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Even Mice Belong In Heaven
Even Mice Belong In Heaven
Directed by Jan Bubenicek and Denisa Grimmova. A film about two mortal enemies - a little mouse Whizzy and Whitebelly the fox, who after an unfortunate accident, meet in animal heaven where they lose their natural instincts and become best friends.
International Family Animation Explosion
International Family Animation Explosion
A specially curated collection of international short animations that are perfect for all ages – including those who have never been to the movies before. These wonderful films come from the four corners of the globe from Singapore to Portugal, to New Zealand to the UK. Experience some lovely work in the universal language of animation.
Killing The Eunuch Khan
Killing The Eunuch Khan
Directed by Abed Abest. A visually stunning narrative from Iran, a truly powerful exploration of war, family, and crime, for anyone interested in the possibilities of cinema this is essential viewing.
Sissy
Sissy
Directed by Hannah Barlow and Kane Senes. Wellness and self-care influencer Cecilia runs into her former best friend Emma at the supermarket, rapidly reigniting their friendship. And then Cecilia goes to Emma’s bachelorette weekend… where she meets her former school bully. What follows is an astute, smart, and occasionally jaw-dropping, horror-thriller about remote locations, youthful transgressions, and influencers…
Q&A: Hatchback
Q&A: Hatchback
An after-film talk with director Riley Sugars, producer Anthony Littlechild, and executive producer Darren Collinson, hosted by Richard Sowada
Q&A: Sissy
Q&A: Sissy
An after-film talk with co-director/writer/lead actor Hannah Barlow, co-director/writer Kane Senes, producer Lisa Shaunessy and executive producer Alexandra Burke, and cast member Emily De Margheriti (WAAPA graduate). Hosted by Richard Sowada.
Terra Femme
Terra Femme
Directed by Courtney Stephens. Using archive footage and home movies, Terra Femme examines the history and experiences of women travellers.
9 events,
Kaepernick and America
Kaepernick and America
Directed by Tommy Walker and Ross Hockro. In late 2016, as a response to the police killings of African Americans, Colin Kapernick, quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, refused to stand during the national anthem, instead choosing to kneel.Telling the sportsman’s story, Kaepernick and America is a necessary, sobering and authentic film filled with hard emotions, hard decisions and individual truths.
Dreaming Walls: Inside The Chelsea Hotel
Dreaming Walls: Inside The Chelsea Hotel
Directed by Amélie van Elmbt and Maya Duverdier. New York’s Chelsea Hotel is legendary. Exploring the hotel and following the few remaining residents, the ghosts of the past and the changes coming, Dreaming Walls is a quiet, impressionistic documentary in and around one of the most iconic buildings in art, music and popular culture.
Navalny
Navalny
Directed by Daniel Roher. With the pacing and power of a political thriller, Roher’s perfectly pitched documentary switches between fly-on-the-wall observation to in-depth interviews with the subject and those around him, creating a fascinating portrait of Navalny, producing a documentary that (as I write these words) is exceptional and timely.
Flux Gourmet
Flux Gourmet
Directed by Peter Strickland. A surreal infused tale of sound, music, and food, Strickland’s latest feature unfolds in the halls of a rural artistic institute, as a trio of musicians explore food, sounds and performance under the gaze of the institute’s director, a journalist and a doctor.
After Blue
After Blue
Directed by Bertrand Mandico. Set in a distant world, where only women can survive After Blue is an off-kilter quasi-psychedelic science fiction western adventure like nothing you’ve ever seen.
16 events,
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Westralia Day 2022
Westralia Day 2022
Special Event / 2022 /
A showcase of Western Australian made screen productions at The Backlot Perth.
Make Me Famous
Make Me Famous
Directed by Brian Vincent. The eighties NYC art scene was a place where anything went, the Lower East Side was a hot bed of creative energy. Make Me Famous explores this scene, but rather than focusing on the era’s more famous figures like Basquait, Keith Haring, and David Wojnarowicz, it tells the story of unknown expressionist painter Edward Brezinski.
