At last year's Sydney Underground Film Festival we screened a wildly wonderful array of creative and bold films by female directors from Australia and around the world. In light of International Women’s Day (March 8th), we have put together an impressive program celebrating women in film and made this screening available to you for only $2!* Please enjoy 20 films by female directors from now until March 14th! *$2 covers the cost of the Eventive platform and a donation to Sydney-based women's refuge Lou's Place.

Dark Water focuses on the narrative of a deep-sea environment that unexpectedly manifests in the walls of a grieving women’s suburban dwelling; an impossible, flooded inner-architecture. It explores familial trauma and loss through the darkly surreal tale of a woman who discovers an ocean within her house.

Dark Water

University student by day, escort by night, Andrea Werhun led a secret life under the alias “Mary Ann.” To her horror, Andrea discovers outrageous online reviews of Mary Ann's sexual performance written by self-proclaimed “hobbyists.” In this hybrid documentary, hobbyist and escort perspectives collide with hilarious and revealing results. And when the sex work narrative is controlled by johns, there are darker consequences than just a bad review. Modern Whore is a rare sex work narrative told and performed by the sex worker herself. The film is an adaptation of Modern Whore: A Memoir, the acclaimed illustrated art book created in collaboration with the film's director, Nicole Bazuin.

Modern Whore

Catch a movie with film buff Caroline Golum, as she shares her thoughts on the best places to see weird movies in New York City and the state of cinema itself. We accompany Caroline to three movie screenings over the course of a week: a new indie at Anthology Film Archives, a matinee double-feature of 1920’s comedies at MOMA, and a late night 1970’s Italian horror film at The Quad. These scenes are intercut with an interview with Caroline at her apartment in Brooklyn, which is covered in vintage movie paraphernalia.

Cinema Rules Everything Around Me

Informed by experimental films from the 1960s and 70s, Terror Fervor takes the viewer on a psychedelic non-linear journey through the vices of seven characters. By way of the timeless tropes of desire and malaise such as vanity, gluttony and fury, the wordless journey of Terror Fervor plunges the viewer into an experience that is hard to classify and hard to forget.

Terror Fervor

In our age of attention scarcity, ‘On’ explores just where our gaze is falling. Take a curious and playful glimpse into both the connectedness and enduring loneliness of the modern condition, through this intimate and unexamined lens.

URBAN SPHINX is an animated short film that creatively documents the presence of street art at various neighbourhoods of Valencia, Spain, between 2018 y 2019. In URBAN SPHINX are animated these pieces of ephemeral art, connecting each image like the frames of a film. All these faces look at us with widely opened eyes, as if they tell us that we exist, but we might not exist —and the world would go on.

Urban Sphinx

Sweet Sweet Kink: A Collection of BDSM Stories takes a sweet, sweet peek into the kinky world of bondage, dominance, and sadomasochism through three stories of intimate connection, consensual exploration, and deep self-reflection. We will follow four members of the Austin, TX Kink/BDSM community reminiscing on the moments of exciting ‘firsts’, the long journey of healing, and beginnings of lifelong relationships.

Sweet Sweet Kink

Actor Mark Metcalf made his reputation playing aggrieved authority figures, most famously in National Lampoon’s Animal House and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Now in his 70s, he takes a critical look back on his life and career in this meditation on power, privilege, and the perils of being a “type.”

Character

A single mother struggles to look after her young son. When she finds bruises on his body, she becomes concerned that someone is hurting him and is forced to confront the evil presence that inhabits their home.

Bed Time

A visual symphony of the mind in the abyss beyond our screens

Break Through the Abyss

Millicent "Millie" McCrory, also known as “The Paint Wizzard” around Austin, TX, is an accomplished house painter who works in a miniskirt, crop top and signature cat ear headband. Born and raised as Michael in a conservative Morman household, she never felt that she could be her true self. A few years ago, at the age of 58, she gained the courage to change her name to Millie and adopt female pronouns. While she identifies as transgender, Millie still struggles with her own ideas of gender and social norms. The film follows Millie in her daily life, as she wrestles with questions of identity and acceptance, painting a hopeful, poignant and honest portrait.

The Paint Wizzard

Taylor and Vanessa examine what it means to be in danger. Through the course of one evening the two women must choose to either confront the object of their horror or resign themselves to their inevitable fate.

Taylor and Vanessa

A break-up dinner is slowly unveiled to be a much darker event. Zoe unexpectedly finds herself at a crossroads - redemption or revenge. This film explores the different hues of distorted love... that love can exist even in the darkest of places.

Fourteen

There Were Four of Us is an experimental film about non-linear dream experience that travels through a room where four characters are trapped, through moments in their lives and through the symbol of death that connected them together.

There Were Four of Us

When they piss standing, all men are works of art. Adapted from the short story « Le jet » by Quebec author Fanie Demeule.

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In this visceral impressionistic film the viewer is invited into the director's world as she experiences a menstrual cycle - from food cravings, to anxiety, to physical pain. Set almost entirely in the director’s bedroom, Just that time of the month uses a series of visceral visual metaphors to share the experience of having a period.

Just That Time of the Month

Cosmic Spaghetti is an experimental feminist think piece disguised as an absurdist comedy. Start out with a little bit of water and you fry some garlic. Then you throw in some tomatoes and tomato paste. You make sure it doesn't stick. When ya' got it to a boil ya' shove in all ya' sausage and ya' meatballs, eh? Add a little bit 'o' wine and a little bit of sugar, and that's my trick

Cosmic Spaghetti

A young woman senses something sinister is happening at a party on New Years’ Eve 1999. Should she stay and hope she's wrong, or risk trying to get home at midnight? Amongst the hype of the new millennium and fear of the Y2K apocalypse, getting through the night is not going to be easy.

Nineteen Ninety Nine

"The future is here! Well, almost."

It's Coming

Deep love has finally happened in Ukraine.

Deep Love

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Check out the program below featuring short films made by female directors that featured at the 2020 festival. For one week only - don't miss it!

At last year's Sydney Underground Film Festival, we screened a wildly wonderful array of creative and bold films by female directors from Australia and around the world. In light of International Women’s Day (March 8th), we have put together an impressive program celebrating women in film. 

Here's what's coming up soon. Can't make it? No sweat. Many live streams will be available for on-demand viewing as well.