LUFF 2019
Films screened at the 18th edition of the Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival (October 16 to 20)
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- DirectorJocelyn DeBoerDawn LuebbeStarsJocelyn DeBoerDawn LuebbeBeck BennettSuburban soccer moms find themselves constantly competing against each other in their personal lives as their kids settle their differences on the field.Opening Film
- DirectorChris BavotaLee Paula SpringerStarsHeston HorwinJillian HarrisMatt KeyesAfter Becca receives a distressing call from her suicidal brother Richie, she rushes over to his apartment and finds him alive and well - surrounded by copies of his own dead body.Closing Film
- DirectorJohn AdamsZelda AdamsToby PoserStarsToby PoserZelda AdamsJohn AdamsIn the aftermath of a roadside accident, the line between the living and the dead collapses for a mother, a daughter and a stranger.International Feature Film Competition
- DirectorArmand RoviraSaida BenzalStarsXavi SáezAlmar G. SatoMaría FajulaFour celluloid letters sent from different parts of the globe to Paul Morrissey, director of Trash, Flesh and Heat, collaborator with Warhol and agent for the Velvet Underground.International Feature Film Competition
- 20181h 17mTV-MA6.2 (55)DirectorNicole BrendingStarsNicole BrendingSydney BonarAneikit BonnelThe disturbingly entertaining feature debut of director Nicole Brending, DOLLHOUSE: THE ERADICATION OF FEMALE SUBJECTIVITY FROM AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE charts the rise and fall of fictional child pop star Junie Spoons as her life story (and the ensuing disasters) unfold, as told by those who knew her. Set in the bubble gum pop world of Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan and told a la VH1's Behind The Music, Junie's story tops itself one scandal after another as she rockets to international stardom and then faces the aftermath of a life under scrutiny. From losing her virginity in a sex tape to 24-hour marriages to a Patty-Hearst style kidnapping and bank heist to the murder of her mother, with opportunistic 'friends,' invasive paparazzi, insanity, and bankruptcy in between, this tween idol's life runs the gamut. But where is her voice in all this? Never seen from Junie's perspective, her experience is only seen through the lens of those who stood to gain from her success. Revealing the hypocrisies of an opportunistic society that preys on the talents and contributions of women, DOLLHOUSE is a scathing look at what it means to be female in a modern world. Assaulted by men, women, the media and a new era obsessed with identity and entitlement, Junie's fall from grace is a cautionary tale about the consequences of denying women their own voice and perspective.International Feature Film Competition
- DirectorJoaquín CociñaCristóbal LeónStarsAmalia KassaiRainer KrauseKarina HylandTells the story of Maria, a young woman who takes refuge in a house in southern Chile after escaping from a German colony.International Feature Film Competition (Winner)
- DirectorRyland Brickson Cole TewsStarsRyland Brickson Cole TewsErick WestBeulah PetersOn the shores of Lake Michigan, Captain Seafield enlists a crew of specialists to slay the hellish sea monster that stalks the murky depths.International Feature Film Competition
- DirectorBarbara HammerStarsJerreMariaRuthVisually structured around four couples making love, one couple at a time; narratively structured around four chapters in lesbian life: older women talking about what it was like in the 30s, 40s and 50s; a look at the hidden eroticism of movies; the repression of gays under the Third Reich; and, the work of the Lesbian Herstory Archives in New York City. The narrative voices and the couples making love share the film with photographs, movie outtakes, newsreel archives, and individuals relating events in their lives. The film calls lesbians to tell their stories; it also dramatizes the importance of telling the story of the loss of stories.Barbara Hammer: Queen of Queer Cinema
- DirectorBarbara HammerStarsBarbara HammerAn experimental film from Barbara Hammer about lesbian couples.Barbara Hammer: Queen of Queer Cinema
