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2022 Program

Feature Feature Films & Documentaries REV Online

18 1/2

Started on July 8, 2022 to July 8, 2022

18 1/2

Directed by Dan Mirvish. It’s 1974 and a White House transcriber has a copy of missing 18 1/2 minutes of Nixon tapes, but what can she do with them and what secrets do they hold?
Feature Feature Films & Documentaries

A Delicate Fire

Started on July 9, 2022 to July 9, 2022

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.  
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A Pencil To The Jugular

Started on July 12, 2022 to July 12, 2022

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.
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After Blue

Started on July 8, 2022 to July 8, 2022

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. 
Feature Feature Films & Documentaries

Bassendream

Started on July 15, 2022 to July 15, 2022

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.
Feature Feature Films & Documentaries

Bassendream (Encore)

Started on July 21, 2022 to July 21, 2022

Bassendream (Encore)

After selling out 700 seats throughout REV'22, here's your final chance to see the movie that took over Perth's heart - BASSENDREAM!
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Cherubhead

Started on July 12, 2022 to July 12, 2022

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.
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Edward and Isabella

Started on July 16, 2022 to July 16, 2022

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.
Feature Feature Films & Documentaries Special Events

Even Mice Belong In Heaven

Started on July 7, 2022 to July 7, 2022

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. 
Feature Feature Films & Documentaries

Flesh For Frankenstein 3D

Started on July 16, 2022 to July 16, 2022

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!
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Flux Gourmet

Started on July 8, 2022 to July 8, 2022

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.
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Freaks Out

Started on July 9, 2022 to July 9, 2022

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.
Feature Feature Films & Documentaries

Heavens Above (Nebesa)

Started on July 13, 2022 to July 13, 2022

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.
Feature Feature Films & Documentaries

Hole In The Head

Started on July 9, 2022 to July 9, 2022

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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Killing The Eunuch Khan

Started on July 7, 2022 to July 7, 2022

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.
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Lonesome

Started on July 9, 2022 to July 9, 2022

Lonesome

Directed by Craig Boreham. Fleeing a small-town scandal Casey finds himself in Sydney where he hooks up with Tib. Both young men are searching for something elusive while navigating their way through the inner-city queer scene.
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Luzifer

Started on July 9, 2022 to July 9, 2022

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.
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Paris Is In Harlem

Started on July 9, 2022 to July 9, 2022

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.
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Planet X

Started on July 7, 2022 to July 7, 2022

Planet X

Directed by Maxence Vassilyevitch. Radiation from the sun has forced people into shelters during the day, escaping certain death. But what is happening to humanity, and what possibilities are there in this strange post-apocalyptic world?
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Saint Narcisse

Started on July 11, 2022 to July 11, 2022

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.
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Shadow

Started on July 16, 2022 to July 16, 2022

Shadow

Directed by Bruce Gladwin. Produced by Geelong’s acclaimed Back to Back Theatre, and playing out like a live performance, this picture is produced and performed by a disabled team that sparkles throughout. One of our 2022 favourites.
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Sissy

Started on July 7, 2022 to July 7, 2022

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…
Feature Feature Films & Documentaries

Slaughterhouse-Five

Started on July 10, 2022 to July 10, 2022

Slaughterhouse-Five

Directed by George Roy Hill. Adapted from Kurt Vonnegut’s cult novel, Slaughterhouse-Five premiered at Cannes and won the Jury Prize.
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Terra Femme

Started on July 7, 2022 to July 7, 2022

Terra Femme

Directed by Courtney Stephens. Using archive footage and home movies, Terra Femme examines the history and experiences of women travellers.
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The Humans

Started on July 15, 2022 to July 15, 2022

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.
Feature Feature Films & Documentaries

The Lonely Spirits Variety Hour

Started on July 13, 2022 to July 13, 2022

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.
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The Passengers of The Night

Started on July 9, 2022 to July 9, 2022

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.
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Where is Anne Frank?

Started on July 9, 2022 to July 9, 2022

Where is Anne Frank?

