Woof? Wuff? No matter which way you pronounce its acronymized moniker, the Winnipeg Underground Film Festival (WUFF) runs at the Dave Barber Cinematheque from Thursday to Sunday. Read this article for free: Already have an account? To continue reading, please subscribe: * Woof? Wuff? No matter which way you pronounce its acronymized moniker, the Winnipeg Underground Film Festival (WUFF) runs at the Dave Barber Cinematheque from Thursday to Sunday. Read unlimited articles for free today: Already have an account? Woof? Wuff? No matter which way you pronounce its acronymized moniker, the Winnipeg Underground Film Festival (WUFF) runs at the Dave Barber Cinematheque from Thursday to Sunday.
The festival, a project of a collective called Open City Cinema, is a sprawling showcase for contemporary experimental film and video, bringing strange, gritty, surprising and poetic pieces of media to the big screen that otherwise might never be seen by an audience. If you haven’t heard of it, festival co-directors Madeline Bogoch and Scott Fitzpatrick invite you to get acquainted, and to resist being frightened by the underground label. SUPPLIED Anhell69 closes the festival Sunday.
“The baggage of the word ‘underground’ comes up a lot when we talk to people about the festival, and one of the ways that we describe it is that it’s more like an ethos than a genre,” says Bogoch, the distribution co-ordinator at Video Pool Media Arts Centre. “There are a lot of festivals that use th.