2013 SUFF (Sydney Underground Film Festival) PROGRAM

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THURSDAY 5 SEPT Doors Open 6:00pm

Opening Night Film & Party

Doors Open 6:00pm

OPENING FILM:

FILM Starts 7:30pm

(The Holy Mountain, El Topo)

THE DANCE OF REALITY Dir.Alejandro Jodorowsky

+Performance by BETTY GRUMBLE OPENING NIGHT PARTY ‘til 12am page 6

FRIDAY 6 SEPT Doors Open 6:00pm

6.30pm 8.00pm

HARRY DEAN STANTON: PARTLY FICTION page 16

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A BAND CALLED DEATH page 17

THE INSTITUTE page 18

There are 4 cinemas at The Factory Theatre:

Cinema One, Two, Three and Four

Follow the signs at the venue or ask a SUFF Volunteer for directions.

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THE FACTORY THEATRE, 105 VICTORIA RD, MARRICKVILLE

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Break 8:00pm - 8:30pm

MAGIC MAGIC

Cinema Information:

DISCOVERDALE BIG JOY: THE ADVENTURES page 10 OF JAMES BROUGHTON

ADJUST YOUR TRACKING: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE VHS COLLECTOR page 18

Break 10:00pm - 10:30pm

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THE ROOM page 8

ANTISOCIAL page 11

BEST OF THE FETISCH FILM FESTIVAL [Shorts films] page 23

THIS BAND IS SO GORGEOUS! page 19

Saturday 7 SEPT

SUNDAY 8 SEPT

Doors Open 11:30am

Doors Open 12:30pm

12 noon 1:30pm

THE FINAL MEMBER page 19

OZPLOIT! [Short films] page 23

TROLL 2

SEE YOU NEXT TUESDAY

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PERVERT’S LONG DISTANCE PICTURES OF GUIDE TO REVOLUTIONARY: SUPERHEROES IDEOLOGY A JOURNEY page 12 WITH MUMIA page 20 ABU-JAMAL page 20

FREE RADICALS [Short films] page 24

Break 4:00pm - 4:30pm 4:30pm 6:00pm

UNLAWFUL KILLING

UNHUNG HERO

[Live] MR DOODLEBURGER

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LSD FACTORY [Short films] page 24

Break 6:00pm - 6:30pm

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THE ROOM [10th Anniversary Screening] page 13

8:30pm 10:00pm

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SEEKING ASIAN FEMALE page 17

ADJUST YOUR TRACKING: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE VHS COLLECTOR

A BODY WITHOUT ORGANS page 22

3:00pm4:30pm

10:30pm 12am

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Best Worst LOVESICK MIND-BENDING Movie Bingo! [Short films] GENRE BIRDEMIC: page 25 DISLOCATION & SHOCK & PULP VIDEO!

TERROR

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BIRDEMIC 2: THE POOR LITTLE ANTISOCIAL RESURRECTION RICH GIRLS page 11 (AFTER page 14 WARHOL) page 15

MAGIC MAGIC HARRY DEAN UNLAWFUL STANTON: KILLING page 10 PARTLY page 21 FICTION page 16

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RETURN TO NUKE ‘EM HIGH: VOL. 1 page 13

Break 4:30pm - 5:00pm

JOHN DIES AT THE END 5:00pm 7:00pm

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WHAT THE THE FINAL WORLD MEMBER NEEDS NOW, page 19 GEORGE GITTOES: In Conversation with 2SER

BIRDEMIC 2: THE RESURRECTION page 14

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Closing Night

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Break 10:00pm - 10:30pm

ROB ZOMBIE’S LORDS OF SALEM

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REALITY BITES [Short films]

Break 2:30pm - 3:00pm

Break 8:00pm - 8:30pm

RETURN TO NUKE ‘EM HIGH: VOL. 1

Best Worst A BAND Movie Bingo! CALLED TROLL 2 DEATH

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Break 1:30pm - 2:00pm

2:00pm 4:00pm

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HOW TO MAKE MONEY SELLING DRUGS

Film & Party CLOSING NIGHT FILM:

7:30pm 12:00am

THE CANYONS

Written by Bret Easton Ellis and directed by Paul Schrader AFTER PARTY ‘til 12am With special performances and a live band! page 7

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OUR PARTNERS & Patrons The SUFF HQ kindly sponsored by Sydney College of the Arts.

Cultural & educational partners

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Hello all you intelligent, artistic, provocative, and depraved types! We’re thrilled you can share in the excitement and madness of festival #7.

A few months ago, a marketing group offered us their services pro bono, asking: “if the festival was a character in a film, who would it be?” We answered: “Imagine Tyler Durden, The Joker, and Hunter S. Thompson as the multiple personalities of Amelie.” Needless to say, they loved our fractured psyche.

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Every year the festival becomes more daring, defiant, and adventurous - with the 2013 program including everything from Jodorowsky, unlawful screenings, Best Worst Movie Bingo, phallus films, rockumentaries, and filmmakers in conversation.

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Previous attendees of our fun, lively, discursive four-day festival will know that it is a great chance to see a diverse range of films you may never experience again, and to meet wacky creative types you may not otherwise encounter. Come on our latest adventure, and see what our eclectic vision has become.

We look forward to sharing a bevvy, and remember - it’s only cinema, it can’t kill you!

PRINTING PARTNER

food and beverage partners

supporting partners

our festival patrons ARTHUR CANTRILL

PAUL WINKLER

JOHN CLARK

GEORGE GITTOES

SONTAYA SUBYEN

CORINNE CANTRILL

DAVID PERRY

JAIMIE LEONARDER

ASPASIA LEONARDER

Jack SargeAnt

Sadly we lost Albie Thoms in 2012, one of our founding patrons. Albie was very supportive and instrumental in helping us get SUFF off the ground in 2007. Viva Albie Thoms!

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GETTING THERE • 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 are also available nearby.

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VENUE INFORMATION The venue bars offer confectionery, snacks, and both non-alcoholic and alcoholic beverages. Onsite food vans operate during the festival. There will also be a filmmaker’s lounge, merchandise desk and a SUFF info desk at the venue in 2013 – look for the big eye!

