Manager-summoning control freak Kallie Jones attempts to rescue her husband from a "wellness center" with the help of a washed-up expert Cult Buster.
By using a mass-control radio-wave emission, a cannibal dictator brings Taeter City's crime rates next to zero, recycling the criminals' bodies as food. Then, the ultimate mutation emerged. Can the elite police squad clear the mess up?
Festival favorites NECROSTORM are back with a contribution to the food program - awaiting the sequel Taeter Burger.
Overweight teenager Simi spends the Easter holidays at the farm of her aunt Claudia and her family. She wants her aunt, a professional nutrition coach, to help her lose weight, but has to realize more and more that things on the farm are not above board. Who can Simi really trust on this farm?
The mad WWII movie made for the price of a second hand Skoda full of Rockstar cameos. It's rude, crude, loud, violent and gory! And very, very funny.
Courts-mais-trash festival is a befriended festival in Brussels, specializing in trashy short films. With a strong fanbase and dedicated filmmakers, director Francois Marache presents 5 days of madness, queerness, silliness and quirky fun.
In this new documentary about Negativland, the footage is almost entirely made by the people who are in it. Plunderphonics is the name given to the genre by the band that named itself after the song by CAN. Media attention rose after the band made an unauthorized cover of a U2 song. Over The Edge live radio broadcasts, and news footage, and occasional interviews from the era. The format follows the footage: a continuous loop of time backward and forward, sometimes repeating.
Mike Anna
The curator and organizer of Friday, Sept. 1 BUTFF performance program is visual artist Mike Anna. Because even the slickest choreography cannot bite reality.
Berendine Venemans
Berendine Venemans (1991) used to be a professional game designer, now performance artist, poet and videographer. As an artist she deals with the unnameable and uncontrollable in life.In doing so, she explores the role of intuition
and believes in the power of uniting intuition and embodiment with the mind, the cognition. The path she takes in this process and the experiences she gains she shares in her
work. Sometimes absurdist, but always subconsciously palpable. Her work invites to be experienced be experienced from the feeling, with the desire to speak from her underbelly to that of the other and thus to make the unnameable experienceable.
In the relentless heat of the gruelling summer, temperatures soar to blistering levels as cicadas emerge to sing their ear-shattering song. Months of continued exposure is enough to make anyone start to feel a little off.
Anyone, that is, except that oddity the locals call ‘the Cicada Man’.
Who is that strange man and why is he always walking around with boxes full of live cicadas? More important, what does he do with them?
As the heat starts to get to our heroine, and her sanity depletes, real life and delusion begin to mix. Her darkest nightmares seep into our world and she fears the Cicada Man has planted his swarm of insects inside her. She must get them out – at all costs.
Thus begins her downward spiral into extreme paranoia and self-mutilation. She just needs to make it through the summer.
A doorbell is ringing repeatedly early morning, a mysterious paper bag is delivered. By whom? For what?
A mysterious stranger tells the twisted tale of seemingly unconnected strangers caught in a series of otherworldly events whose lives will change in incredible ways forever.
The follow-up to BUTT BOY (BUTTFF 2020) is an anthology of six stories of the weird and wicked that can be a challenge even to those that say they have a strange sense of humor.
Porn actors singing in a public toilet is the starting point of 'Klappe' directed by Jürgen Brüning. From this place, the viewer is taken through various fragments and clips, packaged as a video essay, about gender and identity. Everything that is anti-something is shown. Long live the revolution, all strict rules will be broken.
Jürgen Brüning is a regular guest on BUT, invisible but still present because he’s the producer of Bruce LaBruce (The Rasberry Reich) and Shu Lea Chang (Fluido), all screened on BUT. This time he is present himself for the film 'Klappe'.
Mike, a hypochondriac criminal who fears HIV is assigned by his boss to torture a criminal and find what he is withholding.
An evil bear goes on a killing spree. Rated "F" for fucking violence and gore!
GETROUWD
Gay Duo Versalis is a short performance by the performance duo GETROUWD (Rosa Vermeijden and Geert Sweep). In these 15 minutes of performing arts they interpret musically, theatrically and performatively the story of a couple who, quite literally, have been attached to stuck together. They take you into the bickering, into bitchy yet dirty in which they ultimately get a lot done together after all.
Enzo van der Sterren
My work can easily be described as a messy, uncoordinated shitshow, but I think its also very human in that way. It really wants to stop global space travel, yet it also just wants to be loved for what it is.
Ramon de Gier
Visual artist and uses humor as a tactical tool to disrupt and disarm. With a great fondness for the poetic and absurd gestures of Wim T. Schippers or Bas Jan Ader, he makes performances, installations, props and digital collages. He lovingly pastes, cares for and copies the dysfunctional and discarded into composite sculptures of lived-in objects. For the student and young performer programs, he crawls into the role of Rocko, a highly flammable stone who cares about the fate of us humans. From the depths of the volcano, he prepared for ROCKO live, where nothing or no one would stand in his way....
Do you have an iron stomach and a tongue of steel? Can you keep a cool head in any situation? Then this competition is for you… if you dare! In 5 rounds, you will try the hottest sauces we could find, followed by a surprise round. Survive all rounds without drinking the cup of soothing cream in front of you, and you are the winner of a sweet price! Only true fire-eaters should apply!
