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Hosted by the outrageous UnAmerika’s Sweetheart Karin Webb, the legendary 86-years-young Mary Dolan, and featuring a handpicked cast of Boston’s best musicians and performers. It’s the return of our “high-end, low-brow variety show” with a new theme: MYSTERY! Join our brilliant core cast of collaborating performers and musicians for a night of murder and mayhem that rocks the very foundation this show stands on.

Who’s been killed?

Why?

And WHERE ARE MY PANTS?!

This month’s special guests include brilliant spoken word artist Jha D., magic by Dezrah The Strange, burlesque performance artist Penny Candy (with Abby Normal), a most original piece- The System of Soothing, a 7 minute opera by Frank Pesci based on a story by Edgar Allen Poe, and art installation by Gina Hereen. These guests will join Bent Wit’s core performers Sugar Dish, Lainey SchoolTree, Femme Brulee, as well as the Bent Wit House Band, Elephant Tango Ensemble (featuring members of Goli and HUMANWINE).

We also very excited to announce a new ongoing partnership with BUFF, who will be curating a selection of video shorts throughout the night!

The festival seeks the alternative, the confrontational, the political and the controversial. BUFF seeks films that celebrate alternative visions and sounds, offering a platform that encourages new ideas and work and pushes the envelope in style and content.

EARLY DEADLINE: 31 July 2010
REGULAR DEADLINE: 24 September 2010
LATE DEADLINE: 26 November 2010

BUFF is proud to be co-presenting two fabulous programs with our friends at the 2010 Boston LGBT Film Festival.

Hell on Wheels: Gang Girls Forever & More: Films by Katrina Del Mar

Saturday, May 8, 2010
9:00 p.m.
Brattle Theatre
40 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA

An explosive program of rebel girls, rock n roll, and wheels by the noted New York underground filmmaker thought of as the “Lesbian Russ Meyer,” Katrina del Mar. We present her “Gang Girls” trilogy. Join us for the New England premiere of her latest film Hell on Wheels: Gang Girls Forever. Director will be present.

Join us after the screening at Machine Nightclub, 1254 Boylston Street for the very special Wolfe After Party sponsored by Dyke Night.

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Queer Horror Experience: Zombies of Mass Destruction

Friday, May 14, 2010
9:30 p.m.
Brattle Theatre
40 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA

Meet us at the Brattle for an evening of queer horror films. Greg Ivan Smith returns to the Boston LGBT Film Festival with his new short Remission, and a great big awesome dose of zombie craziness from Kevin Hamedani.

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Best of Fest – Narrative
Red White & Blue (Simon Rumley)

Best of Fest – Documentary
It Came From Kuchar (Jennifer Kroot)

Best of Fest – Short
Happily Ever After (Jamie Heinrich)

Most Effectively Offensive
The Life and Death of a Porno Gang (Mladen Djordjevic)

Director’s Choice
Someone’s Knocking at the Door (Chad Ferrin)

Thanks to everyone who came out to make our festival a success! We love you all!

Oh, and for you real freaks out there, DO NOT MISS our midnight tenth anniversary screening of Karim Hussain’s disturbing avant-horror Subconscious Cruelty. Rarely screened in the United States (and never before in the great state of Massachusetts), we have the single remaining 35mm print in existence ready to spring upon you, our unsuspecting audience. Nothing will prepare you for this!

STUCK! » 7:30P » KENDALL SQUARE CINEMA

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: MINK STOLE » 10:00P » THE FRIENDLY TOAST

This doubleheader is a doozy! First, come check out the New England premiere of Steve Balderson’s Stuck!, a wild homage on 1950s women-in-prison movies, featuring legendary dames Karen Black, Susan Traylor, Jane Wiedlin, Pleasant Gehman, and Mink Stole.

Afterwards, we’ll pay our own sort of homage to Mink Stole, one of John Waters’ feisty muses, by making her the recipient of our first-ever Lifetime Underground Achievement Award. We will gather at the funky-retro Friendly Toast to the dark rhythms of DJ Chris Ewen to worship this legendary actress. It will be a dirty shame if you miss this special event!

There are some real gems for you today, including a screening of the grindhouse classic Pieces (ostensibly set in Boston, but really filmed in Valencia, Spain). We’ve also got a documentary about the history of exploitation films—a great primer if you’re new to the world of underground cinema—and two great midnight screenings, including the North American premiere of the truly fucked-up Serbian film, The Life and Death of a Porno Gang, to which only viewers 18 and older will be admitted for reasons that will become abundantly clear if you are brave enough to check it out.