TICKET PRICES (ADULT / CONCESSION) • Festival Pass (Including opening & closing) ..........$120 / 100 • Opening Night (includes food & drink).....................$40 / 35 • Closing Night Film & Party........................................$20 / 15 • Friday day pass..........................................................$30 / 27 • Saturday day pass......................................................$54 / 48 • Sunday day pass.........................................................$40 / 36 • Individual session tickets............................................$14 / 12 • 4-film pass..................................................................$40 / 36 • Ticket prices include GST. Tickets incur a booking fee. Transactions 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.

• All sessions are 18+

• Seating is limited, therefore early purchases are always recommended.

Please arrive at least 15 minutes before the session starts.

• Concessions are available to full-time students, pensioners, seniors, health care card and companion card holders.

Concession cards must be shown.

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Opening Night Film & Party

Take a journey with Jodorowsky and his long-awaited film THE DANCE OF REALITY at SUFF #7 and enjoy the festivities with new WILDE Gluten Free Pale Ale, ROSNAY ORGANIC Wine and pizza from SUPREME GOURMET PIZZA BAR. Plus performances and live music; the 2013 Sydney Underground opening night is going to be one to remember. Doors 6pm (Pizza / Drinks) for 7:30pm start.

DJs thanks to:

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BETTY GRUMBLE Betty Grumble is a former child pageant star come beauty queen and serious showgirl. Is she Woman or Beast? Watch her unravel in a flurry of feathers, fluids and flesh!

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the dance of reality dir. Alejandro Jodorowsky // 2013 // Chile // 130 min official selection

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“A triumphant return, which mixes autobiography, politics, torture and fantasy to exuberant, moving effect the justice system, the news media and the very notion that America is at heart the land of the free.”– The Guardian From the renowned director of The Holy Mountain and El Topo, Alejandro Jodorowsky, returns with his first new feature in 23 years - rightfully evoking feverish excitement. At the age of 84, the Chilean auteur has cast his gaze inwards in relating the tale of his father and his upbringing, based on his autobiography of the same name.

The expected imaginative flights of psychedelic fancy remain, as does his transformative blend of personal narrative, mythology and poetry, with objectivity far from the key. Dive as far into Jodorowsky’s mind as he may ever let you – and revel in his surrealistic majesty.

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thE CANYONS dir. Paul Schrader // 2013 // USA // 100 mins official selection

With the Australian Premiere of THE CANYONS and a party included in your ticket, where else would you want to be on a Sunday night? Celebrate the end of SUFF with a bang! With music, performances and a complimentary Serendipity Icecream for every guest!

Plus Twilight of the Dogs perform live (with Hellen Rose on vocals and Miles Brown on Theremin!)

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CLOSING night film

DJs thanks to:

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It’s not The Hills, it’s The Canyons, a slick, seething, sexually-charged ride through the minds of writer Bret Easton Ellis and director Paul Schrader. On the edge of Hollywood, rich, scheming producer Christian (James Deen) makes movies to satisfy his father’s insistence that he maintains a viable career; Tara (Lindsay Lohan), his girlfriend with her own

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sordid secrets, watches on as his demanding demeanour plunges their relationship into deeper and darker territory. Their dalliance with the dangers of Los Angeles living comes to life in a neo-noir thriller steeped in obsession and ambition, and styled as a hyper-kinetic postmodern horror story of sex and violence.

$20 ($15 concession) COMPLIMENTARY SERENDIPITY ICECREAM FOR EACH GUEST!

“An unsentimental West-Coast Girls, done as tragedy instead of comedy.”– Movieline 7

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The most fun you’ll have in the cinema - laugh and cringe and cross out the squares as the madness unfolds onscreen!

Come and experience best worst movie bingo with three classic ‘so bad they’re good’ movies! Everyone gets a game card and we play bingo to the best one-liners, clichés and on-screen antics, such as: “Oh, Hi Mark!” or “Coathangers” or “A Double-Decker Bologna Sandwich!” Watching bad movies is fun.

Playing bingo to them is truly sublime!

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the room Tommy Wiseau // 2003 // USA // 99 mins “To make a movie that’s so bad it’s good you need vision, drive, luck and obsessive vanity. Fortuitously, The Room’s writer/producer/director/star Tommy Wiseau appears to possess all of these qualities.” – The Guardian

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10th anniversary of this unexpected cult hit that is not just a movie, but an experience.

It’s Tommy Wiseau’s labour of love that was crowned the worst movie ever made you’ll laugh so hard it will tear you apart!

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BIRDEMIC: SHOCK & TERROR

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James Nguyen // 2010 // USA // 90 mins “Birdemic is a fucking riot. What James Nguyen thought he was doing when he made this movie is anybody’s guess.” – Bryan White, Cinema Suicide Birds attack. People Die. Some people fight back with coathangers. There is nothing that can prepare you for this film - in one way or another it will change your life.

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Claudio Fragasso // 1990 // USA // 95 mins “The best thing about Troll 2 is that it’s the perfect bad example. Pick something about the movie, anything you want. Not only does this movie do it bad, but it does it bad tragically.”

– Brad Jones, TheCinemaSnob.com An idiotic family ventures to the uninviting Nilbog to find aggressive vegan goblins (not trolls) transforming visitors into flora and food. There are many reasons that Troll 2 is considered a cult classic – see for yourself.

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WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW GEORGE GITTOES IN CONVERSATION WITH 2SER

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G’Day Shitburgers! You’re invited once again to the mayhem that is Doodleburger. That’s right worms, it seems the Sydney Underground Film Festival skimped on security costs this year so I will be violently forcing pieces of myself upon crowds like a disgruntled suicide bomber. Attendance is MANDATORY for all you card-carrying sick fucks out there. It’s sure to be more brutal than a back-alley mastectomy, so come and..

WITNESS: A demented collection of new ‘Hey Dad!’ videos.

GAZE UPON: A short film documenting Alf’s first day of work at a women’s prison.

TAKE IN: The majesty of ‘A Cuntry Practice’.

EXPERIENCE: The origins of Alf, with a look at how he cocooned from simple masochistic caterpillar to the total psychopathic butterfly he is today.