- DirectorBarbara HammerStarsBarbara HammerChildhood stories of the artist as a young lesbian and intimate tales of the lesbian as a young artist underscore the filmmaker's life of performances. With a Swiss army knife she robs an American Express Bank in Morocco, accosts a shepherd in a field on International Women's Day, and tap dances on Shirley Temple's star on Hollywood Boulevard. This child movie star was the ideal by which Hammer's ambitious mother measured her own Barbie. Grandma, already a cook for Lillian Gish in Hollywood, introduced the cute, loquacious child and her mother to D.W. Griffith. Lesbian autobiography is a slender genre, so Hammer draws from general culture studies for critique and to provide an ironic edge to the synthesized "voices of authority". Using personal archival footage of the AFL/CIO strike at San Francisco State College supported by the Black Panther Party (1968), the first San Diego Women's Music Festival (1965), and the Take Back the Night March in San Francisco (1979), Hammer challenges a younger generation to visualize a world before they existed. The stories tug at your heart, the theory teases your intellect, and the fragile line between truth and fiction provoke you in this dense and hypnotic montage.Barbara Hammer: Queen of Queer Cinema
- DirectorBarbara HammerStarsAnn MaguireJane FineCocoa FuscoA montage of film clips and stills calling all lesbians to come out and celebrate who they are. Weaving together clips social guidance and classroom shorts from the fifties, a World War II documentary on a fleet of female fighter pilots, advertising films, home movies, snap shots, newsreel footage of an all-women conference held by Eleanor Roosevelt, and even some shockingly graphic lesbian themed "smokers" from the 1920's and 30's (made for a straight male audience), the variety and clever juxtaposition of the images makes for a moving, if at times demanding, experience. The soundtrack is often re-dubbed or added to, so that Eleanor Roosevelt can say things like "Thank you all for coming to this wonderful lesbian conferance."Barbara Hammer: Queen of Queer Cinema
- DirectorBarbara HammerStarsBarbara HammerA hand plays with a vagina as the same scene drifts over a sea of erotic rock formations.Barbara Hammer: Queen of Queer Cinema
- DirectorDerek JarmanStarsKarl BowenGraham DowieChristopher HobbsA collection of Super 8 films shot by Derek Jarman between 1972 and 1975, edited to the music of Throbbing Gristle.Derek Jarman: The Punk Poet
- DirectorDerek JarmanStarsAdam AntRichard O'BrienIan CharlesonQueen Elizabeth I travels 400 years into the future to witness the appalling revelation of a dystopian London overrun by corruption and a vicious gang of punk guerrilla girls led by the new Monarch of Punk.Derek Jarman: The Punk Poet
- DirectorDerek JarmanStarsTilda SwintonSpencer Leigh'Spring' Mark AdleyThe artist's personal commentary on the decline of his country in a language closer to poetry than prose. A dark meditation on London under Thatcher.Derek Jarman: The Punk Poet
- DirectorBret WoodStarsRichard AndersonSonny BonoJohn F. ButlerThe history of traffic safety educational films and their notoriously lurid content.The LUFF Education, or when educative cinema becomes subversive
- DirectorPeter WatkinsStarsMichael AspelPeter GrahamDave BaldwinA docudrama depicting a hypothetical nuclear attack on Britain.The LUFF Education, or when educative cinema becomes subversive
- DirectorJorge FurtadoStarsPaulo JoséCiça ReckziegelDouglas TraininiThe ironic, heartbreaking and acid "saga" of a spoiled tomato: from the plantation of a "Nisei" (Brazilian with Japanese origins); to a supermarket; to a consumer's kitchen to become sauce of a pork meat; to the garbage can since it is spoiled for the consumption; to a garbage truck to be dumped in a garbage dump in "Ilha das Flores"; to the selection of nutriment for pigs by the employees of a pigs breeder; to become food for poor Brazilian people.The LUFF Education, or when educative cinema becomes subversive
- DirectorRoy AnderssonStarsKlas-Gösta OlssonAnne TubinLennart BjörklundAn educational film about AIDS contracted by the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare, later to be withdrawn due to its controversial content.The LUFF Education, or when educative cinema becomes subversive
- DirectorJohn MackenzieStarsLouise O'HaraRobbie OubridgeIan ScraceA group of children play at being "Apaches" on an English farm, ignoring all safety precautions. One by one they die a variety of gruesome deaths.The LUFF Education, or when educative cinema becomes subversive
- DirectorJohn KrishStarsPeter BradburyAntony CarrickSharon ClarkThis British government public-information film is aimed at children and shows them the dangers of playing on railway tracks.The LUFF Education, or when educative cinema becomes subversive
