FERAL CINEMA: The Quickening

The third Thursday of each month I Luv Video, The Austin Chronicle, The Onion & The Austin Underground Film Society will present FERAL CINEMA Double Features — rare, freakish & often damn near impossible-to-find cult classics from the wild fringes of pop culture. Hosted & curated by Marc Savlov of the Austin Chronicle, Charles Lieurance of I Luv Video, Pop Matters & Blastitude Magazine & Andy Gately from The Austin Underground Film Society & Psych Fest, these double features will bring to light a wide range of chronically unseen treasures. As an added bonus, screenings will have surprises like giveaways, trivia contests, drink specials, and erudite, boozy introductions from your hosts.

WHO IS KK DOWNEY?
Darren Curtis/Pat Kiely, 2008

We’re kicking off Feral Cinema with this brutal send up of hipster culture via the real-life controversy surrounding 16-year-old transgender cult author JT LeRoy, who made headlines with her “astonishingly confident” (New York Times Book Review) semi-autobiographical debut novel Sarah. Despite questionable literary merit and dubious authenticity, the story of a boy truck stop prostitute struck a masochistic chord with younger readers through its exotic subject matter and pitch black humor, and catapulted the mysterious teenage author into celebrity status, as she soon found herself being courted (in every sense) by the likes of Asia Argento, Gus Van Sant, Carrie Fisher, and Debbie Harry. It soon came to light that, in what the San Francisco Chronicle calls “the greatest literary hoax in a generation,” the sunglass-clad guy appearing on LeRoy’s speaking dates was not, in fact, the true scribe behind the work, or even a guy…

Enter Montreal comedy troupe Kidnapper, who lampoons the scandal’s perpetrators and marks for all it’s worth, and then some. Just leave it to the Canadians to rip American scenesters a new one. View the trailer HERE.

WHO IS KK DOWNEY? Will be preceded by the amazing punk rock short TORTURED BY JOY (Dir. Henry Griffin, 11 min.)

Doors @ 8 p.m. so you can get your drink on & the actual films will be shown at 8:30 p.m., with an intermission for giveaways, more drinking and bathroom breaks. Feral Cinema screenings cost $5. Feral Drink Special #1: $2 Lone Star pints

Don’t forget to check out the new film Zoo York Skate of Mind when it premieres at the best skate shop in town, Lone Star Sk8. Check the trailer then swing by the shop for free beer, BYO chair. Directed by R.B. Umali, music by Mr. Green

Thursday March 12th @ Headhunters patio, The Austin Underground Film Society presents:

WILD IN THE STREETS

a screening of the 60s cult rock classic, followed by
live music by CROOKS and THE HOT AS SHITS

“Max Flatow is a precocious, social miscreant who has a way with home-made explosives. When he tires of these, he runs away from home only to emerge seven years later as Max Frost, the world’s most popular entertainer. When Congressman John Fergus uses Frost as a political ploy to gain the youth vote in his run for the Senate, Frost wills himself into the system, gaining new rights for the young. Eventually, Frost runs for the presidency. Winning in a landslide, he issues his first presidential edict: All oldsters are required to live in ‘retirement homes’ where they are forced to ingest LSD, taking the 60s catch phrase ‘Never trust anyone over 30′ to its most extreme consequences.”

plus hookah lounge and middle eastern food provided by Ararat

$4 cover, doors at 8pm, film at 8:30, use 8th St. entrance

then…

Friday March 13th @ Beerland, The AUFS presents:

ALTAMONT NOW

The new underground hit by Joshua Brown, based on the Austin play of the same name. With live music by THE CRACK PIPES and MAN STAMPS. More info soon.

“Equal parts art house, grind house, and rock ‘n’ roll, Altamont Now takes the subject of the counterculture itself and makes it not only accessible but smart and wickedly funny.
The film concerns one Richard Havoc (the terrific Daniel Louis Rivas), a rock musician who, it practically goes without saying, has problems with authority and delusions of grandeur (he was expelled from second grade for calling his math teacher a “fucking sellout”). These soon manifest into a full-blown messianic complex, as he sees his teen idol status as a ticket to be a pied piper to wayward youths and lead them in a revolt against… well, it’d be shorter to list what he’s not rebelling against. Punk rock, he seems to be cool with. Punk rock and large-bore firearms.”
-I Luv Video

Read Andy’s full review here: http://www.iluvvideo.com/content/view/146/1/

The 3rd Austin Underground Film Festival took place on December 19th, 2009 at the Salvage Vanguard Theater. Over thirty short films and music videos (see line up) were screened to our largest and most enthusiastic audience yet. In addition to the great turn out, we had even more support from local businesses and filmmakers than ever before.

Congratulations to the winner of the ‘08 Audience Choice Award, Ciro Altabas, for his awesome short film DVD!

Dozens of door prizes were given away courtesy of I Luv Video, SmoCo smoke shop and Lone Star Sk8. Delicious food, drinks and dessert was provided by Ararat and Starlet Sweets and the Massage Gypsy provided free massages.

The Strange Boys and Hacienda both played great shows at the after party which was sponsored by Live Music Capitol. Free beer was provided by Junior’s Beer and Wine and I Luv Video.

Special thanks to longtime patrons Mopac Media, Maker Faire and Bird’s Barbershop.

Photos of the festival and after party were taken by Francis Cruzada.

