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Friday 3rd September 
Scream Queens
A look at women in horror films from hapless victim to empowered heroine--and specifically how some of these films reflected the changing role of women in society--featuring a sensational array of footage from silent films, classic horror, contemporary favorites and state-of-the-art science fiction. Prepare for the most bewitching collection of female-driven horror unleashed on the screen. Highlights include spectacular clips from all-time horror favorites "Bride of Frankenstein" (1935), "The Exorcist" (1973), "The Stepford Wives" (1975), "Carrie" (1976) and many more; a glimpse at ultimate sci-fi heroine "Ripley" as played by Sigourney Weaver. Plus on same bill
 Queen of Blood (1966)
Shot on a miniscule $50,000 budget, and including footage from a 1959 Russian film that was later purchased by Roger Corman, this science fiction feature finds a tiny planet slowly dying. With the inhabitants in danger of perishing, some kind-hearted astronauts bring a green-blooded female alien back to Earth. The extraterrestrial shows her gratitude by going wild for human blood in the fashion of a blood-sucking vampire. John Saxon, Basil Rathbone and Dennis Hopper are some of the actors sentenced by their vindictive agents to appear in this film.
 Mu-Meson Archives
 Doors 7.30 for 8pm start
 $10
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Monday 6th September 
Para(noide) Politics in the Archives
Atlantis: Secret Star-Mappers of the Lost World
See the new evidence showing that the ancient mythological civilization of Atlantis had a basis of truth - and that this ancient civilization was destroyed at the end of the Ice Age - and that this civilization was a technologically advanced global navigating one that was spread around the Earth. See the riddle of the Royal Cubit and the Great Pyramid of Giza dimensions solved. When did the Ice Age actually end? The answer may surprise you. See how the Atlanteans measured and mapped the Earth during the Ice Age.
Mu-Meson Archives
Doors 7.30 for 8pm start
$10
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Tuesday 7th September
Class of 1984 (1982)
Andy Norris, the new music teacher at a high school from hell, faces an assortment of adolescent thugs eager to haze him on a daily basis. But brutality and unruliness aren't uncommon at Abraham Lincoln High, where drugs, prostitution and violent classrooms are controlled by gangs. Initially, Norris isn't intimidated by the hoodlums harassing him, but when they start threatening his wife, he'll have to take them on one by one.
Annandale Hotel
7.30pm
$5 suggested donation
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Thursday 9th September
Sydney Underground Film Festival OPENING NIGHT EXTRAVAGANZA
Join us for the opening of the 2010 festival with the Australian premiere of SOUTH OF THE BORDER by controversial director, Oliver Stone. Screening alongside Stone’s new offering will be the hilarious AWKWARD by Canadian filmmaker Kellie Ann Benz and also the new work LAID OFF by renown American new media artist, Natalie Bookchin. Plus SUFF has a special surprise opening night performance to one of the greatest surrealist short films in history – You won’t want to miss it!
 Un Chien Andalou: Rescored & Remixed by Miss Death Jay Katz.
This masterpiece of surrealist cinema from 1929 created by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali remains groundbreaking, even today in its ability to shock and confuse the viewer Once seen never forgotten. So, is it strange that it should be rescored at the Sydney Underground Film Festival by The Mu Meson Archives. After all they have the resources, Miss Death’s many sound effect records spanning all the decades of recorded Music, her ability to create ready-mades on the spot with the personality of Gala to boot. Jay Katz has a history with experimental music and film. Fronting the band Mu Mesons, performing along side of Mike Patten and running the Weekly Archive screenings with his wife Miss Death. Their reinterpretation of the score will remain primarily electronic (Utilizing a plethora of early monophonic synthesizers, tape loop devices and effects). Expect some odd acoustic moments as reminisces of the past days of silent cinema are played out live on centre stage in front of the film. A one of kind experience constructed primarily for the opening night of the Sydney Underground Film Festival. Also enjoy complimentary food and beverages.
The Factory Theatre
105 Victoria Road, Marrickville
Box Office: Phone (02) 9550 3666
Doors open: 6:00 pm Tickets only $35 ($30 concession) and includes everything you need for a good night out!
