Thu, Aug 29

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DAYPASS / All tickets

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All Wednesday's and Thursday's titles & tickets

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On the Silver Globe

Program category

On the Silver Globe

GLOBE

A one-of-a-kind science fiction crypto-classic film by the recently deceased Polish director Zulawski (POSSESSION).
Dating from 1988 it was made behind the iron curtain and suffered heavily from censorship, destroying the fantastic props. What is left is a final edit that is somehow inconclusive, but only adds to the fascination and mystique of this lost gem.
A small group of cosmic explorers, including a woman, leaves Earth to find freedom and start a new civilisation. They do not realise that within themselves they carry the end of their own dream. They eventually die one by one, while their children revert to a primitive native culture, creating new myths and a new god. Some time later, a space bureaucrat, running from a broken heart, arrives and finds the coloniser's descendants enslaved by bird-monsters called Cherns. Society is divided into numerous classes, and everyone is waiting for the arrival of a messiah.

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Director
Andrej Zulawski
Production country
Production year
1988
Film duration
166minutes
Language spoken
polish
Language subtitles
english
Trailer
Trailer

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Flesh in the Machine + Tokyo Necronomicon

Flesh in the Machine + Tokyo Necronomicon

tokyo

Short filmdescription
double bill with Flesh in the Machine (60 min) and Tokyo Necronomicon (52 min)

After Phantasmagoria 1&2 enigmatic Cosmotropia de Xam returns to BUT FF with two new films from the Mater Suspiria label:
Flesh in the Machine (60 min) and Tokyo Necronomicon (52 min), both with the same hypnotic soundtrack from their own music label and available on https://phantasmadisques.bigcartel.com.

Surrealistic and experimental features that do not benefit from plot summaries and explanation, but have to be experienced.
Confusion and disorientation alongside with fantastic editing and sound design will be your reward!

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Director
Cosmotropia de Xam
Production year
2018
Film duration
112minutes
Trailer
Trailer

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Fuck You All: The Uwe Boll Story

Program category

Fuck you all: The Uwe Boll Story

uwe boll

Starting as indie filmmaker in Germany in the early 90s, Uwe Boll became a director and producer of Hollywood style B-movies and computer game based films. Disliked by many, he was working with Oscar-winning actors and making films with 60 million dollar budgets. He put out 32 feature films, some of them have been screened at previous BUT editions. Already a cult legend, Uwe Boll will be remembered forever in the film world. Critics should be punched in the face, according to Uwe Boll, who also used to be a semi-pro boxer.

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Genre
Director
Sean Patrick Shaun
Production country
Production year
2018
Film duration
96minutes
Language spoken
English, German
Language subtitles
english
Trailer
Trailer

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Upgrade

Program category

Upgrade

lei

Grey sees his wife murdered before his eyes and is left for dead. Paralysed from the waist up, he agrees to an experimental treatment by a wealthy researcher. His 'upgrade' makes his body function again, taken over bij an AI device called STEM. Once he learns to use his new found superpowers, Grey seeks revenge on the crime syndicate responsible for the mayhem.
Dark and stylish, UPGRADE inexplicably missed out on its cinema release in Holland.
At BUT we are pleased to bring this thrill ride from Australia to the big screen.

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Director
Leigh Whannell
Production country
Production year
2018
Film duration
100minutes
Trailer
Trailer

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Shorts 1 - Spaced Out (1)

The Jerry Show

The Jerry Show

A miserable sad sack struggled to mollify a bully he can’t escape

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Genre
Director
Stephen Stull
Production country
Production year
2017
Film duration
9minutes
Language spoken
English, German
Language subtitles
English

Bravure

bravure

A paintbrush tells a frightening story.

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Director
Donato Sansone
Production year
2018
Film duration
4minutes

Sebar-e Do Bar Barabar

Sebar-e Do Bar Barabar

O ONE O is an angry, overdosed and unconventional film that is not based on narrative like the ordinary films.

