87 mins [Subtitled] official selection
TORONTO Film Festival 2014
The immoral [De Umoralske] This films casts a condemning and caustically comedic eye - a la Lars von Trier - over contemporary Norwegian society, specifically its class structure and welfare system. Unable to survive on what the state hands out and soon cut off from government support, single mother Camilla and former soldier William band together in the countryside, hiding from the police and turning to prostitution to make a living. A loner stoner teenager and a used car salesman complete their unlikely quartet, but their new dream life isn’t without its challenges. Boundaries aren’t just pushed, they’re broken, as director Lars Daniel Krutzkoff Jacobsen provokes shock and provides laughs peppered with animated flights of fancy.
“The Immoral shows you an underside of Norway that you won’t find in the tourist brochures.” – Indiewire.
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Australian
PREMIERE
SAT6 12 noon
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Cinema F
Jack SarGeant Presents
nova express Dir. Andre Perkowski 2014 USA 70 mins
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To celebrate 100 years since the birth of William S. Burroughs (author of classics including Naked Lunch, Junky and Cities of the Red Night amongst others), SUFF and underground scholar Jack Sargeant present the Australian premiere of Andre Perkowski’s epic adaptation of Burroughs’ Nova Express. Like the radical science fiction novel on which it is based, the film cuts-up, remixes, incorporates and detours through social satire, science fiction, film noir, and the image archive of the twentieth-century to create a visual counterpart to the soundtrack voices of William Burroughs and others. Combining found footage, original film, animation and collages the film is a mammoth, visionary work offering a truly cinematic realisation of Burroughs’ world. This screening is essential for anyone interested in Burroughs, radical cinema, and storming the reality studio. With an introductory talk by Jack Sargeant, this session is essential viewing.
“Low-budget genre pictures as bold and ambitious as Proxy don’t come around often; even when they do, few of them boast execution that’s as accomplished as the concept.” – The Dissolve.
SAT6 10.30pm
hree Cinema T
Australian
PREMIERE
PROXY official selection
Dir. Zack Parker 2013 USA 120 mins
TORONTO Film Festival 2014
“A frank, unpredictable, and sometimes devastating thriller.” – FEARnet.
Brace yourselves for Proxy, a film so unnerving that the Toronto International Film Festival included a warning about its disturbing content in its program notes! Peering into the sinister side of motherhood and following the path set by Roman Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby, Zack Parker turns a tragic twist of fate into a brutal thriller where confusion and confrontation reign. Close to giving birth, Esther Woodhouse (Alexia Rasmussen) is attacked by a hooded assailant, and finds consolation in another mother (Alexa Havins), also scarred by horrific circumstances. What starts as a form of solace spirals into a circle of shocking revelations as perceptions shift, stories change, and even what is seen can’t necessarily be trusted. A standout performance by mumblecore hero Joe Swanberg and a Bernard Herrmann-esque score help complete the darkly offbeat package.
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Shadow Zombie
Australian
PREMIERE
Dir. Jorge Torres-Torres 2013 USA 73 mins
Meet Kim Filth, and enter his horror-film existence - based on fact and blended with fiction. Kim lives with his dad, sells weed to skaters, writes poetry, and snorts painkillers to get through the day. By night, he likes to stroll around painted up as his alter ego, Shadow Zombie, which is how he meets registered nurse and parttime clown Brandi. What follows is a brief romance marked by destruction by the very real phantoms emanating from Kim’s dead-end present and Brandi’s traumatic past. As captured by Jorge Torres-Torres under near-documentary conditions, the film chronicles a bunch of genuine misfits in its merciless observation of Kim’s world, daring to see past the facades of troubled souls through to their human core. official selection
official selection
NEW ORLEANS
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Film Festival 2013
CHICAGO UNDERGROUND Film Festival 2014
“A dark, mysterious and mature drama.” – Underground Film Journal.
FRI5 6.30pm
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SUN7 3.00pm
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official selection
FANTASIA International Film Festival 2014
Australian
Suburban gothic
PREMIERE
Richard Bates Jr. follows up his devilishly delicious Excision with Suburban Gothic, a slice of distrurbed middle America life that finds the mysterious in the mundane – and the humour in horror. When Raymond (Matthew Gray Gubler) attempts to kick his post-college malaise by staying with his parents, he befriends local bartender, Becca (Kat Dennings), and embarks upon an investigation into a centuriesold murder, his ability to channel the paranormal complicating matters. The kitsch of the Hardy Boys and Scooby Doo combines with Bates Jr.’s quirky, creepy charm, in a spirited package of the sweet and the supernatural. And then there’s the cameos from familiar faces and genre icons, spanning Ray Wise, Jeffrey Combs, Muse Watson, John Waters, Jennifer Lynch and Jen and Sylvia Soska.
Dir. Richard Bates Jr 2014 USA 90 mins
“Bates is carving out a unique spot for himself on the genre scene that is exciting to watch.” shocktillyoudrop.com
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trailer park boys : Don’t Legalize It
Dir. Mike Clattenburg 2014 Canada 95 mins
“As rudely and crudely funny (and strangely endearing) as our fave Canucklehheads have ever been on film.” – Jam! Movies.
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Australian
PREMIERE
The Sunnyvale gang is back now that Julian has been released from jail, again. With Ricky and Bubbles, the bumbling friends chase another greasy get-rich-quick scheme with a drink and a joint in hand. They find themselves colluding with lifelong enemies and fighting against the legalization of marijuana, which would seriously impact Ricky’s bumper crop and Julian’s drug-free urine business. Expect the usual trailer park misfits, turf wars and stoned shenanigans, as well as a road trip to the big smoke. Based on the cult Canadian mockumentary TV series Trailer Park Boys.
“Quite possibly mankind’s greatest achievement.” – Film.com.
SAT6 6.00pm
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SUN7 5.00pm
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Why don’t you play in hell? Dir. Sion Sono 2013 If you thought Holy Motors peered into the psyche of cinema with a strange and surreal mind-set, then watch Sion Sono’s Why Don’t You Play in Hell? A partner piece in theme but a unique work in its rebellious energy, it starts with a toothpaste jingle and ends with a bloodbath as it follows pop-punk film collective The Fuck Bombers. Gang warfare threatens their movie making but not their mania, as Sono uses the conflict to dance through every genre imaginable. An ode to the medium as much as an unashamed experiment, they don’t usually make films as fun, frenetic, anarchic or insane as this; in fact, they don’t usually make films like this at all. From the director of Suicide Club and Guilty of Romance (SUFF 2011).
