Hamilton Underground Film Festival

The 2008 event featured a live internet link to the Priorat region of Catalonia where the simultaneous 4th Hamilton Underground Film Festival was hosted by Oscar Hidalgo.

The aim of the multiple-use name Karen Karnak is to examine the space with surrounds the filmmaker and to create visual work from the emptiness or more accurately the Shunyata.

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) MICHELLE SAVILL – former WINTEC student presents her film ‘Martin and Snakes go to the Zoo’ fresh from the New York International Independent Film Festival.

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.

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.

OKOK SOCIETY – A selection of scenes by mysterious film and sound Kaosmagician Mark Reeve sent directly to us from his base in Wales.

Poster Design by Emit Snake-Beings for the 2009 HUFF
Poster Design by Emit Snake-Beings for the 2008 HUFF