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About The V.U.F.F.
The Vancouver Underground Film Festival was initiated as a way
to draw attention to the Underground image-maker, and to access an audience that
might not otherwise take a chance on the kind of screenings the Blinding Light!!
Cinema screened the rest of the year. That is: call it a festival, and they will
come! The mandate was never to grow and expand, but rather to maintain an intimacy
and accessibility at all times, introducing new works and approaches all the while. |
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VUFF 1
Nov 19-22, 1998
Our first festival built entirely of local film and video
works featuring an opening night live collaborative performance
by Talking Pictures and Phosphene, and screenings of the feature
film Brewster McGee, and short film and video programs entitled
Collage Extremis, Trailblazers, Documenta, Celluloid Chemists,
Strange Parcels, live scratch animation with The Light Fantastic,
Ralph and Vie De Nuit, plus installations by King Anderson and
Marc Curry, as well as a guerrila filmmaking workshop and panel. |
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VUFF 2
Nov. 11-14, 1999
Our Second Annual VUFF marked an expansion into all of
Canada for content, and featured the return of some of
last year's strongest media makers as well as a truckload
more - Eye of Newt, The Light Fantastic, The Organization
Man, loscil, and Ian Birse graced us with outstanding live
performances while workshop/panels on digital technology
and hand processing along with a return of Marc Curry in
installation kept us busy all day. Screenings were
categorized as follows: Visual Trauma, Brilliantine Mind's
Eye, Surreal Visionaries, Like the Corners of My Mind, and
Strange Bedfellows. |
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VUFF 3
Nov. 23-26, 2000
Expanding to include the US of A in our call for submissions,
the Third Annual featured performances by LSD 49, Neosphere,
the launch of Bubble World, Inc., many guests including Barbara
Sternberg, Lilly Rivlin, and Marcus Rogers, with screenings of
both features and shorts as follows: Shine on You Crazy Diamond,
Performance Anxiety, Tributary, Smack, Like a Dream That Vanishes,
The Widower, Gimme a Kiss, Close Encounters, and The Devil Lives
in Hollywood. Panels included To Stream or Not to Stream, Slick
and Sloppy as well as the Kinetoscope 2000 installation from Radix. |
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 VUFF 4
Nov. 22-25, 2001
The first VUFF where Festival Director Alex MacKenzie passed on the
poster design duties (new blood!), with a stunning illustration by
Marc Bell and Amy Lockhart. For no particular reason, but with
inspiration from Stephanie Aitken, every program was named after a
line from a Who song (the band The Who!). Featured were Tied to That
Chair You Won't Go Anywhere, I see the Millions, Her Daddy Gave Her
Magic, Break Your Little Heart, The Shock From Isolation, and See Me
Feel Me. Also featured were Meesoo Lee's Crushed video launch, Daniel
Bitton's The Daddy of Rock N' Roll, Josh Koury's Standing By Yourself,
Peggy Anne Berton's Beat Super 8 Soliloquies and plenty more.
Installations by Troy Rhoades, Sarah Abbott, and Marie-France
Giraudon/Emmanual Avenel screened daily and panels included Freedom
Tastes of Reality (full time media making tactics) and Come on the
Amazing Journey (ways to travel with your work).
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 VUFF 5
Nov. 21-24, 2002
Featuring a smart poster design by Human Five and a miniaturized
catalogue, this final VUFF summed up all VUFFs by mixing live
performative works, installation, film, video and more, and for
the first time stepping outside the black box and into the streets
(and the woods) for Random Huge Projections and Artist-Run Limo,
as well as the launch of Paul Levine's CD-ROM Raising the Dead.
Screenings included Superman Pornographer, On Vacation or In a
Coma, Striking Vocal Chords, Live on All Channels, Fuck the Wonder
Years, Heartbreaker Dream-maker, Not Well in the Head, Crack Brutal
Grief, Mismanaging My Image and Beauty in the Body.
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