“A deliriously gaudy celebration of the decline of everything (including Japanese cinema, film as a medium, and any notion of good taste), it plays like the improbable bastard offspring of Cinema Paradiso and Kill Bill.” – Sight and Sound.
Japan 129 mins [Subtitled]
FEATURE Films official selection
SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL Film Festival 2014
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DOCOS American Arab The Animal Condition breadcrumb trail The Dog Evolution of a criminal Freeload GMO OMG The Immortalists kidnapped for christ Love Child Mr x. (AKA MR. LEOS CARAX) My Name is Jonah The Search for Weng Weng Super Duper Alice Cooper Teenage
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Australian
PREMIERE
SAT6 4.00pm
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American Arab Dir. Usama Alshaibi 2013 USA 63 mins
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Official selection
Official selection
Chicago Underground
STOCKHOLM
Film Festival 2014
Film Festival 2014
Growing up as an Iraqi-born immigrant in Iowa was far from easy for Usama Alshaibi; living in post-9/11 America as an Arab with a name many mistook for their enemy, and trying to forge a life free from prejudice, has proved considerably more difficult. After exploring the legacy of his homeland in documentary Nice Bombs, Alshaibi tells his own story, one of constant struggle and racist condemnation, but also of an undying spirit and a determination to forge a life in the purported land of freedom. Showcasing the diversity of Arabs living in the United States, his film offers a highly personal and frequently troubling dissection of complex political, cultural and social issues. American Arab sparks a frank conversation about identity and perception, and argues for giving people “the space to be complicated.”
“This perceptive video tells a universal story about immigrants’ struggles to assimilate and seek the often elusive promise of the American dream.” – Booklist Magazine.
Sun7 1.00pm
hree Cinema T
The Animal Condition Dir. Michael Dahlstrom 2014
official selection
MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL Film Festival 2014
Australia 90 mins Meet your meat. The Animal Condition chronicles three and a half years of recent Australian history, when animal welfare grew from fringe issue to national focus with protests in the streets. It follows four friends who take an investigative road trip around Australia. Unafraid to ask questions they speak to all sides: industry heavyweights (including Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry), federal politicians (including Joe Ludwig and Bob Katter), animal welfare advocates (incl. Lyn White and Peter Singer), Indigenous Australians, immigrant factory workers, philosophers and scientists. Views on the subject change with each new encounter, leading to questions about society that go beyond the treatment of animals.
With the filmmakers in attendance.
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SAT6 8.30pm
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Breadcrumb Trail
With a filmmaker’s eye and a fan’s passion, music video director Lance Bangs unleashes his enthusiasm for seminal Louisville band Slint. If you’re not aware of the group or their famed second album Spiderland, you will be familiar with the many echoes its members and their music have had since – featuring on the Kids soundtrack, playing with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Interpol, Zwan and The Breeders, and sparking the style that would become known as post-rock. Bangs’ documentary brings together archival footage and ample interviews to trace Slint’s lineage and legacy, but it also looks lovingly upon the location that made it all happen. As Hunter S. Thompson said of their Kentucky home city, “this is a weird place.” As Breadcrumb Trail shows, from the strangeness came the sounds of history.
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Dir. Lance Bangs 2014 USA 90 mins
“An exciting examination of the more ephemeral aspects of artistic creation.” – Oregonian.
“Slint fans will find plenty to geek out over, and those merely interested in a great example of creative process will probably come away with a new record they’ll want to snag.” – Tiny Mix Tapes.
Australian
PREMIERE
SAT6 10.30pm
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The Dog
He put the canine in cinema classic Dog Day Afternoon – and became an iconic figure in the process. John Wojtowicz’s bank robbing efforts to fund his transsexual lover’s sex reassignment operation inspired Sidney Lumet’s film and Al Pacino’s performance, but as is often the case, the story that didn’t make it to the screen is just as interesting. Telling his tale to filmmakers Allison Berg and Frank Keraudren over the course of several years, the selfdescribed pervert catalogues a curious account of a life that could never be called conventional. A portrait of New York’s gay scene over several decades also emerges in a documentary that shows, whatever the reason, that every dog really does have his day.
“It’s impossible not to have your attention held by The Dog.” – Film.com. official selection
TORONTO Film Festival 2013
Dir. Allison Berg // Frank Keraudren 2013 USA 100 mins
Documentary
official selection
SXSW
Film Festival 2014
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Freeload Dir. Daniel T. Skaggs
official selection
2014
INDEPENDENT Film Festival 2014
USA 65 mins
BOSTON
official selection
DOCFEST 2014
“A love letter to the rebellious spirit, Freeload is also a bittersweet account of alienation and finding a sense of family while living a boxcar lifestyle.” – Screen Space.
Just as the original hobos of the early 20th century were scorned by the mainstream of society, so too are today’s train riders. Over the course of a year travelling, director Daniel Skaggs documents the young transients’existence in Freeload. Diving into an underclass and riding through the nation’s backyard, this film offers a musical endeavour that feels like a drama, as well as a sociological examination of the ignored. In a story of adventure, class disparity and the survival of youth, the allure of the road is infectious, proving one never forgets freedom once felt.
Documentary
Plus Short Film
PERSON TO PERSON Dustin Defa // USA // 2014 // 18 mins
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Waking up the morning after hosting a party, a man discovers a stranger passed out on his floor. He spends the rest of the day trying to convince her to leave.
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evolution of a criminal How does a 16 year-old evolve into a bank robber? In Evolution of a Criminal, filmmaker Darius Clark Monroe asks this very question— about himself. After seeing his mother and stepfather struggle to make ends meet while living outside of Houston, Texas, Monroe decided to help them by robbing a bank with two friends. In the film, Monroe interviews his family members, close friends and mentors who recount the stages of his transformation, going from a joyous childhood to the moment he realized the severity of his family’s financial problems, and how their struggles changed his outlook on society and his life as a whole. Returning to his neighborhood several years after the crime, Monroe creates an incredibly intimate and personal journey of reflection and forgiveness while beautifully examining lower class struggles, the desperation of a teen under pressure, and the emotional impact that rippled in the aftermath of that day.
