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