IT CAME FROM KUCHAR » 7:45P » KENDALL SQUARE CINEMA

KUCHARFEST! » 10:00P » TOMMY DOYLE’S IRISH PUB & RESTAURANT

Twin brothers George and Mike Kuchar have blurred the lines between trash cinema and art cinema for decades, producing zany, colorful, debauched epics that have won equal respect from the psychotronic freaks and the avant-garde community, while (unsurprisingly) remaining largely ignored by the rest of the world.

Here at BUFF we like to celebrate the brilliant marginalized artists of the silver screen, and with that in mind we bring you the Boston premiere of It Came From Kuchar, with director Jennifer Kroot and George Kuchar in attendance!

Join us after the film for Kucharfest, a raucous, bourbon-fueled celebration of the visionary underground filmmaker at Tommy Doyle’s Irish Pub & Restaurant. We’ll be screening clips from Kuchar klassics while DJ Brother Cleve spins some sleazy grooves to set the mood.

Love Exposure » 7:00P » Kendall Square Cinema

“Love Exposure is one of those movies that defy description in every way. Stylistically, it’s all over the map, hitting on super-slick Scorsesesque montages and Restoration-era sexual comedy with equal grace. Somehow, it manages to be humorous, troubling and downright human all the while. Go ahead, try to leave halfway through. We dare you.” — Weekly Dig

BUFF kicks off tonight with the New England premiere of Sion Sono’s Love Exposure. From the twisted mind that brought you Exte: Hair Extensions, Strange Circus, and Suicide Club comes this epic-length, sprawling masterpiece that can only be described as mind-meltingly brilliant, should you even try to describe it at all.

Indeed, Love Exposure touches on so many different topics and veers in so many different directions that it’s difficult to know where to begin any explanation of it. At its core, it’s a film about… well, love, and all the potential roadblocks that society can throw in its way. Oh, and did we mention it’s also a four-hour epic about upskirt phototography and the Catholic Church?

Tokyo Steampunk » 9:00P » T.T. The Bear’s Place

Join us at T.T. the Bear’s Place in Central Square for our epic Tokyo Steampunk opening night celebration. Local bands HUMANWINE, Walter Sicker and the Army of Broken Toys, Jaggery, and OwlWatcher will perform against a scintillating, theme-appropriate video collage backdrop. Janaka Stucky (a.k.a. J. Cannibal!) will be DJ-ing between bands to set the mood. This party is likely to sell out, so arrive early!

Check out our full schedule for more info on the other amazing events going on this week!

BUFF 2010 kicks off this week! The twelfth annual Boston Underground Film Festival runs March 25 through April 1 at the Kendall Square Cinema. Check out our full schedule, including four nights of awesome parties. Step right up and bear witness to this bizarre and insane sideshow of sight and sound sure to delight even the most twisted and perverse of tastes. You don’t want to miss out on this year’s festival!

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Wednesday, March 17, 2010
9:30 p.m., $10 (tickets)
Brattle Theatre
40 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA

CineMental presents
Graphic Sexual Horror (Anna Lorentzon and Barbara Bell, 2009)

Insex.com, the brainchild of ex-Carnegie Mellon professor and artist, Brent Scott, began broadcasting torture imagery in 1997, long before the recent upsurge in mainstream depictions of so-called “torture-porn.” In 2005, as the Bush administration increased its own market share in real torture, the government used the Patriot Act to block Insex.com’s ability to process credit cards, thus forcing Insex to close its doors. Graphic Sexual Horror chronicles the rise and fall of this subculture phenomenon, wowing crowds at Slamdance, Hot Docs, and Fantasia International Film Festival in 2009. The documentary becomes an inquiry into consent and government intervention, asking hard questions about the role of money and personal responsibility.

There will be a Q&A with Model 914 following the screening.

This event is co-presented by Truth Serum with the Boston Underground Film Festival.

Come join us on March 9 as we kick off the BUFF festival season in style with our friends at the Stuart Street Playhouse! We begin the countdown to our underground cinema extravaganza in the newly converted cinema space in downtown Boston.

6:00 p.m. » Enjoy free burritos & Harpoon beer in the theatre lobby.
7:00 p.m. » A 45-minute sneak preview screening of shorts and trailers.

The theatre capacity is 400, so bring your friends! They’ll thank you for it! As usual, there will be giveaways: t-shirts, tote bags, DVDs, sex toys, and any other assorted goodies we have lying around in the BUFF prize closet.

One lucky duck will get a pair of all-access passes to BUFF 2010 (a $200 value), granting you admission to all parties and screenings during the eight-day fest!

We will be screening trailers from ten of our most amazing features and showing a handful of shorts that are sure to short circuit your beer-soaked brain!

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