MARVEL: As Doodleburger puts Hugh Jackman to shame as the REAL Australian Wolverine in an animation by the very talented Keshen.

Plus plenty of your favourite Doodleburger classics.

So don’t be the one that everyone hates because they miss the boat like a drowning asylum seeker, get your ticket TODAY!

Love Mr Doodleburger.

PS Lucky c*nts can also win rare-as-hens balls Doodleburger merch.

Discover the method (and productive madness!) behind one of Australia’s wildest auteurs - George Gittoes. He will reveal his filmmaking practice, screen a preview of LOVE CITY JALALABAD, and offer a worldfirst glimpse of Snow Monkey – the working title for the third film in the What the World Needs NOW! trilogy following Miscreants of Taliwood and Love City Jalalabad, to be filmed in Afghanistan through the proposed 2014 – 2015 evacuation of US, Australian and European forces.

George will also discuss the why and how of his Jalalabad creative hub Yellow House, and its unique position to document the historic exit of the Occupation Forces.

This can’t-be-missed special event is presented in association with 2SER - “In Conversation” series.

PLUS Hellen Rose (performance artist and co-founder of Yellow House Jalalabad) and her band Twilight of the Dogs perform at the closing night party!

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dir. Sebastián Silva // 2013 // Chile / US // 97 mins

dir. George Kane // 2012 // Ireland / UK / Norway / Sweden // 81 mins official selection

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This is not Spinal Tap. This is Whitesnake – and Dead Cat Bounce. The ‘80s long-locked rockers and the cult comedy band combine in a mockumentary that breathes fresh life into the genre, driven by family, fame, and blind faith. As Dead Cat Bounce lead singer Jim traverses Europe to find the long lost father he believes is Whitesnake frontman David Coverdale, a fly-on-the-wall film crew follow their every move.

They’ve got no money and no idea what they’re doing – just a dream that one day soon Jim will be sharing a jacuzzi in a fivestar hotel with his ideal dad… and some attractive groupies.

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“Make sure you make a beeline for what will be the most talked about indie comedy of 2013.”

– Screen One

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“… channels early Polanski to produce a beguiling and gut-wrenching psychological horror for the Diablo Cody generation. And anyone else with a fondness for powerful, inventive cinema.”

– Chris, Fyvie, The Skinny

On an island holiday in Chile, the uncertain, insomnia-plagued Alicia (June Temple) expects solace from her cousin Sarah’s (Emily Browning) company; what she finds instead is an unsettling sense of unease that permeates from Sarah’s boyfriend (Agustín Silva) and strange pals Barbara (Catalina Sandino Moreno) and Brink (an against-type Michael Cera).

Writer/director Sebastián Silva (The Maid, Old Cats) hypnotically plays with the darkness of group dynamics to create a slow-burning but always sinister thriller filled with dread and delicious deadpan moments. You won’t know whether to laugh or look away – or both.

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Antisocial

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To paraphrase T.S. Eliot, this is the way the world ends – not with a bang, but a tweet. At a New Year’s Eve party in the not-so-distant future, five university friends are faced with the ultimate apocalyptic scenario: as a worldwide pandemic of violence, suicide and hallucinations erupts outside, technology becomes their only life-line. Barricaded inside the house, they turn to their phones, laptops and tablets to scour chat rooms, blogs and social media for answers. Reality becomes blurred as they slowly discover the source of the virus causing the sickness... and there is no going back.

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“Antisocial might be the Canadian sleeper hit of the year, a film that is bound to keep you up thinking about its implications; a concept hitting far too close to home to let you forget it, and one that is bound to be explored again in the future.”

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“The best thing about Troll 2 is that it’s the perfect bad example. Pick something about the movie, anything you want. Not only does this movie do it bad, but it does it bad tragically.” – Brad Jones, TheCinemaSnob.com

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Troll 2 is no ordinary bad movie; Troll 2 redefines the meaning of bad movies. The bad, the so-badthey’re-good, and the so-badthey’re-horrendous all cower in the shadow of Claudio Fragasso’s indescribable, incomprehensible, inept, inane, and almost unwatchable mess, an epitome of awfulness that all others can only aspire to. In the Italian-made, Utah-shot train wreck, an idiotic

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family ventures to the uninviting Nilbog to find aggressive vegans transforming visitors into flora and food. With the worst acting committed to screen, and the worst everything else too, there are many reasons that Troll 2 is considered a cult classic – see for yourself, none of them are good.

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Mona is very pregnant and very disturbed. Alienated from her abusive co-workers and party girl sister, her only close relationship is with her recovering addict mother, and even that is beginning to fall apart. Through vividly rendered characters and a series of deeply uncomfortable set pieces, See You Next Tuesday paints an oddly sympathetic portrait of how a young woman’s chaotic inner life expresses itself in unsettlingly external ways.

Drew Tobia’s (Leperfuck, Stupid Junkie Faggot) debut feature is like an urban American Gothic, exploring the grotesque extremes of human emotion with both humour and compassion. People will certainly be comparing this film to the work of John Waters… [But] for all the hysterical melodrama, See You Next Tuesday is a hauntingly intimate film about loneliness, compassion, and family. - Bryan McKay

Don’t you just hate it when you get fired from your job because you didn’t realise it’s actually a prostitution ring and you were meant to be sleeping with your customers all along, and your boyfriend dumps you on the same day? This is where we meet Marie, the protagonist in this weird indie flick.

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Marie is hired off the street by businessman (Eric) who lives alone, but mysteriously has a messy place.

Turns out that Eric has forgotten that he does have a roommate, slacker and sometimes busboy (Joe), who has never moved out since college.

“These characters fit right in at an underground film festival.”– Chicago Reader official selection

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From that point onwards the film gets progressively stranger and seems to operate on cartoon logic; everything that is said or happens is just accepted as the way things are, regardless of how insane it all is. Like the lovechild of Todd Solondz and the Duplass Brothers and complete with a simulacrums of Zach Gilafinakis and Mary Louise Parker, this film is equally surreal, affectionate and endearing.

