CINE-REBIS – The London Underground Film Festival
12 PM - IT'S NOT THE HOMOSEXUAL WHO IS PERVERSE BUT THE SOCIETY IN WHICH HE LIVES
Dir: Rosa Von Praunheim | Germany, 1971 | 67 mins
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One+One Filmmakers Journal presents a rare screening of Rosa Von Praunheim’s underground queer classic It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives. Made in Germany in 1971, the film is a strong indictment of bourgeois gay German culture and was incredibly controversial upon its release – sparking outrage from gay audiences, particularly at American screenings. Some quotes from the film give a flavour of its thesis:
'Faggots don’t want to be faggots. They don’t want to be different. They live in a dream world of glossy magazines and Hollywood movies'
'Let’s work together with the blacks and women’s liberation. Get involved politically. Being gay is not a career.'
'As the gays are being despised by the square as ill and inferior, they try to become more square to remove their guilty feeling with an excess of bourgeois virtues'
Following the screening, the audience is invited to debate its implications and relevance to today’s gay culture. Is it overly harsh and bitter? Does its criticisms still hold true, if they ever did?
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2 PM - THE MOTHERHOOD ARCHIVES
Dir: Irene Lusztig | USA, 2013 | 91 mins
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Archival montage, science fiction, and an homage to 70s feminist filmmaking are woven together to form THE MOTHERHOOD ARCHIVES, a lyrical essay film excavating hidden histories of childbirth in the twentieth century that is by turns haunting, incisive, and wry. Assembling an extraordinary archive of over 100 educational, industrial, and medical training films (including newly rediscovered Soviet and French childbirth films) THE MOTHERHOOD ARCHIVES inventively untangles the complex, sometimes surprising genealogies of maternal education.
THE MOTHERHOOD ARCHIVES is a meditation on the maternal body as a site of institutional control, ideological surveillance, medical knowledge, and nationalist state intervention. Finally, the film works as a feminist recuperation of obsolete maternal histories, as a visual analysis of the persistent disciplining of the pregnant / labouring body, and as a new, contemporary counter-archive of women’s experiential narratives.
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4 PM - SHORT FILMS: DOCUMENTS, PORTRAITS & HOME MOVIES
Programme run time: 93 mins
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A selection of shorts from this year's submissions.
See full listing here: http://theundergroundfilmstudio.co.uk/cine-rebis/
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6 PM - POOR LITTLE RICH GIRLS (AFTER WARHOL)
Dir: Alex Munt | Australia, 2013 | 60 mins
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Poor Little Rich Girls (After Warhol) is a cinematic homage to, and conceptual remake, of Andy Warhol's Poor Little Rich Girl (1965) featuring Factory superstar Edie Sedgwick. Some 50 years later, the original film re-imagined, re-performed, remixed and revived for the digital age. The film engages with Warholian themes of copy, appropriation and authenticity. It frames the 1965 version as a historical document, a time-capsule, projected into the present. Gracie Otto (re)performs the role of Edie Sedgwick. Jack Sargeant re-stages the off-screen role of Chuck Wein, a spectral presence in the film.
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7.15 PM - SHORT FILMS: EXPERIMENTAL & UNDERGROUND
Programme run time: 93 mins
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A selection of shorts from this year's submissions.
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9 PM - HEART ATTACK! + LA CAGE AUX ZOMBIES Plus Q&A with Director Kelly Hughes
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We invite you to join us for an evening with American filmmaker Kelly Hughes and his trash-tastic world of VHS Zombie drag queen madness! This is a very special event not to be missed!
HEART ATTACK: The Early Pulse Pounding Cinema of Kelly Hughes (2013)
Dir: Kelly Hughes | USA, 2013 | 56 mins
From 1991-1993, while Nirvana and Twin Peaks made the Pacific Northwest hip, Hughes quietly created an unprecedented body of work on Seattle's public access TV. His weekly series Heart Attack Theatre was the video equivalent of grunge rock. Aiming for a classy Twilight Zone style suspense anthology, he ended up with a John Waters-esque shock-a-thon, shooting most of his footage in and around his apartment near the University of Washington. In this documentary, Hughes interviews his actors to reveal a pre-YouTube era of do-it-yourself film-making. And showcases his native Seattle in all its trashy glory.
LA CAGE AUX ZOMBIES: Directors Cut! (2013)
Dir: Kelly Hughes | USA, 2013 | 50 mins
Zombies, drag queens, drug dealers, glamour, trash, action, suspense, murder, make-up and so much more!! This rarely screened low budget classic was originally released straight to video in 1995 this special directors cut, ups the pace and gives us a no holds barred rollor coatser ride through trashville!!
BOOK LAUNCH + DIRECTOR Q&A Director Kelly Hughes will be flying in from Seatle to present his films and to launch his new book Videoteur: An Analog Account of a No Budget Media Mogul in the DIY 90s, In which he exposes the indie film counterpoint to Seattle's grunge rock scene in the early 1990s, and describes his quest for artistic recognition, from B-movie Hollywood, to Baltimore, Berlin, and beyond.
See full programme here: http://theundergroundfilmstudio.co.uk/cine-rebis/