Scope the press frenzy:

The Onion / Decider Austin: interview with fest founder Andy Gately

KVUE-TV Austin: Live event coverage and interview

Austin Chronicle: Interview and preview of the films

Live Music Capitol Magazine: line-up breakdown and AUFF teaser trailer

That Austin Girl: Interview

BadLit: Review of the entire line-up

“The show was great, we had a really good time.”
-Tim League, Founder, Alamo Drafthouse Cinema

“These are the films that keep Austin batshit crazy. Let’s see that on a bumper sticker.”
-I LUV VIDEO

AUSTIN.COM: Festival Preview

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We have closed online ticket sales, but they are still available at the door for the Film Festival and after show featuring Hacienda and The Strange Boys. See you there!

The 2008 Austin Underground Film Festival will be held on Friday, Dec, 19th at the Salvage Vanguard Theater in east Austin, 2803 Manor Road, beginning at 7pm.  Tickets available at the door and online.

Music Prologue:

VIDEO ART by Jon Clark
QUICKSAND UNDER CARPET by Jay Hollinsworth
STRANGE MAGAZINE by  Frank Bochard
KINGS OF POWER FOUR BILLION PERCENT by Paul Robertson
FALLING FROM MARS by Tracie Laymon
RATTLE & CONFUSE ME by James Oswald
ETERNAL FLAME by Leah Meyerhoff

Film Program:

Everything Will Be Okay by Don Hertzfeldt
Muto by  Blu
DVD by Ciro Altabas
Rabbit by Run Wrake
Made in Japan by Ciro Altabas
Musika by Asier Urbietaren
The Life & Times of Drazen Paskaljevic by Chris Bianchi
Film Noir by The 313
Siyamo by Mahmoud Rezi Sani
Restrospective Screening by TBA
Future Shock by James Brown
Soccer Time by Edmond Hawkins
El Mago Manani by Victor Dryere Pro
A Belly Full of Anger by Andre Perkowski
Hemisfair by Olivia Hinojosa and Yvonne Hernandez
White Taxi by Ian Schranz
Un Dia De Anibal by  Sergio Carvajal
Sk8boardin’ by Jeff Rubin
Baby Doll by Tessa Hughes-Freeland
One-Eyed Don by Byron Brown
The Cat Inside by Andre Perkowski
Entracte by Yann Gonzalez
Mulched Midnight Memories of Don Knotts by Andre Perkowski with Schwump
I Am So Proud of You by  Don Hertzfeldt

Thanks again to the following filmmakers who allowed their work to be screened at Bill’s Place on Nov. 14th as part of Psych Nite hosted by Live Music Capitol.

PEDRO’S BEATIFIC ADVENTURE by  John Hartman
POLLINATION by Max Chan
SHI KEI KEE by Jamie Teer
TRILOGY: CANNED MEAT by Robert Daniel Flowers
LSD-A-GO-GO by Scott Calonico
NEIL INNES TALKS TO TODAY’S YOUTH ABOUT RECORD LABELS by Andre Perkowski
RAINBOW FAMILY GATHERING: World Peace Prayer by John Hartman
MONDO FORD by Ricardo Fratelli
NARCOTICS: PIT OF DESPAIR from Prelinger Retrospective
ICE ICE BABY POPPA OOM MOW MOW by Andre Perkowski
HAVE YOU GOT ANY CASTLES? from Prelinger Retrospective

9:30 Lady Bell
http://www.myspace.com/ladybell

10:30 The Little Gentlemen
http://www.myspace.com/thelittlegentlemen

11:30 Charles Potts Magic Windmill Band
http://www.myspace.com/charlespottsmagicwindmillband

12:30 The Little Morts
http://www.myspace.com/thelittlemorts

Ruta Maya on 3601 S. Congress. Friday Sept. 12th ‘08.
Only six scrolls.

The 2007 Austin Underground Film Festival took place on June 9th, 2007 and played to a packed house at the Alamo Drafthouse Downtown.

From the archives:

“Ever wanted to know how to get a Big Mac for a dollar, see comics Denis Leary and Bill Hicks square off, or learn how to get the most from your neighborhood bodega? The Austin Underground Film Fest is back with more revolutionary programming from local and international fringe artists - three solid hours of the best in subterranean cinema. Where else can you see a hacky sack music video, educational church PSA’s, lost celebrity rarities, and an inside look at the private lives of comic book artists? AUFF ‘07: The cure for the common film fest.”

The winner of the festival as voted by the audience was Bruce Parsons’ Drawing Between the Lines.

View the festival lineup at B-side.
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The Austin Underground Film Fest PRESENTS: FOR LOVE & STACIE

Come join us on November 7th, at 7:00pm (doors open at 6:30) for a one-night-only encore screening of the Austin production FOR LOVE & STACIE, the perfect film for those times when Cupid’s arrow of Love shoots you through the heart, and then Cupid’s 9mm of Rejection shoots you in the gut.
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The 2006 Austin Underground Film Fest took place from 6:30pm-11:30pm on May 23rd, 2006 to a sold out theater at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema on 1120 South Lamar Plaza, voted “Best Theater in the Country” in 2005 by Entertainment Weekly and home to such events as the World Air Guitar Championships, Tenacious D Sing-a-longs, Videoke, and Quentin Tarantino’s Film Fest.
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