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Friday 10th September
Sydney Latin American Film Festival
Double Session
Discarded Trims
Gustavo Valle pedals through the streets of Guayaquil, a birthday-party photographer ignored in Ecuador’s cinematic history, his name forgotten by the same people who once awarded his films. His movies, lost in the city’s bureaucratic maze, are reconstructed only by the frail memories of those who saw them. These frail memories hold a window to why the city’s filmmaking tradition is buried and forgotten. Bitterness and nostalgia are interspersed with the discarded trims of film that Gustavo Valle has saved in the bottom a drawer, moist in their rusted cans. Fernando Mieles | 2009 | Ecuador
80min | Documentary | Spanish / English
 Metropolis Refound
For eight decades it was cinema’s Holy Grail: the missing footage from Fritz Lang’s science fiction masterpiece Metropolis, which began shedding scenes almost from the day of its 1927
release. There had been reports of a complete version, but all had been false, until a discovery in Argentina made headlines around the world. Metropolis Refound tells the astounding story of
how scenes from Lang’s silent dystopian classic - thought to be lost forever - were discovered in a Buenos Aires film archive in 2008, in a copy of the film that was 30 minutes longer than any other known surviving copy. The film tracks
Metropolis’ arrival in Argentina in 1927, and gives fascinating insight into the rich cultural world that was Buenos Aires in the 1920s. Argentina Evangelina Loguercio | 2010 47min | Documentary | Spanish English
Mu-Meson Archives
Doors 7.30 for 8pm start
$10
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Saturday 11th September 
Sydney Latin American Film Festival
MEMORIES Of OVER
DEVELOPMENT
Sergio Garcet, an aging Cuban novelist, lives in New York, alone and alienated. Once active in the Cuban Revolution, he is now a minor college professor repulsed by the rampant capitalism he once defected to and frustrated by his publisher’s lack of interest in his new novel. Unable to relate to others, he devotes his time to snipping photos
from magazines and creating collages that depict his mordant vision of the world.
A character study of a loner with no clear cut politics or ideology. A stranger in a strange land struggling with old age, sexual desire, and the impossibility of the individual to belong in any society. Based on the new novel by Edmundo Desnoes, also author of the classic Memories of
Underdevelopment. CUBA / USA Miguel Coyula | 2010 113min | Experimental | Spanish / English Screens with El paraíso de lili (Peru 16mins)
Mu-Meson Archives
Doors 7.30 for 8pm start
$10
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Sunday 12th September
Sydney Latin American Film Festival
HAVANA SURF
The story of six young Cuban surfers and
Legendary Australian surfer, Bob Samin, who has made his home in Baracoa, Cuba.
At the time of the filming, surfing was relatively new to the island, as was independent travel. The surfers, five men and one woman, take us inside their lives and their homes while displaying their inventiveness as they make their own surf boards, legropes and wax out of useful junk. Regarded with suspicion by the Cuban police, these intrepid surfers remain undaunted as they travel the island nation searching for the best waves. Ultimately arriving in Guantanamo, the surfers encounter Samin, visit his hidden surf spots, meet his friends and share his dream of starting a surf school for Cubans. Fernando Mieles, 2009, Ecuad Screens with Goles y metas (Argentina 6mins). SPAIN / USA / CUBA
Rodrigo Diaz McVeigh | 2009
55min | Documentary | Spanish / English
Mu-Meson Archives
Doors 7.30 for 8pm start
$10
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Monday 13th September 
Para(noide) Politics in the Archives
Loose Change 9/11: An American Coup
This fourth film in the LOOSE CHANGE series continues to explore the conspiracy theories surrounding the unanswered questions of 9/11. Written and directed by series creator Dylan Avery and narrated by actor Daniel Sunjata (RESCUE ME), the documentary features new footage, interviews, and information about the events leading up 9/11 and compares the attacks to other pivotal moments that provided pretexts for war, including the 1933 Reichstag fire and the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident.
Mu-Meson Archives
Doors 7.30 for 8pm start
$10
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Tuesday 14th September 
Class of 1999 (1990)
The time is the future and youth gang violence is so high that the areas around some schools have become 'free fire zones,' into which not even the police will venture. When Miles Langford (Malcolm McDowell), the principal of Kennedy High School, decides to take his school back from the gangs, Robotics Specialist Dr. Robert Forrest (Stacy Keach) provides 'tactical education units.' These human-like androids have been programmed to teach and are supplied with weapons to discipline problems. These kids will get a lesson in staying alive!! Pam Grier also stars.