Experimental Shorts: Space, Place, Nature and Culture
Experimental Shorts: Space, Place, Nature and Culture
Special Events / 2022 / 66 min
From visual and aural loops, cut-ups, media manipulations and found footage to technical exploration, home printing, and all points in between, a selection of experiments in cinema and visual/audio media. Themes of rhythm, music, movement, location, nature, culture, and the performance of the social ripple through this selection of short experimental works.
The Passengers of The Night
The Passengers of The Night
Directed by Mikhaël Hers. It’s 1981 and newly separated Elisabeth (Charlotte Gainsbourg) is having trouble sleeping, she’s running low on money and has two teenage children to care for.
Hole In The Head
Hole In The Head
Directed by Dean Kavanagh. The film combines drama, comedy and experimentation in telling the story of John Kline Jr, a mute projectionist whose parents vanished twenty-five years earlier.
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Namarali
Namarali
Feature Documentary / 2021 / Australia / 52min / Directed by Tim Mummery
In Namarali, filmmaker Tim Mummery, follows artist Donny (Yorna) Woolagoodja as he pursues his connections to culture and the Wandjina – creator beings – whose images can be seen in caves and rock ledges in the Kimberly.
A Delicate Fire
A Delicate Fire
Directed by Constantine Costi. A visual and aural feast, A Delicate Fire combines the spectacle of cinema and the power of opera to create a work that pays homage to 17th century composer Barbara Strozzi.
Luzifer
Luzifer
Directed by Peter Brunner. On a rural mountainside, a mother and son carve out an ascetic existence far removed from everyday convention. And then, one day, a drone emerges, hovering over their small farmhouse. Combining elements of psychological horror and drama, with a rich arthouse sensibility, Luzifer is a must see for anyone interested in existential fears and nightmares.
Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck In Time
Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck In Time
Directed by Robert B Weide and Dan Argott. Legendary author Kurt Vonnegut - the writer behind cult classics Cats Cradle and Slaughterhouse 5 - is the subject of this absorbing biopic, which paints a fascinating picture of its subject.
Where is Anne Frank?
Where is Anne Frank?
Directed by Ari Folman. A beautifully realised animated feature that explores Anne Frank’s life, her diary, and her legacy.
In The Court of The Crimson King
In The Court of The Crimson King
Directed by Toby Amies, In his latest documentary filmmaker Toby Amies (The Man Whose Mind Exploded) turns his attention to the legendary prog-rock band King Crimson, documenting the group on their 50th-anniversary tour.
The Humans
The Humans
Feature Narrative / 2021 / USA / 108 min / Directed by Stephen Karam
Brigid and Richard have moved into a rundown Manhattan duplex. Before they’ve had time to settle, Brigid’s family visit for Thanksgiving.
Conversations, tensions, dramas slowly emerge, and all around them the duplex creeks, the very walls seem to echo with inexplicable sounds.
Adapted from his Tony Award winning theatrical production, Karam’s film is a masterpiece in tensions, deftly adding a cinematic quality to the unfolding psychological drama.
Freaks Out
Freaks Out
Directed by Gabriele Mainetti. As a small troupe of circus performers find themselves embroiled in the ever-expanding battle front of WW2 in Europe, a singular battle for the future of civilisation emerges in this sprawling big-screen fantasy.
Paris Is In Harlem
Paris Is In Harlem
Directed by Christina Kallas. Paris Is In Harlem may be one of the best New York movies of recent years, its narrative weaves through situations and characters, that unfold with rare power and authenticity. Creating a vivid portrait of the city on the day the no dancing law was repealed in 2017, the ensemble cast, tight narrative, and naturalistic filmmaking create a beautifully realised film that feels truly alive.
20 events,
Even Mice Belong In Heaven
Even Mice Belong In Heaven
Directed by Jan Bubenicek and Denisa Grimmova. A film about two mortal enemies - a little mouse Whizzy and Whitebelly the fox, who after an unfortunate accident, meet in animal heaven where they lose their natural instincts and become best friends.
Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck In Time
Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck In Time
Feature Documentary / 2021 / USA / 127 min / Directed by Robert B Weide and Dan Argott
Legendary author Kurt Vonnegut - the writer behind cult classics Cats Cradle and Slaughterhouse 5 - is the subject of this absorbing biopic, which paints a fascinating picture of its subject.
Sirens
Sirens
Directed by Rita Baghdadi. Sirens tells the story of Beirut based musicians Lilas and Shery and their band Slave to Sorens. With their brand of thrash, the group are the Middle East’s first all-women metal band, and Rita Baghdadi’s film tells the story of the women’s friendship and the band all against the backdrop of a conservative country undergoing political turmoil.
Terra Femme
Terra Femme
Directed by Courtney Stephens. Using archive footage and home movies, Terra Femme examines the history and experiences of women travellers.
The Assassination and Mrs Paine
The Assassination and Mrs Paine
Directed by Max Good. Marina Oswald and her children lived in Ruth Paine’s house in the months prior to the assassination of the president in November 1963. Ruth Paine helped provide key evidence against Lee Harvey Oswald and answered more than 5000 questions for the Warren Commission. Now 84 years old, Paine enjoys life in a retirement community, but she is also one of the few surviving witnesses and a target for researchers into the assassination.
Q&A: Slaughterhouse-Five
Q&A: Slaughterhouse-Five
Join us for a Q&A about Slaughterhouse-Five with the Book-To-Film At The Backlot team.
Slaughterhouse-Five
Slaughterhouse-Five
Directed by George Roy Hill. Adapted from Kurt Vonnegut’s cult novel, Slaughterhouse-Five premiered at Cannes and won the Jury Prize.
A Life On The Farm
A Life On The Farm
Directed by Oscar Harding. When Oscar Harding’s grandfather passed away, Oscar’s family inherited a strange video tape made by farmer Charles Carson. Intrigued by this strange VHS tape, titled A Life on the Farm, Harding sets out to unravel the mystery of the video described as “Monty Python meets The Texas Chainsaw Massacre”…
Navalny
Navalny
Feature Documentary/2022/USA/98min/Directed by Daniel Roher
With the pacing and power of a political thriller, Roher’s perfectly pitched documentary switches between fly-on-the-wall observation to in-depth interviews with the subject and those around him, creating a fascinating portrait of Navalny, producing a documentary which (as I write these words) is exceptional and timely.
Raw! Uncut! Video!
Raw! Uncut! Video!
Directed by Ryan A White and Alex Clausen. Documenting the gay porn studio Palm Drive Video, Raw! Uncut! Video! tells the story of the safe-sex studio based in a Californian ranch that created safe sex-focused porn during the early years of the AIDS pandemic. Along the way, we’re treated to a wild and no holds barred ride through the extremities of gay porn of the period.
Different Voices: Three Short Documentaries
Different Voices: Three Short Documentaries
A trio of powerful documentaries that tell human stories in radically different ways, each of these works reveals the possibilities of the medium for sharing our stories and connecting us all.
Music and Storytelling
Music and Storytelling
A lecture that will explore both the creative process of film scoring and its rich history, hosted by Kenneth Lampl
Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters
Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters
Directed by Jim Demonakos and Kevin Konrad Hanna. When comic book creator Mike Mignola created Hellboy, he unleashed a visionary comic book character and launched an entire universe populated by unique heroes and creatures, misfits and monsters. Demonakos and Hanna’s documentary takes the viewer into the world of the artist, tracing Mignola’s creative practice and biography.
Kaepernick and America
Kaepernick and America
Feature Documentary / 2022 / USA / 82 min / Directed by Tommy Walker and Ross Hockro
In late 2016, as a response to the police killings of African Americans, Colin Kapernick, quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, refused to stand during the national anthem, instead choosing to kneel.Telling the sportsman’s story, Kaepernick and America is a necessary, sobering and authentic film filled with hard emotions, hard decisions and individual truths.
International Family Animation Explosion
International Family Animation Explosion
A specially curated collection of international short animations that are perfect for all ages – including those who have never been to the movies before. These wonderful films come from the four corners of the globe from Singapore to Portugal, to New Zealand to the UK. Experience some lovely work in the universal language of animation.