Directed by Ari Folman. A beautifully realised animated feature that explores Anne Frank’s life, her diary, and her legacy.
Documentary Feature Films & Documentaries

A House Made of Splinters

Started on July 12, 2022 to July 12, 2022

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.
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A Life On The Farm

Started on July 10, 2022 to July 10, 2022

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”…
Documentary Feature Films & Documentaries Shorts Showcases

Different Voices: Three Short Documentaries

Started on July 10, 2022 to July 10, 2022

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.
Documentary Feature Films & Documentaries

Dreaming Walls: Inside The Chelsea Hotel

Started on July 8, 2022 to July 8, 2022

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.
Documentary Feature Films & Documentaries

In The Court of The Crimson King

Started on July 9, 2022 to July 9, 2022

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.
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Kaepernick and America

Started on July 8, 2022 to July 8, 2022

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.
Documentary Feature Films & Documentaries

Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck In Time

Started on July 9, 2022 to July 9, 2022

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.
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Make Me Famous

Started on July 9, 2022 to July 9, 2022

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.
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Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

Started on July 10, 2022 to July 10, 2022

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.
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Namarali

Started on July 8, 2022 to July 8, 2022

Namarali

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.
Documentary Feature Films & Documentaries

Navalny

Started on July 8, 2022 to July 8, 2022

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. 
Documentary Feature Films & Documentaries

Raw! Uncut! Video!

Started on July 10, 2022 to July 10, 2022

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.
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Sirens

Started on July 10, 2022 to July 10, 2022

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.
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Stage Changers

Started on July 14, 2022 to July 14, 2022

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. 
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The Assassination and Mrs Paine

Started on July 10, 2022 to July 10, 2022

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.
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When The Camera Stopped Rolling

Started on July 14, 2022 to July 14, 2022

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.
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30 Second Thoughts

Started on July 9, 2022 to July 19, 2022

30 Second Thoughts

Directed by David Baeumler. A commercial break from another dimension.
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A City W/O A Map

Started on July 9, 2022 to July 9, 2022

A City W/O A Map

Directed by Josh Weissbach. Signal communications proliferate across borders. incongruent shapes subtracted from form. fractal topographies without document.
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A Shadow In The Darkness

Started on July 10, 2022 to July 10, 2022

A Shadow In The Darkness

Directed by Dean William Butler. A man squares off against a demonic entity in regional Western Australia
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A Tough Gig

Started on July 12, 2022 to July 12, 2022

A Tough Gig

Directed by Cath Murphy. Megan, a Mental Health nurse, describes the daily violence she experiences working in a mental health unit and her resulting Chronic Fatigue.
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A Valley Without Trees

Started on July 9, 2022 to July 9, 2022

A Valley Without Trees

Directed by Janelle VanderKelen. The lowly onion that burrows into the soil and spends most of its life underground is cast as an interpreter or potential sensory prosthetic that offers a different way of understanding (and perhaps communicating with) the land, planet, and cosmos in which it grows.
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Acts For The Invisible

Started on July 10, 2022 to July 10, 2022

Acts For The Invisible

Directed by Kate Vinen. A philosophical fashion designer loses his life partner and is propelled towards an entirely new life… far away from the fashion world. But can we ever really leave our old life behind?
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Almonds

Started on July 9, 2022 to July 9, 2022

Almonds

Directed by Dean Butler and Robert Faulkner. All hell breaks loose when a man's girlfriend wants a share in his lunch instead of ordering her own.
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Anastatica

Started on July 10, 2022 to July 10, 2022

Anastatica

Directed by Juana Robles. Inspired by Joan of Castile (1479-1555) and her episode of life spent in grief and isolation, Anastatica explores ambiguous mental and physical conditions under institutional concepts of control and oppression through an expressive cinematic form shot on Super 8mm film.
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Best Wishes

Started on July 9, 2022 to July 9, 2022

Best Wishes

Directed by Zhang Xiaoan. Two young queer Chinese men who have feelings for each other connect over the phone just as one of them is preparing to be married to a woman.
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Bunker: The Last Fleet

Started on July 7, 2022 to July 7, 2022

Bunker: The Last Fleet

Directed by Rowan Pullen and Stephen Potter. The year is 2057. For six years the extraterrestrial invaders have occupied our world. The harvest of humankind has begun. When they arrived, everything was lost. The people, the land the system ... gone. Those who survive, remain in hiding and live by one rule: avoid all contact.
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Burros