Annandale Hotel
7.30pm
$5 suggested donation
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Wednesday 15th September 
Marginalised Movies
The Lost Empire (1985)
After officer Rob Wolfe is killed trying to stop a gang of ninjas from robbing a jewelry store, his sister, officer Angel Wolfe, vows to avenge his death. Her investigation leads her to the mysterious Dr. Sin Do, who is supposedly in league with an undead wizard named Lee Chuck. The doctor is holding a martial arts tournament on a secret island fortress, so Angel, after rounding up some of her martial-artist friends, enters the tournament in the hopes of finding Sin Do and Lee Chuck and bringing them to justice.
Mu-Meson Archives
Doors 7.30 for 8pm start
$10
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Friday 17th September 
One the Fringe: John Samson
Described by more than one source as the most gifted unsung documentarien in British film history, John Samson (b. 1946 - d. 2004) had a very Arbussian quality of honing in on those subjects who existed on the fringe of society, with peculiar lifestyles, demeanors and habits. His actual filmmaking methods separated him from contemporaries, as well; on a visual level, he shot images poetically, editing them into a central metaphoric trope, while narratively, he allowed subjects to tell their own stories. All of these factors added up, cumulatively, to a revolutionary effect. Tonigh we look at three of his films Tattoo" (1975), a meditation on the art of tattooing; "Dressing for Pleasure" (1977), a documentary on fetishistic clothing and those who wear it (winner of Outstanding Film at the London Film Festival); and "The Skin Horse" (1983), a tour of the Outsider's Club - a dating agency for the disabled.
Mu-Meson Archives
Doors 7.30 for 8pm start
$10
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Sunday 19th September 
Screen Live #5: Wizard of Oz (1925) with live rescore by Jan Preston & Friends
For the fifth performance in our monthly Screen Live series, Australia’s queen of boogie woogie piano Jan Preston will be joined by two musicians to perform a new score to Larry Sermon’s 1925 version of The Wizard of Oz.
Rarely seen, the first feature-length adaptation of Baum’s classic story features Dorothy Dwan and a younger Oliver Hardy, pre-dating the Judy Garland version by 14 years…, although the story is even more removed from Baum’s tales!
Dorothy really is long-lost Oz royalty, whilst the farm hands are just country bumpkins who want to get back to Kansas. The knock-about tone makes a fascinating comparison.
Jan Preston grew up surrounded by the sounds of old-time piano music and has been creating music for film since 1977. A composer, pianist, singer and songwriter, her theme music to Australian Story can be heard nationally on ABC Television each week.
Preston composed and performed the music for the classic German silent film Fritz Laing’s The Spy, which was recorded for the National Film and Sound Archive and broadcast on television.
“My music for Larry Semon’s 1925 Wizard of Oz is driven not only by the emotive and dramatic story, brilliant costumes and set design, but also Mr Semon’s Keaton-like ability to inspire sympathy and humour at the same time.
The rhythm of his mime and dancing needs to be reflected in the music score, which stretches to its sonic and harmonic limit during the extraordinary storm sequence, the lightning in the sky, tumbling house, landscape and visual effects realized by the use of the piano as a large zither, together with high violin and primitive wind machine.
At other times the music is formal and melodic, but always with a hint of both comedy and pathos.” - Jan Preston
The screening will be introduced by Jay Katz aka Jamie Leonarder from The Mu Meson Archives– who will put this film in its full cultural context.
Sydney Opera House Play House
Doors 5pm start
Adults: $29 *Concessions: $20
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Monday 20th September 
Para(noide) Politics in the Archives
Yuri Gagarin: First Man in Space?
For years the Soviets held up Yuri Gagarin as a hero after being the first man into space. But only recently evidence has come to light that cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was not the first man in space and that the Soviet government covered up the fact that Vladimir Ilyushin beat him into orbit. Seven years after reentering the Earth's atmosphere and being celebrated as a hero, Gagarin was said to have perished in a jet crash. But is the truth something far more ominous? Is it possible that the Soviets were willing to resort to murder in order to hide the fact that while Gagarin was in orbit, another cosmonaut was reentering the Earth's atmosphere. According to conspiracy theorists, the CIA and the U.S. Air Force were compliant in a KGB plot to keep Ilyushin's mission a tightly sealed secret. Was Gagarin's alcoholism and erratic, post-flight behavior evidence that he was aware of Ilyushin's mission and sworn to silence?
