2009
Opening Night
Sita Sings the Blues
Nina Paley, 2008Beautifully realised and exploding with colour experience a truly unique love story...
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Duration: 120
Special Event Screenings
Animated Eruptions, Exultations and …
Various, 2008/2009Revelations essential celebration of animation showcases a variety of recent works ranging from hi-tech digital abstractions through to classic stop-motion...
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Duration: 75
Get Your Shorts On! - 2009
Various, 2008/2009Here's the best of new local short work funded by ScreenWest...
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Duration: 95
Late Night Wonders And Gothic Nightmares
Various, n/aEven amongst the underground Lisa Hammer’s films are utterly unique. Their underground sensibility echoes the no-budget grand visions...
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Duration: 80
Music Camera
Various, 1990-2009Twenty years of music video from Western Australia Curated by Cat Hope and Andrew Ewing...
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Duration: 90
Music For Silents
Various, VariousPerhaps best known for being a founding member of Siouxsie and the Banshees, Steven Severin has spent a life immersed in music...
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Duration: 70
Revel-8 Super 8 Competition
Various, 2009The most analogue of all film formats comes top life in this special Rev hosted competition...
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Duration: 105
San Francisco's Doomed
Danny Plotnick, VariousDanny Plotnick is one of the true pioneers of the DIY underground scene that emerged in the mayhem of the post punk '80s...
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Duration: 120
The General
Buster Keaton, 1926A New Soundtrack for Buster Keaton’s The General...
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Duration: 75
Features
A Festa de Menina Morta (The Dead Girl’s …
Matheus Nachtergaele, 2008Set in the heart of the Amazon, A Festa de Menina Morta tells the story of Santinho (an award winning performance from Daniel de Oliveira), an unlikely local...
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Duration: 115
Adventures of Power
Ari Gold, 2008Power is a young man with a true passion and calling: he is an air drummer. He can drum to all the rock classics and accompany all the greats as they blast …
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Duration: 89
Altamont Now
Joshua Von Brown, 2008It’s 1999 and the countdown has started. It’s the Altamont babies versus the Woodstock babies in this gleefully nihilistic feature...
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Duration: 80
Anywhere USA
Chusy Haney-Jardine, 2008“Proved to be one of the most moving experiences at the Sundance Film Festival. It reminds one of the joy of ...
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Duration: 107
Cigarette Girl
Mike McCarthy, 2009It’s 2035 and smokers are demonised for their dirty habit, forced into their own sleazy suburbs, known simply as...
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Duration: 90
Darklovestory
Jon Hewitt, 2009 (2006)Jon Hewitt, who recently impressed audiences with Acolytes (2008), strikes pay dirt again with this rapid paced Sydney noir...
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Duration: n/a
Dod Sno (Dead Snow)
Tommy Wirkola, 2009In true exploitation gore movie fashion Dead Snow plugs into the gleefully dubious pleasures of the gross-out blood splattered...
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Duration: 87
Good Dick
Marianna Palka, 2008A boy meets girl movie with a difference, focusing on two lonely twenty-somethings trying to come to terms with modern life...
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Duration: 86
Original
Alexander Brondsted / Antonio Tublen, 2009Despite having endured a strange and difficult outsider’s childhood, Henry has found himself a dull middle-management job turning down loan requests in a …
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Duration: 101
Sita Sings The Blues
Nina Paley, 2008A beautifully realised animated feature based on The Ramayana of Valmiki. Vividly stylised in bold, almost luminescent colours...
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Duration: 82
The Possibility of an Island (La …
Michel Houellebecq, 2008Controversial French novelist Houellebecq has written a string of cult books, included Atomised and Platform...
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Duration: 95
Van Diemen’s Land
Jonathan Auf Der Heide, 2009The brutal penal colony of Macquarie Harbour located in Tasmania was simply known as Hell’s Gates by those convicts unlucky enough...
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Duration: 104
Wake In Fright
Ted Kotcheff, 1971Often spoken about but rarely seen since it was first released in 1971 Wake In Fright is the neglected Australian classic...
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Duration: 114
Documentaries
American Swing
Jon Hart & Matthew Kauufman, 2008Back in the seventies, before gentrification, before crack, before AIDS, and after the sexual revolution, New York City was wide open. Forget the celebrities …
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Duration: 81
Chevolution
Luis Lopez & Trisha Ziff, 2008The revolution may not have been televised, but Che Guevara, one of its key advocates, was transformed into a pop icon that appeared on everything from …
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Duration: 86
Faubourg Treme: The Untold Story of Black …
Dawn Logsdon, 2008New Orleans has always been different from the rest of the American South, Faubourg Treme explains why...
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Duration: 57
FLicKeR
Nik Sheehan, 2007Brion Gysin was a magus, artist, writer and thinker. He lived in Tanger in the ‘50s before moving to Paris in the ‘60s where he lived at the legendary...
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Duration: 72
Iseta: Behind the Roadblock
Juan Reina, 2008A man is on his knees, filmed from a distance, he appears to be pleading for his life, his arms are raised in the air in a gesture of supplication...
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Duration: 55
La Santa Muerte (Saint Death)
Eva Aridjis, 2007Condemned by the mainstream Catholic Church as unwittingly beholden to the Satanic, the cult of Saint Death – a female grim reaper...
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Duration: 53
NYC Foetus
Clement Tuffreau, 2008Jim Thirlwell bailed from Melbourne in the late ‘70s, heading first to London then New York, to create his own unique music...
