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This year's
feature lineup includes five world premieres, four US premieres, and nine
New York premieres including:
- "Queen
of Exploitations" Doris
Wishman's Satan Was a Lady. Satan tells the tale of a stripper
who wants a fur coat so bad she'll do anything to get it.
- Plaster
Caster: A Cockumentary Film by
Jessica Villines,
a look inside the life of notorious rock legend Cynthia Plaster Caster,
who has been making plaster casts of rock star's penises since the 60s.
- James
Fotopoulos' moody, grimy Back Against the Wall, set in the
seedy world of Midwestern "lingerie modeling."
- Jackie
Garry's
The Curse gives a feminist spin to a class movie genre. Bitten
by a fellow shopper during a lingerie sale, a twenty-something New Yorker
falls prey to "the curse"-and becomes a killer werewolf with
each full moon.
- Dutch
project Sonic Genetics (New York Underground Re-Mix) by Frank
Scheffer, Ian Kerhhof, Philipp Virus, Gerard Van Der Kapp and Dick Tuinder.
- Maldoror,
an omnibus adaptation of Comte de Lautrement's influential protosurrealist
verse novel "les Chants du Maldoror," created by members of
Britain's underground Exploding Cinema society, and several underground
film societies from Germany.
- The New
York premiere of Darren Hacker & Jeff Economy's An Incredible
Simluation, a documentary about the phenomenon of tributes bands.
- Bill
Plympton's zany animated space comedy Mutant Aliens.
The NY Underground
Film Festival runs from Wednesday, Mach 7 to Tuesday, March 13, 2001.
Screening tickets are $8.00 per program and can be purchased on the day
of the show at the Festival box office, located at Anthology Film Archives,
32 Second Ave at Second St., open at 12:30 daily during the Festival.
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