Dir. Darius Clark Monroe 2014 USA 81 mins official selection
SXSW
Film Festival 2014
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“Constantly provocative and intriguing.” – Screen International.
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Australian
PREMIERE
GMO OMG Dir. Jeremy Seifert 2013 USA // Haiti // Norway 90 mins
“By turns exasperating, illuminating, and intentionally infuriating.” – The Village Voice.
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Winner best doco
official selection
BERKSHIRE
BERLIN
International Film Festival 2014
Film Festival 2014
official selection
ENVIRONMENTAL Film Festival WASHINGTON 2014
If we are what we eat, then filmmaker and concerned father Jeremy Seifert wants answers. With genetically modified crops forming a larger part of our diets – and our diets’ diets – how do they affect our children, the health of our planet, and our freedom of choice? And perhaps the ultimate question, which Seifert tests himself: is it even possible to reject the food system currently in place, or have we lost something we can’t gain back? In the style of Michael Moore, his investigation hops from his family’s table to embark upon a worldwide journey with the next generation of consumers – his children – in tow. Along the way, Seifert offers insight into a query that is of growing concern to citizens the world over: what’s really on your plate?
Australian
PREMIERE official selection
SXSW
Film Festival 2014
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The Immortalists Dir. David Alvarado // Jason Sussberg 2013 USA // UK // India 78 mins
Can we cure aging, and therefore death as a result? Two eccentric scientists are certain they can remedy the biggest blights of our mortal coil, endeavouring to create eternal youth in a world they call “blind to the tragedy of old age.” Bill Andrews is a lab biologist and famed long-distance runner racing against the ultimate clock. Aubrey de Grey is a genius theoretical biologist who conducts his research with a beer in hand. They differ in style and substance, but are united in their common crusade. Of course, staying forever young is far from easy, and their research trials and tribulations step into the personal realm as they confront their own advancing years and suffer the losses of loved ones. The dynamic duo can only persevere towards their dream of immortality – or die trying.
“The Immortalists is one of those docs that ends up being more than meets the eye.” – Pretty Clever Films. “A well-made film about a topic that we may indeed need to have serious conversations about in the not-too-distant future.” – Movie Outsiders.
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“A captivating, heart breaking, and at times suspenseful documentary that raises a lot of questions.” – Film Pulse.
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kidnapped for christ Dir. Kate Logan 2014 USA // Dominican Republic 85 mins
official selection
SLAMDANCE Film Festival 2014
official selection
CLEVELAND INTERNATIONAL Film Festival 2014
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The tale behind Kate Logan’s debut is worthy of attention itself, the evangelical filmmaker planning to chronicle the good work done with troubled teens in Christian boarding schools. What she found at Escuela Caribe, a facility in the Dominican Republic, changed her focus and her view of religion, as she witnessed kids secreted away for a stay inside its unforgiving walls for no other reason than their sexuality. That the end result is a student film defies belief, as Logan captures the terrifying reality of military-like camps intent on modifying behaviour through hard labour, physical beatings and emotional abuse. Her personal pain ripples throughout a portrait of exploitation so alarming and unforgettable that it won the audience award for best documentary at this year’s Slamdance Film Festival.
“It is hard not to watch this documentary and be as angry.” – Queertiques.
Australian
PREMIERE
Australian
PREMIERE
“You won’t forgive the couple in Love Child, but you’ll understand the environment that helped set the tragedy in motion and maybe you’ll look at your own online-heavy environment in a different way.” – HitFix.
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Love Child In 2010, a three-month-old baby girl died in South Korea, malnourished and neglected while her parents fed their online gaming addiction day and night. Instead of tending to their flesh-and-blood offspring, they immersed themselves in a game that called for them to pretend to do the same, their penchant for playing used as a defence for their actions. Valerie Veatch’s heartbreaking documentary probes the case, as well as the context – increased internet usage, technological proliferation, societal acceptance of constant connectivity – that allowed such a tragedy to happen. Befitting its blurring of the real and the virtual, this sorrowful portrait of one child’s all-too-brief existence becomes a damning statement of lives increasingly lived online.
Dir. Valerie Veatch 2014 South Korea // USA 75 mins
“This situation could be the springboard for a documentary full of righteous outrage at the system and these people. But Love Child takes a different tack, one of sensitivity. And because of that, it’s all the more heartbreaking and unnerving.”– NonFics.com. official selection
SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL Film Festival 2014 official selection
SUNDANCE Film Festival 2014
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official selection
BOSTON
UNDERGROUND Film Festival 2014
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“We cannot emphasize enough what an awesome documentary this is!” - Boston Underground Film Festival
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My Name is Jonah Dir. Phil Healy // JB Sapienza 2014 USA 103 mins
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You may not have heard of Jonah before now, but after this film, you won’t be able to forget him. He’s the cool guy we all wish we could be. He’s the master of reinvention we all secretly dream of. Or he thinks he is. So, what is the origin of this self-proclaimed ‘real-life warrior, adventurer and musician’? And how has he gained his tremendous cult following? Thanks to JB Sapienza and Phil Healy’s documentary and its five-year chronicle, you can explore how this enigmatic personality came to be, as well as the powerful effect he has on all those he meets. Prepare to be amazed at just how ordinary your own life really is.
It’s like if ‘Crumb’ and ‘Anvil’ left their baby alone with American Movie for the weekend... My Name Is Jonah is what their baby would be when they got back.” Bleeding Cool Australian
PREMIERE
Rejected
SXSW Film Festival 2014
Rejected
SUNDANCE Film Festival 2014
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MR. X (aka Mr. Leos caraX) Australian
PREMIERE
Dir. Tessa Louise-Salomé 2014 FRANCE 71 mins He’s the man who enraptured film fans with Holy Motors, who made Denis Lavant the icon he was always meant to be in Boy Meets Girl and Mauvais Sang, and who never shied away from the darkness and devastating beauty of wholly unconventional love stories in The Lovers on the Bridge and Pola X. He was once known as a cinematic poet, and then a temperamental genius, taking years to get a film made. He is Leos Carax and the subject of Tessa Louise-Salomé’s illuminating documentary which looks at his output, his influence, and his enduring enigma. Featuring interviews with his former cast members and crew, reflections from critics, time spent with his favourite leading man, and audio of the elusive figure himself, Mr Leos caraX is the insight into his oeuvre befitting his awe-inspiring impact.