Started on July 11, 2022 to July 11, 2022

Burros

Directed by Jefferson Stein. Set in southern Arizona, twenty miles from the Mexico border on the Tohono O’odham Nation, a six-year-old Indigenous girl discovers a Hispanic migrant her age who has lost her father while travelling through the Tohono O’odham tribal lands into the United States.
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Butō

Started on July 10, 2022 to July 10, 2022

Butō

Directed by Amélie Ravalec. Playing with the shadow and the light, ghostly movements and eerie dance, BUTŌ delves into the feverish dreams of a tormented fighter.
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Christmas Movie

Started on July 9, 2022 to July 9, 2022

Christmas Movie

Directed by Owen Lawie. Rooming together in a garage, two friends' Christmas eve night escalates into a realm of psychedelic hedonism.
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Cloudhead Visits Grandma

Started on July 8, 2022 to July 8, 2022

Cloudhead Visits Grandma

Directed by Lachlan Plain. CLOUD HEAD is a feverish lockdown dream.
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Concertina

Started on July 9, 2022 to July 9, 2022

Concertina

Directed by Gabriel Gonzalez Acosta. An interlocking narrative film that jumps between parallel realities as two sets of brothers discusses their dreams of one another.
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Covid Conversations

Started on July 17, 2022 to July 17, 2022

Covid Conversations

Directed by Nunzio Mondia. In challenging COVID times comes “Hope” - a powerful song inspired by producer Nunzio Mondia. This ode of our times weaves compelling "Covid Conversations" featuring community members who share their fears, dreams and hopes.
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Crossover

Started on July 9, 2022 to July 9, 2022

Crossover

Directed by Sam Boe Nielsen. When Pat joins a group therapy class, he finds that the enigmatic group members have more to offer than healing.
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Crows Film

Started on July 9, 2022 to July 9, 2022

Crows Film

Directed by Patrick Tarrant. For a crow to earn its stripes it must intercept another in space, but not in time.
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Dirty Beats – Abstract Xnois

Started on July 9, 2022 to July 9, 2022

Dirty Beats – Abstract Xnois

Shorts / 2021 / Australia / 3min / Directed by Sioux Tempestt Perth artist transcending creative disciplines, ABSTRKT XNOIS delivers the first track from her forthcoming album Innominate.
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Endlessnessism

Started on July 8, 2022 to July 8, 2022

Endlessnessism

Shorts / 2021 / Australia / 12 min / Directed by Liam Clark A 16mm erotic trip about two friends who play a game where each rule prescribes them to act out their most violent and perverse private fantasies. EPILEPSY WARNING!
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Evie

Started on July 9, 2022 to July 9, 2022

Evie

Shorts / 2021 / Australia / 19min / Directed by Alex von Hofmann In a world decimated by nuclear war, where barbaric clans and genetically modified dinosaurs roam the Australian countryside, a young girl, Evie, must venture alone to a distant farmhouse to seek medical supplies for her dying father.
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Fading Numbers

Started on July 17, 2022 to July 17, 2022

Fading Numbers

Directed by Aron Attiwell. A holocaust survivor shares her story with a journalist, only to discover the connection they both share.
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False As A Beach

Started on July 7, 2022 to July 7, 2022

False As A Beach

Directed by Stephanie Jane Day. Ursula, Gertrude and Ruby, three emancipated young women, while away the hours as a halcyon apocalypse brings the world to a close.
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Film For Storm De Hirsch

Started on July 9, 2022 to July 9, 2022

Film For Storm De Hirsch

Directed by Gwendolyn Audrey Foster. A homage to underground experimental poet and filmmaker, Storm de Hirsch; one of the great unsung women in avant-garde film
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Flamingo

Started on July 9, 2022 to July 9, 2022

Flamingo

Directed by Giacomo Groppoli. Friendship, feathers and grief get tangled as a young woman learns to stand on one leg.
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Good Night

Started on July 9, 2022 to July 9, 2022

Good Night

Directed by David Vincent Smith. A busy sound engineer accepts a last-minute recording instead of heading home to his family and is deeply affected by the song he records.
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Good Times And That’s Okay

Started on July 11, 2022 to July 11, 2022

Good Times And That’s Okay

Directed by Amanda Kaye. A 70-year-old closeted woman has to confront her faith as she learns what true love is from a sex worker named Destiny.
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Hash Browns

