The Hamilton Underground Film Festival[1] was an annual film festival held in Hamilton, New Zealand between 2006 and 2013. Run on the basis of a DIY ethos the festival was open to all and had no admission fee for film entries. Each entrant received a DVD which contains all the entered films. The festival was the longest running festival of its kind in Australasia until recent usurped by the Melbourne underground film festival.
There was a yearly section for experimentalfone films, Super 8 mm film and subverts. Since 2009 the festival featured a collaborative digital film section in which participants operate under the same name: Karen Karnak[2] There is also a special remix section where films can be entered under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported creative commons license. This will allow other contributors to remix selected works and create collaborative works.
This section needs expansionwith: 2009, 2010 and 2011 programs. You can help by adding to it. (April 2012)
HUFF 2008
Watching. Martin Rumsby (:59) San Antoni. Arnolfini ( 5:38) The Trons Snake-Beings ( 2:40) Symbol Gerard Gil ( :10) Cyclic Existence Bonnie Hart ( :23) Shall I be Mother. Dan Inglis ( 2:26) Between the Lines. Christian Parahi ( 4:43) Cholera Clocks. Snake-Beings ( 4:55) Barbie Buddah Nylstoch ( :41) Symbol Gerard Gil ( :10) Blue Tide, Black Water Eve Gorden & Sam Hamilton ( 9:04) Ensalada de Ruido Yolanda Cañardo Galve ( 1:01) Bugged Otatoe C ( :10) Moth Campbell Farquhar ( 4:11) NZ es el culo Octpob ( :10) Zaks Cake Octpob ( :48) Solstici Gerard Gil ( 2:01) Sintaxis B. Ferrando ( 2:23) Ehen: el horizonte está nublado Javi Neiro and Océ Anos ( 2:35) Symbol Gerard Gil ( :10) Passion. Peter Caldwell ( 4:53) Suspect device Octpob ( :03) Ufo Jed Town ( 4:24) The Heist Campbell Cooley ( 6:21) Plastic Gods OctoC ( :16) Pareidolia No Mendacity, Witcyst ( :21) Grey News, Nylstoch ( :27) Tinkernicks Mike Crook & Rosie Percival ( 2:51) Al Final De La Via Gerard Gil ( 6:00) Monk Carlos Pla ( 4:14) Poeticas 3 B. Ferrando ( 3:24) The Remote Viewers 2008 Snakebeings ( 13:39) Car wash Pippa Russel ( 2:02) American Sketch Book Martin Rumsby ( 7:55) Night out with the artists Jenny Spark ( 4:37) OKOK+circuit47 ( 1:50) Petroquimica ( 1:58) Sadie Wrestling Bryce Galloway ( 3:29) Cuts from Rafel Marcos (1:17) Untitled Otatoe ( 0:11) Self Portrait as a Painter RG Shaw (3:11) Pig in a Can CJ Finlayson ( 4:23) Cube Hamilton street theatre collective ( 2:04) Best of both worlds Thom Burton ( 2:34) 400 Mr Slepica ( 1:00) Tria Prima Arnolfini ( 2:04) Think Agent Bulldog ( 4:19) Dios los Crean ( :03) Abject leader Nylstoch ( :45) Youyou RG Shaw_Mr_Slepica ( 6:04) La Resposta de les Meves Sabates Yolanda Cañardo Galve (:59)
HUFF 2007
Rat Spag OTATO 28s
Burning Ears - Rosie Percival 02m 45s
Mind Your Eyes - Dan Inglis 05m 07s
Punk Shane Was my Hero – Mike Heynes - 02m 33s
Captain Al Meets the Gannets - James Finlayson 02m 27s
Dirty Old Eric - Bryce Galloway/Adrian Webclaw/+(Music WC4) 07m 36s
Croquette Blood - Octpob Films 37s
PUMKIN SOUP -Snakebeings 02m 21s
CARBON- Justin Taulu 03m 23s
Takipu – Adrienne Grant 02m 52s
1985 - James Finlayson 03m 00s
Greg's Veg - Bird Song Recordings 02m 53s
Falamte Def - Carlos Pla 01m 30s
Steven Stanley's Revenge – Dave Normal 05m 25s
Freeks Formuler - James Robinson (Music WC4) 03m 21s
The Maggots have the Advantage – Luminous Press 03m 38s
The Hit - Campbell Cooley 06m 50s
Menu Masters of Doom _ Otato Subvert 09s
Cup Cake - Rosie Percival 2m 00s
Track- Richard Ororke BSR 5m 54s
Tate Modern – Jessica Boyd 08m 44s