“A mesmerizing experience thanks to the appeal of modern cinema’s most enigmatic auteur.” – Indiewire. official selection
INTERNATIONAL Film Festival ROTTERDAM 2014
official selection
SUNDANCE Film Festival 2014
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The Search for Weng Weng Every second documentary claims to boast a story that has to be seen to be believed, but the life and times of Weng Weng, the two-foot-nine Filipino James Bond, really do earn that description. A twenty-year obsession sparks a seven-year adventure as one cult video store owner embarks upon a fanatical quest to tell his story, all sparked by a dream guerrilla filmmaker Andrew Leavold had about what would turn out to be a very strange adventure. The Search for Weng Weng leapfrogs from one eccentric character to the next – directors, producers, actors, stuntmen, dwarf waiters, even Imelda Marcos herself – while dismantling the country’s greatest filmic urban legend. Showing that reality sometimes really is stranger than fiction, it’s part detective story, part forgotten B-film history, and part surreal search for the Holy Grail – that is, if the Grail is a diminutive superstar.
“Ultimately amounts to a serious, compassionate and rigorously competent work of investigative journalism.” – Die Danger Die Die Kill! official selection
MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL Film Festival 2014
official selection
MONSTEr Fest 2014
Dir. Andrew Leavold 2014 AUSTRALIA // PHILIPPINES 96 mins
With director in attendance for post-screening Q&A.
Documentary
official selection
SHEFIELD
DOCUMENTARY Film Festival 2014
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Welcome to his nightmare.
Australian
PREMIERE
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Eastside FM & Groovescooter presents
Super DUper Alice Cooper Dir. Sam Dunn // Reginald Harkema // Scot McFadyen 2014 Canada 98 mins
Documentary
There can be only one Alice Cooper, a name bestowed upon preacher’s son Vincent Furnier through an Ouija board-revelation of his previous life a persecuted witch, of course. Since the 1970s, he has donned the distinctive long black hair and dark eye make-up, and coloured his on-stage antics with chicken slaughtering and other theatrics, claiming his place as the founding father of shock rock. The documentary dissection of his crazy life matches the fame and frenzy that followed in his wake, sex, drugs and music just the start of it. In interviews, clips and archival materials spanning from the headlining heyday to the his endurance among new generations of fans make clear, Super Duper Alice Cooper wades through his dreams and welcomes viewers into his nightmares. official selection
TRIBECA Film Festival 2014
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Teenage Dir. Matt Wolf 2013 USA // Germany 78 mins
“An entrancing collage that puts the voice of youth at the center of a narrative in which the broad strokes of history tend to overlook them.” — Joel Arnold, NPR official selection
official selection
HOT DOCS
LONDON
Film Festival 2014
Film Festival 2014
Teenagers didn’t always exist, they had to be invented. As the cultural landscape around the world was thrown into turmoil during the industrial revolution, and with a chasm erupting between adults and youth, the concept of a new generation took shape. Whether in America, England, or Germany, whether party-crazed Flappers or hip Swing Kids, zealous Nazi Youth or frenzied SubDebs, it didn’t matter – this was a new idea of how people come of age. They were all “Teenagers.” A hypnotic rumination on the genesis of youth culture from the end of the 19th century to the first half of the 20th, Teenage is a living collage of rare archival material, filmed portraits, and diary entries read by Jena Malone, Ben Whishaw, and others. Set to a a shimmering contemporary score by Bradford Cox (Deerhunter / Atlas Sound), Teenage is a mesmerizing trip into the past and a riveting look at the very idea of “coming-of-age.”
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Shorts apocalyptic Love/Sick LSD Factory Ozploit! Reality Bites WTF Shorts the best of the FETISCH FILM FESTIVAL
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AIR Dir. Emma E. Maclennan
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Short film session
Apocalyptic
Toward the Flame Paul Turano // USA // 2014 // 5 mins // World Premiere
AIR Emma E. Maclennan // UK // 2013 // 23 mins // Australian Premiere Humanity has survived – but only in the dystopian underground facility Securos, where the air supply is depleting and engineers Alex and Nick spend their days in a futile attempt to save it. Sacrifices are enforced, but a lifetime of imagining an alternative existence inspires Alex to determine her own fate.
Short films centered around the end of the world.
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Lighting up the morning sky a meteor detonated mid air over Chebarkul, Siberia on February 15, 2013. Existential shockwaves emanating from the explosion caused a momentary chaos, and catalyzed more desperate fears that it was perhaps signaling The End.
A Fairy Tale Stefan Burgryn // AUS // 2013 // 7 mins The Tooth Fairy has been arrested after a spate of dental related crimes rock the city. An old friend is called in to interrogate her, and he finds out he’s in deeper than he thought.
Carolina Parakeet A.J. Briones // USA // 2014 // 16 mins
Yearbook
A couple running for survival from the undead find temporary shelter in the company of a newly retired schoolteacher who has a unique perspective on human nature and a grim prognosis for mankind.
A man is hired to compile the definitive history of human existence before the planet blows up.
Bernardo Britto // USA // 2013 // 6 mins
America 101 Richard Speight Jr. // USA // 2013 // 10 mins // Australian prEmiere One man’s life becomes the lesson of the day when he takes a captive audience on a twisted tour through his own personal version of the American experience.
The Last Artist Allysha Webber // AUS // 2014 // 7 mins The last man on Earth, William; an artist, must come to terms with his existence and artistic practice away from the eyes of society.
Zombie beaters Kenny Foo // AUS // 2013 // 7 mins Trapped in their own basement at the onset of a zombie outbreak, Sandra and Brett needed to learn how to improvise to get them out of a tight spot.
Call girl Jill Sixx Gevargizian // USA // 2014 // 6 mins // Australian premiere In one man’s attempt to exploit his date night via video-chat, he ends up sharing something far more disturbing.
Coming out Taylor Gahm // USA // 2013 // 7 mins // Australian premiere Tanner’s coming out of the closet takes an unexpected turn, testing the limits of love and acceptance in his family.
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Short film session
FH2 FAG HAG 2000 Dir. Emma LaGrutt
Heaven
Love/Sick
Maziar Lahooti // AUS // 2012 // 14 mins A desperate old man invades a heroin dealer’s home making weird and unusual demands.