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“To quote from the film itself, Pictures of Superheroes makes sense like a goddamn Gremlin...”– Film Threat

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dir. Tommy Wiseau // 2003 // USA // 99 mins “To make a movie that’s so bad it’s good you need vision, drive, luck and obsessive vanity. Fortuitously, The Room’s writer/ producer/director/star Tommy Wiseau appears to possess all of these qualities.”

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dir. Lloyd Kaufman // 2013 // USA // 85 mins

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No one can tell you about The Room; it cannot be described, only experienced. Ten years after Tommy Wiseau’s labour of love became the unexpected cult hit of the decade, it returns to celebrate the longevity that came hand-in-hand with its crowning as the worst movie ever made.

Screening with an introduction from the incomparable Wiseau, the enthusiastic endeavour makes throwing spoons and yelling at the screen acceptable as it relates the most imperfect of cinematic love stories. Whether this is your first venture into The Room, or just the latest of many, one thing is certain: you’ll laugh so hard it will tear you apart.

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“Totally on-the-nose slapstick satire… every scene has something wild in it” – Fred Topel, CRAVE ONLINE Independent Film Festival 2013

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The brilliant, maniacal mind behind Troma Entertainment triumphantly returns with the hotly-anticipated first chapter of his epic new masterwork – and you’d better be ready for Lloyd Kaufman and his cinema madness!

When evil once more roams the halls of exploitation cinema’s most infamous high school, the demented residents of Tromaville must band together one more time to take down bad taste… and replace it with something even more foul!

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“Filled with gratuitous sex, slime, blood and the raw idiocy you’ve come to expect from the fine folks at Troma, this is the balls-to-the-walls sequelremake-expansion pack to the NUKE ’EM HIGH films!”

– Ariel Esteban Cayer, FANTASIA 13

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dir. Rob Zombie // 2012 // USA // 101 mins official selection

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dir. James Nguyen // 2013 // USA // 90 mins official selection

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“Rob Zombie understands horror as an aural-visual experience that should gnaw at the nerves, seep into the subconscious, and beget unshakeable nightmares.”

– Slant Magazine

Rob Zombie makes movies not just with gore, but with gusto. The Lords of Salem gleefully continues the trend, adding an atmospheric spin to the sadistic surrealism that made House of 1000 Corpses, The Devil’s Rejects and his Halloween remakes unforgettable cinema. Awash with wickedness and witchcraft, he transports hard rock DJ (Sheri Moon Zombie) into a historical hex by virtue of a death metal record – or does he? With credible genre homages and colourful co-stars (including The Hills Have Eyes’ Dee Wallace and Dawn of the Dead’s Ken Foree), Zombie flirts with the ambiguous as he creates a work of sleazy spookiness.

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Don’t Forget THE ORIGINA L BIRDEMIC W ITH BEST WORST MOVIE BINGO ON BEFORE BIRD EMIC 2 AT 8:3 0PM! It’s the sequel no one asked for but everyone secretly wanted: Birdemic 2: The Resurrection.

Self-appointed master of romantic thrillers James Nguyen returns with another tale of shock and terror of the so-bad-it’s-good variety.

Original Birdemic survivors Rod and Nathalie are joined by new friends—struggling filmmaker Bill,

aspiring actress Gloria and several other Angelenos – as they battle a flock of eagles and vultures, as well as a host of freshly-hatched enemies. Expect angry birds, ample havoc and unexpected romance as the feathered foes leave bloodshed and destruction wherever they hover.

“Watch the first film and then, before you can fully recover, watch the second. And then witness as your brain melts away.” – Film Geek Central

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dir. Don Coscarelli // 2012 // USA // 99 min official selection

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Dir. Alex Munt // 2013 // AUST // 60 mins Poor Little Rich Girls (After Warhol) is a cinematic homage to, and conceptual remake, of Andy Warhol’s Poor Little Rich Girl (1965) featuring Factory superstar Edie Sedgwick. Some 50 years later: Warhol’s film has been reimagined, re-performed, remixed and revived for the digital age.

Gracie Otto performs the role of Edie Sedgwick. Jack Sargeant re-stages the role of an off-screen Chuck Wein, a spectral presence in the film.

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“Rare is the flick that wedges this many genres into one frame, and so well.”

– Scott Weinberg, Fearnet

Alex Munt and Gracie Otto Q &A after the screening

Anything can happen in John Dies at the End – and everything does, as the cult novel by David Wong finally makes its way to cinema screens. In the hands of legendary horror auteur Don Coscarelli (The Beastmaster, Phantasm II, III and IV, Bubba Ho-Tep), the acclaimed tale of soy sauce addiction, time

travel, otherworldly invasions and college dropouts turned unlikely saviours becomes a fast-paced farce, a feverishly unpredictable sci-fi adventure, and an enjoyably preposterous pastiche of genre at its weirdest and most wonderful.

In short: this movie is f*cking awesome.

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Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction dir. Sophie Huber // 2012 Switzerland // 77 mins

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dir. Stephen Silha, Eric Slade & Dawn Logsdon 2013 // USA // 82 mins OFFICIAL SELECTION

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The character actor’s character actor with over 200 credits to his name, Harry Dean Stanton is as enigmatic as he is prolific. His frequent, familiar film appearances have earned him a cult following, but little is known of the lean loner and his life of intrigue. Sophie Huber’s poignant portrait endeavours to delve into all things Stanton: the man, the movies, his music and his mystique. Excerpts of his immense cinema output (Alien, Paris Texas and The Straight Story among them) are interspersed with heartfelt interviews (including David Lynch, Wim Wenders, Sam Shepard, Kris Kristofferson, and Debbie Harry), but it is the reticent Stanton himself that brings the magic.

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“I’ve been doing this for 50 fucking years, being photographed and making movies. After a while I got tired of it.”

