The Brisbane Underground Film Festival (BUFF) — ambitiously billed as "the most fun you can have in a dark room with strangers" — has announced its 2012 line-up.
Held at Brisbane Powerhouse from November 1-3, BUFF's mission statement is to screen recent, weird, low budget, risky and overlooked films to people whose curiosity goes beyond the megaplex. An "underground" film can be anything from highbrow (video art and experimental film) to low (gore and boobs), as evidenced by this year's lineup.
Thursday November 1
7pm - The Color Wheel (USA, directed by Alex Ross Perry) - A darkly comic, post-Jarmusch, post-mumblecore journey into family, relationships and unfulfilled dreams billed as "a future cult movie in the making".
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9pm - The Comedy (USA, directed by Rick Alverson) - A savage swipe at Williamsburg hipsters starring Tim Heidecker (Tim & Eric's Awesome Show, Great Job!), James Murphy (LCD Soundsystem), Eric Wareheim (Tim & Eric's Awesome Show, Great Job!), Will Sheff (Okkervil River), Richard Swift (The Shins) and Gregg Turkington (Neil Hamburger).
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Friday November 2
7pm - Video Diary Of A Lost Girl (USA, directed by Lindsay Denniberg) - An homage to the '80s, VHS, punk and German expressionism about a woman named Louise and why every man she sleeps with must die.
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9pm - You Are What You Eat! Get Thee To The Vomitorium! - A spun out journey through a selection of 'classic' underground films and food (including Baked Alaska, Spoiled, The Psychotic Odyssey Of Richard Chase, Bovine Vendetta, Meat Fucker and We Await), with an introductory talk by alternative film critic Jack Sargeant.
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Saturday November 3
Noon - Zero Killed (Austria/Germany, directed by Michal Kosakowski) - A horror-documentary about seemingly average people who agree to participate in video dramatisations of their murder fantasies.
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7pm - The Wolf Knife (USA, directed by Laurel Nakadate) - An atypical road movie about two girls dealing with confusing feelings of attraction, jealousy and tension.
9pm - Showgirls 2: Penny's From Heaven (USA, directed by Rena Riffel) - No doubt the highlight of the festival for some, this sequel to the Paul Verhoeven 'classic' focuses on Vegas stripper Penny Slot (Rena Riffel) and her quest to become the star of a television dance show.
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Most films will screen with an accompanying short. For the full program, head over here.
BUFF is founded, programmed and run entirely by New York-based expat Nina Riddel, and supported by Brisbane Powerhouse.
