The 10th annual Lausanne Underground Film Festival is a truly epic film event with an immense lineup of the strangest, sexiest, most grotesque, oddball and downright freakish movies from all over the world — from modern underground treats to classic cult movies of yesteryear.
The fest officially begins on Oct. 15 with a special live performance by the legendary Diamanda Galas. But the film festivities run from Oct. 17-23, starting with the grand opening of an exhibition and retrospective of the films by Ericka Beckman.
The full film lineup, which is presented below, is a massive mix of underground greatness, but here are some of the highlights:
Gross-Out Flicks:
Chop, dir. Trent Haaga.
The Taint, dir. Drew Bolduc and Dan Nelson.
Calibre 9, dir. Jean-Christian Tassy.
The Bunny Game, dir. Adam Rehmeier
Trippy Movies:
Profane, dir. Usama Alshaibi
The Oregonian, dir. Calvin Lee Reeder
Hellacious Acres: The Case of John Glass, dir.
The fest officially begins on Oct. 15 with a special live performance by the legendary Diamanda Galas. But the film festivities run from Oct. 17-23, starting with the grand opening of an exhibition and retrospective of the films by Ericka Beckman.
The full film lineup, which is presented below, is a massive mix of underground greatness, but here are some of the highlights:
Gross-Out Flicks:
Chop, dir. Trent Haaga.
The Taint, dir. Drew Bolduc and Dan Nelson.
Calibre 9, dir. Jean-Christian Tassy.
The Bunny Game, dir. Adam Rehmeier
Trippy Movies:
Profane, dir. Usama Alshaibi
The Oregonian, dir. Calvin Lee Reeder
Hellacious Acres: The Case of John Glass, dir.
- 13/10/2011
- de Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
The Japanese film-maker, whose unsettling experimental shorts prefigured such horror classics as Ringu and Ju-On, got a rare showing in Birmingham at the weekend
In 1984, a young Takashi Ito travelled to the art school in Wurzburg, Germany, to screen a short film he'd made a few years before. The film, Spacy, was an odd experiment: it was simply 700 photographs of the inside of an empty school gymnasium, shot in various different orders, frame-by-frame. When the screening ended, according to fellow film-maker Nobuhiro Kawanaka, thunderous applause broke out and a faculty member spontaneously passed around a hat that came back filled with a "mountain" of banknotes.
Expecting a nine-minute experimental Japanese short to garner anything like that kind of reaction now would be a bit like waiting patiently for your toaster to pop up a chicken. Then again, Spacy is a little slice of genius. (You can see the first few minutes here.
In 1984, a young Takashi Ito travelled to the art school in Wurzburg, Germany, to screen a short film he'd made a few years before. The film, Spacy, was an odd experiment: it was simply 700 photographs of the inside of an empty school gymnasium, shot in various different orders, frame-by-frame. When the screening ended, according to fellow film-maker Nobuhiro Kawanaka, thunderous applause broke out and a faculty member spontaneously passed around a hat that came back filled with a "mountain" of banknotes.
Expecting a nine-minute experimental Japanese short to garner anything like that kind of reaction now would be a bit like waiting patiently for your toaster to pop up a chicken. Then again, Spacy is a little slice of genius. (You can see the first few minutes here.
- 1/4/2010
- de Chris Michael
- The Guardian - Film News
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