Celebrating 30 years of Tom DiCillo’s Living in Oblivion (1995), Sydney Underground Film Festival 2025 presents a special Movie Bingo screening of this sharp, surreal satire of indie filmmaking gone hilariously off the rails. Starring Steve Buscemi as Nick Rave, a director desperately trying to hold his low-budget movie together as everything around him falls apart, Living in Oblivion is a genuine masterpiece, a masterclass of observational mayhem, megalomania and making movies. A cult classic, LIVING IN OBLIVION is not to be missed.
Closing Night presents the Australian Premiere of the award-winning Fucktoys (2025) with special post-screening Q&A from director/writer Annapurna Sriram, a candy- coated descent into chaos that proves sexploita-on can have heart, glamour, and soul while still being totally unhinged. Shot on lush 16mm soaked in pastel grit, Fucktoys re-imagines the Tarot’s Major Arcana through the cursed journey of AP, played by Sriram a sweetly naïve hustler in search of salvation. Told she must sacrifice a baby lamb and cough up $1000 to lift a spiritual hex, AP hits the streets of ‘Trashtown’ on her scooter, diving headfirst into a seedy and absurd underworld of debauchery and spiritual desperation.
Fucktoys unfolds like Barbie on barbiturates, a soft porn corn, explicit to a point, stimulating to a degree, and OTT to the max.
Al Pacino’s daughter, Julie, makes her feature directorial debut with I Live Here Now, a David Lynch knock-off made all the more sycophantic with the casting of Sheryl Lee. Obstetric surgery, sexual trauma and unexpected pregnancy sends Lucy Fry’s Rose into a nightmare scenario where the boundaries between reality and recollection become blurred in a muddied narrative of veiled entitlement and misogyny.
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19th Annual Sydney Underground Film Festival
Dates: Thursday 11th – Sunday 14th September Dendy Newtown