– Harry Dean Stanton

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JAMES BROUGHTON

FRISKY DIVINITY PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS A FILM BY STEPHEN SILHA & ERIC SLADE “BIG JOY: THE ADVENTURES OF JAMES BROUGHTON”

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FEATURING LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI ARMISTEAD MAUPIN ANNA HALPRINweird,” GEORGE KUCHAR KEITH HENNESSY AND THE VOICE OF DAVEY HAVOK “Follow your own MUSIC JAMI SIEBER & EVAN SCHILLER DIRECTORS OF PHOTOGRAPHY IAN HINKLE & ART ADAMS EDITOR DAWN LOGSDON & KYUNG LEE ANIMATION MICHAEL MANN EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS STEPHEN SILHA AL BAUM JOK CHURCH PRODUCED BY ERIC SLADE MAX ST ROMAIN DIRECTED BY ERIC SLADE & STEPHEN SILHA BIGJOY.ORG advocated James Broughton, a motto the playful poet and experimental filmmaker was never afraid to abide by. His actions and his output followed the thrall of fluidity and creativity, transcending the boundaries of male and female, straight and gay, and young and old. In bringing Broughton’s luminous life and work to the screen, journalist and futurist Stephen Silha and

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“A film that not only makes the case of its subject’s talent but, even more importantly, is itself an expression of joy that James Broughton would love.”

– Film Threat director Eric Slade openly adopt their inspiration’s attitude. Named for the affectionate moniker he happily embraced, Big Joy creates a celebration of Broughton’s inimitable outlook as well as a humorous antidote to the cynicism and materialism of our age.

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They’re the three little words that are appearing with increasing frequency in personal ads and online dating sites: seeking Asian female. As “yellow fever” becomes a growing personal predilection in the United States, Chinese American filmmaker Debbie Lum explores the phenomenon through the tale of Steven, an aging white man obsessed with marrying any Asian woman, and Sandy, the young Chinese bride he finds online. Theirs is an eccentric modern love story, which Lum documents and narrates with scepticism and humour. Global migration, Sino-American relations and the perennial battle of the sexes weigh into the debate in this intensely captivating documentary.

“The tension between personal filmmaking and documentary filmmaking is what keeps Seeking Asian Female alive throughout; it’s the best kind of documentary.”

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A Band Called Death dir. Mark Christopher Covino & Jeff Howlett // 2012 // USA // 96 mins official selection

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re inema Th “[A] generous, spirited documentary [that C captures] one of the strangest and most inspiring of all family stories of tragedy and triumph that this crazy country has produced.” – Andrew O’Hehir, Salon.com

Punk didn’t begin with Bad Brains, the Sex Pistols or the Ramones – it began with a band called Death. In the early ‘70s, three brothers jammed together in their spare bedroom, played local gigs and pressed a single in the hopes of getting signed, but, surrounded by Motown and emerging disco, their music – and name – was too intimidating, and the group disbanded before completing an album. Electrifying rockumentary and epic family love story A Band Called Death chronicles the fairytale journey of what happened three decades later, when a dusty demo tape earned recognition as the work of true rock pioneers.

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Adjust Your Tracking: The Untold Story of the VHS Collector dir. Dan M. Kinem and Levi Peretic // 2013 // USA // 84 mins official selection

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McCall’s documentary exists in the middle, a portrait of a puzzle and playful paradox in its own right. The Institute is more than a journey into a secret underground organisation teeming just beneath the surface – it is an induction into another layer of life.

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“A well-spun story that takes viewers all the way down the rabbit hole.” – Slug Magazine

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In the never-ending format wars of home entertainment, VHS seemingly died a swift death more than a decade ago – but that hasn’t altered its collectible currency. As those cherished plastic cassettes become harder to find, obsessive aficionados around the world remain committed to tape over disc, and the forgotten gem they brings. With affection and ample nostalgia as it treads the hard yards of yard sales and swap meets in search of the ultimate VHS treasure, this passion project of VHShitfest’s Dan Kinem and Levi Peretic tells their endearing, engaging story.

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“This is a world that may sound too small and odd for some people but this warm and energetic look at it invites outsiders inside of it.” – Dark of the Matinee Is it a cult? Is it a game? Or is it a life-changing adventure? In San Francisco, the lines between truth and fiction are blurring as a unique phenomenon takes over the streets, with cryptic narratives and real worlds colliding to produce unforeseen and – at times – unsettling consequences. Spencer

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This Band is So fri6 Gorgeous! dir. Dunstan Bruce // 2012 // China / UK // 64 min official selection

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In 2009, Sham 69 became the first punk rock band to tour China. Just as the ‘70s British icons were attempting to mount a comeback, Chinese punk singer, tour manager and promoter Ray Yao lured them for two weeks of chaos in an enthusiastic but ever-changing country. With locals No Name as their supports, and former Chumbawamba lead singer turned director Dunstan Bruce capturing their every move, the trip provided more than just an unlikely introduction to the modern music scene. Met by excited new fans screaming “this band is gorgeous!”, they tapped into the enduring, uniting nature of punk anthems.

“Just goes to show one that true punk stays instilled in one no matter how old or young one is. Punk is much more than a lifestyle or a musical genre. It is something that develops in the mind and continues on to the heart and one’s soul.” – Shu-Izmz.com

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Welcome to the Icelandic Phallological Museum – the world’s only penis gallery. Owner, operator and phallus obsessive Sigurdur “Siggi” Hjartarson has dedicated four decades to assembling and displaying an extensive array of male genitalia, but one specimen is conspicuous in its absence: a human appendage. His efforts to complete his collection span the humbling and the humorous, as the ever-eccentric and always sincere Siggi scours the globe for the last piece of his penis puzzle. As potential donors emerge, his unusual search offers an examination of the meaning of masculinity and manhood, with the offbeat The Final Member as amusing as it is earnest.

“Observant, informative and very funny, The Final Member is worth watching for far more than the smirk factor. Like all the best documentaries, it will leave you looking at familiar things in a whole different way.” – Eye for Film

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The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology

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dir. Sophie Fiennes // 2012 // UK / Ireland // 136 mins

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First, director Sophie Fiennes and cultural theorist superstar Slavoj Žižek tackled cinema; now, they use what we see to explain how we think. Employing their interpretation of moving pictures to present a compelling journey into the dreams that shape our collective beliefs and practices, the film essay sequel again pits the philosophy wunderkind against the

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movies – and, sometimes, puts him in them. The Sound of Music, Jaws, Taxi Driver, and The Dark Knight all earn the pervert treatment, with Žižek’s psychoanalysis likely to change the way you see your favourite films. Prepared to be challenged, stimulated and shocked – but most of all, prepare to be entertained.