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Duration: 78
One Fast Move Or I’m Gone: Kerouac’s Big Sur
Curt Worden, 2008Jack Kerouac’s On The Road may have been his best known work, but for many the true Kerouac can be found in the pages of his 1961 novel Big Sur...
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Duration: 97
Soul Power
Jeffrey Levy-Hinte, 2008Everybody should be familiar with the legendary 1974 Muhammad Ali vs George Foreman fight popularly known as “The Rumble In T.
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Duration: 92
The End
Nicola Collins, 2008This absorbing documentary presents a series of vivid portraits of East London gangsters. Shot in stark black and white, the menace of the sharply dressed men..
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Duration: 81
The Matador
Stephen Higgins & Nina Gilden Seavey, 2008Young, beautiful and athletic, David Fandila - aka ‘El Fandi’ - is a young matador with a growing fan base. Since childhood, he has aspired to become a …
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Duration: 74
The Seventh Python
Burt Kearns & Brett Hudson, 2008Neil Innes was a founder member of the legendary British proto-psychedelic Dadaist group the Bonzo Dog Band, a long-term collaborator with Monty Python’s …
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Duration: 94
Three Hams In A Can
Kenta McGrath, 2009A documentary about the real Tokyo derive, three musicians - Chris Cobilis, Predrag Delibasic and Stina - travel to the floating world in order to perform …
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Duration: 79
We Are Wizards
Josh Koury, 2008While some evangelists and fundamentalists have condemned the Harry Potter books and movies for leading young readers to the dark side of the occult...
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Duration: 79
Welcome To North Korea
Linda Jablonska, 2009Welcome To North Korea follows a small touring party from the Czech Republic as they enter one of the most inaccessible countries...
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Duration: 76
Winnebago Man
Ben Steinbauer, 2009In the heady days of the ‘80s, long before the Internet and Youtube, fans of the oddball and bizarre would spend their spare time searching out strange...
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Duration: 89
Xaviera Hollander: The Happy Hooker
Robert Dunlap, 2008During the sexual liberation of the ‘60s and ‘70s, sex suddenly emerged as groovy, hip and, most importantly, in the public eye. Enter Xaviera Hollander...
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Duration: 68
Shorts
Carrot
Tom Salisbury, 2009Carrot has suffered a lifetime of bullying because ofhis shock of red hair, but there is always the chance of a promotion at work.
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Duration: 15min
Dirt and Desire
Diane Busuttil, 2008Seduction, sex and potatoes, is there any more to life? All set to a great score of wild accordion music.
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Duration: 8min
Do You Love Me Like I Love You
Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, 2009Musicians, journalists, fans and the odd Bad Seed discuss the making of one of the most loved of Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds albums.
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Duration: 30
Eskimo Kiss
Dustin Feneley, 2009As everybody should know, Eskimos kiss by rubbing noses. A subtle story about the nature of love.
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Duration: 10
Four
Erin White, 2009A perfectly realised tale of love in the Australia of the swinging seventies.
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Duration: 18min
Fugue
Jamie Helmer, 2009A husband loses everything, sending him on a bleak spiral, but a new friendship promises redemption.
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Duration: 49min
Golgota
Roman Rubert Bernat, 2008A darkly surrealistic examination of a failed marriage, an inept father, and an angry village.
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Duration: 25min
Henry Weston Smith
Tony Lawrence, 2008Weaving together nostalgic moods and images from the past of someone else, memories fade and decay like old celluloid in this experimental short.
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Duration: 5min
Jackie's Spring Palace
Matthew Phipps, 2009Shaun is a pirate with a fondness for spring rolls who succumbs to the all-you-can-eat menu.
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Duration: 7min
La Tuerca
Azul Melissa Martinez, 2009A young girl dreams of magic, despite her mother’s anger.
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Duration: 10min
New Orleans
Tony Lawrence, 2009Manipulated found footage of the golden age of Mardi Gras.
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Duration: 2min
Numurkah
Ryan Coonan, 2008On a desolate road deep in the bush, a pair of rural yahoos plan an insurance swindle — but other events conspire against them.
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Duration: 12min
Shockwaves
Serge Ou, 2009Talk radio hell in small town Australia, a powerful and confronting film.
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Duration: 18min
Small Change
Anna McGrath, 2007A lost tooth, an absent wife, and the importance of small change, a perfectly realised drama.
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Duration: 7min
The Coast
Marty O’Hare, 2009A haunted meditation on decay, fire, holidays and childhood memories.
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Duration: 8min
The Dangers
Siouxzi Mernagh, 2009A couple come to a strange hotel, searching for something intangible: danger.
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Duration: 18min
The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce
Michael James Rowland, 2009A study of the infamous penal colony escapee and cannibal Alexander Pearce based on the convicts confession.
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Duration: 58min
The Pistachio Effect
Nick Ball & Gus Johnston, 2009Bullshitting, screwing around, and sitting on the couch. A sideways glance at male friendships, marriage and the boredom of everyday.
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Duration: 7.5min
The Storymaker
Emma Rozanski, 2008A tale of literature, creativity, imagination, and endless mimesis set through a final day.
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Duration: 12min
'Til 3 Knocks
Noah Norton, 2008A father tries to protect his daughter from time, death and a mysterious stranger in this haunting outback gothic.
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Duration: 15min
Tira Bakals
Scott Wurth, 2008An absorbing documentary about the Santos family who recreate the crucifixion annually in the town of San Fernando in the Philippines.
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Duration: 25min