Marina Little Vulvah & her clitoral awareness Sara Koppel // SWEDEN // 5 mins // AUS premiere
I Am Monster Shannon Lark, Lori Bowen // USA // 2013 // 18 mins // AUS premiere Vivienne’s extraordinary fetishism has taken her to a new level: necrophilia. But she gets a whole new taste of what the dead can provide when she meets Jason, a fresh body who has some ideas of his own.
A little girl wakes up as from a dream, aroused by the birds of pleasure that dresses her up in her “curious” dress.
FH2 FAG HAG 2000 Emma LaGrutta // AUS // 2012 // 12 mins // NSW premiere
Natasha Millist // AUS // 2013 // 6 mins Simon has had a warped sense of reality since a recent break-up causing him to have somewhat of a premature quarter life crisis. With the aid of his one true friend, his pet fish Brian, Simon sets out to win the affection of his most recent crush, his classmate Marina.
A twisted take on codependent relationships, and friendship in the technological age. Andrew Chambers // AUS // 2013 // 7 mins // World Premiere
François Jaros // CANADA // 6 mins
Love and Dating in LA!
Love. Grief. Shock. Denial. Sleeplessness. Bubble bath. Mucus. Masturbation. Pop tart. Pigeons. Toothpaste. Hospital. Fuck. Bye. Hair. Sports. Chicken. Bootie. Kids. Rejection. Squirrels. Cries. Awkward. 95 scenes. 5 minutes. Life’s a bitch.
A vicious serial killer looks for love in the City of Angels – and finds rich pickings.
Alex Russel // USA/AUS // 2014 // 8 mins // Australian premiere
Bryn Tilly // AUS // 2014 // 6 mins // World premiere A Mortal is seduced by a Vampire and transmogrified into an Immortal, her final hours engulfed in a tenebrous fever dream as she slips across the boundaries of Life and Death.
Worst Date Ever MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY
Life’s a Bitch
Umbra
It’s a battle of wits for two best friends who have the ability to read each other’s mind and steal thoughts.
Either it’s love or sick, or just lovesick. The perfect first date session!
Amy Wang // AUS // 2014 // 7 mins // NSW premiere Ever wondered what kind of people you could meet on the Internet? Norah is a soft spoken, mousy girl who goes on a disastrous first date with Brett, who tries to charm his way into her pants.
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Who needs drugs when you have the LSD Factory. Be afraid, these shorts will mess with your shit!
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ma Four
Cine
Maldita Vougue/ Damn you, Vougue
LSD Factory Fragments of distant memories Jon Behrens // USA // 2014 // 7 mins // AuS premiere
The damaged frames of this found 35mm film trailer reveal an undercurrent of haunting sinister images.
Bunda Pandeiro/ Tambourine Buttocks
Using hand manipulated and optically printed found footage of 1920’s home movies, this film is a porthole to a distant time – distant place and forgotten people.
Carlo Sampietro // BRAZIL // 2.1 mins // AUS premiere A metaphorical representation of the “tambourine,“ which has no gender, ethnicity or sexual orientation but is defined perfect simply from the sound that it makes.
Andre Silva // USA // 2014 // 2 mins A digital brain attempts to understand the two primal opposites from a survey of human opinions.
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The Dollhouse Sam Cummins // AUS // 2014 // 11 mins // Sydney Premiere A young woman deals with the pressures of motherhood within the confinements of a dollhouse that she calls home. Over time, the dollhouse becomes inhabited by physical reminders of her responsibilities as a Mother.
Erotos Grégory Montaldo // France // 2013 // 8 mins One summer night, he is about to make love with her. But in the tiny stifling car, the desire changes itself into a disturbing dream.
What would you do for the perfect apartment? A young man, determined to recreate a catalog of the perfect apartment, turns to prostitution for the cash. But there’s more to the photo than he knows. A thriller that exposes the sinister side of perfection, and what we sacrifice to achieve it.
Sharing a cigarette with myself Camille De saint Jean // FRANCE // 2014 // 2 mins Both girls are the same person, 20 years apart. They meet in the same frame to share a cigarette.
LINDSAY (For Those Who Don’t Have the Time) AUS Premiere Alex Munt & Justin Harvey // Aus // 2014 // 16 mins
Binary
A rotoscoped remix of food advertisements from 1980s Australia.
Angus Ware // AUS // 2013 // 9 mins // AUS premiere
short film session
Tony Lawrence // AUS // 2014 // 3 mins // WORLD premiere
Emma Hicks // Aus // 2013 // 3 mins
Screw
Dir. Julia Portella and Melina
Beware
Mmmmm
A sample-based work which collides Michael Snow’s iconic experimental film Wavelength (1967) with celebrity-comeback Reality TV series Lindsay (OWN, 2014). A story about space: from one New York SoHo loft to another, some 50 years apart.
The Shove My Sandstrom // Sweden // 2014 // 15 mins The story about Tobias who works as a bouncer. One night he accidentally shoves a drunken guest. He is sentenced to be shoved in return, but he is not told when it is supposed to happen..
Summer 1975 Maldita Vougue/ Damn you, Vougue Julia Portella and Melina Schleder // BRAZIL // 2014 // 11 mins // World Premiere About the desire to fit in and the way this desire can consume you.
Wrik Mead // CANADA // 2014 // 10 mins // AUS Premiere Summer 1975 is an animated film based on one year in the filmmakers fractured life. Rotoscoped figures are layered with stills and live video footage to create an open narrative based on events in his life that took place in 1975.
An outrageously diverse session of short films by the Australian new wave!
309 Bad Habits of Wuthering Wonda Phroi Kovalesky // AUS // 2013 // 6 mins A black comedy about a girl named Wonda who wakes up with a sense of impending doom, that today she is going to die and one of her bad habits is going to be her end.
Biting Down Kate Cornish // AUS // 2013 // 8 mins
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Budget Cuts Dir. Jarret Gahan
A young female heroine challenges the traditional role of ‘femme fatale’ – a true force in her own right.
Ozploit!
Exposure Rebecca Amat // AUS // 2013 // 5 mins
Boat people Kosta Nikas // AUS // 2014 // 5 mins The year is 1789, Australia. Two Aboriginal warriors capture three British shipwreck survivors. They argue over the fate of these “boat people” and whether their way of life will change if they let more of them in.