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Genre
Director
Mohammad Hossein Jafari Moghaddam Fard
Production country
Production year
2018
Film duration
10minutes
Language spoken
Persian
Language subtitles
English

Unplanned Parenthood

unplanned parenthood

A soon-to-be mother goes to a Planned Parenthood clinic for her last check up. But everything takes a dark turn for the worse.

Details
Genre
Director
Emil Levin
Production country
Production year
2018
Film duration
8minutes
Language spoken
English
Language subtitles
English .srt-file

Hunks

Hunks

An animated reaction to masculine stereotypes and tired cliches.

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Genre
Director
Katie Kapuza
Production country
Production year
2018
Film duration
3minutes
Language spoken
no language
Language subtitles
English titles

THE BOOGEYS

The Boogeys

In a future where Earth has been turned into a planetary ghetto, Dawkins, a former-cop-turned-pickpocket, tracks down a mssing child about to be sold to an alien overlord.

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Director
Sanjay F. Sharma
Production country
Production year
2017
Film duration
20minutes
Language spoken
English
Language subtitles
non

BFF Girls

BFF Girls

Three dorky American girls magically transform into beautiful Japanese Superheroes and fight a tampon monster as they begin their journey into womanhood.

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Genre
Director
Brian Lonano
Production country
Production year
2018
Film duration
14minutes
Language spoken
English, Japanese
Language subtitles
English (during Japanese)

Igor The Vegan Vampire

Igor The Vegan Vampire

Igor is a vampire that finds himself unable to eat humans anymore, but just can't go from human blood to Soy milk.

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Genre
Director
Noy Levin & Ori Halevy
Production country
Production year
2019
Film duration
5minutes
Language spoken
Silent movie
Language subtitles
English

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Rhizom + Sadiowitch + Nature Boy

Program category

Rhizom

shazzula

Black-and-white film from Belgian director, music producer and performer SHAZZULA (BLACK MASS RISING) who made video clips for ELECTRIC WIZARD and her own band WOLVENNEST.
The footage was initially made for a music video of a band named OX, and officially released late march 2019.
RHIZOM in the meantime was made for a festival as a performance video at Rote Fabrik in Zürich, Switzerland and is way more techno than earlier work. She deforms, twists and experiments with this material and composes these infernal and stroboscopic images that take us from darkness to light. She promises: "I want it all to be dark, aggressive, violent, mad, surrealist...and epileptic !" The screening will begin with a short films compilation and introduced by Shazzula!

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Director
Shazzula
Production country
Production year
2018
Film duration
45minutes
Language spoken
-
Language subtitles
-
Trailer
Trailer

Sadiowitch

w

Videoclip for Electric Wizard - directed by Shazzula Vultura.

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Director
Shazzula
Production year
2017
Film duration
4minutes

Nature Boy

bobby

'Nature Boy' is made for Bobby Beausoleil.

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Director
Shazzula
Production year
2018
Film duration
10minutes

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Dichters podium

Doeko L. de Dichter
Joshua Baumgarten
Jeroen sloof

Joshua Baumgarten

Joshua Baumgarten, dichterspodium

Joshua Baumgarten/The Irrational Library – (1971) Expat suburban NY jew living the life in the Netherlands. Was taught early on by overly nationalistic school teachers to either ‘love it or leave it’ so he left it. Now up to his neck in the muck of cultural agitation in Haarlemtown, Baumgarten is considered to be the second coming of some unknown beat poet from the ’60s. Baumgarten denies this and does not believe in reincarnation. Baumgarten has been said to use the word Fuck quite often in his writings.