Experimental Shorts: Changing Perspectives
Experimental Shorts: Changing Perspectives
Special Events / 2022 / 72 min
A selection of films that offer meditations on the nature of storytelling and the structure of narrative, exploring movement and form both within and beyond the frame, and new forms of meaning of cinema.
From The Haunted to The Darkness
From The Haunted to The Darkness
Some of the best gothic and horror short films of the year – from the classic gothic themes of the forbidden to the echoes of uncanny environments via more recent fears of possible futures and the claustrophobia of contemporary evil. Please note some of these films feature flashing lights.
8 events,
Different Voices: Three Short Documentaries
Different Voices: Three Short Documentaries
A trio of powerful documentaries that tell human stories in radically different ways, each of these works reveals the possibilities of the medium for sharing our stories and connecting us all.
Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters
Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters
Directed by Jim Demonakos and Kevin Konrad Hanna. When comic book creator Mike Mignola created Hellboy, he unleashed a visionary comic book character and launched an entire universe populated by unique heroes and creatures, misfits and monsters. Demonakos and Hanna’s documentary takes the viewer into the world of the artist, tracing Mignola’s creative practice and biography.
Dreaming Walls: Inside The Chelsea Hotel
Dreaming Walls: Inside The Chelsea Hotel
Feature Documentary / 2021 / Belgium, France, The Netherlands, Sweden / 80min / Directed by Amélie van Elmbt & Maya Duverdier
New York’s Chelsea Hotel is legendary. Exploring the hotel and following the few remaining residents, the ghosts of the past and the changes coming, Dreaming Walls is a quiet, impressionistic documentary in and around one of the most iconic buildings in art, music and popular culture.
Decibel
Decibel
Performed by Decibel New Music Ensemble. Decibel New Music Ensemble, like many other ensembles and art organisations, had its activity for 2020 cancelled. 2 Minutes from Home is what they did instead - commissioning two-minute works from artists they have worked with in the past – one work per fortnight from July to December 2020.
Saint Narcisse
Saint Narcisse
Directed by Bruce LaBruce. Oozing with 70s aesthetic and LaBruce’s trademark fascination with B-cinema, this cracking addition to his oeuvre is described by The Guardian as “a sluttily sacrilegious story of incest, witches and wayward monks” and...well…that sums it up pretty well.
Truth, Lies and All Besides
Truth, Lies and All Besides
A selection of short dramatic films that explore the complexities of the human condition, the choices we face, the decisions we make, and the shifting changes that mark all of our lives. Poignant, moving, evocative, and human, these films reveal the storytelling power of the short film to affect the audience.
10 events,
Saint Narcisse
Saint Narcisse
Directed by Bruce LaBruce. Oozing with 70s aesthetic and LaBruce’s trademark fascination with B-cinema, this cracking addition to his oeuvre is described by The Guardian as “a sluttily sacrilegious story of incest, witches and wayward monks” and...well…that sums it up pretty well.
A House Made of Splinters
A House Made of Splinters
Directed by Simon Lereng Wilmont. Winner of Sundance’s World Cinema Documentary Best Director Prize, Thessaloniki Documentary Festival’s Golden Alexander and FIORSCI award, and Best Nordic Documentary Gotenburg Film Festival, A House Made of Splinters is an observational documentary filmed in a children’s home in the Eastern Ukraine.
A House Made of Splinters
A House Made of Splinters
Feature Documentary / 2022 / Denmark, Ukraine, Sweden / 86 min / Directed by Simon Lereng Wilmont
Winner of Sundance’s World Cinema Documentary Best Director Prize, Thessaloniki Documentary Festival’s Golden Alexander and FIORSCI award, and Best Nordic Documentary Gotenburg Film Festival, A House Made of Splinters is an observational documentary filmed in a children’s home in the Eastern Ukraine.
Q&A: A Pencil To The Jugular
Q&A: A Pencil To The Jugular
An after-film talk with Matthew Victor Pastor and Evangeline Lee, hosted by Andrew F Pierce of The Curb.