“A giddy and grand dissection of society and just how little we understand it.”

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dir. Stephen Vittoria // 2012 // USA // 120 mins During his 30 years in prison, 29 of them spent in solitary confinement on death row, Mumia Abu-Jamal has become Pennsylvania’s most famous inmate. His crime garnered international media coverage, but it is his life and revolutionary times that commanded attention, the former condemned political prisoner never failing to promote his message from the depths of incarceration. In Long Distance Revolutionary, documentarian Stephen Vittoria focuses not on Abu-Jamal’s accused crimes, but on his career as a prolific writer and journalist. Ushering the audience behind the prison walls to expose the horrors of the American gulag, the film charts a journey that defines the triumph of hope, courage & love.

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“Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary” is proof that there are still outspoken champions of views too radicalized to qualify as left-wing: people distrustful of law enforcement, the political system, the justice system, the news media and the very notion that America is at heart the land of the free.” – The New York Times Presented by Groovescooter in association with Eastside FM 89.7 and Radio Skid Row 88.9 FM

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Unlawful Killing dir. Keith Allen // 2011 // UK // 88 mins

dir. Brian Spitz // 2013 // USA // 84 mins

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An unlawful screening of Unlawful Killing. After making its premiere at Cannes Film Festival in 2011, this film was shelved and never to see the light of day. We believe in freedom of information and freedom of speech and bureaucracy should not get in the way of the public’s right to view this film.

Unlawful Killing is a searing exploration into the violent death of Princess Diana and the alleged subsequent cover-up by the British Establishment.

This controversial documentary mixes candid interviews with recreations of some of the key moments from the official inquest, shockingly not held until a decade after the event. The questions the film asks, as it seeks to uncover the truth about the world’s most famous car crash, will inevitably shake the public’s perceptions of how Diana and her partner Dodi Fayed died - and where responsibility ultimately lies for this apparent

Establishment cover-up perpetrated by “Dark Forces”.

Producer/director Allen said: “As far back as 2004, I had been intrigued by Mohammed Al Fayed’s unrelenting determination to seek answers to the questions surrounding the death of his son, Dodi and Princess Diana. By going ‘undercover’ at the inquest, I hoped to reconcile some of my own suspicions too- but what I experienced was horrifying. This film is, in short, the inquest of the inquest.” This is not about a conspiracy before the crash, but about a provable cover-up.

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“Even though his penis may be tiny, it definitely took some gargantuan balls to take on and star in a film on what having a small penis does to a man and what can be done to correct it.”

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Size matters to Patrick Moote, the comedian burdened with less than impressive manhood. When he proposed to his girlfriend at a UCLA basketball game, the cringe-worthy rejection carried a sting worse than the public humiliation and eternal YouTube infamy that followed, his small penis revealed as the reason for her rebuff. In UnHung Hero, Moote attempts to address his shortcomings, with first-time director Brian Spitz in tow. Exgirlfriends, doctors, anthropologists and porn stars weigh in on his quest to overcome his insecurities and provide sexual satisfaction, as he travels the world to discover if bigger really is better.

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PREMIERE 6:30pm dir. Stephen Graves // 2012 our Cinema F // USA // 82 mins “How does one conceive of the present in a body steeped in dreams, when the dream worlds refuse to lift, refuse to dissipate upon waking, but instead cling on as a veneer? And what is the present to a body undergoing an eternal, internally imposed incarceration, whose friends are all ghosts in dreams, whom nobody visits, who sleeps all day and paints all night?” – Stephen Graves

How to Make Money Selling Drugs dir. Matthew Cooke // 2012 // US // 96 mins official selection

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the change that infiltrated his parents’ marriage; as a man, he was compelled to catalogue their relationship. A Body Without Organs is his intimate, subjective, experimental and unsettling account of their daily resilience, punctuated by a routine of pain and the vibrancy of medicated dreams.

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For law enforcement ensconced in the war on drugs, the stakes are high; for pushers trafficking illicit substances, the profits are higher. Part in-depth investigation into the corrupt realities of the trade, part instructional guide on starting your own empire, How to Make Money Selling Drugs is a shockingly candid examination of how a street dealer can rise to cartel lord with relative ease. Filmmaker Matthew Cooke and producer Adrian Grenier (TV’s Entourage) assemble an eclectic array of interviewees – Susan Sarandon, Woody Harrelson, Eminem, 50 Cent and The Wire’s David Simon among them – as they follow the cash and consequences.

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In 1997, Bill Graves, a former doctor, had his colon and parts of his intestines removed due to a rare medical condition. The surgery left a shadow of continual agony, with Bill barely leaving his home after the operation, and his wife forced to devote herself to his full-time care. As a child, Stephen Graves watched

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“When Drugs is firing on all cylinders, it feels as if you’re in a room with these people, just listening to one crazy story after another.”

– The Playlist

the best of the FETISCH FILM FESTIVAL fri6 CINEWEST Curatorial presents the best of Fetisch Film Festival, an annual presentation of erotic fetishes and BDSM on film from Kiel in Germany.

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GULL JUMPCUT

Saskia Quax // 2012 // NL // 8’00’’ The fantasies of a woman: scary and romantic.

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DA KINK IN MY LAIR

Stefan Blomquist // 2012 // USA // 17’00’’ It’s New Year’s Eve for a Crossdresser in New York.

Yulia Petrauskas // 2012 // CAN // 18’00’’ A day in the life of a Dom. Yulia Petrauskas in front and behind the camera.

Ben Damon // 2012 // AUST // 12’00’ Sam has an irrational fear of seagulls. His best mate Teddy has a plan to help him get over it.

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THE CHAUFFEUR

Maud Ferrari // 2012 // FRA // 24’00’’ An actress accidentally meets a driver who has some strange desires…

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MY DAY WITH TARNA

Chris Caliman // 2012 // GER // 40’00’’ An intimate documentary about Dominatrix Tarna from Berlin.