The escalating betrayal between two thieves in the aftermath of a heist is reconstructed by a crime scene photographer. Their violent collision is imagined in frozen tableaus through the camera lens.
Kookaburra Ramya Chandrasekaran // AUS // 2014 // 4 mins A strange thing happens when a man crosses paths with an agitated kookaburra with a penchant for murder, his life will never be the same again.
Prank Alex Weight // AUS // 2014 // 11.5 mins A short horror film in the attitude of classic 1980s horror films. Three boys get together on Halloween to pay a visit to an old friend. Once they get there we discover not all is at it seems.
Budget Cuts Jarret Gahan // AUS // 2013 // 12 mins One man’s account of dealing with murder and his tips on how to save coin while committing it.
Dos colectore (Two Collectors) Patrick Feary, Rhys Bennett // AUS // 2013 // 6 mins Filmed and edited in just 24 hours, Dos Colectore (Two Collectors) is the tale of two debt collectors and their mindless quest for justice.
good job Ian Cameron Hillman // AUS // 2013 // 10 mins Knocking over your dodgy cousin’s local seemed like a brilliant idea but disgraced businessman Mick’s new job as an armed robber is not going to plan.
Scammers Tessa Muskett // AUS // 2013 // 3 mins // World Premiere A young girl with moneymaking ambition, meets someone who inspires her to step up her game, but is it too much too soon?
Trash Ryan O’Donnell // AUS // 2013 // 11 mins // World Premiere Three trash bags. Two brothers. One epic quest. After a spat with his girlfriend Claire, straight-laced Jake is forced to call on his partyloving brother Marty to help him dispose of some nasty business.
Identity Cathy Vu // AUS // 2013 // 6 mins
Stop Leak
Jack awakes from unconsciousness to find himself in an unfamiliar room in a strange building. He is without memory of who he is and where he’s been.
At an awkward first lunch at his girlfriend’s parents’ place, Willy finds himself trapped in a rare and terrifying situation.
Dan White // AUS // 2013 // 8 mins // AUS Premiere
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into the Streets Dir. Taylor Litton-Strain
Short film session
Reality Bites Sumood
A waltz forward Sean Singh // AUS // 2014 // 10 mins A short documentary that challenges the negative stigma and stereotypes associated with the sex industry. Featuring interviews from experienced sex workers.
History Lesson Dirk de Bruyn, Steven McIntyre (producers) // AUS // 2013 // 4 mins // World premiere In June 1993 Paul Keating went on radio station 2UE to field talk-back calls on the Australian High Court Mabo decision : this animated group documentary is made by students at Deakin University.
Into the Streets Logan Mucha // AUS // 2013 // 6 mins It was 1978, the violent beginning of Sydney’s Gay Mardi Gras. In a time of public persecution, the gay community took to the streets.
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Tessa Dowdell // AUS // 2013 // 8 mins
Live through this Lisa Camillo // AUS // 2013 // 8 mins Can a man embrace his mother’s killer? A film about the ultimate act of forgiveness.
Love in the Time of March Madness Melissa Johnson, Robertino Zambrano // AUS // 2014 // 9 mins Melissa Johnson hit 6’4’’ tall in 8th grade. Although this made her an instant basketball star, this film explores her hilarious and awkward true-life misadventures in romance.
Not Anymore – a story of revolution Matthew VanDyke // USA // SYRIA // 2013 // 15 mins Tells the story of the Syrian struggle for freedom as experienced by a 32 year old rebel commander, Mowya, and a 24 year old female journalist, Nour, in Aleppo, Syria.
Some Girl Who Tells Stories Whitney Johnston // USA // 2012 // 11 mins // AUS premiere I work with what I know—with whatever literalness memory will allow, embracing neuroses and the damaged or doomed parts of the psyche. These are my stories.
Hana Husain is, at 5ft tall, is diminutive in size but not in character. A mother of three and former teacher, she fled to Sydney two years ago after her husband, a civil servant, was put on a government hit-list for attending a protest.
Teagan Sheldon Lieberman, Igor Coric // AUS // 2013 // 3 mins // NSW premiere
Sourced Peter Dowson // AUS // 2013 // 13 mins Reveals the potential of small-scale, local agriculture to strengthen food security and build resilient urban communities in Sydney Australia.
See fascinating reallife narratives in short bite-sized pieces.
A story of transition – from male to female, and from despondency to happiness. Using recorded interview material and representative artwork, this short touches on the fear and loneliness of living in the closet, and the joy and confidence that comes with stepping into the light.
The working cat’s guide to the Klondike Veronica Verkley // CANADA // 2012 // 10 mins Recalling the traditional practice of Cat Sledding, which was unique to the area of Dawson City, Yukon, in Canada’s far north.
Blood Rag Dir. Emma Varker
AFTERBIRTH Sam Freeman // AUS // 2013 // 12 mins // World Premiere A young man is coerced into smoking his own marijuanalaced placenta after it was enshrined in his recently deceased drug-riddled mother’s weed stash jar on the day of his birth.
Forty seven point zwei Thomas Grainger // AUS // 2013 // 4 mins An intimate meditation on the construction of identity, the objectification of the body and the fetishisation of that which shapes it: cuisine and physical activity.
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Luke Sullivan // AUS // 2013 // 7 mins // World Premiere Paddy experiences a series of misfortunes when trying to repay a debt to a vicious and malevolent underworld crime boss.
Blood Rag Emma Varker // AUS // 2014 // 4 mins // World Premiere
Horror Movie William Jones // AUS // 2013 // 12 mins // Sydney Premiere Two horror fanatics celebrate Halloween with a movie marathon, but their evening goes horribly wrong when a serial killer takes their love of scary movies one step too far. Scream meets It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
Agent Renko is dispatched to the Czech Republic to recover the mad scientist Abramovich and destroy his gruesome army of zombie soldiers.
Tim Barretto // AUS // 2013 // 4 mins // Sydney Premiere A man’s wants and needs are skewed in what appears to be a reality that is less tangible than the thoughts in his head. It might not all make sense.
November brings with it a creeping damp, cold and fog. And spiritual reflections from a downtrodden creature.
Sophie Vukovic // sweden // 2013 // 3 mins // AUS Premiere A food ritual starts out in control and ends in a regressive climax that subverts everyday habits of regulation and consumption.