CARBON part three - Justin Taulu 02m 49s
Beach Bingo Trailer – Mike Heynes 54s
100volt system – Octpob Films 02m 00s
Water Trap – Otato 28s
Cocky Two - Richard Tuhoy 06m 56s
POUREWA Maree Mills 03m 11s
Acquired Vision - Phil Secrist 08m 55s
The Reality of Dreams - Sten 02m 59s
12pt with as - Dave mike 02m 17s
Take Two – Chris Thompson 02m 30s
What You Watching - Azric Bowater 05m 07s
Dukkha - Antonia Lema 08m 22s
Open Your Heart – Witsyst 23s
Open Your Heart II– Witsyst 02m 42s
Warpt - Nz Webits and Dave Normal 05m 00s
Eye –I - Aye - Martin Rumsby 08m 24s
Toxic Waste Toddler Trailer – Mike Heynes 02m 29s
I Thought You Were Good Paul - Witsyst 07m 05s
HUFF 2006
MICHELLE SAVILL – former WINTEC student presents her film ‘Martin and Snakes go to the Zoo’ fresh from the New York International Independent Film Festival. Martin and Snakes are, of course, Martin Webclaw formerly of the band Wendyhouse and intermedia artist Emit Snake-Beings.
JOE CITIZEN's recent computer scratch film with sound by Emit Snake-Being
MARTIN RUMSBY – New Zealand's experimental filmmaker, disappeared into Chicago's African American ghetto in 1995 shortly after co-founding X FILM CHICAGO. Long considered Missing in Action, Rumsby moved to Hamilton a few months ago where he has completed six films this year. Rumsby's short film LIVE challenges the authority of media representations and includes references to the war in Iraq. This will be the first public screening of a Martin Rumsby film in New Zealand since 1984. Rumsby also recently completed a film on the demise of the OVERLANDER passenger train service between Auckland and Wellington.
EMIT SNAKE-BEINGS – Founder of the Hamilton Underground Film Festival, composer, musician and electrical shrine maker, travelled in Europe for 12 years shooting films in Spain, Mexico, Fiji and Japan. Resident in Hamilton since 2000. Emit Snake-Beings will present his recently made stop frame puppet animation ‘Death of an Orchestra’
PIPSIX – Shows her 4 minute long film ‘Rabbit and Possum’ in which two common pests go fishing and drink beer together.
American filmmaker PHIL SECRIST's film MOMENTO MORI (2006) is a dark, surrealistic journey into death and time in which a man relives his life; certain doors open and close, leading him to his ultimate destination. Filmed in Hamilton.
The crazy vision of Auckland-based musician and filmmaker THOM BURTON, of the band Yokel Ono, in a random collection of shorts, including GREEN EYED MONSTERS and LE PESTSE, which mix suburban fantasy and nightmare.
ROSIE PERCIVAL's film Fellow is a 2 minute long experimental film using Adobe After Effects and featuring identical twins having a short conversation.
STEFAN NEVILLE / SUGAR JON / PUMICE – Ex Hamiltonian, now international noise music innovator – Stefan, a musical associate of Chris Knox and currently touring the US, and Sugar Jon chop wood in Dunedin to the raw sounds of Pumice-raft. (4 minutes.)
WITCYST – Internationally known noise magician from Whangarei has released over 700 tapes and 400 CDs – now working in visuals as well.
OCTPOB FILMS – miscellaneous New Zealand short films.
OKOK SOCIETY – A selection of scenes by mysterious film and sound Kaosmagician Mark Reeve sent directly to us from his base in Wales.
STEVE RIFE – USA Pyrotechnics expert and filmmaker from St. Paul, Minnesota
PATRICK MAUN - USA
OTATO COLLECTIVO – INTERNATIONAL/LOCAL collaborations and network group
Further reading
Sheldon Renan, An introduction to the American underground film, New York: Dutton, 1967
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