2011
Opening Night
Fire In Babylon
Stevan Riley, 2010Nothing you expect but everything you want, this fascinating documentary reveals the story behind the most successful cricket team of all time.
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Duration: 87mins
Special Event Screenings
Animation Showcase
Various, 2010Australia's best animation over the last year comes together in this great selection that ranges from rock and roll to sublime experimental
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Duration: 75mins
Celebrating the Chicago Underground Film …
Various, VariousOne of the most influential independent film festivals comes to Australia in fine style with this classic collection of shorts
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Duration: 120mins
Drive In Nightmares!
Cuator: Richard Kuipers, VariousA rare screening of The Living Dead At the Manchester Morgue aka Let Sleeping Corpses Lie, Jorge Grau’s 1974 zombie shocker.
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Duration: 120mins
Flusser’s Death Rattle
Dirk de Bruyn, VariousOne of Australia's best known experimental filmmakers comes to Perth with his own brand of
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Duration: 40mins
Get Your Shorts On!
Various, 2010-11The best in local short films in one of our most popular programs every year.
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Duration: 120mins
Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then
Brent Green, 2010This dreamlike film tells a haunting tale of love, faith, exquisite melancholy and the possibility of hope.
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Duration: 75mins
Heaven and Earth and Joe Davis
Peter Sasowsky, 2011Art and science fuse in Joe Davis' work; whether creating a genetically modified apple designed to tempt the Devil or encoding Greek philosophy into fly DNA.
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Duration: 90mins
Komaneko: The Curious Cat
Tsuneo Goda, 2006One of the most beautifully realised children’s features we’ve seen, this animated feature follows Komaneko a cat who wants to make an animated movie
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Duration: 60mins
LBF
Alex C Munt, 2011Derived from a Perth penned story, first time director Munt crafts a classic tale of sex, nihilism and urban summer heat, with a great cast of emerging talent
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Duration: 65mins
London Short Film Festival
Various, VariousExperience some of the best short films from the UK produced over the last year.
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Duration: 100mins
Revel-8
Various, 2011Local filmmakers meet local musicians head to head in our very own Super-8 competition
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Duration: 100mins
Secret Members Screening!
Who knows!, Your guess is as good as mine!It's on again and free for members and special guests. Why make it hard - just become a member.
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Duration: Until it ends
Soda_Jerk vs Tony Lawrence
Soda_Jerk and Tony Lawrence, 2011Duelling experiments in moving image as only these internationally recognised artists can deliver..
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Duration: 90mins
Features
All My Friends are Funeral Singers
Tim Rutili, 2010A unique and strange American gothic tale that focuses on the life of psychic Zel (Angela Bettis), a fortune teller who lives in a large ghost filled house.
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Duration: 84mins
Charlie Casanova
Terry McMahon, 2010With his genius level IQ and resentful middle class values, Charlie Casanova is a sociopath, exactly how far he’s willing to go, nobody is sure.
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Duration: 90mins
Eye of the Sandman
MT Cozzola, Jeffrey McHale, Dennis Belogorsky, 2010Late Nite: When beautiful one-eyed Natalie inherits a remote mansion from the will of an unknown relative, she doesn’t expect there to be a mysterious stranger.
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Duration: 74mins
Hobo With a Shotgun
Jason Eisener, 2011Late Nite: Cult legend Rutger Hauer stars as the titular hobo who finds himself singlehandedly cleaning up the crime ridden streets of a nameless town.
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Duration: 86mins
Kill List
Ben Wheatley, 2011Late Nite: Prolific director Ben Wheatley is back with this bleak thriller- come-suitably-unsettling horror movie
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Duration: 92mins
Mars
Geoff Marslett, 2010This beautifully realised rotoscope animated feature follows a trio of NASA astronauts as they travel to Mars on the first manned mission to the Red Planet.
