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Austin Underground Film Festival Announced

3rd Annual Festival @ Salvage Vanguard Theater
Friday, December 19th

From the press release yesterday:

"In their ongoing mission to excavate the greatest finds in subterranean sinema history, the archaeologists behind the 3rd Annual AUSTIN UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL have delved deeper into the darkest recesses of the global brain's collective unconscious than ever before to bring you stop-motion Argentinian graffiti bombings, Mexican revenge odysseys, Maltese gypsy documentaries and frank portraits of disaffected Parisian youth. Tales of animated lunacy, feminist go-go dancers and gore-soaked backyard kung fu epics will scorch your eyeballs from their sockets as you beg for a swift and merciful death which will never come. Then, just when ou're nihilistically adrift in the final throes of a celluloid-induced existential crisis and questioning all that you hold dear, they rescue you from the brink of the abyss and restore your faith in the fundamental decency of the human race with sketch comedy noir, no-budget 80s music video kitsch and Iranian love stories set in warn-torn Afghanistan. Usher in the new year with classic retrospectives, studies in obscurantism, and brand new stick figure pathos by the master Don Hertzfeldt, plus tributes to Metal Slug, William Burroughs and Don Knotts.

Ryan Sambol, The Strange Boys @ Emo's Lounge 24/11/07 (Photo by Danna Williams)

Rock 'n' roll after party with HACIENDA, whose new album, produced by The Black Keys, has the critics gasping for superlatives, and THE STRANGE BOYS, whose new album Austin Scaggs of Rolling Stone describes merely as "the shit." B.Y.O. Beer, Liquor, 'Tussin, or whatever poison
gets your teenage kicks. Mingle with starving filmmakers! Drink wine from a cup inside one of East Austin's premiere venues! Observe real-life hipsters in their natural habitat and gain their trust by dropping words like "parallax" and "verite" until you move freely among them and feel like a discriminating member of the cognoscenti!"

With falafels by Ararat and cookies by Starlet Sweets. Salvage Vanguard Theater doors open at 6pm, pre-show 6:30, films @ 7:00. BYOB after party with The Strange Boys and Hacienda.

Read about The Strange Boys, from Rolling Stone on Dec. 3rd '08:
http://www.rollingstone.com/blogs/smokingsection/2008/12/our-new-favorite-band-the-stra.php

All ages, limited seating, advance tickets available now at www.AustinUndergroundFilm.com. Get directions here.

Mark your calendars for an engaging evening of local underground film culture.