- DirectorHerbert J. LederTwo young girls playing hopscotch at a playground accept n offer of some candy by a stranger. When he also offers them a ride home in his car, they accept, but they soon discover that he has no intention of taking them home when he pulls off the road into a wooded area and drags them out of the car and into the woods.The LUFF Education, or when educative cinema becomes subversive
- DirectorBrian Trenchard-SmithStarsJeanie DrynanMark EdwardsRay MarshallAfter a tossed cigarette ignites a fire in a multi-story hospital at night, the staff struggle to evacuate the patients due to their indiscipline and ignorance of safety protocols.The LUFF Education, or when educative cinema becomes subversive
- DirectorJohn KrishStarsAnthony Farrar-HockleyWilfrid BrambellRay BrooksDocudrama, made for Military Intelligence, about what it was like to be a British prisoner of the North Koreans in the 1950-1953 war.The LUFF Education, or when educative cinema becomes subversive
- DirectorFred BarzykStars'Cousin Brucie' MorrowDortha DuckworthWilliam HickeyA poet-astronaut is shot through an area of space called the Chronosynclastic Infundibulum. He is duplicated into infinite copies of himself, each of whom finds himself in a bizarre situations on a different world. (These scenarios are all derived from the novels and short stories of Kurt Vonnegut Jr., including Cat's Cradle, Welcome to the Monkey House, Harrison Bergeron, and Happy Birthday, Wanda June).Fred Barzyk: Cathodic Underground
- DirectorFred BarzykDavid R. LoxtonStarsBruce DavisonPeyton E. ParkNiki FlacksIn a highly controlled and overpopulated society, a man who has terrifying dreams that affect reality is assigned a psychiatrist who takes advantage of the situation.Fred Barzyk: Cathodic Underground
- DirectorGérard KikoïneStarsCathy MénardThierryDominique IrissouSandra and Muriel are identical twins and orphaned. They look identical. One of them leads a normal life, has a job at an office and a decent sex-life. Her sister on the other hand, prefers to let her desires rule.Between Sperm and Blood: Dr. Kiko and Mr. Kikoïne
- DirectorGérard KikoïneStarsAnthony PerkinsGlynis BarberSarah Maur WardWhen Henry Jekyll's experiments with cocaine have gotten out of control, he transforms into the hideous Jack Hyde. As Hyde he searches the London streets at night for his prey in whorehouses and opium dens. The police can't catch him, he has nothing to lose but his mind...Between Sperm and Blood: Dr. Kiko and Mr. Kikoïne
- DirectorRichard KovitchStarsPenny SlingerPeter WhiteheadJack Bond"Penny Slinger - Out Of The Shadows" is the incredible, untold story of the British artist Penny Slinger and the traumatic events that led to the creation of her masterpiece, the 1977 photo-romance, 'An Exorcism'.The Feminine Phantasy of Penny Slinger
- DirectorJane ArdenStarsSheila AllenJane ArdenJack BondJane Arden's surreal take on a group of females in a therapy session.The Feminine Phantasy of Penny Slinger
- DirectorBarbara RubinFor all intents and purposes, "Christmas on Earth" is a performance art film about genital worship. At twenty-nine minutes, Barbara Rubin has created the ultimate study on the celebratory and erotic nature of free love. The film is tinted in various colors (hence the title), and finds various people engaging in sexual activity. Men with women, men with men, women with women, and several orgies throughout.A Focus on Expanded Cinema
- DirectorTimo WrightAn empty, abandoned house. Slowly the house fills with red smoke, embracing the whole building.Carte blanche to VAFT (Video Art Festival Turku)
- DirectorRobin KlengelLeonhard MüllnerStarsJacob BaniganRobin KlengelLeonhard MüllnerA city tour through the architecture of an Online-Shooter Operation Jane Walk is based on the dystopian multiplayer shooter Tom Clancy's: The Division. The game's digital war zone is appropriated with the help of an artistic operation: Within the rules of the game's software, the militaristic environment is being re-used for a pacifistic city tour. The urban strollers avoid the combats whenever possible and become peaceful tourists of a digital world, which is a detailed replica of Midtown Manhattan. While walking through the post-apocalyptic city, issues such as architecture history, urbanism and the game developer's interventions into the urban fabric are being discussed.Carte blanche to VAFT (Video Art Festival Turku)
- DirectorZev AsherDocumentaries