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Ella Condon // 2013 // AUST // 2’00’ A distorted vision unnerves the viewer, questioning what is looking back at them.

Heidi Fires Everyone

Jasper Marlow // 2012 // AUST // 13’00’ Holding a party is the make-or-break moment for 17-year-old Gabe. With hundreds confirmed attending: tonight is his moment to shine. A true story about family, facebook and murder.

Catch of the Day Work/Flow Winning the Elena Knox // 2011 Fox Hunt Patrick Feary // 2011 // //AUST // 1’48’ AUST // 8’30’

Livia Rubiolini // 2012 // AUST // 5’00’ Peter, a man, having lived through a lifetime of regret and pent up emotion, reflects and revisits the incident that caused his life to spiral into psychological hell.

The Invisible Force

The Hand That Feeds

Three stereotypical teens find the body of a missing prom queen from 30 years ago. See the terror! Feel the shock! Taste the fish!

Greed

Nathan Bender // 2013 // AUST // 5’00’ A man’s fresh twenty dollar note is swept away from the ATM and finds itself between two men who are both eager to make some easy money.

Nikos Andronicos & James McFay // 2013 // AUST // 7’00’ Heidi Jones, Human Resources. Putting the conflict in conflict resolution.

The Devil Rides out ‘burn again

Richard Eames // 2013 // AUST // 4’00’ A network of radicals deliver online justice.

A poet creates a melancholy poem not meant for other readers.

Christian Doran // 2012 // AUST // 6’25’ A psychedelic sci-fi that speculates on the rise of the legal drug trade in the form of an energy drink.

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Megan Palinkas // 2012 // AUST // 7’00’ Waiting for a delayed train at the most notorious station in Melbourne, Chris is about to make some new friends - whether he wants to or not.

Baseline_Shift

Emma Hicks // 2013 // AUST // 6’30’ Combining footage from the science fiction and horror genres to explore concepts of metamorphosis and transformation.

Emma Varker & Joshua Haddad Gilmore-Kerr // 2013 // AUST // 5’00’ Fuck, Marry, Kill.

Kindred Spirits

Stephen Rangott // 2013 // AUST // 3’30’ A writer struggles with reality and receives help from his kindred spirit.

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Jillian Mayer & Lucas Leyva // 2013 // USA // 14’00’’ This comedic satirical sci-fi popmusical is based on the theories of Ray Kurzweil and other futurists. A story of two Miami girls and how they deal with the technological singularity.

A Party Record of Sex and Sadness Bobby Abate // 2011 // USA // 10’00’’ A high & low fidelity record of obsessions past & present. A hooded man, a fanged woman, an airport terminal, that orange bedspread, that red flowered couch.

Comfortable

Natasha Foster // 2013 // AUST // 2’30’’ Examination of the psychological power the mind can have over the body. It exposes the unwanted parts of ourselves the insular place we go to.

The Moon Has its Reasons

Lewis Klahr // 2012 // UK // 3’00’’ A melodrama with an elliptical, poetic narrative that suggests infidelity in a love relationship.

Battlegroup

Simon Shiells // 2012 // AUST // 5’00’’ A historical interpretation of Coldwar East Vs West tensions realised through found footage and scratch animation.

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Paul Winkler // 2013 // AUST // 11’00’’ Exploring street art and how it is perceived.

Neon Spread

Tony Lawrence // 2013 // AUST // 4’00’’ An erotic vision of a retro future.

A Beginning a Middle and an End

Jon Behrens // 2013 // USA // 5’00’’ // A truck explodes into a kaleidoscope of painted, optically printed animation.

Cinamnesia

Nicola Walkerden // 2012 // AUST // 5’22’’ Linking the 24 human spine vertebrae and film’s 24 frames per second, whilst exploring film’s effect on the nervous system.

Supernova

Gregory Godhard // 2013 // AUST // 4’00’’ On 11/02/2013 recorded deep within the core of an exploding star was visual data.

Epicormic

Josephine Starrs & Leon Cmielewski // 2013 // 1’30’’ Australian animals damaged by fire are then regenerated by epicormic growth. Creating using surveillance camera stills.

THE PARK

Joh Gillies // 2012 // AUST // 3’00’’ A young man falls and picks himself up to begin again.

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Dirk de Bruyn // 2012 // AUST // 9’30’’ WAP stands for White Australia Policy. This film re-frames historic material to allow the voices of the deferred and dispossessed to speak their trauma.

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Samantha Gurry // 2013 // USA // 7’00’’ Memories are faded, torn up, and just barely able to be recalled.

The music surges, the nostalgia flares, & every thing seems more than it really was.

Long Life (1)

Merilyn Fairskye // 2013 // AUST // 7’00’’ Birds and signals, traces adrift in the ether of flooded, radioactive wetlands.

Going Along Dee Hood // 2012 // USA // 3’00’’ The absurdity and frustration of ‘keeping up’ with the constant bombardment of technology.

The Breast Around

Ryan Suits // 2013 // USA // 3’00’’ Statuesque superstar London Andrews doubles as both buxom heroine and vivacious villainess in the ultimate Russ Meyer-esque battle of the boobs.

Auto Bambina

Rob Crow // 2013 // AUST // 3’30’’ A creepy little girl intimidates and threatens a grown man over the phone.

Retrocognition Eric Patrick // 2012 // USA // 17’30’’ A dystopian sitcom reanimated from the narrative residue of Golden Age radio dramas.

Keep A Modest Head

Deco Dawson // 2013 // CAN // 20’00’’ The life and pursuits of 86 year-old Jean Benoit, the last official member of the hugely influential Surrealist group, is fantastically and mind-boggingly illustrated.

Filth

Emma Varker // 2013 // AUST // 2’00’’ Filth is a portrait of two heroin-fueled lovers and their home-job tattoos, using blood, semen, excrement and pubic hair.

Baby, I Love You Faiyaz Jafri // 2012 // USA // 2’30’’ A young girl is confronted by her dark side.

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Woman Who Hates Plants

Morgan Miller // 2013 // USA // 1’00’’ But she likes cigarettes.

Grumble Body Beauty

Dean Tirkot // 2013 // AUST // 3’00’’ Betty Grumble will show you the way.

