LBF

Fresh from its world premiere at SXSW, Alex Munt's highly-stylised 'pop art film' is based on the novel Living Between Fucks by Cry Bloxsome, from which it draws much of its scathingly funny voice-over narration. Paris-based writer Goodchild (Toby Schmitz) returns to Sydney for the funeral of his ex-girlfriend The Dead Girl (Gracie Otto) and steadily goes off the rails. He becomes entangled with The Beautiful Financial Backer (Bianca Chiminello), who commissions him to write The Love Enterprise - a piece of corporate branding masquerading as Beat poetry. Charged with this new task and a heady cocktail of booze and drugs, Goodchild lurches between parties interviewing people he encounters along the way. Andrew Soo's cadent editing style is rhythmically complemented by local bands that appear live in the film - Teenagers in Tokyo, Tennis (now Tortoiseshell), Fergus Brown - and contribute prominently to the soundtrack, together with Kids at Risk, whose frontman Septimus Caton plays Cash in the film.

Screens with Scenes from the Suburbs (12 June only)

Australian Premiere

Filmmaker Guests Alex Munt, Toby Schmitz, Gracie Otto

LBF screens as part of a special night of film and music partnering SFF and Vivid Creative Sydney on Friday 10 June at MCA. Visit the SFF & Creative Sydney event page for more details.