The competition will take place at BUT Film Festival, on Friday the 1st of September, at 18:45 O’clock. If you want to participate, send an email to post@butff.nl
Voor het eerst waagt Voor Niemand Wat Wils zich buiten de inmiddels gebaande paden van het Leiden International Film Festival!
Crapmeisters Nils en Hans zijn (uiteraard met mondkapjes en handschoenen) in hun rariteitenschatkist gedoken om de meest knullige, onsmakelijke, verbluffende, aanstootgevende en ja, hilarische cinematische curiositeiten op te diepen.
LET OP: dit is hetzelfde programma dat vorig jaar op het LIFF te zien is geweest. Geen reden om niet (nog een keer) te komen natuurlijk, maar een gewaarschuwd mens telt voor twee! En wees gerust, het is er niet beter op geworden...
Maria is the new teacher who arrives at an old religious school. Her first class will turn in a real hell.
Let's have another look at those cobwebs.
Sisworo the Jenglotman, married Anggun, the daughter of Mbah Kusumo, a shaman. During five months of the marriage, Sisworo and Anggun were terrorized.
Won't you tell me a story, AI?
A motorcycle riding dog must compete with the Grim Reaper to save his soul.
The sensual art of cooking breakfast.
I can't get your body out of my mind!
Unknowingly, a girl enters the habitat of a tribe of killer gnomes during her daily run. Lured by mysterious glowing mushrooms, she'll soon wish she'd stayed on her usual tracks.
Art can be stimulating.
Love triangle set in a fantastical world where science and the supernatural collide. The story follows inventor, Nikola Tesla, as he and Alan Turing accidentally release demons into our dimension.
The (stand-alone) sequel to the 2016 film takes place three years later and follows our final girl Michelle who is now in college. However, she is still plagued with the question of what truly happened after a night of terror that left her friends missing. This years annual haunted house thrown by the sorority girls of Gamma Tau Psi is forced off campus, but thankfully the ban on Halloween has been lifted by the town mayor. Unfortunately for Michelle, some uninvited trick-or-treaters from her past come knocking...
Doug Bradley & Lloyd Kaufman in small roles.
From Dutch director Tom Six came this trilogy of sadism and digust of which we are showing the sequel in the presence of our main festival guest, Laurence R. Harvey. For the occassion we will screen a rare color version to add to the abovementioned disgust.
Our main guest Laurence R. Harvey will join the feast.
TERZIJ DE HORDE
have always tried to not limit themselves by genres per se. Over the years, there have always been elements of black metal, progressive doom, chaotic screamo and extreme hardcore, but they have never felt as clear, singular elements. Rather, they are combined in a visceral, raw, honest emotional torrent; a combination which mimics the live shows as well.
After the release of ‘Self’ in 2015, it is now time for ‘In One of These, I am your Enemy’. The band’s sound used to be described as a mixture of bands such as Wolves in the Throne Room, Kickback, Khanate and Neil Perry. Seemingly similar in approach to bands as Bosse de Nage, Laster and Woe, the last five years have however seen the band being named more and more as a unique stalwart of Dutch black metal, with a sound and a live show that are incomparable. The band has received widespread international attention and many highly positive reviews both of their recorded music and of their explosive live performances
GGU:LL
is the vessel of the lost. A means of staring into the empty sockets of suffering. Enduring the lack of meaning and ground. Enduring defeat and loss. Riffs are very basic yet eloquent and add plots and nuances to the great narratives the drums and bass dictate.
Terzij de horde have always tried to not limit themselves by genres per se. Over the years, there have always been elements of black metal, progressive doom, chaotic screamo and extreme hardcore, but they have never felt as clear, singular elements. Rather, they are combined in a visceral, raw, honest emotional torrent; a combination which mimics the live shows as well.
GGU:LL is the vessel of the lost. A means of staring into the empty sockets of suffering. Enduring the lack of meaning and ground. Enduring defeat and loss. Riffs are very basic yet eloquent and add plots and nuances to the great narratives the drums and bass dictate.
CInematig Crack CInema Program
Oh no... They are back!! The CCCP or Cinematig Crack Cinema Program! They will terrorise you once again with video compilations full of plain weird stuff. Forget eye aids, this will be a visual plague in a new variant. Television typhus on the big white screen. Call your mother off for your weekly session because you will spend two evenings staring at pixelpus on the BUTsquare.
Rey Ciso was once the greatest editor. Since a horrific accident left him with four wooden fingers on his right hand, he's had to resort to cutting pulp films and trash pictures. When the lead actors from the film he's been editing turn up murdered at the studio, Rey is fingered as the number one suspect. The bodies continue to pile up in this absurdist giallo-thriller.
Great film-about-film that seems tailor-made for our festival and will be presented in the presence of our special guest: actor par excellence Laurence R. Harvey!
There are no taboos in Pfaffenbichler’s 2551 movies. Reviving the original punk spirit of true independent filmmaking, Pfaffenbichler and his ingenious collaborators have concocted another marvel of no-budget ingenuity. BUT FF is glad to show the follow-up of the 2022 winner 2551.01
A parasitic fungus infects a family and creates visions and a higher state of consciousness but also confusion and disbelief.
Debut film by a young Austrian director who has an unique take on filmmaking and comes with an original folk horror story.
Daniel Limmer will be present to discuss his extraordinary view on filmmaking.
What the hell happened after a night of magic mushrooms?
