Sydney Underground Film Festival
Sat. September 12th 2009 6:30pm
The Factory Theatre
105 Victoria Rd.
Marrickville, Sydney, Australia

Titillations
Fusebox Cinema

DOG=GOD

Dir. Lulu Keating & Karen Hines / CAN / 2009 / 4:30
A girl loves dogs. She wants to be one. This is an experimental, musical, ecstatic ode to dogs and those who both master and worship them.

My Name is Pochsy: An Industrial Film

Dir. Karen Hines / CAN / 2007 / 7:00
Pochsy works at Mercury Packers … where she packs mercury. A trans-genre ode to industrial propaganda films and a scathing satire for our times. Spouting affirmations culled from sources as disparate as the Dalai Lama, ‘The Secret’ and the Wal-Mart Mission Statement, Pochsy is a spokesgirl for a species on the brink.

What’s My Mother F**king Name?

Dir. Amber Dawn / CAN / 2008 / 4:25
A female bondage model struggling to be free is juxtaposed with a narration that moves through issues of sex work, queer and feminine identity, class, immigration, consumerism, global health and quality of life.

Neurotica

Dir. Leah Meyerhoff / USA / 2001 / 4:00
A young woman eats her lunch according to a precisely calibrated routine. Today, she is interrupted by a man seeking sexual gratification.

Mind’s Eye

Dir. Bernice Ong / AUS / 2007 / 4:10
An odd mix of terror and detachment, as in a dream sequence, is situated in a state between reality and fiction.

A Tax on Pochsy

Dir. Karen Hines / CAN / 2009 / 18:30
Set in the waiting room at an audit from hell sits Pochsy, a mercury-poisoned factory worker who glows like the ghost of a silent film star and is pretty as a corpse. Part confession, part alibi, Pochsy is the subversively seductive anti-heroine.

Twitch

Dir. Leah Meyerhoff / USA / 2005 / 10:00
A young girl torn between two worlds: her domestic life where she must care for her wheelchair-bound mother and her escape into the emerging world of adolescence with her hormone-addled boyfriend.

The Crooked Eye

Dir. D.C Douglas / USA / 2009 / 18:44
Part live action and part animation, this film is a dreamy portrait of troubled young woman, Sharon, as she struggles with a recent divorce and a current perception problem.

Family History

Dir. Shelley Jordon / USA / 2009 / 2:40
An animated painting, which explores issues of vulnerability and how each new experience is filtered through our perceptions of previous ones.

Salome’s Picnic

Dir. Victoria Waghorn / AUS / 2008 / 1:00
A set picnic blanket sits unattended in the depths of a forest. Two lovers lie beyond coupled in a deep embrace. A generic picture of erotic bliss. Or is it?

Fyre

Dir. Maia Sinclair-Ferguson / AUS / 2009 / 4:00
A distorted narrative where abject images of female empowerment are transferred from body to body.

Hey F**k Face

Dir. Amber Dawn / CAN / 2008 / 4:15
Medical specimens, gender bending Christian clergy and kinky sex are just a few of the topics the whimsical narrator touches on.

Lash

Dir. Elka Kerkhofs / AUS / 2008 / 5:26
Celina discovers that religious persecution cannot kill the power of love.

Chick Addict

Dir. Victoria Waghorn / AUS / 2009 / 2:00
A playful & erotic experimental exposition of one woman & her hedonistic addiction for chicks.

The Pictures
Wednesday February 18 2009 8:00pm
36-44 Stoke Newington High Street
Dalston, East London N16 7XJ

screening with the UK premiere of ‘Silver Jew’ directed by Michael Tully

The Pictures is a monthly screening night of DIY films, a game of bingo in the interval, free popcorn, and a couple of bands after the screening.

Past screenings have included feature films like Orphans by Ry Russo-Young, Quiet City by Aaron Katz and the Sonic Youth tour film 1991: The Year Punk Broke.

Free entry!

Saturday & Sunday, November 21 & 22 – 8 pm
The Crucible
1816 Half Street SW
Washington, DC

Screening Includes:
In Yer Room
Lemon Squeezy
Neurotica
Coming Out Spanko
Anonymity
Namaha Man
Who’s The Top?
Married with Children
Pleasure Me
Pac Mouse
The Party
Wash Me Clean
High Infidelity
Salt
Something About Nadia
Wildest Dreams

July 10-12 2008
Yerba Buena Art Center
San Francisco, CA

More screening info coming soon…

Sat. March 22 2008 2:00pm
A Day in Leah Land
Boston Underground Film Festival
The Brattle Theater
40 Brattle Street
Cambridge, MA

Leah Meyerhoff is an award winning filmmaker who has had great success on the film festival circuit. This retrospective of her work will hopefully enlighten aspiring filmmakers as to a possible path they might take in their own careers.