A Pencil To The Jugular
A Pencil To The Jugular
Directed by Matthew Victor Pastor. The film takes the audience through the empty streets of Melbourne and into apartments, creating psychogeography of the pandemic city and its inhabitants as their lives fall apart.
WA Day 1: Fierce Encounters And Fever Dreams
WA Day 1: Fierce Encounters And Fever Dreams
Special Event / 2022 /
A showcase of Western Australian made screen productions
Cherubhead
Cherubhead
Directed by Sarah Legg. An ambitious debut feature from nineteen-year-old Legg, Cherubhead tells the story of a trio of young women staying in the holiday home of socialite Marie Annette who wants to adopt teenager Ellie.
Raw! Uncut! Video!
Raw! Uncut! Video!
Directed by Ryan A White and Alex Clausen. Documenting the gay porn studio Palm Drive Video, Raw! Uncut! Video! tells the story of the safe-sex studio based in a Californian ranch that created safe sex-focused porn during the early years of the AIDS pandemic. Along the way, we’re treated to a wild and no holds barred ride through the extremities of gay porn of the period.
10 events,
Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck In Time
Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck In Time
Feature Documentary / 2021 / USA / 127 min / Directed by Robert B Weide and Dan Argott
Legendary author Kurt Vonnegut - the writer behind cult classics Cats Cradle and Slaughterhouse 5 - is the subject of this absorbing biopic, which paints a fascinating picture of its subject.
The Humans
The Humans
Feature Narrative / 2021 / USA / 108 min / Directed by Stephen Karam
Brigid and Richard have moved into a rundown Manhattan duplex. Before they’ve had time to settle, Brigid’s family visit for Thanksgiving.
Conversations, tensions, dramas slowly emerge, and all around them the duplex creeks, the very walls seem to echo with inexplicable sounds.
Adapted from his Tony Award winning theatrical production, Karam’s film is a masterpiece in tensions, deftly adding a cinematic quality to the unfolding psychological drama.
Heavens Above (Nebesa)
Heavens Above (Nebesa)
Directed by Srdjan Dragojevic. We love magical realism and fly that flag rather high year to year – and 2022 is no exception with several titles that take the bold step into the wilder sides of the imaginative experience. Heavens Above is one such title that not only bends expectation but film form.
The Lonely Spirits Variety Hour
The Lonely Spirits Variety Hour
Directed by Platon Theodoris. In a suburban garage, Neville Umbrellaman spends his evenings presenting his own radio show, broadcasting to the local community where Neville and his strange guests ruminate on all manner of topics, people perform, and events unfold. Meanwhile, elsewhere, another world slowly unfolds.
Navalny
Navalny
Directed by Daniel Roher. With the pacing and power of a political thriller, Roher’s perfectly pitched documentary switches between fly-on-the-wall observation to in-depth interviews with the subject and those around him, creating a fascinating portrait of Navalny, producing a documentary that (as I write these words) is exceptional and timely.
While You Sleep
While You Sleep
Creative Directors Sal Cooper and Kate Neal. An aural and visual excursion into both the musical fugue and the psychological ‘fugue state’, While You Sleep unites string quartet, piano, electronics, video and animation in a surreal counterpoint of music, movement and image where nothing is quite as it seems.
Sissy
Sissy
Directed by Hannah Barlow and Kane Senes. Wellness and self-care influencer Cecilia runs into her former best friend Emma at the supermarket, rapidly reigniting their friendship. And then Cecilia goes to Emma’s bachelorette weekend… where she meets her former school bully. What follows is an astute, smart, and occasionally jaw-dropping, horror-thriller about remote locations, youthful transgressions, and influencers…
Luzifer
Luzifer
Directed by Peter Brunner. On a rural mountainside, a mother and son carve out an ascetic existence far removed from everyday convention. And then, one day, a drone emerges, hovering over their small farmhouse. Combining elements of psychological horror and drama, with a rich arthouse sensibility, Luzifer is a must see for anyone interested in existential fears and nightmares.