Started on July 9, 2022 to July 9, 2022

Hash Browns

Directed by Cal McLean and Alexandra Nell. After bumping into each other at a late-night diner,on the same night as their one-night stand, Chris and Susie decide to eat together.
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Hatchback

Started on July 7, 2022 to July 7, 2022

Hatchback

Directed by Riley Sugars. Vince attempts to dispose of a dead body for the mob, but when he reluctantly enlists the help of his dim-witted brother-in-law Ted, things don’t go to plan.
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Hitting The Road

Started on July 9, 2022 to July 9, 2022

Hitting The Road

Directed by Jack Connell. When getaway driver Chase Walker decides to abandon his life of crime, he must first team up with Maddison River, an underground emerging thief to pull off one last daring job that sees him finally walk away from the life he’s dreaded, or fall back into it forever...
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Immortal

Started on July 9, 2022 to July 9, 2022

Immortal

Directed by Lawrence Murphy. A young, beaten down scientist is given a new lust for life in a quest to defeat death and create immortality.
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In Their Footprints

Started on July 9, 2022 to July 9, 2022

In Their Footprints

Directed by Glen Strindberg. A personal and unique journey showcasing bushtucker in the southwest of Western Australia, through the footsteps of the traditional custodians of the land.
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Jellybean

Started on July 11, 2022 to July 11, 2022

Jellybean

Directed by Jaimie Conlon. After two years away, Cally returns to her sleepy hometown for an abortion, accompanied by her ex-boyfriend. Over the course of one night at a paddock-party, the two awkwardly navigate their tumultuous feelings surrounding her pregnancy, and Cally attempts to reconnect with an estranged once-best-friend.
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Jungle

Started on July 11, 2022 to July 11, 2022

Jungle

Directed by Kieran Wheeler. A young woman awakens to find herself in the midst of a living nightmare.
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Kukaputju – The Hunter

Started on July 10, 2022 to July 10, 2022

Kukaputju – The Hunter

Directed by Jonathan Daw and Yanyangkari Roma Butler. Yanyangkari and her clever dog, Kungka, go hunting in the bush. What they catch surprises and delights them and their companions.
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Lens

Started on July 15, 2022 to July 15, 2022

Lens

Directed by Chad Gerber. From the highs of visiting numerous awe-inspiring destinations around the world, to the lows of self-doubt and detachment from his surroundings along with his pursuit - this is Chad's story so far.
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Linger

Started on July 9, 2022 to July 9, 2022

Linger

Directed by Aaryn Bath. Two women wake up after a one-night stand to find things go hilariously wrong when the morning after gets a little crowded.
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Maenad Fever

Started on July 9, 2022 to July 9, 2022

Maenad Fever

Directed by Tamara Cook. A celebration of the power of the Feminine Divine and is inspired by real events.
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Mandatory Training

Started on July 9, 2022 to July 9, 2022

Mandatory Training

Directed by Patrick Tarrant. The whiteness and gender normativity of Bolex promotional brochures and magazines from decades past are brought face to face with audio taken from contemporary mandatory training modules on Equality, Diversity & Inclusion and Health & Safety
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Mechanical Sea

Started on July 9, 2022 to July 9, 2022

Mechanical Sea

Directed by Manuel Alvarez Diestro. A little kid’s curiosity about the sea clashes with mechanical stairs overtaking the city.
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Mettle

Started on July 17, 2022 to July 17, 2022

Mettle

Directed by Alexandra Nell and Cal McLean. Mettle explores the different experiences of women both running and participating in a charity for women experiencing homelessness due to domestic and family violence
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Miles and Kilometres

Started on July 9, 2022 to July 9, 2022

Miles and Kilometres

Directed by Sonali Gulati. A lingering haiku poem of migration, separation, dislocation, and exile.
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Moonrise

Started on July 9, 2022 to July 9, 2022

Moonrise

Directed by Rowena Potts. If the Moon could speak, what would it say?
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Moorditj Footprints

Started on July 17, 2022 to July 17, 2022

Moorditj Footprints

Directed by Brenton Rossow. Join Nyoongar Elder Lindsay Calyun, as he takes you on a journey into his childhood memories of growing up in East Perth. ‘Going back to the early days Nyoongars were everywhere in East Perth, everywhere you can see our Moordjit Footprints
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My Something Blue

