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, Tony Conrad, Amy Davis, Jon Moritsugu, Michael Snow, Mary Woronov, Holly Woodlawn, Jeff Perkins, Beth B, Richard Kern, Christina Lindberg, Tony Conrad, Lloyd Kaufman, Hisayasu Sato, Jello Biafra, Peaches Christ, Jean-Louis Costes, Elina Löwensohn, Peter Tscherkassky, VALIE export, Bruce La Bruce, Richard Tuohy, Wilhelm Hein, Crispin Glover, Khavn, Roland Lethem, Gérard Kikoïne, Jamil Dehlavi, Martha Colburn, Masashi Yamamoto, Ericka Beckman, Attila Janisch, Peggy Ahwesh, among 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, Keiji Haino, Tony Conrad, Terrine and others.