- DirectorMarc DufaudThierry VilleneuveStarsGeorges BetzounisDaniel DarcFrédéric LoDocumentaries
- DirectorMarco PorsiaStarsDevendra BanhartBlixa BargeldJehnny BethThe worldview of Michael Gira, through his life as a globetrotter and his four decades leading Swans, a group that he founded in the noisy and iconoclastic New York underground of the early '80s and that keeps reinventing itself today.Documentaries
- DirectorThiago ZanatoChica BarbosaStarsPuy NavarroArely VazquezArely Vazquez is a Mexican transgender woman leader of the Saint Death Cult living in Queens, NY. During her yearly celebration to the Bony Lady, as she likes to call her, Arely faces a lot of challenges to fulfill a promise she made ten years ago.Documentaries
- DirectorMarie LosierStarsFelix KubinClaire DoyonFall into the world of Felix Kubin's experimentation and creation of music sound and his mastering of his instrument of predilection, the KORG MS20. A portrait of a great artist who never stops living with music in his head. With Felix creative power and endless inspiration, the film brings you into the universe of pure Music, from electronic music, to radio play, pop, music concrete, opera, and microphone experiments.... Felix is the little Nemo of a new sleepless world of music and pure joy!Documentaries
- DirectorTamara ScherbakTold through a mixture of archives, animation and musical numbers, this film chronicles the 20+ year career of Canadian activist/performer Norman Nawrocki, combating sexism and homophobia through humorous and educational cabaret shows.Documentaries
- DirectorAngela Christlieb"Under the Underground" guides us through the improvised spaces of Janka Industries, an underground cellar vault and creative microcosm of Vienna's subculture. Voodoo Jürgens and Bands such as Petra und der Wolf and Tankris practice and perform here in the midst of a bizarre hodge-podge of electronic scrap. A music film and an ultimate underground homage that cinematically captures the magic of the site. It would be best not to try some things presented in this film at home, for one thing, if you attach any importance to sparing your body the risk of being slammed by a high voltage bolt of electricity. Fact is there are unsecure electrical experiments being conducted in a surreal parallel universe set up by the Viennese musician, technician and sound engineer Chris Janka in rambling catacombs somewhere beneath Vienna's seventh district - as if this was at all normal. Janka is incessantly building and tinkering with his equipment and he seems to derive pure joy from his inventions and test assemblies, even if their purpose is not always clear to outsiders. At the end of the 1980s, squatters and punk musicians shared this place with packs of rats that came and went. In the meantime, it is occupied by amplifiers, drum sets, retro reel-to-reel tape recorders and mixing boards for professional recording sessions. Director Angela Christlieb portrays the site and its master of ceremonies using dynamic, densely processed images that interweave musical interludes by such uncompromising niche acts as Blueblut, Schapka, Petra und der Wolf and MCRhine, while including an appearance by the host's brother, Ali Janka - member of the artist group Gelitin. Christlieb presents the Janka brothers as holy fools engaged in absurd artist practices while they narrate how, over the course of decades, the cellar passageways became a studio. They recall how absurd but also romantically punk those early years felt, back when they lived here without electricity, money or running water - and always including a pinch of mortal danger. But in truth what really threatens this underground paradise comes from outside - and outside the non-commercial logic at work here. (Stefan Grissemann)Documentaries
- DirectorDavid GregoryStarsAl AdamsonSamuel M. ShermanChris PoggialiMaverick indie filmmaker Al Adamson's real life was even crazier than one of the 30-plus sex 'n' schlock drive-in movies he made in the '60s and '70s.Documentaries
- DirectorCalvin Lee ReederStarsChristian PalmerA man is forced to endure another strange experiment.International Short Film Competition
- DirectorLorenzo MontiStarsRichard James AllenTim HopeEmma JensenInternational Short Film Competition
- DirectorAttila DamokosStarsAnna Marie CsehJános DerzsiCharon is a beautiful, cold-blooded demon, helping the souls to die, who are afraid. A modern vision of the ancient Charon myth on the border of still and moving image.International Short Film Competition