Leah graduated with Honors from Brown University with a BA in Art-Semiotics, after taking additional courses at the Rhode Island School of Design. She spent the following year at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is currently pursuing an MFA in Film at New York University.

While at NYU, Leah directed Twitch, a Student Academy Award finalist and Slamdance Grand Jury Prize winner. Twitch has screened in over 200 film festivals, including Cannes, Woodstook, Chicago International, and Boston Underground. After winning over a dozen international awards, Twitch was picked up for distribution by IFC. Leah has since directed several music videos, including Team Queen, a Planet Out finalist on LOGO, and Eternal Flame on MTV Europe. Leah was also profiled on the docudrama series Film School, which continues to air on IFC.

Leah is currently in development on her first feature Unicorns, a Sundance Screenwriting Lab finalist scheduled to go into production this summer.

Leah will be on hand to discuss her career path and answer questions in between screenings of the following short films:

Pelvis (2 min)
Asphyxiate (2 min)
An Institutional Look (5 min)
Pacmouse (2 min)
Wonderfluff Sandwiches (10 min)
Neurotica (4 min)
Waxing Nostalgic (10 min)
Packaged Goods (3 min)
Twitch (10 min)
Team Queen (4 min)
The Heist (2 min)
Eternal Flame (4 min)
Plastic Trees (4 min)
Unicorns teaser (3 min)

For more info visit www.LeahMeyerhoff.com

February 26 2008
Opening Night Gala
Taj
48 W. 21st Street
New York, NY

Opening Night
Tuesday February 26 2008

A trio of works by New York-based directors will be the centerpiece of the event’s Kick-Off Gala and Opening Night Screening taking place on Tuesday, February 26th, a pansexual celebration that will also feature music, live performances and a fundraising silent auction.

The key offering for the evening, Richard Kimmel’s SCHWARZWALD, is a rich,
modern tapestry that combines elements of Druidic ritual with the
passionate, leather-clad goings-on of NYC’s annual Black Party. Following
the travails of the Black Prince as he is pursued through the forest and
kidnapped by underlings of the conniving Black Queen, the film stars Buck
Angel, the world famous female-to-male transsexual porn star, along with a
cast of literal thousands, and a continuous mix of music that culminates in
what its creators are touting as “the movie you can dance to!”

Also featured in the CineKink NYC opening night line-up is Leah Meyerhoff’s
TEAM QUEEN, a colorful music video for the group Triple Creme that features
some of the best in New York burlesque in a gender-bending, fire-breathing,
tassel-twirling, post-punk rock ‘n roll extravaganza. Two other shorts by Meyerhoff, Neurotica and Pacmouse will also be screening later in the festival.

And rounding out the selections, A DOG’S TALE, a first-time directorial
offering from photographer Steven Speliotis, is a sensuous and layered
reverie on control and submission, longing and desire.

SCHWARZWALD’s Richard Kimmel is primarily a theater director, writer and
producer, with experience in creating, in addition to the live version of
SCHWARZWALD, such performance events as “Pandora” and Jennifer Hudson’s New
York concert debut “One Night Only.” He is also Executive Director of The
Box, a venue on the city’s Lower East Side, and Artistic Director of Cannon
Company, a performance ensemble.

TEAM QUEEN’s Leah Meyerhoff is currently pursuing a Master’s in Film at New
York University. A Student Academy Awards finalist, Leah’s previous works
have been a hit on the international film festival circuit and she is
working on her first feature film.

The first-time director of A DOG’S TALE, Steven Speliotis, is an art and
portrait photographer whose work has been exhibited in solo shows in New
York and abroad, and is highlighted in the book “Asian Bondage.”

With over 70 selections set to screen over the course of the event, CineKink
NYC will feature a specially-curated program of films and videos that cuts
across orientations to celebrate and explore a wide diversity of sexuality.
In addition to screenings, the event will also feature a short film
competition, audience choice awards, presentations, parties and a closing
afterglow celebration.

The full program line-up for CineKink NYC, as well as additional details on
the kick-off gala and advance tickets for the festival, will be available
online beginning Monday, February 4th.