2012 Minneapolis Underground Film Fest

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS & SHORTS

FRIDAY AUG. 17, 4:30PM
Various Directors
USA | 2012 | 60 MIN

A free selection of festival trailers and shorts featuring:
BEEF BARLEY BROTHERS Director Luke Black
DARK CORNER Director Bob Pusateri
HELPING: WITH TRAVIS Director Carey Burtt
THE TRAIN Director Pardis Parker

THIS AIN’T CALIFORNIA

FRIDAY AUG. 17, 5:45PM
Director: Marten Persiel
GERMANY | 2012 | 90 MIN | English Subtitles

A fast-paced punk fairytale that redefines the documentary genre, following three skate boarders who lived in the German Democratic Republic and luckily possessed a Super-8mm camera to document their introduction to skateboarding during their childhood in the seventies through their turbulent teens in the eighties right up to autumn of 1989, when their lives change forever. And follows them to 2011.
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THE VOICE OF GOD

FRIDAY AUG. 17, 7:30PM
Director: Bernd Lützelter
INDIA/GERMANY | 2011 | 10 MIN
Screens before “GO GANGES”

If God would come down to earth and try to earn a living in Bombay, most probably he would very soon become successful as a voice over artiste, lending his voice to thousands of hindi movies and even more documentaries and public service films in India. A melo-dramatic docu-drama with voice-over in stop-motion and longtime-exposure.

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GO GANGES!

FRIDAY AUG. 17, 7:30PM
Director: JJ Kelly & Josh Thomas
INDIA/USA | 2012 | 83 MIN
Director & Editor will be in attendance for Q&A

Two filmmakers capture the danger, joy and significance of the mighty Ganges River as they attempt to travel its length by any means possible. The adventures provide a colorful testimony to the distress the river endures, and why it merits reprieve as an irreplaceable emblem.
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ELKO

FRIDAY AUG.17, 9:30PM
Director: Alexander Yan
USA | 2011 | 14 MIN
Screens before “Zero Killed”

“”i am 23 and want to die.” “i can travel anywhere.” After this posting this request on an internet message board, a depressed young woman finds her mercy killer in the form of an enigmatic teenage homicide, Elko presents a voyeuristic glimpse into the emotional disconnect and casual cruelty of the internet generation.”

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ZERO KILLED

FRIDAY AUG. 17, 9:30PM
Director: Michal Koskowski
GERMANY | 2011 | 81 MIN | English Subtitles

People with different non-criminal backgrounds talk about their murder fantasies and get the chance to stage their fantasies as short films. A decade later, the director meets with these people and interviews them about current topics such as revenge, torture, war, terrorism, media, domestic violence, the death penalty, suicide etc. Their replies are juxtaposed with the short films based on their murder fantasies.
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BLOOD AND FIRE

SATURDAY AUG. 18, 1:00PM
Director: Carey Burtt
USA | 2011 | 10MIN
Screens before “”Graupel Poetry”

A trance-like, rapid-cut showcase of various contemporary occult practitioners.

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GRAUPEL POETRY

SATURDAY AUG. 18, 1:00PM
Director Bruce Saxway
CHINA/HONG KONG | 2011 | 77 MIN | English Subtitles
Director & Producer will be in attendance for Q&A

“A surreal, sexually charged exploration of complex passions, bizarre love triangles and the thin line between sanity and madness, Graupel Poetry is a fascinating filmmaking trip that will leave you breathless at every unexpected turn. Leung and Ming share a small flat in Hong Kong. Leung is an aspiring actor in his first big role, who suffers from recurring nightmares. When his co-star turns up dead, an apparent murder, Leung spirals into a jumbled, uncertain world where everything he has known, including his own identity, comes into question. Meanwhile his relationship with Ming moves in a startling direction that raises questions about the foundation of their bond.
Channeling David Lynch throughout, filmmaker Bruce Saxway crafts a slick, unsettling atmosphere that manages to stay focused on the everyday existence of these fascinating characters while exploring their complicated internal lives in a twisted underbelly of dark, candlelit apartments and odd Hong Kong nightlife.
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I NEED A HERO

SATURDAY AUG. 18, 2:30PM
Director W.H. Bourne
USA | 2011 | 14MIN
Screens before “”Heavy Girls”

“I Need a Hero is a brief look at the evolution of LGBT representation in comic books over the past 30 years.”

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HEAVY GIRLS

SATURDAY AUG. 18, 2:30PM
Director: Axel Ranisch
GERMANY | 2011 | 76 MIN | English Subtitles

Sven lives with his mother, she suffers from dementia. During the day Daniel looks after her. One day, she locks Daniel on the balcony and takes a walk on her own. While both men desperately search for the old woman, a confusing affection for each other comes to light.
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MN MADE

SATURDAY AUG. 18, 4:15PM
Various Directors
MN | 2012 | 77 MIN
Directors will be in attendance for Q&A

A selection of MN made shorts featuring: FERTILE ASHES, BUFFALO SHAMPOO & RETIREMENT OF JOE CORDUROY
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GOOD TASTE

SATURDAY AUG. 18, 6:00PM
Director: Greg Hanson
USA | 2012 | 10 MIN
Screens before “Red Flag”

An obsessed record collector suspects his neighbor has stolen his prized new record and he will do anything to get it back.