River Corner Store
Invasive species
Brian Lye // Canada // 2013 // 3 mins // AUS Premiere
Max Majoros // USA // 2014 // 3 mins // AUS Premiere A farmer goes deep into uncharted territory in pursuit of a beast that presents a threat to him and his family.
Disillusioned By My Mental Illustrations
WTF Shorts
Eric Esser // GERMANY // 2014 // 5 mins
Hungry
Markus Wimberger // Austria // 2013 // 3 mins // Australian Premiere
Short film session
November
Don’t let pesky periods ruin your lifestyle.
Bloody Monster
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BAD LUCK PADDY
Sean Patrick McAuliffe, Oliver Claude Buckworth // AUS // 2010 // 13 mins // World Pemiere If you have never masturbated with sardines, had a sexual sneeze obsession or been chased by an African Internet Predator you haven’t lived.
VERBATIM
A large beard and a casual shopper in Canada’s far North.
Brett Weiner // USA // 2014 // 7 mins // AUS Pemiere A jaded lawyer wastes the better part of an afternoon trying to figure out if a dimwitted government employee has ever used a photocopier.
What the f*ck were these filmmakers thinking – pure genius or mentally unstable?!
The Journey Shaked Shamir // Israel // 2013 // 45 secs The animation’s hero is a female character, locked in ever changing environments. She travels on, forced into weird encounters and uncanny experiences.
SNeeZE
Radish Diego Ramirez // AUS // 2013 // 5 mins // Sydney Premiere Radish is a creature without name, gender or citizenship, a meaningless blob.
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Eroticide Dir. Matthew Saliba
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the best of the FETISCH FILM FESTIVAL - germany The FETISCH FILM FESTIVAL takes place in Kiel, Germany each year and presents the best in erotic fetishes and BDSM on film. You can catch 3 of the best films here for your visual and aural pleasure!
A WEEKEND IN GERMANY Directed by Jan Soldat // Germany // 2013 // 25 mins // German language with English subtitles Manfred and Juergen, both in the mid 70s, are enjoying their free Saturday. Lying in the sun, working in the garden and struggling. On Sunday Rosi, an old pal of them, comes around to join their SMBondage-Session.
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Curated and Presented by Vahid Vahed and Exotic Date.
LOOPS EROTICIDE Directed by Matthew Saliba // Canada // 2013 // 38 mins // English language EROTICIDE tells the story of a young man named Yan and how his addiction to erotic humiliation sets the course of his life on a downward spiral when his ex, Kendra comes back into the picture, forcing him to choose between a future with his loving girlfriend, Elise or one of empty sexual gratification with Kendra.
Directed by Steen Schapiro // Denmark // 2013 // 31 mins // Danish language with English subtitles Experimental-art-film in five episodes: Why do we separate daily life and sexual needs?
Free samples for everyone in the audience to try new date vinegar by Exotic Date.
Awards and jury The Sydney Underground Film Festival believes that all the films they program are equally good, however we do like to commend filmmakers that go the extra mile in transgressing the status quo when it comes to film form and content. Thanks to our 2014 judges:
NICHOLAS HOPE (Award-winning actor
for Bad Boy Bubby, author and Playwright)
LAUREN CARROLL HARRIS (Artist and author of Not At A Cinema Near You: Australia’s Film Distribution Problem)
Thanks to
Mark n poo Wothers
(Sydney-based Glass Artist) for creating the coveted SUFF Dead Oscar awards!
NEIL FOLEY (Film distributor Monster Pictures and Festival Director Monster Fest)
The best Australian film Editing Award The winner will receive a one week Avid editing package at the SPECTRUM FILMS Fox Studios Facility to the value of $3,500 valid one year from date of presentation.
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Acknowledgements
Festival team Katherine Berger (Festival Director) Stefan Popescu (Festival Director) Stephanie Gal (Marketing Coordinator) Jessica Campbell (Marketing Assistant) Liz Berger (Graphic Designer) Livia Rubiolini (Festival Assistant) Andrew Robards (Website Coordinator) Sarah Ward (Festival Program Words Editor) Toni Clancy (Volunteer Coordinator) Gabbi Sulfaro (Programming Intern) Mad Pacheco (Programming Intern) Rhys Turner (iPhone App Designer) JoJo - studiodelajojo.com (Festival Photographer)
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Michelle Berger. Helena & Michael Berger, Lauren Carroll Harris, Jamie De Sousa, Paul Doran, Kate Fitzpatrick, Neil Foley, Nicholas Hope, Mark Lazarus, Aspasia & Jaimie Leonarder, Sarah Mandelson, Karen Martin, Ray Micallef, Anne Nguyen, Renata Ogayar, Melanie Otuhouma, Paris Pompor, Colin Rhodes, Kelly Rogers, Jack Sargeant, Jenny Shaw, Naomii Sinclair, Deahn Taylor, Martin Thorne, Ant Timpson, Richard Tourino, Chris Turner, Mark Ward, Mark Wotherspoon, Kishore (Summer Hill Post Office) and to anyone that we have forgotten – thank you!
