Andrew Leavold: Owner-manager of Brisbane’s cult movie store Trash Video and subject of the recent SBS documentary Escape From The Planet Of The Tapes, underground film archivist, writer and researcher, filmmaker, cabaret performer, MC, masked wrestler and most recently movie trivia quizmaster. Leavold has just completed his magnum opus: a 35,000 word chapter on Christian Rapture and Apocalypse cinema for Jack Sargeant’s new anthology Suture 2, to be published early 2006.

THE BEAST OF TRASH VIDEO

Compiled by Andrew Leavold | 120 mins | 2005
A two-hour compilation of the wildest, the weirdest, and the most requested stuff from over five years of Trash Video’s notorious weekly Film Club screenings, hosted by Andrew Leavold. With Filipino midget superspies, amputee kung fu, the near-criminal fun of Kid’s Show, a vintage McDonalds training film, net-only animation, real-life strangeness, culture-jamming and just plain cultural terrorism! A hilarious brain-in-neutral party tape for MUFF’s final night festivities.
LOOP | Sun 17th 5pm

THAT’S GODSPLOITATION TOO!

Narrated live by Andrew Leavold | 90 mins | 2005 | Compilation
 An in-name-only sequel to “That’s Godsploitation” from MUFF 2003, Trash Video’s new 90 minute compilation delves even further into the outer fringes of Christian paranoia and propaganda cinema. We shine the torch on Thalidomides for Jesus, Johnny Cash on the long-haired Jesus Freak trail in Israel, the burnt Elephant Man gospel stylings of Merrill Womach, an 80s MTV clip from scary cult The Children Of God, the rapping pirate puppets of Captain Hook (featuring a real-life double amputee “hooking children for Christ”), and the most unnerving evangelists you will ever meet: a farting Robert Tilton, petulant public access TV host and suspected pedophile Jonathan Bell (known affectionately as “Screaming Boy”), and former child preacher and later LSD-addled exploitation star Marjoe Gortner who blows the lid on the whole Baptist tent-show caper! Plus tips on avoiding the slippery slope to Hell, and we revisit the Christian gore-fest shock tactics of Estus W. Pirkle and the Ormond Family Organization. Sweet dreams, sinners!
KINO DENDY | Fri 15th 7pm

LESBO-A-GO-GO

Dir Andrew Leavold | Brisbane | 2003 | B&W/Colour | 52 mins
Trash Videos no-budget film tribute to Sixties adult filmmaker Doris Wishman, Lesbo-A-Go-Go is the tawdry story of a young innocent girl’s unwitting descent into drug addiction, delirium, depravity and damnation. After being raped on the grave of her murdered wrestler boyfriend, beautiful but naive Sugar (Cari Withercy) is taken in by the predatory Kitten (Eileen Surepuss) and soon descends into a sin-soaked underworld of lesbianism, madness and psychedelic violence. Filmed in Bris-Vegas in seedy b&w (except for a saturated colour hallucination sequence) over six months for $700, LESBO A-G-O-GO is a delirious homage to vintage exploitation cinema (or “porn without porn”), featuring a gloriously fake 60s soundtrack from over ten Australian bands including The Gammarays, The Hekawis and The Standing 8 Counts. Special appearances from Geoff Corbett (singer for The Tremors and Sixfthick), Brisbane bands The Aampirellas and Gazoonga Attack, Melbourne filmmaker and MUFF director Richard Wolstencroft as “Dr Geese”, and St Kilda’s own Fred Negro as the “Vision From Hell”.
LOOP | Sat 16th 7pm

Features LIVE DIRECTOR’S COMMENTARY

with writer/director Andrew Leavold, DOP Jarret Gahan, 2nd Unit Director Rohan Pugh, and stars Fred Negro and Richard Wolstencroft PLUS the Rohan Pugh/Fred Negro collaborations Fred Sounds (2003) and Fred’s Love (2005) introduced by the filmmakers themselves.

WHAT THE CRITICS SAID ABOUT LESBO-A-GO-GO

“Either the tackiest film ever made or the most infantile piece of cheap trash cinema...also is one of the funniest low-budget films to come out of Brisbane.” Alison Mason, Courier Mail

“More entertainment value in its minuscule budget than a hundred Matrix Reloadeds...” Boris Lugosi, Girls Guns And Ghouls

“Ugly, reprehensible and morally repugnant. And I made the film.”
Andrew Leavold, writer/director