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RED FLAG

SATURDAY AUG. 18, 6:00PM
Director: Alex Karpovsky
USA | 2012 | 84 MIN

Teasing the line between fiction and reality, Alex Karpovsky plays an indie filmmaker who was dumped by a longtime girlfriend fed up with his refusal to marry, takes to the road with a reluctant old pal for a misbegotten mini tour. Pursued by an overly ardent groupie and his own demons as he screens his film on college campuses and independent cinemas, Alex sinks deeper into a swamp of fear and humiliations.
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FREAKY TIMES

SATURDAY AUG. 18, 7:45PM
Various Directors
USA/U.K./DENMARK | 2012 | 104 MIN

A selection of music videos, sex and horror shorts featuring: LIFE AND FEAKY TIME OF UNCLE LUKE, OTHER, ELLA, CURTAIN, SINK HOLE, CHEAP EXTERMINATION, NAKED LOVE – EA’S GARDEN, THE GREEN CARNATION, DUCKSAUCE: BIG BAD WOLF, DIESEL, MEANING OF ROBOTS, ENDLESS, VISCOSITY, ANR – BIG PROBLEM, I AM YOUR GRANDMA & JACUZZI G@LS.
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SATURDAY MORNING MASSACRE

SATURDAY AUG. 18, 9:30PM
Director: Spencer Parsons
USA | 2012 | 87 MIN
Director will be in attendance for Q&A

A team of amateur paranormal investigators struggle to make ends meet by debunking reports of supernatural incidents. With the group on the verge of bankruptcy, they take on a case involving rumors of suspicious disappearances and violent deaths linked with an abandoned schoolhouse. “Saturday Morning Massacre” is a bloody parody of mystery cartoons and the consequences of meddling with the supernatural.
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UNTITLED (GREEN)

SUNDAY AUG. 19, 1:00PM
Director: Michael Vale
AUSTRALIA | 2011 | 11 MIN
Screens before “Heaven+Earth+Joe Davis”

Has planet earth already been invaded?… By the color green? Featuring Micro-Hallucinogens, the Death of Napoleon, Emily Dickinson and a forgotten Vaudevillian, this film offers historical speculation and environmental fiction.

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HEAVEN+EARTH+JOE DAVIS

SUNDAY AUG. 19, 1:00PM
Director: Peter Sasowsky
USA | 2011 | 85 MIN

Thirty years ago, a peg-legged motorcycle mechanic walked into the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT. They have not returned his calls. The police were called. Forty-five minutes later he walked out with an academic appointment. Since then, Joe Davis has sent vaginal contractions into space to communicate with aliens, encoded poetry into DNA, and designed a sculpture to save the world. This is a story of self-discovery, sacrifice and the complexity of human endeavor, of the price of art and the ecstatic joy of discovery.
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RELATIONSHIPS

SUNDAY AUG. 19, 3:00PM
Various Directors
USA | 2012 | 79 MIN

A selection of short films featuring WRITTEN IN INK, HELLION, I AM JOHN WAYNE, RECORD/PLAY, BUSTED ON BRIGHAM LANE, MADLY UNTO ETERNITY.
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MN MADE

SUNDAY AUG 19, 4:30PM
Various Directors
MN | 2011/2012 | 76 MIN
Directors will be in attendance for Q&A

Another selection of MN made shorts featuring: INQUEST, WHEN AT A CERTAIN PARTY IN NYC, THOREAU AND THE LIGHTNING, BRING IT 2 PETER, SLUM LORD, SOME OF ANGELA, THE INTERVIEW & CASE #377
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AWARDS CEREMONY

SUNDAY AUG. 19, 6:15PM
Produced by Channel Z
MPLS | 2011/2012 | 60 MIN

See highlights from the 2012 program and find out who the winning filmmakers are, this is a free event so don’t miss out.

THE COMEDY

SUNDAY AUG. 19, 7:30
Director: Rick Alverson
USA | 2011 | 95 MIN

Indifferent even to the prospects of inheriting his father’s estate, Swanson (Tim Heidecker) whiles away his days with a group of aging Brooklyn hipsters (James Murphy, Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim & Gregg Turkington), engaging in acts of recreational cruelty and pacified boredom.
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TATTOO UNDERGROUND

SUNDAY AUG. 19, 9:15PM
Director: Barry Kimm
MN | 2012 | 12 MIN
Directors will be in attendance for Q&A
Screens before “Comforting Skin”

”Tattoo Underground” explores the emotional connections between three real people and their tattoos. The film poses the provocative possibility of tattoos coming to life.”

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COMFORTING SKIN

SUNDAY AUG. 19, 9:15PM
Director: Derek Franson
CANADA | 2012 | 109 MIN
Directors will be in attendance for Q&A

An emotionally fragile woman’s lonely reality is shattered when her tattoo seemingly comes to life. Offering its undying attention and otherworldly sensual pleasures, the tattoo quickly seduces, drawing her into a dangerous and all consuming bong that requires more than she may be able to give.
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