Started on July 9, 2022 to July 9, 2022

My Something Blue

Directed by Lauren Trench. Explores the anxiety felt when deviating from the narrative society
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Nest

Started on July 10, 2022 to July 10, 2022

Nest

Directed by James Hunter. An isolated father haunted by his child’s cries of hunger takes up work as a timber feller only to find operations halted by a mysterious alarm coming from deep in the woods.
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Never Alone

Started on July 9, 2022 to July 9, 2022

Never Alone

Directed by Ben Matei. Balloon takes Creature on a journey through magical lands where Creature learns that life is precious and there is both beauty and hope to be found in small moments of joy.
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Ngaluk Waangkiny

Started on July 9, 2022 to July 9, 2022

Ngaluk Waangkiny

Directed by Poppy van Oorde-Grainger and Ian Wilkes. Follows the journey of a courageous group of Aboriginal Elders living on Whadjuk Noongar Boodja as they fight for respect, recognition and acknowledgement from the City of Perth.
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On The Doorstep

Started on July 9, 2022 to July 9, 2022

On The Doorstep

Directed by Mac Anthony Ladyman. Follows the impact that the 2021 Wooroloo bushfires had on Rod and Chris Chambers, showing the effect it had on their farm, and their process of recovery.
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Paper Route

Started on July 9, 2022 to July 9, 2022

Paper Route

Directed by Harrison Mitchell. Paperboys, Matt and Dewey race the clock to beat a delivery record, but their joyride ends in a problem that tests their friendship.
Shorts

Peace of Mind

Started on July 9, 2022 to July 9, 2022

Peace of Mind

Directed by Robyn Mae Ong. The story of Christina Lau and her relationship with her parents as she recounts the happy and traumatic memories of her childhood and adolescence
Shorts

Prayer

Started on July 9, 2022 to July 9, 2022

Prayer

Directed by Justin Reid. What is a call? In an age of frictionless and ceaseless communication, life takes on the tenor of cacophony over symphony - all noise without signal
Shorts

Raspberry Man

Started on July 10, 2022 to July 10, 2022

Raspberry Man

Directed by Slawomir Milewski. Taking you to the space of the subconscious and give you the impression that – just as with dreaming – you’ve generated the images yourself, though you don’t know how or why.
Shorts

Reality Man

Started on July 9, 2022 to July 9, 2022

Reality Man

Directed by Matteo Mazzella. In 1992, the first human leaves reality to live in the virtual world. For 30 years we've had no contact... until now.
Shorts

Refused Classification

Started on July 10, 2022 to July 10, 2022

Refused Classification

Directed by Chris Elena. Three people in love must justify their relationship and existence to the MPAA: Motion Picture Association Of America.
Shorts

Reptile

Started on July 11, 2022 to July 11, 2022

Reptile

Directed by Jordan Giusti. Schoolboys eat lunch and hang out like any other day until a violent game begins to elicit more primal behaviour.
Shorts

Reservoir (Seven Fragments)

Started on July 9, 2022 to July 9, 2022

Reservoir (Seven Fragments)

Shorts / 2022 / USA / 10min / Directed by John Winn Set at an artificial reservoir in North Carolina, this is a meditation on the unnatural histories of the American environment
Shorts

Shallow Breath

Started on July 10, 2022 to July 10, 2022

Shallow Breath

Shorts / 2021 / Australia / 5min / Directed by Robbie Studsor A drowning survivor must confront the dangerous fixation she has on the accident and the woman who saved her.
Shorts

Shattered

Started on July 9, 2022 to July 9, 2022

Shattered

Shorts / 2021 / Australia / 8min / Directed by Mason Jack Allen With her mother about to undergo emergency surgery, Kyra descends into the wild and unfamiliar world of nightclubs to find her brother so as to reunite her family for perhaps the last time. But every action comes with consequences, the night takes an unexpected turn
Shorts

Shotgun Through Scarborough

Started on July 9, 2022 to July 9, 2022

Shotgun Through Scarborough

Directed by Annette Grace Peterson. 77 individual frames were painted and then reinstated back into the digital format via photograph to make a stop-motion film.
Shorts

