MUFF X -- MUFF ATTACKS -- is HERE!
August 15th 2009 15:05
The Melbourne Underground Film Festival (MUFF) is back to celebrate MUFF X -- the festival's prestigious tenth year of championing alternative cinema in Melbourne. MUFF is thrilled to announce its highly anticipated 2009 lineup and full schedule of events.
MUFF X will run from Saturday August 22nd until Sunday August 30th. This year's venues will be Noise, Loop, Glitch, and the Embassy (the old QBH).
Opening night at the newly converted Embassy will deliver Into the Shadows -- a fascinating and important documentary about the state of this country's film industry and the challenges faced by Australian independent cinema throughout the past century. It features interviews by Rolf De Heer (The Tracker), George Miller (Mad Max), Andrew Denton, and many more film
practitioners and representatives.
The 2009 festival programmers are proud to present a selection of exciting and provocative pictures from interstate, overseas, and many from the festival's home town of Melbourne. MUFF may be the only chance Melbourne audiences will have to see many of these films.
Local highlights include Sleeper -- a thriller starring wrestler Scott 'Raven' Levy as a mute serial killer with an aversion to daylight, Eraser Children, an ambitious and absorbing sci-fi flick set in a futuristic dystopia, and Carmilla Hyde, a darkly seductive twist on the traditional
Jekyll & Hyde story. International highlights include Impolex, the bizarre story of a WWII soldier in search of undetonated German missiles, and Modern Love is Automatic, a comedy about an apathetic nurse who moonlights as a dominatrix.
MUFF X will also feature a variety of special events including a focus on legendary 1950s and 60s horror director William Castle, a world-first retrospective on 1980s cult hero/demon Wings Hauser, and special screenings of the early films of Leni Riefenstahl, German leading lady of the 1920s who went on to direct the infamous propaganda piece Triumph of
the Will for Adolf Hitler.
Added to this lineup is the return of Mini Muff, one of MUFF's most popular yearly events, wherein the festival showcases the best short films from Australia and from overseas. Over 50 short films have been selected for the 2009 lineup, including local thriller Out, starring Rob Rabiah (Chopper, Underbelly), and The Marina Experiment -- a confronting autobiographical film from New York featuring original music by Mick Harvey of the Bad Seeds.
These are but a few of the treats MUFF X has in store for Melbourne audiences this August. The complete program is now available in venues and stores across the city, and online at www.muff.com.au
MUFF X will run from Saturday August 22nd until Sunday August 30th. This year's venues will be Noise, Loop, Glitch, and the Embassy (the old QBH).
Opening night at the newly converted Embassy will deliver Into the Shadows -- a fascinating and important documentary about the state of this country's film industry and the challenges faced by Australian independent cinema throughout the past century. It features interviews by Rolf De Heer (The Tracker), George Miller (Mad Max), Andrew Denton, and many more film
Local highlights include Sleeper -- a thriller starring wrestler Scott 'Raven' Levy as a mute serial killer with an aversion to daylight, Eraser Children, an ambitious and absorbing sci-fi flick set in a futuristic dystopia, and Carmilla Hyde, a darkly seductive twist on the traditional
Jekyll & Hyde story. International highlights include Impolex, the bizarre story of a WWII soldier in search of undetonated German missiles, and Modern Love is Automatic, a comedy about an apathetic nurse who moonlights as a dominatrix.
MUFF X will also feature a variety of special events including a focus on legendary 1950s and 60s horror director William Castle, a world-first retrospective on 1980s cult hero/demon Wings Hauser, and special screenings of the early films of Leni Riefenstahl, German leading lady of the 1920s who went on to direct the infamous propaganda piece Triumph of
the Will for Adolf Hitler.
Added to this lineup is the return of Mini Muff, one of MUFF's most popular yearly events, wherein the festival showcases the best short films from Australia and from overseas. Over 50 short films have been selected for the 2009 lineup, including local thriller Out, starring Rob Rabiah (Chopper, Underbelly), and The Marina Experiment -- a confronting autobiographical film from New York featuring original music by Mick Harvey of the Bad Seeds.
These are but a few of the treats MUFF X has in store for Melbourne audiences this August. The complete program is now available in venues and stores across the city, and online at www.muff.com.au
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