Mu-Meson Archives
Doors 7.30 for 8pm start
$10
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Tuesday 21st September 
Demolition High (1995)
Corey Haim (THE LOST BOYS), the baby-faced heartthrob who rose to stardom in 1980's high school films, proves his worth as an action star in this explosive thriller. When a group of terrorists take over a quiet high school campus, one brave and determined student (Haim) must fight to get his school back. Fighting with both evil individuals and the clock (a nuclear missile is set to destroy the entire school,) this innocent teenager manages to transform himself into a fearless hero. An edge-of-your-seat thriller DEMOLITION HIGH combines awesome special effects with heart. Corny as
Annandale Hotel
7.30pm
$5 suggested donation
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Wednesday 22nd September
Texas Chainsaw Trivia With your hosts Miss Death, Jay Katz and Coffin Ed of The Naked City
Darlo Bar Royal Sovereign Hotel
8pm start
free
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Thursday 23rd September 
The Directors Cut: Splodge presents
All This and World War ll (1977)
One of Melbourne’s Film archivists and projectionists Alan Quirk who runs Splodge will be guest presenter at the Archives tonight with a very rare screening on 16mm film of All this and world War ll. He is mighty proud to be presenting this rare, lost '70s classic - never been released on video, dvd, laserdisc, or even on zooetrope. But, having slipped Rupert Murdoch a vast amount of unmarked bills, a nice print has turned up on 16mm film, so, once again, Splodge! saves The Universe. Or so he likes to think. From what we can gauge, if you love this film, you LUUUV it, and if you hate it, you reallly HAYTTTTE it. However, we love it, and we're banking you will too. Miss this, and, we wager, it'll be the dumbest thing you've ever done in your life!After seeing AT&WWII, never again will you be able to sit through a viewing of THE WORLD AT WAR (no matter how fruity Olivier's narration is).
Often unjustly characterised as "truly weird", "bizarre" et c, et c, one is led to wonder what exactly is wrong with so many people that they cannot see the beauty in a chronological history of the Second World War, using documentary footage, interspersed with excerpts - many quite hilarious, others quite moving - from old Hollywood war movies, all set to covers of Beatles songs, performed by a galaxy of '70s pop stars, with the London Symphony Orchestra and the London Philharmonic thrown in for good measure. Ah, ya gotta love the seventh decade of the Twentieth Century! Directed by Susan Winslow, who, previously, in 1975, had produced for Phillipe Mora BROTHER CAN YOU SPARE A DIME - a marriage of '30s newsreel and mostly-Warner-Bros movie footage to gramophone songs of the period - a bit like PENNIES FROM HEAVEN, but as a narrative and narration-free 'jigsaw puzzle' of depression-era imagery. Stevens, incidentally, was a commissioned officer who recorded some key moments in the Second World War, some on colour film-stock, including D-Day, the Allied march through Paris, and the opening of the camp at Dachau. Soundtrack artists include: AMBROSIA, ELTON JOHN, THE BEE GEES, LEO SAYER, BRIAN FERRY, ROY WOOD, KEITH MOON, ROD STEWART, LEO SAYER, DAVID ESSEX, JEFF LYNNE, LYNSEY DE PAUL, RICHARD COCCIANTE, THE FOUR SEASONS, HELEN REDDY, FRANKIE LAINE, THE BROTHERS JOHNSON, STATUS QUO, HENRY GROSS, PETER GABRIEL, FRANKIE VALLI, TINA TURNER, WIL MALONE & LOU REIZNER.
Mu-Meson Archives
Doors 7.30 for 8pm start
$10
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Friday 24th September 
The Golden Age of Sci Fi & Fantasy
Pulp fiction (named for the low-quality paper on which the stories were printed) blossomed in the early twentieth century. Audiences (beaten down after WWI and the Great Depression) sought tales with strong heroes, exciting adventures, and alien encounters. This entertaining program traces the golden years of pulps, beginning in the 1920s, by highlighting numerous writers (including Erle Stanley Gardner and Edgar Rice Burroughs who turned out hundreds of stories. In interviews, popular and prolific authors Ray Bradbury and Frederik Pohl recall nominal pay, short deadlines, and insatiable demand for copy. Original cover art featuring beautiful women, space creatures, and blazing weapons, as well as B-movie clips, enhance the coverage. Facing competition from movies, paperback books, and television, the demand for pulp fiction dwindled in the 1950s. However, many works have been recently reprinted for readers seeking escapist fiction.