309 Bad Habits
Coming out
A Fairy Tale
Devil’s Tower
Phroi Kovalesky Ozploit! // Page 49
Stefan Burgryn Apocalyptic // Page 46
A Waltz Forward
Sean Singh Reality Bites // Page 50
A Weekend in Germany
Jan Soldat FETISCH FILM FESTIVAL // Page 52
Afterbirth
Sam Freeman WTF Shorts // Page 51
Air
Emma E. Maclennan Apocalyptic // Page 46
America 101
Richard Speight Jr. Apocalyptic Shorts Page 46
American Arab
Usama Alshaib Documentary // Page 26
The Animal Condition
Dir. Michael Dahlstrom Documentary // Page 27
Bad Luck Paddy Luke Sullivan WTF Shorts // Page 51
Taylor Gahm Love/Sick // Page 47 Dir. Owen Tooth Feature // Page 15
Disillusioned By My Mental Illustrations
Tim Barretto WTF Shorts // Page 51
The Dog
Dir. Allison Berg & Frank Keraudren Documentary // Page 31
The Dollhouse
Sam Cummins LSD Factory // Page 48
Dos colectore (Two Collector) Patrick Feary & Rhys Bennett Ozploit! // Page 49
Eroticide
Matthew Saliba FETISCH FILM FESTIVAL // Page 52
Evolution of a criminal
Dir. Darius Clark Monroe Documentary // Page 33
Erotos
Grégory Montaldo LSD Factory // Page 48
Exposure
Beckoning the Butcher
Rebecca Amat Ozploit! // Page 49
Beware
Emma LaGrutta Love/Sick // Page 47
Dir. Dale Trott Feature // Page 14
Tony Lawrence LSD Factory // Page 48
Binary
Andre Silva LSD Factory // Page 48
Biting Down
Kate Cornish Ozploit! // Page 49
Blood Rag
Emma Varker WTF Shorts // Page 51
Bloody Monster Markus Wimberger WTF Shorts // Page 51
Boat People
Kosta Nikas Ozploit! // Page 49
Breadcrumb Trail
Lance Bangs Documentary // Page 28
Budget Cuts
Jarret Gahan Ozploit! // Page 49
Bunda Pandeiro/ Tambourine Buttocks
Carlo Sampietro LSD Factory // Page 48
Call Girl
Jill Sixx Gevargizian Love/Sick // Page 47
Carolina Parakeet
A.J. Briones Apocalyptic // Page 46
FH2 FAG HAG 2000 Forty Seven Point Zwei
Thomas Grainger WTF Shorts // Page 51
Fragments of Distant Memories
Jon Behrens LSD Factory // Page 48
Freeload
Daniel T. Skaggs Documentary // Page 32
GMO OMG
Jeremy Seifert Documentary // Page 34
Good Job
Ian Cameron Hillman Ozploit! // Page 49
The Green Inferno
Eli Roth Feature // Page 18
I am Monster
Shannon Lark, Lori Bowen Love/Sick // Page 47
I Believe in Unicorns
Dir. Leah Meyerhoff Feature // Page 15
Identity
Cathy Vu Ozploit! // Page 49
The Immoral
Dir. Lars Daniel Krutzkoff Jacobsen Feature // Page 19
The Immortalists Dir. David Alvarado & Jason Sussberg Documentary // Page 35
Into the Streets Taylor Litton-Strain Reality Bites // Page 50
Invasive Species
Max Majoros WTF Shorts // Page 51
The Journey
Shaked Shamir WTF Shorts // Page 51
Mmmmm
Emma Hicks LSD Factory // Page 48
Mr. X
Tessa Louise-Salomé Documentary // Page 39
My Name is Jonah
Phil Healy & JB Sapienza Documentary // Page 38
My Thoughts Exactly
Andrew Chambers Love/Sick // Page 47
The Last Artist
November
Ramya Chandrasekaran Ozploit! // Page 49 Allysha Webber Apocalyptic // Page 46
Life’s a Bitch
François Jaros Love/Sick // Page 47
LINDSAY (For Those Who Don’t Have the Time)
Alex Munt & Justin Harvey LSD Factory // Page 48
Little Vulvah & her Clitoral Awareness Sara Koppel Love/Sick // Page 47
Live Through This
Lisa Camillo Reality Bites // Page 50
Loops
Steen Schapiro Fetisch Film Festival // Page 52
Horror Movie
Love in the Time of March Madness
Sophie Vukovic WTF Shorts // Page 51
Natasha Millist Love/Sick // Page 47
Kookaburra
Love Child
Hungry
Marina
Nova Express
Kate Logan Documentary // Page 36
History Lesson
William Jones WTF Shorts // Page 51
Julia Portella & Melina Schleder LSD Factory // Page 48
Kidnapped for Christ
Love and Dating in LA!
Dirk de Bruyn & Steven McIntyre Reality Bites // Page 50
Maldita Vougue/ Damn you, Vougue
Not Anymore – a Story of Revolution
Heaven
Maziar Lahooti Love/Sick // Page 47
a-z films
Alex Russel Love/Sick // Page 47
Valerie Veatch Documentary // Page 36
Melissa Johnson, Robertino Zambrano Reality Bites // Page 50
Matthew VanDyke Reality Bites // Page 50 Andre Perkowski Feature // Page 18
Eric Esser WTF Shorts // Page 51
Prank
Alex Weight Ozploit! // Page 49
Proxy
Zack Parker Feature // Page 19
Radish
Diego Ramirez WTF Shorts // Page 51
Some Girl Who Tells Stories
Whitney Johnston Reality Bites // Page 50
Sourced
Peter Dowson Reality Bites // Page 50
Stop Leak
Dan White Ozploit! // Page 49
Suburban Gothic
Richard Bates Jr Feature // Page 23
Summer 1975
Wrik Mead LSD Factory // Page 48
Sumood
Tessa Dowdell Reality Bites // Page 50
Super Duper Alice Cooper
Sam Dunn, Reginald Harkema & Scot McFadyen Documentary // Page 42
Teagan
Sheldon Lieberman & Igor Coric Reality Bites // Page 50
Teenage
Matt Wolf Documentary // Page 43
Toward the Flame
Paul Turano Apocalyptic // Page 46
Trailer Park Boys : Don’t Legalize It
Mike Clattenburg Feature // Page 24
Trash
River Corner Store
Ryan O’Donnell Ozploit! // Page 49
Scammers
Bryn Tilly Love/Sick // Page 47
Screw
Brett Weiner WTF Shorts // Page 51
Brian Lye WTF Shorts // Page 51 Tessa Muskett Ozploit! // Page 49 Angus Ware LSD Factory // Page 48
The Search for Weng Weng
Andrew Leavold Documentary // Page 41
Shadow Zombie
Jorge Torres-Torres Feature // Page 22
Sharing a Cigarette with Myself
Camille De saint Jean LSD Factory // Page 48
The Shove
My Sandstrom LSD Factory // Page 48
SNeeZE
Sean Patrick McAuliffe, Oliver Claude Buckworth WTF Shorts // Page 51
Umbra
Verbatim
Wetlands
David Wnendt Feature // Page 11
Why Don’t You Play in Hell? Sion Sono Feature // Page 25
The Working Cat’s Guide to the Klondike
Veronica Verkley Reality Bites // Page 50
Worst Date Ever Amy Wang Love/Sick // Page 47
Yearbook
Bernardo Britto Apocalyptic // Page 46
Zombie Beaters
Kenny Foo Apocalyptic // Page 46
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