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The Boston Underground Film Festival is an annual event held in the Boston, Massachusetts area that specializes in alternative film and video. The Boston Underground Film Festival, also known as BUFF, is the only film festival of its kind in New England, spotlighting short films and feature length films that would not otherwise find an audience. It is the only film festival in the world to give an award for "Most Effectively Offensive." Nickname: City on the Hill, Beantown, The Hub of the Universe (The State House, according to Oliver Wendell Holmes, is the hub of the Solar System), Athens of America, The Cradle of Revolution Location in Massachusetts, USA Counties Suffolk County Mayor Thomas M. Menino(D) Area - City 232. ...
An independent film (or indie film) is a film initially produced without financing or distribution from a major movie studio. ...
History
Started in 1998, by film professor/curator David Kleiler, BUFF was an extention of an all night film marathon produced by Kleiler and Dima Ballin. The First Annual Boston Underground Film Festival took place in February of 1999 at the now defunct Revolving Museum in South Boston. Described by programmer Bernard Broginart as "a wonderful hoax of a film festival,"[citation needed] the first BUFF was an extremely informal event. Patrons were encouraged to wander from room to room for a single ticket price in the art gallery converted to a cinema. This format was continued for the 2000 festival. 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...
1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Old Farts by the Sometimes-United Nations. ...
This article is about the year 2000. ...
In the years following, BUFF has adopted a more traditional festival format with set screening start times and using actual cinemas and screening rooms. Between 2001 and 2004, BUFF had expanded and contracted with no central location or venue and no set duration or time of year when it would occur. During this period, numerous venues housed BUFF screenings including the Milky Way Lounge in Jamaica Plain, The Allston Cinema Underground (now defunct), The Arlington Regent Theatre and the Brattle Theatre. 2001: A Space Odyssey. ...
2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Jamaica Plain is a neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts. ...
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In 2005 BUFF centralized its operations, holding its seventh festival at the Somerville Theatre in Davis Square. The 2006 Festival was held primarily at the Brattle Theatre in Harvard Square and a video screening room in Harvard University's Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Davis Square, Somerville, Massachusetts Davis Square is a neighborhood of Somerville, Massachusetts, located around the intersection of Holland Street, Dover Street, Elm Street, Highland Avenue, and College Avenue. ...
2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts is the only building actually built by Le Corbusier in the United States, one of only two in the Americas. ...
The Bacchus Award Rather than giving cash or trade value prizes for awards, BUFF doles out a trophy in the shape of a demonic black bunny with red eyes. The trophy vibrates when held, much like a Sweedish Erotica device. The Bacchus Award was incorporated into BUFF in its second year and has since become the official "mascot" of the festival, a focal point in poster/logo design and the rationale behind the festival's red/black color scheme. "And the bunny goes to..." is the much anticipated phrase at the award ceremony that closes the festival.
Notable Films Featured - I Stand Alone, Gaspar Noe (2001)
- Rejected, Don Hertzfeldt (2001)
- We Sold Our Souls for Rock and Roll, Penelope Spherris (2002)
- Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Doug Miles (2002)
- Zero Day, Ben Coccio (2003)
- Horns and Halos, Galinsky/Hawley (2003)
- Titler, Jonathan Bekemeier/Gregory Roman (2003)
- Dear Pillow, Bryan Poysner (2004)
- Deliverance: The Musical, David Frickas (2004)
- Son of Satan, J.J. Villard (2004)
- Family Portraits: A Trilogy of America, Douglas Buck (2005)
- Graveyard Alive: A Zombie Nurse in Love, Elza Kephart (2005)
- Ennui, Charles Doran (2005)
- Rick Trembles' Goopy Spasms Live Cartoon Show, Rick Trembles (2005)
- Neighborhood Watch, Graeme Whifler (2006)
- Monsters (movie), Robert Morgan (2006)
- The French Guy, Ann Marie Fleming (2006)
- Psychopathia Sexualis, Brett Wood (2006)
Seul contre tous (English title: I Stand Alone or In The Bowels Of France- I Stand Alone) is a 1998 French film, written and directed by Gaspar Noé, and starring Philippe Nahon, Blandine Lenoir, Frankye Pain, and Martine Audrain. ...
Gaspar Noé (born on 27 December 1963 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentinan-born French filmmaker best known for shock-cinema works such as I Stand Alone and Irréversible. ...
Rejected is a 2000 animated short comedy film by animator Don Hertzfeldt, which was nominated for a 2001 Academy Award for Best Short Film, Animated. ...
A screenshot from Don Hertzfeldts Rejected Don Hertzfeldt (born August 1, 1976) is the creator of many short animated films. ...
Zero day or 0day refers to software, media, or information that is obtained either slightly prior to or on the day of the official release. ...
Horns and Halos (2002), an award-winning documentary film directed by Suki Hawley and Michael Galinsky, is primarily about the difficult road the author (James Hatfield) and publisher (Sander Hicks at Soft Skull Press) travelled to bring Fortunate Son, an unauthorized and controversial biography of George W. Bush to bookshelves...
Son of Satan can refer to: a 1922 movie; see Son of Satan (film) a comic book character; see Daimon Hellstrom a mythological creature, [Baal] (Beelzebub) This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. ...
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Robert Morgan (July 31, 1918 - May 15, 2004) was United States Air Force colonel and pilot, from Asheville, North Carolina, and the commander of the B-17 Memphis Belle, flying 25 combat missions over Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, and France, between 7 November 1942, and 17 May 1943, during World...
Psychopathia Sexualis Also refers to: Psychopathia Sexualis is also the 2nd track off Deliverers of Faith by [Northern Heritage Records]http://www. ...
Notable Guests Bill Plympton Bill Plympton is an American animator whose short films have been generally well received at American animation festivals. ...
George Romero at the 2006 DragonCon George Andrew Romero (born February 4, 1940) is an American director, writer, editor and actor. ...
Troma co-founder and president; Lloyd Kaufman Lloyd Kaufman is an American film director and producer. ...
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