CLICK HERE to go on-demand! (All films and sessions online have a 72 hour watching window! So you don’t have to stress about finishing it in only a couple of hours.)
PS We would also like to give a shout-out to everyone that came to the sold-out Take48 Screening at Dendy Newtown last Friday! Plus big thank you to Mayor Darcy Byrne who gave a wonderfully warm and enlightening opening speech.
The Take48 Screening is now also available to watch on-demand! It’s a hilarious and entertaining watch to see how all the filmmakers used the key item HONEY and the line of dialogue “This is your last chance”! Watch it HERE.
SUFF ON-DEMAND HIGHLIGHTS
There are several narrative features and documentary features and over 100 short films online! Check out some highlights below.
Don’t forget there are only 4 days left to view SUFF on-demand!
LANDLOCKED
Directed by Paul Owens
Summoned to his soon-to-be demolished childhood home, Mason discovers an old VHS camera that can see into the past, driving him to record as many memories as possible before the doomed house is destroyed. Utilising the director’s actual home movies and casting real-life family members to play fictionalized versions of themselves, LandLocked combines narrative and documentary with horror and sci-fi to create a movie unlike any other.
“…a family affair of passion and DIY ingenuity that exemplifies the power of a new cinematic voice.” – CineNiche
STILL STOKED
Directed by Paul Surety
Unlike most skateboarders of his generation, UK skate legend Sean Goff is refusing to give up. Now well into his fifties, his skills may have diminished, but his love for adrenalin hasn’t. After skating as a pro in the ‘80s, he kept on competing, sticking two fingers up at the aging process. Now, he’s been told that another injury could permanently disable him. Sean’s response? He enters Vert Attack – a dangerous aerial contest on a terrifying 12ft high ramp. Not being able to skate is scarier than not being able to walk. This feature-length film with exclusive and unrestricted access to Sean, his family, friends, and unseen 8mm archive is the story of one man’s determination to keep doing what makes him happy, even if it means risking everything. With interviews from skating legends such as Tony Hawk, it’s a meditation on getting old and ‘raging against the dying of the light’ through the lens of the skateboarding explosion of the ‘70s and ‘80s.
NIGHTCLUBBING: THE BIRTH OF PUNK ROCK IN NYC
Directed by Danny Garcia
Nightclubbing is the first-ever documentary about the renowned New York City nightclub Max’s Kansas City (1965-1981) which had an indelible impact on the worlds of music, fashion, art, culture and the creation of the city’s punk rock scene.
“Make every effort to see Nightclubbing: The Birth of Punk Rock in NYC; full of grainy amazing archival footage, interviews with a host of Max’s musicians, managers, survivors; it’s a vibrant oral history, a raw inside slice of punk nostalgia & punk history. The film is full of priceless anecdotes.” – Variety
“Nightclubbing” takes you inside the sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll that went down at Max’s Kansas City in the nascent thrashing of the punk-rock movement with NYC-bred acts such as the Velvet Underground, the New York Dolls and the Ramones.” – New York Post
“A treasure-trove of archival footage” – The Scotsman
“An incredible experience” – My Gay Toronto
“A lively, loving docu-tribute to the New York punk scene.” – Total Film UK
THE TIMEKEEPERS OF ETERNITY
Directed by Aristotelis Maragkos
Mr Toomey obsessively tears paper to control his childhood monsters, but when he wakes mid-flight to Boston to find most of the other passengers disappeared, he must confront the paper nightmare which threaten to rip everything apart.
A classic Stephen King miniseries is re-envisioned in this radical collage animation experiment by Greek director, Aristotelis Maragkos: A group of passengers aboard a routine flight to Boston wake up to find themselves alone on the plane. Things get even worse when they land and find a dead world, empty of all other human life. Unfortunately, one of the passengers, Craig Toomey is having a mental breakdown — which summons the mysterious creatures known as the Langoliers.
TERRA FEMME
Directed by Courtney Stephens
Terra Femme is a beautifully realised essay film comprised of amateur travelogues filmed by women in the 1920s-1950s. With a score by Sarah Davachi, the film weaves between geographical essay, personal inquiry, and historical speculation, examining these films as both private documents and accidental ethnographies. The films present a new type of traveler: no longer a male seeker of conquests, she might be a divorcee on a tour of biblical gardens, or a widow on a cruise to the North Pole.
Representing the world through women’s eyes, the films raise questions about female representation in the archive, the role of amateurism in early non-fiction filmmaking, and the politics of the Western gaze. At once a film about longing for past worlds through cinematic excavation, this force flows in both directions: as women from the past search for self-making in the act of looking.
Screens with:
BUILDING AN EDGE by Britany Gunderson
DEMANDS OF ORDINARY DEVOTION by Eva Giolo
DADA SHIP by Gwendolyn Audrey Foster
REAR VIEW by Lulu Keating
NEW ADDITION TO ON-DEMAND! George Gittoes’ NO BAD GUYS! Plus short film HAUNTED BURA by Hellen Rose
NO BAD GUYS
Directed by George Gittoes
Englewood in Southside Chicago began to be called Chiraq when there were more deaths reported there, annually, than US soldiers killed in the combined wars of Iraq and Afghanistan. George Gittoes who has spent the last 50 years covering wars as an artist, filmmaker and photographer turns his attention to the US and spends three years on May Block, the epicentre of gun violence. The situation gets too real when three of the characters are killed during filming. Between January and October 2021 there were 700-gun deaths and 3,766 wounding’s, doubling the casualty figures of 2018, when filming began.
No Bad Guys is an intimate and immersive, character-based film following the lives of both the gun carrying perpetrators and the bereaved families of the victims. When asked “Who are the Bad Guys doing this to you?” the repeated answer is “There are no Good Buys of Bad Guys – it is other guys on other blocks just like us.” Everyone wants to see an end to the violence while the cycle of revenge turns relentlessly.
Screens with HAUNTED BURQA
Directed by Hellen Rose (2022, Afghanistan, 15 mins)
A deep and moving autobiographical short film experiencing a day in the life under the burqa for an Australian national.
SHORT FILM SESSIONS ON-DEMAND
Watch all the shorts films session for SUFF 2022!
- HOMEBAKED AUSSIE SHORT FILMS CLICK HERE
- LOVE/SICK SHORT FILMS CLICK HERE
- LSD FACTORY SHORT FILMS CLICK HERE
- RE:ANIMATION SHORT FILMS CLICK HERE
- REALITY BITES – SHORT DOCUMENTARIES CLICK HERE
- SH!T SCARED – HORROR SHORT FILMS CLICK HERE
- WTF! SHORT FILMS CLICK HERE
- TAKE48 SHORT FILMS (33 X 3 minute shorts!) CLICK HERE