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Duration: 90mins
Meek's Cutoff
Kelly Reichardt, 2010A short-cut through the remote plains turns into a life or death ordeal for a group of pilgrims in this acclaimed new kind of Western
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Duration: 104mins
Outrage (AutoReiji)
Takeshi Kitano (Beat Takeshi), 2010When too much gunplay is never enough, along comes Kitano in this blazing tale of Yakuza revenge that simply does not quit.
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Duration: 109mins
Radio Free Albemuth
John Alan Simon, 2010This adaptation of the Phillip K Dick story (Blade Runner) is set in an America that has become a dystopian police state.
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Duration: 118mins
Small Town Murder Songs
Ed Gass-Donnelly, 2010The darkly gothic tale of Walter, a middle aged, deeply religious policeman with a secret past, investigating the mysterious death of a woman.
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Duration: 75mins
Submarine
Richard Ayoade, 2010Oddball 15 year old romantic Oliver Tate wants to lose his virginity. But he has other problems; his father (Noah Taylor) appears to be depressed and his mother
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Duration: 97mins
Troll Hunter (Trolljegeren)
André Øvredal, 2010A group of film students filming a bear hunter travel to the Norwegian wilderness but what they discover is far stranger, scarier and exciting.
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Duration: 90mins
Tyrannosaur
Paddy Considine, 2011The universally acclaimed, multi-award winning, directorial debut from Paddy Considine tells the raw story of Joseph & Hannah & their chance for redemption.
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Duration: 91mins
Vacation!
Zach Clark, 2010Four girlfriends from college reunite for a week in Zach Clark’s latest movie, playing in part as a high-velocity homage to beach party films with a twist,
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Duration: 92mins
Vampires
Vincent Lannoo, 2010Late Nite: Mixing a thorough understanding of vampire mythology with a dark commentary on modern society, Vampires is a bloody black mockumentary.
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Duration: 88mins
Documentaries
Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye
Marie Losier, 2011Genesis P-Orridge and his creative partner and wife Lady Jaye explore their work, relationship and plan to use cosmetic surgery as
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Duration: 72mins
Bear Nation
Malcolm Ingram, 2010Bears don't just live in the forest. Explore the fascinating world larege hair men in gay subculture
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Duration: 82mins
Dragonslayer
Tristan Patterson, 2011Empty abandoned swimming pools, suburban streets and parking lots form the backdrop to brilliant look at loser skateboarder Josh Sandoval.
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Duration: 74mins
Fire in Babylon
Stevan Riley, 2010Nothing you expect but everything you want, this is the amazing story of the rise and rise of the West Indies cricket team
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Duration: 83mins
Grant Morrison: Talking With Gods
Patrick Meaney, 2010Explore the always surprising world of legendary comic book writer Grant Morrison.
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Duration: 80mins
HN Hermann Nitsch
Daniela Ambrosoli, 2009Viennese artist Hermann Nitsch created performance art events that examined ritual, psychology and humanity.
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Duration: 62mins
Last Days Here
Don Argott & Demian Fenton, 2011You can't go wrong with this mix of rags to riches, fly on the wall, rock and roll and no holds barred documentary
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Duration: 90mins
Matchmaking Mayor (Nesvatbov)
Erika Hníková, 2010In a village in the Czech Republic, the mayor is a very worried man - there's too many drunks and, worse, too many single people in their thirties.
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Duration: 80mins
Of Dolls And Murder
Susan Marks, 2010Explore these roots of forensic policing and CSI from the 30s to now in this fascinating work.
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Duration: 70mins
Scrappers
Brian Ashby, Ben Kolak & Courtney Prokopas, 2010As if scrounging fro scrap to support your family wasn't hard enough, the GFC, crackdown on illegal immigrants and stolen copper make it just that bit harder
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Duration: 90mins
Secrets of the Tribe
José Padilha, 2010A remote Amazonian tribe have been the source of numerous anthropological studies since the 1960s. But the studies may say more about us than them.