11 events,
Where is Anne Frank?
Where is Anne Frank?
Feature Narrative / 2021 / Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Israel / 99 min / Directed by Ari Folman
Ari Folman (The Congress, Waltz With Bashir) returns with a beautifully realised animated feature that explores Anne Frank’s life, her diary, and her legacy.
Sirens
Sirens
Directed by Rita Baghdadi. Sirens tells the story of Beirut based musicians Lilas and Shery and their band Slave to Sorens. With their brand of thrash, the group are the Middle East’s first all-women metal band, and Rita Baghdadi’s film tells the story of the women’s friendship and the band all against the backdrop of a conservative country undergoing political turmoil.
When The Camera Stopped Rolling
When The Camera Stopped Rolling
Directed by Jane Castle. Cinematographer Jane Castle ACS tells the story of her mother Lilias Fraser, a true pioneer of Australian cinema, while simultaneously telling her own story. Not just a story of filmmaking and creativity, but also of family, trauma, and human experience, this is a deeply personal film that is unafraid to fully engage with its themes.
Stage Changers
Stage Changers
Directed by Ella Wright. Stage Changers follows WA theatre company, The Last Great Hunt, as they work on their first large scale festival work.
The Assassination and Mrs Paine
The Assassination and Mrs Paine
Directed by Max Good. Marina Oswald and her children lived in Ruth Paine’s house in the months prior to the assassination of the president in November 1963. Ruth Paine helped provide key evidence against Lee Harvey Oswald and answered more than 5000 questions for the Warren Commission. Now 84 years old, Paine enjoys life in a retirement community, but she is also one of the few surviving witnesses and a target for researchers into the assassination.
While You Sleep
While You Sleep
Creative Directors Sal Cooper and Kate Neal. An aural and visual excursion into both the musical fugue and the psychological ‘fugue state’, While You Sleep unites string quartet, piano, electronics, video and animation in a surreal counterpoint of music, movement and image where nothing is quite as it seems.
Flux Gourmet
Flux Gourmet
Directed by Peter Strickland. A surreal infused tale of sound, music, and food, Strickland’s latest feature unfolds in the halls of a rural artistic institute, as a trio of musicians explore food, sounds and performance under the gaze of the institute’s director, a journalist and a doctor.
Q&A: Flux Gourmet
Q&A: Flux Gourmet
An after-film talk with Peter Strickland (via zoom), hosted by Simon Miraudo and Tristan Fidler of the RTRFM Movie Squad
A Pencil To The Jugular
A Pencil To The Jugular
Directed by Matthew Victor Pastor. The film takes the audience through the empty streets of Melbourne and into apartments, creating psychogeography of the pandemic city and its inhabitants as their lives fall apart.
11 events,
Heavens Above (Nebesa)
Heavens Above (Nebesa)
Feature Narrative / 2021 / Serbia, Germany, Slovenia / 120min / Directed by Srdjan Dragojevic
We love magical realism and fly that flag rather high year to year – and 2022 is no exception with several titles that take the bold step into the wilder sides of the imaginative experience. Heavens Above is one such title that not only bends expectation but film form.
Kaepernick and America
Kaepernick and America
Feature Documentary / 2022 / USA / 82 min / Directed by Tommy Walker and Ross Hockro
In late 2016, as a response to the police killings of African Americans, Colin Kapernick, quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, refused to stand during the national anthem, instead choosing to kneel.Telling the sportsman’s story, Kaepernick and America is a necessary, sobering and authentic film filled with hard emotions, hard decisions and individual truths.
Shadow with DADAA
Shadow with DADAA
Revelation and DADAA present a special screening of SHADOW at the DADAA Cinema! The film…
Paris Is In Harlem
Paris Is In Harlem
Directed by Christina Kallas. Paris Is In Harlem may be one of the best New York movies of recent years, its narrative weaves through situations and characters, that unfold with rare power and authenticity. Creating a vivid portrait of the city on the day the no dancing law was repealed in 2017, the ensemble cast, tight narrative, and naturalistic filmmaking create a beautifully realised film that feels truly alive.
