A major figure in Californian counter-culture, Craig Baldwin has been producing films for over 25 years, working exclusively with cannibalized, stolen and re-appropriated images. With great mastery, he edits together clashing elements from real documentaries and both likely and absurd fictions to recompose an alternative and perverted History of America’s myths and culture. [Official website]

Handbook to the Perversion of Cinema - Workshop

Stephen Dwoskin discovered experimental cinema in the New York underground scene in 1961, and went on to work in London. Focussed on his first 20 years of activity, this program presents different forms of confrontation between the camera and its subjects. [Official website]

Stephen Thrower, formerly a member of Coil and today active with Cyclobe, is also a deviant cinema fan. He will come to share his passion with a selection of five rare and wonderfully offbeat films crossing the gap between Euro-trash and American Exploitation cinema.

A small selection of crappy and irreverent films, where moral and ethics are often banished for the benefit of brilliantly awful flood.

Kuzoku is a small group of independent Japanese filmmakers who strive to produce and distribute films across Japan regardless of commercial imperatives. Our friends from the Tokyo cinema Uplink have selected some of their best first works. [Official website]

Image forum, one of Japan’s biggest names in avant-garde cinema, will present a selection of pop-style shorts together with the work of Takashi Ito, a major experimental artist. [Official website]

This new genre in pornographic cinema develops an androgynous universe in which the figures of dominant and dominated blur together in a dark and fetishist atmosphere where ropes and whips become instruments of a delightful erotic poetry. [Official website]

V.Vale and Marian Wallace have been documenting events, interviews, concerts and performances in the industrial scene for 30 years through their fanzine RE/Search. They have put together and will premiere two screenings of unreleased films selected from their VHS archive material. [Official website]

2011 - Swiss Premiere

Under this banner – a reference to the Pigalle Grand Guignol Theater in Paris – Severin Films (US) and Métaluna (FR) have gathered together seven cult directors for a stylish, gory, disturbing, and memorable film. A festival in itself, this is the perfect closing for the LUFF’s 10th edition.

Closing Film - The Theatre Bizarre: Saturday Oct. 22nd, 8.15pm, Salle Paderewski, Cinémathèque suisse