Opening Night - SCARLET DIVA
George Cinemas - Thursday 3rd July 7.30pm
Asia Argento | 2002 | Italy | 91 min | 35mm

Closing Night - RAZOR EATERS
George Cinemas, Sunday 13th July 7.30pm
Shannon Young | 2003 | Australia | 97 min | DVD

Live Cinema
Loop - Friday 11th July 8pm

Now that pixels are as easily sampled & mutated as sound, an emerging breed of audiovisualists are busy carving up the territories that lay between cinematic storytelling and the dancefloor bootylicious. Using loops, layers, live processing, FX and editing, tonight showcases some of the approaches possible for ‘Improvised cinema’. Featuring: Spoole (live AV cut-up), Future Eater (live soundtrack to a film), Cicada (visual response to music) & other audiovisual guests/surprises.

see www.sagaponic.net & www.octapod.org/jeanpoole

WORLD OF MONDO WITH INTERNATIONAL GUEST JACK SARGEANT (UK)
George Cinemas - Saturday 5th July 11pm

Presented by cult writer and rogue academic Jack Sargeant.  Includes films such as Mondo Cane, Mondo Cane 2, Mondo Bizarro, Mondo Freudo, Mondo Mod, Mondo Magic, Go! Go! Go! World, Faces of Death, True Gore, Death Women and others exist in the darker recesses of documentary film.  SEE DUBIOUS ANTHROPOLOGY! SEE QUESTIONABLE ATTITUDES TO WOMEN! SEE THE WORLD BEFORE CHEAP INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL!

This illustrated talk focuses on the forbidden documentaries of the 1960s and their influence on death film and exploitation documentaries in the subsequent years. Learn about the culture that spawned them and the twisted aesthetics they celebrated. 

LOMO LOVE-IN
George Cinemas - Sunday 6th July 5pm
then Federation Square 6.30pm
then Ume 7.30pm

Post screening drinks at Federation Square, then onto Ume in Fitzroy for a lomo lone ranger exhibition. Features A-Z lomo challenge - the more lomo photos you take by the end of the evening, the better your chance to win ace lomographic prizes.

For more information visit www.lomography.com.au

GUERRILLA FILMMAKERS FORUM
Onesixone - Saturday 12th July 6.45pm

Featuring a special forum with filmmakers from all our Oz guerilla films including, Shannon Young, Mark Savage, Andrew Leavold, Paul Moder and MUFF festival director Richard Wolstencroft afterward about how to make a low budget epic. Screening of Reign In Darkness prior to the forum.