The Humans
The Humans
Directed by Stephen Karam. Brigid and Richard have moved into a rundown Manhattan duplex. Before they’ve had time to settle, Brigid’s family visit for Thanksgiving.
Conversations, tensions, dramas slowly emerge, and all around them the duplex creeks, the very walls seem to echo with inexplicable sounds.
Adapted from his Tony Award winning theatrical production, Karam’s film is a masterpiece in tensions, deftly adding a cinematic quality to the unfolding psychological drama.
Bassendream
Bassendream
Directed by Tim Barretto. It’s the last day of summer school holidays in 1990s Perth and over 24 hours, a kaleidoscopic chronicle of an ordinary suburb unfolds.
While You Sleep
While You Sleep
Creative Directors Sal Cooper and Kate Neal. An aural and visual excursion into both the musical fugue and the psychological ‘fugue state’, While You Sleep unites string quartet, piano, electronics, video and animation in a surreal counterpoint of music, movement and image where nothing is quite as it seems.
The Lonely Spirits Variety Hour
The Lonely Spirits Variety Hour
Directed by Platon Theodoris. In a suburban garage, Neville Umbrellaman spends his evenings presenting his own radio show, broadcasting to the local community where Neville and his strange guests ruminate on all manner of topics, people perform, and events unfold. Meanwhile, elsewhere, another world slowly unfolds.
Sirens
Sirens
Feature Documentary | 2022 | USA, Lebanon | 78 min | Directed by Rita Baghdadi
Sirens tells the story of Beirut based musicians Lilas and Shery and their band Slave to Sorens. With their brand of thrash, the group are the Middle East’s first all-women metal band, and Rita Baghdadi’s film tells the story of the women’s friendship and the band all against the backdrop of a conservative country undergoing political turmoil.
Freaks Out
Freaks Out
Directed by Gabriele Mainetti. As a small troupe of circus performers find themselves embroiled in the ever-expanding battle front of WW2 in Europe, a singular battle for the future of civilisation emerges in this sprawling big-screen fantasy.
28 events,
Mind The Gap: Bringing Mature Women Back Into The Screen Industry
Mind The Gap: Bringing Mature Women Back Into The Screen Industry
What are some of the ways we achieve greater representation for older women? The barriers to female participation and progress within the screen industry vary according to career stage, industry sector and role.
Where is Anne Frank?
Where is Anne Frank?
Feature Narrative / 2021 / Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Israel / 99 min / Directed by Ari Folman
Ari Folman (The Congress, Waltz With Bashir) returns with a beautifully realised animated feature that explores Anne Frank’s life, her diary, and her legacy.
Flesh For Frankenstein 3D
Flesh For Frankenstein 3D
Presented in the new 4K restoration AND in the original anaglyph ‘SpaceVision’ 3D!
Flesh For Frankenstein 3D
Flesh For Frankenstein 3D
Directed by Paul Morrissey. Legendary filmmaker Paul Morrissey’s Flesh For Frankenstein – also known as Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein – is considered a masterpiece of midnight movie / cult cinema. Originally released in both regular and 3D versions, the print screening tonight is in glorious 3D!
Q&A: Edward and Isabella
Q&A: Edward and Isabella
An after-film talk with director Adam Morris, hosted by Andrew F Pierce of The Curb.
Edward and Isabella
Edward and Isabella
Directed by Adam Morris. The film follows a couple as they contemplate their relationship. It eschews the clichés of the genre as the protagonists trace their way through a weekend away.
While You Sleep
While You Sleep
Creative Directors Sal Cooper and Kate Neal. An aural and visual excursion into both the musical fugue and the psychological ‘fugue state’, While You Sleep unites string quartet, piano, electronics, video and animation in a surreal counterpoint of music, movement and image where nothing is quite as it seems.
In The Court of The Crimson King
In The Court of The Crimson King
Directed by Toby Amies, In his latest documentary filmmaker Toby Amies (The Man Whose Mind Exploded) turns his attention to the legendary prog-rock band King Crimson, documenting the group on their 50th-anniversary tour.