- DirectorCamille MonetteStarsRico BeaudoinSteph DumaisCamille MonetteInternational Short Film Competition
- DirectorRobin ComisarStarsNevada CaldwellCarrie CoonJordan GelberA woman gets stuck in a Red Lobster commercial.International Short Film Competition
- DirectorIlja RautsiStarsLeo SjömanAnna PaavilainenKari HietalahtiOne woman desperately struggles to survive a horde of men with frail egos, who just want to explain everything to her.International Short Film Competition
- DirectorMichael ArcosStarsCatherine CaldwellMonika LeskaA young jaguar goes on a killing spree when he escapes from his enclosure at a zoo. After he's captured, sedated and relocated, he makes a video diary for his significant other, Lula.International Short Film Competition
- DirectorDaniel WitkinStarsKatya PylovaZdenko MartinDavid GagnonIn 1930s Europe, Ulrike and her faithful dog, Müzzi are climbing The Inconceivable Mountain. Ulrike meets a handsome soldier and discovers that all is not as it seems. Müzzi, for her part, descends into paranoia.International Short Film Competition
- DirectorSophie Koko GateStarsJeanette BondsSophie Koko GateVincent OliverA day in the life of Tanya, a curious woman who has developed a taste for non human lovers.International Short Film Competition
- DirectorRobert MorganStarsAugust IvanoffAn authorized, stop-motion sequel to Jörg Buttgereit's 1993 film Schramm.International Short Film Competition
- DirectorKarina PaciorkowskaStarsAlex GortatSara MaleckaAdam SzwarcA hand-drawn animation that attempts to ask questions about the place of women in the modern reality.International Short Film Competition
- DirectorJenny JokelaStarsÉmilie LoiseleurInternational Short Film Competition
- DirectorCassie ShaoStarsJoseph Patrick O'MalleyCassie ShaoIn a room, there are four people.International Short Film Competition
- DirectorMargaret BialisStarsJohn BialisRoy CurialeNathan HerbstLook within. Then dance it out.International Short Film Competition
- DirectorAnna SpenceBooted from the limelight, Max Headroom now roves the video signal on the search for meaning. Once summoned to the screen, he talks to the audience in hopes of remembering his past life. As we watch Max, (and as he continues to watch us), he begins to understand what it will take to escape from his purgatory.International Short Film Competition
- DirectorStéphane RizziStarsAgnès BerthonMahmoud El HaddadVictor PonomarevInternational Short Film Competition
- DirectorSara JurincicIn that moment, all the news published on September 3rd 2015. became extremely real. Banalities of that day and personal memories mixed intensively.International Short Film Competition
- DirectorPéter Lichter"Közért" (translation: "for the public") was a government owned chain of stores in Hungary, during the communist era (1948-1989). The word Közért is still used in the Hungarian language. Our film was made from the 35 mm celluloid raw footage of its advertisement: the film strips were digged in the soil, rotten with food and cut up in pieces.International Short Film Competition
- DirectorMartin ReinhartVirgil WidrichWhat happens in a cinema when you film it at a resolution of 10K with a 360° camera and reverse the spatial and temporal axes? "tx-reverse" shows the collision of reality and cinema in which the order of space and time is suspended.International Short Film Competition
- DirectorMary Helena ClarkIn The Glass Note, a collage of sound, image, and text explore cinema's inherent ventriloquism. Across surface and form, the video reflects on voice, embodiment, and fetish through the commingling of sound and image.International Short Film Competition
- DirectorAtoosa Pour HosseiniStarsKatie O'NeillThe masked female figures that wander adrift through Pour Hosseini's intensely lyrical explorations of displacement find their most energetic form in the bird-woman at the centre of "Kinetics".International Short Film Competition
- DirectorRoss MeckfesselStarsJustin KaderJeff HootonKe XuDrones and GoPros survey the land while users roam digital forests, oceans, and lakes. Those clouds look compressed. That tree looks pix-elated. A landscape film for the 21st century.International Short Film Competition
- DirectorBertrand MandicoStarsChristophe BierPaul GrandsardPauline LorillardOpening Film (with Greener Grass)
- DirectorBertrand MandicoStarsChristophe BierPaul GrandsardPauline LorillardOpening Film (with Greener Grass)
- DirectorBertrand MandicoStarsChristophe BierPaul GrandsardPauline LorillardOpening Film (with Greener Grass)