Blotto 649

Martha Colburn // 2013 // USA // 7’00’’ A doll morphs into a scary weird cocoon creature.

Mike Marynuik // 2013 // CAN // 2’30’’ Go Blotto! Made with 6490 photographs of spin art micro paintings.

Doughnut

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Patti Tsarouhis // 2012 // AUST // 1’30’’ Inspired by Kenneth Anger and a Tom Waits lyric, ‘Doughnut’ is 90 seconds of soft, sugar-laden words.

Diego Ramirez // 2012 // AUST/ /MEXICO // 2’30’’ His body is swollen from stillness, his hands and feet have shrunken from immobility, and his thoughts are as nebulous as mist. He drools.

STAMINA

Saman Keshavarz // 2011 // USA // 6’00’’ Kill the calories with this new fitness regime.

LOVESICK

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Either it’s love or sick, session?

A feelgood short film

Blind Passenger

Shahane Bekarian // 2013 // AUST // 14’00’ A middle-aged man struggles to maintain a grasp of reality after losing his sight. A pivotal misunderstanding leads to a shocking and violent turn of events.

First Love

James Hartley // 2013 // AUST // 3’00’’ Boy meets girl. Boy gives girl half a Tim Tam. Boy and girl marry. Girl marries other boy. Boy is confused.

My New boyfriend

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Tessa Muskett // 2012 // AUST // 8’00’’ In a world where it’s cool to be fat, a skinny girl embarks on a risky venture to snare a rock star

The Hidden Gem

Phillip McKenzie // 2013 // AUST // 2’30’’ A young woman shows there is a perfect partner for everyone.

Namratha Thomas // 2012 // AUST // 26’00’’ A 43-year-old indigenous transgender returns home for the first time as Jemma. Will her family be accepting of who she really is?

Rubber Duckie

Float

Henry Alberto // 2012 // USA // 15’30’’ Rubber Duckie is the story of Jesse and Daniel, who on a blazing summer afternoon, are consumed with boredom and push their own limits and boundaries.

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Nick Hunter // 2012 // AUST // 7’00’’ When Sam’s girlfriend arrives to the party with her new boyfriend, Sam is sent into a jealous tail spin, which can only end in tragedy.

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Charles Pinion // 1996 // USA // 55 mins + shorts program Passolini meets Lady Gaga meets Helmut Newton – a riff on the famous story by Lewis Carroll. The work extracts the latent notes of the sexual, sumptuous and the bizarre to explore notions of fantasy, corruption, excess in relation to human relations and sexual desire. It takes as its premise that noncompliancy with heteronormativity is the rule. This version is a teaser in the lead-up to an Installation at the Australian Centre for Photography in 2014.

See the classic film WE AWAIT and a bunch of wild shorts for a mind-bending 90 minutes! Affiliated with the New York underground film scene and the Cinema of Transgression, but ploughing his own twisted furrow under the banner PULP VIDEO Charles Pinion has directed a handful of wildly inventive films that mix horror, science fiction and genre based narratives with vivid psychedelic dislocation, sex, murder and mayhem. These films play with the viewer’s generic expectations and spin off into unfamiliar - even wild ideas. The grindhouse video revolution introduced by Pinion was a key aspect of the rebirth of the underground in the late ‘80s and ‘90s, and inspired underground horror mavericks across the globe. Pinion’s cast included notables from the artistic underground - filmmakers, actors, artists and musicians - while his soundtracks blasted the whole thing with grinding post punk and noise. These films are an adrenalin shot straight into the sick cinematic soul. Not to be missed!

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Ronnie Riviera // 2013 // USA // 3’20’’ Rivera chronicles the International Noise Conference’s raucous weekend through his unique psychedelic perspective.

Buffalo Must Die

Lewis Bennett // 2013 // USA // 9’00’’ Deli owner Salam Kahil is an art collector, a former male escort, an amateur musician, and a sandwich maker to the homeless in Vancouver’s poorest neighborhood but his true passion is talking about blowjobs.

A Finite World

Jesse Veverka // 2012 // USA // 10’00’’ A direct cinema documentary short about the ritualistic slaughter of water buffalo at traditional funerals in Tana Toraja, Indonesia.

Erin Collett // 2011 // AUST // 6’00’’ A short documentary about how much food is going to waste each year and what can and should be salvaged.

Fallout

Zachary Kerrholden // 2012 // CAN // 6’00’’ A spotlight into Joey LeBlanc, a trucker with 40 years of experience on the road. Picking up strangers and leaving people behind.

Paul Turano // 2012 // USA // 4’30’’ Marking the anniversary at Fukushima nuclear facility, scientific predictions of the residual effects are undercut by the cheerfully benign dayglow colours assigned.

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The Sandwich Nazi

Opal Dockery // 2013 // USA // 7’00’’ A shocking, eyeopening short documentary about women’s rights, equality and discrimination.

Power-Man

A Life with Asperger’s Jamie Mekkens // 2013 // USA // 4’00’’ Not simply ‘being a little awkward’, rather living with Asperger’s is about adapting to one’s limitations in the face of anxiety and isolation.

The Flat That Save The Darod Killed Whales

Thomas Grainger // 2013 // AUST // 12’15’’ The search for the ‘typical’ Western Sydney resident leads to a world of fermented noodle cups, acid tripping, lemonade can ash trays and Chinese dragons

General Dang Joshua Dang // 2011 // AUST // 6’00’’ The story of one act of tremendous courage and the friendship that ensued between a US Colonel and Lieutenant General Dang van Quang during the Vietnam war.

Ô Divin Bovin Alexandre Rufin // 2013 //FRA/CAN // 5’00’’ The time is late. The night sky is pitch black. But still, Didier must attend his cow.

Isabel Fondevila // 2013 // USA // 2’00’’ Explores the relationship between evangelical and environmental salvation mythology through the playful juxtaposition of public domain speech, sound and images.

Prepare for the Enlightenment Maximilian Reinthal // 2013 // AUST // 6’00’’ Ingress transforms the reality around you into a game of spies and secret agents - but where does reality end and the game begin?

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