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Duration: 110mins
Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure
Matthew Bate, 2011Two friends who have tape-recorded their neighbours fighting release the tapes to the world and they become a cult item eventually transcribed for comedy.
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Duration: 85mins
Sound it Out
Jeanie Finlay, 2011A documentary with a truly human heart that understands the essential nature of records and music in all of our lives.
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Duration: 75mins
The Advocate For Fagdom
Angelique Bosio, 2011Infamous director Bruce LaBruce gets another moment in the sun through the eyes of his friends, associates and sequences from his own works.
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Duration: 91mins
The Redemption of General Butt Naked
Daniele Anastasion & Eric Strauss, 2011Liberian warlord Joshua Milton Blahyi (aka General Butt Naked) who admits to thousands of deahs returns as a born again Christian
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Duration: 85mins
William S Burroughs: A Man Within
Yony Leyser, 2010Examining the life of cult author, artist and beat icon William Burroughs, this film unearths numerous previously unseen archival films.
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Duration: 74mins
Shorts
Augustine Confessions
Giovanni Lorusso, 2011A meditation on the nature of time.
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Duration: 5:16mins
Everything is Super
Gareth Davis, 2010A call centre worker gets an unexpected phone call.
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Duration: 14mins
On Her Shoulders
Caro MacDonald, Kylie Plunkett, Poppy Smith, 12minsA very nicely put together look at the role of feminist activism through the 70s
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Duration: 2011
Rakkas
Asuman Ozgonul, 2010A biographical portrait of an unusual belly dancer.
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Duration: 7:48mins
Salome’s Picnic
Victoria Waghorn, 2010A sexy yet gruesome snapshot of an unfolding scene between two lovers at a picnic.
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Duration: 1:20mins
So Long, Kodachrome
Jim Granato, 2010A quest for the long sought film.
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Duration: 7mins
The Burning Wigs of Sedition
Anna Fitch & Simon Cheffins, 2010A libertine’s voyage, a brass ensemble and revolution!
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Duration: 9:22mins
The Hydey
Lindsay Hallam, 2010A loving portrait of a local treasure.
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Duration: 7mins
The Kiss
Ashlee Page, 2011A hot summer night and the possibility of a cooling swim seems like a really good idea, but don't get in over your head!
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Duration: 15mins
The Stranger
Rodd Rathjen, 2010Inappropriate behaviour costs nothing, but boy can it be a hassle.
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Duration: 10mins
The Telegram Man
James F Khehtie, 2010A small town tale of friendship and isolation.
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Duration: 14mins
Via Gori
George Barbakadze, 2010In Georgia, everyone's trying to escape civil war and each will do it in their own way
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Duration: 13mins
Waiting for Gorgo
Benjamin Craig, 2010Ever get the feeling that your boss doesn't really know what you do - or even exist?
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Duration: 18mins
Wild Planet (Redux)
Brendan Young, 2011A remastered version of this long lost Ozzie cult sci-fi nugget. An absolute must see.
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Duration: 28mins
Discussion and Debate
In Conversation with David Stratton, …
David, Margaret and Richard, 2011Our favourite film critics talk, argue and discuss as only they can
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Duration: 90mins
Making a Feature Film for $10,000
Stefan Popescu & Katherine Berger, 2011Join Stefan Popescu and Katherine Berger (Nude Study), as they share what they have learnt by making a trio of feature films on a micro budget.
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Duration: 90mins
Plunderphonics and Beyond
Soda-Jerk & Tony Lawrence, 2011Explore the issues that inform remix, mash-up, found footage and plunderphonics filmmaking
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Duration: 90mins
Screenwriting and Adaption For Cinema
John Alan Simon, 2011John Alan Simon presents a talk on the processes behind screen adaptions.
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Duration: 120mins
State of Independents 2
International guests, 2011Our international guests discuss the state of independent filmmaking in 2011
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Duration: 75mins