Mu-Meson Archives
Doors 7.30 for 8pm start
$10
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Sunday 26th September
Miss Deaths Knitting Group
Do you want to learn how to knit, crochet or any other craft? Or you just want to come along for a social? Boys are welcome as long as they do a craft or something useful. Picture compliments of Lucia.
Mu-Meson Archives
Doors 4pm
with a plate
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Monday 27th September 
Para(noide) Politics in the Archives
Advanced Ice Age Civilizations
Discover the hidden secrets of a timeless mystery in this fascinating film about ancient advanced civilizations that existed thousands of years ago. Many new and amazing theories are now emerging about the origins of human civilization and Atlantis. Scientists are now discovering at the bottom of the earth's oceans evidence of ancient advanced cultures that predate the last ice age. Submerged megalithic sites have now been discovered in many places around the world, including the remains of what is believed to be the lost ancient advanced civilization of Atlantis. One thing is certain, what you are about to see in this amazing film can only be described as miraculous. Evidence of ancient seafaring cultures with advanced knowledge of astronomy, global mapping, and complex mathematics. Includes spectacular underwater cinematography of ancient advanced city structures and a fascinating series of spellbinding interviews with researchers, scientists, and the best-known, most credible Ice Age authorities in the world today.
Mu-Meson Archives
Doors 7.30 for 8pm start
$10
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Tuesday 28th September 
Demolition University (1997)
Corey Haim is back in Demolition University every one has to graduate eventually. The plot revolves around a busload of physics majors (!) visiting a local nuclear power plant for a field trip. Unbeknownst to them (but unbeknownst to us), the plant has been taken over by terrorists who have big evil plans to poison the city's water supply, or something like that. It was never entirely clear exactly what they were trying to accomplish. Most of the terrorists are middle-eastern, with generic names like "Abdul" and "Hadad," but they are led by an American of the block-of-wood school of acting who has turned against his own government because... well, I don't want to ruin the most unintentionally comedic scene in the film, so I won't reveal his reasons. Suffice it to say it's up to Corey and his classmates to save the world, and you'll have a hard time deciding who is more incompetent--the physics students, the terrorists, or the police and FBI agents who are brought in to handle the "situation." Here is a typical exchange, by two students who have evaded the terrorists (unintentionally, of course--no one seems to do anything on purpose here) and are wandering the basement of the power plant:
Annandale Hotel
7.30pm
$5 suggested donation
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Wednesday 29thth September
Marginalised Movies
Space Raider (1983)
A band of space pirates ends up stealing a kid by mistake. This group of "Space Raiders" is led by a man named Hawk, a once honorable soldier, -- or so the story goes, ironically, with Hawk struggling to look good in front of the kid and eventually promising to get the kid home rather than ransoming him. This story has a little bit of everything in it from the exciting action of Star Wars to the warmth and comfort of E.T. It's not technically the most SFX movie in Sci-fi, even for its time, but I would say to rival it against some of the earlier Seals and Croft TV series in the '70's that had that special inspiration of adventure and impossibility that kids love to contemplate. Think of that special after school movie and that's what I'm talking about. I give this film a high rating mostly because it is a movie for kids (the battle scenes are great and the cheesy effects make the gunfights practically non-violent). Younger kids can identify with the boy and preteens can identify with the speed of the story.
Mu-Meson Archives
Doors 7.30 for 8pm start
$10
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Sunday 12th September
HAVANA SURF
The story of six young Cuban surfers and
Legendary Australian surfer, Bob Samin, who has made his home in Baracoa, Cuba.
At the time of the filming, surfing was relatively new to the island, as was independent travel. The surfers, five men and one woman, take us inside their lives and their homes while displaying their inventiveness as they make their own surf
boards, legropes and wax out of useful junk. Regarded with suspicion by the Cuban police, these intrepid surfers remain undaunted as they travel the island nation searching for the best waves. Ultimately arriving in Guantanamo, the surfers encounter Samin, visit his hidden surf spots, meet his friends and share his dream of starting a surf school for Cubans. Fernando Mieles, 2009, Ecuad Screens with Goles y metas (Argentina 6mins). SPAIN / USA / CUBA
Rodrigo Diaz McVeigh | 2009
55min | Documentary | Spanish / English |