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Duration
10minutes

Jeroen Sloof

Jeroen Sloof. Foto: Look J. Boden voor Poetry Slam Rotterdam

Zijn naam is Jeroen Sloof AKA Welig tieren. Hij houdt van metaforen, homoniemen, spreekwoorden, ironie en zelfspot. Hij streeft een breed palet na ten opzichte van stijl en thema's. Doorgaans zit er wel een vleugje Rock'n Roll of Punk aan zijn poëzie. Of korter samengevat in de woorden van een bevriend dichter: Een rijk palet aan onderwerpen, heldere beelden in verrassende ritmes, soms gezongen, maar altijd verstaanbaar.
Op het Dichterspodium op donderdag tussen 19:00 en 19:30 u

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Duration
10minutes

Doeko L. de Dichter

Doeko L. de Dichter; Kargadoor Utrecht 2018

Doeko L. is een dichter, schrijver & voordrager die geen vaste vorm wil aannemen – je zou hem daarom een flardist kunnen noemen. In zijn schrijfsels worden menselijk handelen en diens fysiek, maatschappelijke tendensen en de gevoelens van alle tijden in eigenzinnige kaders geplaatst. Een mengelmoes van drama, romantiek, cynisme en komedie.
Zie verder zijn website: http://www.debedruktetoestand.nl/DoekoL/over.shtml

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Duration
10minutes

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An Accidental Zombie

An accidental Zombie

zombie

Ted is not your usual Zombie; even as his skin transforms and his hunger for brains increases, he is still in denial that he is the living dead….until he meets a beautiful young Vampire at a therapy session for the paranormal.
Ted is not even a zombie. Just ask him. Sure, he picked up a "skin thing" in The Caribbean, and he's hungering for brains, but who isn't? Ted's bizarre family has their doubts, and they aren't shy about it. Their hilarious antics are enough to send a son to the loony bin, but Ted soldiers on, stubbornly convinced he's fine. That is until he follows a hot vampire to group therapy for patients with disorders of the paranormal. Welcome to Ted's kooky world. https://anaccidentalzombienamedted.com/

Details
Director
Anne Welles
Production country
Production year
2017
Film duration
83minutes
Language spoken
English
Language subtitles
-
Trailer
Trailer

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Night Owl + Vanessa Morgan book presentation

PRESENTATION: Vanessa Morgan presents her new book "Strange Blood - 71 Essays on Offbeat and Underrated Vampire Movies" (+ short film Orlok's Return)

Program category

Night Owl

night owl

A vampire in the East Village picks up women, and while having sex with them kills them and drinks their blood. Meanwhile, a young Puerto Rican guy begins searching the Village for his sister, who is one of the vampire's victims.
Presentation by Vanessa Morgan, introducing her new book: Strange Blood - 71 Essays on Offbeat and Underrated Vampire Movies
Short film Orlok's Return, a Belgian Vampire film

Details
Director
Jeffrey Arsenault
Production country
Production year
1993
Film duration
77minutes
Language spoken
English
Language subtitles
-
Trailer
Trailer

Orlok's Return

Orlok Returns

An atypical Flemish vampire story from Gent, about a vampire with vague memories due to excessive partying.

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Genre
Director
Manuel Janssens
Production country
Production year
2018
Film duration
13minutes
Language spoken
English
Language subtitles
English

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Visions of Suffering (Final Director's Cut) (1)

Visions of Suffering (Final Director's Cut)

isk

After losing his girlfriend because of his obsession with necrophilia, death and a morbid fascination for decomposing human bodies, Sasha falls into despair. He suffers dreadful nightmares where he is wandering a dead otherworldly forest filled with fog and strange creatures. He happens to disturb a demonic shaman, which results in and outlandish beings start moving into our world, and strange voices are heard on his telephone line. A phone repairman comes to help with the faulty lines, but he's a phone-wizard messing about your nightmares.
Sensual and experimental psycho-horror by Russian master Iskanov in the latest (2018) version of his 2006 film, filmed with true nightmare vision.

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Director
Andrej Iskanov
Production country
Production year
2018
Film duration
85minutes
Language spoken
russian
Language subtitles
english
Trailer
Trailer

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Mutant Blast + Zombiercalypse (VF)

Mutant Blast

sex

Maria, a fearless soldier, and TS-347, a man with superhuman strength, are being pursued by a military cell responsible for scientific experiments that have resulted in a zombie apocalypse. On the way, they will meet Pedro, a man with few ambitions and a great hangover. Together, they will try to escape to a safe place, but complications will cross their paths in the form of a nuclear bomb.
The ever expanding Troma franchise has reached Brazil! Director Fernando Alle is a BUT veteran, who's two trashy toppers we screened before: PAPA WRESTLING & BANANA MOTHERFUCKER. Thash Thursday screening with short film ZOMBIERAPOCALYSE.