Bassendream
Bassendream
Feature Narrative / 2022 / Australia / 80min / Directed by Tim Barretto
It’s the last day of summer school holidays in 1990s Perth and over 24 hours, a kaleidoscopic chronicle of an ordinary suburb unfolds.
Heavens Above (Nebesa)
Heavens Above (Nebesa)
Feature Narrative / 2021 / Serbia, Germany, Slovenia / 120min / Directed by Srdjan Dragojevic
We love magical realism and fly that flag rather high year to year – and 2022 is no exception with several titles that take the bold step into the wilder sides of the imaginative experience. Heavens Above is one such title that not only bends expectation but film form.
Truth, Lies and All Besides
Truth, Lies and All Besides
A selection of short dramatic films that explore the complexities of the human condition, the choices we face, the decisions we make, and the shifting changes that mark all of our lives. Poignant, moving, evocative, and human, these films reveal the storytelling power of the short film to affect the audience.
John Bradburn: Writing An Interactive Story
John Bradburn: Writing An Interactive Story
This workshop will explore the basics of how to write an interactive choose your own adventure style story. We will explore Twine as a tool to make and export these playable stories.
Hole In The Head
Hole In The Head
Directed by Dean Kavanagh. The film combines drama, comedy and experimentation in telling the story of John Kline Jr, a mute projectionist whose parents vanished twenty-five years earlier.
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Erin Coates: Props, Prosthetics and Practical Effects
Erin Coates: Props, Prosthetics and Practical Effects
As a professional artist and independent filmmaker, Erin will share behind the scenes stories of how she and her collaborators have created props and practical effects for screen works.
A House Made of Splinters
A House Made of Splinters
Directed by Simon Lereng Wilmont. Winner of Sundance’s World Cinema Documentary Best Director Prize, Thessaloniki Documentary Festival’s Golden Alexander and FIORSCI award, and Best Nordic Documentary Gotenburg Film Festival, A House Made of Splinters is an observational documentary filmed in a children’s home in the Eastern Ukraine.
While You Sleep
While You Sleep
Creative Directors Sal Cooper and Kate Neal. An aural and visual excursion into both the musical fugue and the psychological ‘fugue state’, While You Sleep unites string quartet, piano, electronics, video and animation in a surreal counterpoint of music, movement and image where nothing is quite as it seems.
While You Sleep
While You Sleep
Special Event / 2022 / Australia / 50min / Creative Directors Sal Cooper and Kate Neal
An aural and visual excursion into both the musical fugue and the psychological ‘fugue state’, While You Sleep unites string quartet, piano, electronics, video and animation in a surreal counterpoint of music, movement and image where nothing is quite as it seems.
WA Day 4: Pursuit of Compassion
WA Day 4: Pursuit of Compassion
Special Event / 2022 /
A showcase of Western Australian made screen productions
You’ll Never Work In This Town Again
You’ll Never Work In This Town Again
Join Kelli McCluskey from tactical media art group, pvi collective, as she discusses their approach to developing a code of ethics to help safeguard against getting into bed with the wrong corporate bedfellows.
Killing The Eunuch Khan
Killing The Eunuch Khan
Feature Narrative / 2021 / Iran / 110min / Directed by Abed Abest
A visually stunning narrative from Iran, a truly powerful exploration of war, family, and crime, for anyone interested in the possibilities of cinema this is essential viewing.
When The Camera Stopped Rolling
When The Camera Stopped Rolling
Feature Documentary / 2021 / Australia / 75min / Directed by Jane Castle
Cinematographer Jane Castle ACS tells the story of her mother Lilias Fraser, a true pioneer of Australian cinema, while simultaneously telling her own story. Not just a story of filmmaking and creativity, but also of family, trauma, and human experience, this is a deeply personal film that is unafraid to fully engage with its themes.
Breaking Into The Screen Industry
Breaking Into The Screen Industry
Join our experienced panel as they each share their journeys from the start of their careers up until that first big break. They'll provide tips to inspi