Over the last seventeen years, Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival (LUFF) has been going to great - but exciting - pains to rub its audiences the wrong way and to offer original and off-the-wall programming. LUFF’s objective is to fuse music and cinema together into a chemistry of weirdness, drawing from a wide range of avant-garde artists and innovative creations which in most cases have never before been seen in Switzerland.
Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival, which takes place in the Swiss Film Archives and other venues of Lausanne, Switzerland, is dedicated to showcase and promote innovative and subversive films and music that do not benefit from wide distribution.
In the course of its glorious history, LUFF has welcomed unmissable artists that broke the conventions of filmmaking.
Prestigious guests such as John Waters, Lydia Lunch, Amy Davis, Jon Moritsugu, Michael Snow, Mary Woronov, Holly Woodlawn, Jeff Perkins, Beth B, Richard Kern, Christina Lindberg, Lloyd Kaufman, Hisayasu Sato, Jello Biafra, Peaches Christ, Jean-Louis Costes, Elina Löwensohn, Peter Tscherkassky, Bruce La Bruce, Richard Tuohy, Wilhelm Hein, Valie Export, Crispin Glover, Khavn, Roland Lethem, Gérard Kikoïne, and others, enlightened the festival with their very own presence.
LUFF being both a film and a music festival, here are some amazing artists who performed on our stage: Merzbow, Sunn 0))), Lydia Lunch, Pansonic, Etant Donné, Kim Gordon, Brutal Truth, Alan Vega, Jazkamer, Morton Subotnick, Techno Animal, Hijokaidan, Incapacitants, Borbetomagus, JG Thirlwell, Maria Violenza, The Skull Defekts, Jason Lescalleet, Charlemagne Palestine, Jean-Jacques Perrey, Alan Licht and others.
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- Best feature film
- Best fiction short film
- Best animation short film
- Best experimental short film
- Best documentary short film
Prize money in all sections.
We select only 5 feature films. About 10 years ago, we decided to split the prize money of the feature film competition bet, so each selected film is awarded with USD800.-
The reason is that it felt legitimate to give money to every selected feature film. We don’t have much to offer, but even divided by five, this is always very welcome. Obviously, it is not possible to apply the same principle to the short films.