SUFF SATURDAY DAY PASS

SAT 12 SEP @ 4:30PM

Price: $30 + BF
Bookings: (02) 9550 3666
Tickets: On sale now @ Factory Theatre; Buy tickets online

SESSION 1: 4.30PM-6PM Main cinema: CHRIST, KID, YOU’RE A WEIRDO!

A session that celebrates diversity and ingenuity in Australian filmmaking. One of the few chances you’ll get all year to see the most original and challenging Aussie films, which will leave you feeling inspired about the state of the industry.

SESSION 1: 4.30PM-6PM Fuse box: PENELOPE

Director: Ben Ferris Australian Premiere Penelope, the mythical character from Homer’s The Odyssey, is waiting for her husband Odysseus to return from war. In this film adaptation, set in a mythic time and space, with contemporary influences and attitudes, Penelope is both archetype and human being. She wanders alone through the halls of her castle, each room a different memory. In these rooms she has visions of her husband, as past, present and future become indistinguishable from each other. Her visions are an escape from the loneliness of the present and increasingly dislocate her from the world around her: the companionship of her maidservants and the feasting mythical suitors who have gathered in her halls. If Bill Viola and Peter Greenaway had an illegitimate love child, it would be Penelope. Stylistic and contemplative – the lavish settings and rich cinematography provide a transcendent situation for the spectator to live this artwork.

SESSION 2: 6.30PM- 8PM Main cinema: CHEVOLUTION

Director: Trisha Ziff NSW Premiere In 1960, Cuban photographer Alberto ‘Korda’ Díaz captured a photo of Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara during a mass funeral. History conspired to enable this dynamic portrait to explode on the world scene in 1968 throughout Europe and Latin America, when it became an international symbol of protest and dissent. In the last decade, with the establishment of the Internet, the image has once again travelled the globe in many forms. From protest to commerce, it is constantly transformed and reinvented. It is considered to be the most reproduced image in the history of photography.

Why and how did this photograph become so important?

CHEVOLUTION is a film about a photograph. It explores how the Che image travelled from Korda’s studio in Havana to the streets of Europe and beyond. We investigate how this portrait with its enigmatic gaze became a symbol for countless visions for change.

SESSION 2: 6.30PM- 8PM Fuse Box: TITILLATIONS

Sensual, comical, neurotic, and honest, this session is by women about women that every man should see…. It’s sure to excite your nerve endings.

SESSION 3: 8.30PM-10PM Main Cinema: PINK FLAMINGOS

Director: John Waters SMELL CINEMA Pink Flamingos follows the adventures of Babs Johnson (Divine), a fat, style-obsessed criminal who lives in a trailer with her egg-loving mentally ill mother Edie, her delinquent son Crackers, and her traveling companion Cotton. Soon, their strange idyllic life in a trailer is threatened and turned upside down when an eccentric couple, Raymond and Connie Marble, “two jealous perverts”, try to seize Divine’s title of “filthiest person alive”. John Waters’ infamous transgressive cult comedy is on for one night only at the Sydney Underground Film Festival for the first and only time ever – in Odorama. With John Water’s permission the festival has created a whole new sense sensation for Pink Flamingos as Divine deserves to be seen and smelled! Bad Taste has never smelt so good! This film is a joyous rollercoaster ride of depravity the whole family can enjoy!

SESSION 3: 8.30PM-10PM Fuse box: REALITY BITES

A heart-warming and at times heart-wrenching session of several uniquely crafted short documentaries, that range from international tragedy to an intimate story about one man’s foreskin.

SESSION 4: 10.30PM- 12AM Main Cinema: LOVE/SICK

Kinky is to use a feather, perverted is to use the whole chicken… This session explores matters of the heart and phone sex grandmas… Need we say more?

SESSION 4: 10.30PM- 12AM Fuse Box: MYNA SE VA (MYNA HAS GONE)

Directors: Sadrac Gonzalez & Sonia Escolano Australian Premiere Myna Se Va (Myna Has Gone) is an intense yet heartfelt film about Myna, a young illegal immigrant woman from an eastern country that is at war. She works as a home assistant for a married couple and their young son, Pablo. When the couple goes on a trip, Myna is left in charge of all the responsibilities for the household, as well as for their son. However, one night, Pablo has an accident and Myna, who knows that she can be deported if she goes to the hospital, decides to help Pablo through alternative means. Despite Myna Se Va’s micro budget, both Sonia and Sadrac have delivered a tour de force, one of the most challenging and sincere films in a long time. The central character of Myna is played by brilliant young unknown actress Maria Del Barrio, who had to rehearse for 3 months, the 33-minute continuous, very difficult sex scene. But as a result, the overall film is one that will be on everyone’s lips who see it.

SESSION 5: 12AM-1.30AM Main: PORNDOGS: THE ADVENTURES OF SADIE

Director: Greg Blatman World Premiere An outrageous comedy that pretends to be a hardcore porn film, where all the actors are dogs, as in real live animals. Over thirty of our canine friends, a chicken and a man in a dog suit star in this hilarious film with the following celebrities doing some of the voices: Marilyn Chambers, Ron Jeremy, Too $hort, Dustin Diamond, Heidi Fleiss, Paul Rodriguez and more. Think of it as “Benji Does Dallas” or “Animal Planet” on Viagra. Porndogs is at once a parody on human sexuality and a satire on adult films where the dogs talk and act just like people… or is it people who act just like dogs? The story is simple. Sadie, the most beautiful yellow lab in the whole wide world, lives an idyllic, pampered life in the suburbs. One day, she comes into heat and has no idea what to do with her new found feelings and urges. When she learns that her loving owners are about to have her spayed, she runs away to the big city where her erotic adventures begin. Whatever you may think of Porndogs, one thing is certain… you’ll never look at your dog the same way again! Oh, and by the way, no animals were harmed or injured in the making of this motion picture… in fact, they rather enjoyed it!

SESSION 5: 12AM-1.30AM Fuse Box: AMERICAN SWING

Directors: Jon Hart & Mattew Kaufman NSW Premiere The year was 1977 and New York City burned. As the metropolis hurtled into bankruptcy, the city’s nightlife hit unprecedented heights. In midtown, the ultra-exclusive Studio 54 was a cocaine-fueled celebrity playhouse. Meanwhile, in the basement of the prestigious Ansonia building on the conservative Upper West Side, Plato’s Retreat opened its doors to ordinary couples who came to dance, to swim, and… to swap. It was the start of a revolution. The brainchild of former wholesale meat purveyor Larry Levenson, Plato’s Retreat quickly emerged as the epicenter of public sex for the “me” generation. For a mere $35, couples checked their judgments and pedigrees at the door at this clothing-optioned Disneyland. For Levenson and others, Plato’s was utopia. For some, it is a time capsule that they are eager to forget. American Swing brings this epicenter of sex and excess to the big screen for the first time.