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Director
Fernando Alle
Production year
2018
Film duration
83minutes
Trailer
Trailer

Zombiercalypse

Zombiercalypse

The zombie apocalypse has started, but what's worse: we are out of beer! Scheisse!

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Director
Jim Aal
Film duration
10minutes

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Prospect + The Occupant (VF)

Program category

Prospect

pros

A teenage girl and her father travel to a remote alien moon, aiming to strike it rich. They've secured a contract to harvest a large deposit of the elusive gems hidden in the depths of the moon's toxic forest. But there are others roving the wilderness and the job quickly devolves into a fight to survive. Forced to contend not only with the forest's other ruthless inhabitants, but with her own father's greed-addled judgment, the girl finds she must carve her own path to escape.

Details
Director
Christopher Caldwell, Zeek Earl
Production country
Production year
2018
Film duration
100minutes
Language spoken
English
Language subtitles
-
Trailer
Trailer

The Occupant

o

Prologue. A short film and companion piece for the eponymous feature film in development by Dutch director Hugo Keijzer, producer Maurice Schutte and screenwriter Phil M. Howe.

Details
Director
Hugo Keijzer
Production country
Production year
2019
Film duration
10minutes

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Elliot + Teratomorph

Program category

Elliot

elliot

Set in the dark depths of a strange and mysterious power supply complex, ELLIOT tells the tale of a conflicted humanoid struggling to maintain his reality and understand his true identity. Elliot is thrust into a disconcerting downward spiral of despair in which he is forced to recognise the perils of his own cognition and constructed ideals in a crumbling universe where the lines between fantasy, simulation, and reality are blurred, and the fibers of Elliot’s fragile existence are ruptured.
Short film: TERATOMORPH

Details
Director
Craig Jacobson
Production country
Production year
2017
Film duration
68minutes
Language spoken
English
Language subtitles
None
Trailer
Trailer

Teratomorph

tera

The Alien Menace Is regenerating.

Details
Director
Joe Meredith
Production year
2019
Film duration
35minutes

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Harvest Lake

Program category

Harvest Lake

Harvest Lake

Five friends go camping, releasing the sexual tension with games of truth or dare and skinny dipping. That doesn't stop a libidinous monster from outer space from becoming part of the romantic camping-trip. Sexy monster-movie with great characters and a beautifully off-beat style. Schirmer throws in a lot of nudity and a cool monster in this erotic mystery-fantasy. Starring Ellie Church.

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Genre
Director
Scott Schirmer
Production country
Production year
2016
Film duration
78minutes
Language spoken
English
Trailer
Trailer

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I'll Take Your Dead

I'll take your Dead

i'll

William has a simple job, he makes dead bodies disappear. His little farm house in the country has become a dumping ground for the casualties of the gang related murders in the nearby city. His daughter Gloria is used to rough looking men dropping off corpses and is even convinced that some of them are haunting their house. After a woman’s body is dumped at the house, William begins his meticulous process when he realises she’s not actually dead. As they begin to develop a very unusual respect for each other, the woman’s murderers get word that she’s still alive and make plan to go finish what they started, as gang violence increases.

Details
Director
Chad Archibald
Production country
Production year
2018
Film duration
83minutes
Language spoken
English
Language subtitles
-
Trailer
Trailer

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Brutal (1)

Program category

Brutal

grindhouse

He is a serial killer who likes to beat woman to a pulp with his bare hands. She likes to stab men - a perfect couple, and the beginning of a very, very sick love story, one might think, but turns and twists lie ahead.
Brutal is a surprising Japanese Grindhouse film and contains an amount of in-your-face violence that makes the screen shrivel.
A true Midnight Extreme, and nominated for the BUT award!

Details
Director
Takashi Hirose
Production year
2018
Film duration
67minutes
Trailer
Trailer