Sisyphus

Started on July 9, 2022 to July 9, 2022

Sisyphus

Directed by Alex Montanari. A formative moment in Caleb’s childhood leads him on a lifelong journey to find the edge of the universe.
Shorts

Stare

Started on July 9, 2022 to July 9, 2022

Stare

Directed by Eliza Pritchard. Two friends find themselves stuck in a terrifying situation, where they are convinced that they need to maintain direct eye contact with a mysterious box in order to survive.
Shorts

Svengali

Started on July 10, 2022 to July 10, 2022

Svengali

Directed by James Robert Woods. A Sydney real estate agent gets away with a horrible act.
Shorts

Tangki – Donkey

Started on July 9, 2022 to July 9, 2022

Tangki – Donkey

Directed by Jonathan Daw and Tjunkaya Tapaya OAM. Three Anangu women of different generations tell the story of how donkeys came to be malpa wiru, valuable friends and helpers, in the families and desert community of Pukatjata (Ernabella) in the APY lands of northern South Australia
Shorts

Thanks For Coming

Started on July 13, 2022 to July 13, 2022

Thanks For Coming

Directed by Andrew Bromwich and Laura Cotterill. Glen’s shift as a funeral worker becomes increasingly awkward as four siblings continue to bicker long after the funeral has ended.
Shorts

The Bridge

Started on July 11, 2022 to July 11, 2022

The Bridge

Directed by Rodrigue Hammal. Two strangers who meet on a bridge in an unprecedented situation. Events go completely different from their expectations.
Shorts

The Daughter

Started on July 10, 2022 to July 10, 2022

The Daughter

Directed by Soon-a Nam. After taking care of her mother for a long time, Hyo-eun inherits her mother’s home after she passes away. She tries to escape her mother’s shadow by removing any trace of her in the house, but as she is doing so, she hears whispers of her mother’s voice and strange things begin to happen.
Shorts

The Dreamlife of Georgie Stone

Started on July 10, 2022 to July 10, 2022

The Dreamlife of Georgie Stone

Directed by Maya Newell. Looking back through her nineteen years, pioneering trans activist Georgie Stone reflects on the moments that made her.
Shorts

The Golden Rollers

Started on July 17, 2022 to July 17, 2022

The Golden Rollers

Shorts / 2021 / Australia / 7min / Directed by Jennifer "JP" Piper A group of roller skaters aged 69 to 99 refuse to hang up their skates and give up on fun.
Shorts

The Honeymoon Phase

Started on July 9, 2022 to July 9, 2022

The Honeymoon Phase

Shorts / 2021 / Australia / 8min / Directed by Stephanie Senior A couple dance their way through the honeymoon phase of their relationship.
Shorts

The Object of Life

Started on July 10, 2022 to July 10, 2022

The Object of Life

Shorts / 2021 / Australia / 3min / Directed by Jack James Parry Is our life nothing but a meaningless accumulation of objects?
Shorts

The Re Stories

Started on July 17, 2022 to July 17, 2022

The Re Stories

Directed by Gemma Cutler. Never a dull day at the local family-owned Re Store where unusual events happen on regular basis.
Shorts

The Sticklet Weaver

Started on July 9, 2022 to July 9, 2022

The Sticklet Weaver

Directed by James Hollenbaugh. A self-taught artist with lifelong mental health challenges has started building complex, highly fanciful "puppets" constructed from dozens of cardboard elements with fully moveable joints.
Shorts

The Sweetness

Started on July 10, 2022 to July 10, 2022

The Sweetness

Directed by Jessica Barclay Lawton. Captures the ruminating thoughts of a widow living off-the-grid in the wake of Cyclone Yasi.
Shorts

The Unshakable Destiny_2101

Started on July 8, 2022 to July 8, 2022

The Unshakable Destiny_2101

Directed by Nikki Lam. An expansive video trilogy that explores the position of the artist within a placeless present, with a focus on the body as context to its history and its surroundings.
Shorts

The Wilyabrup Project

Started on July 9, 2022 to July 9, 2022

The Wilyabrup Project

Directed by Brenna Day and Steven Aliyan. Above the waves, beneath the sky, against the rock. Moving against a staggering vertical cliff face, suspended above wild crashing ocean, two artists dance with the roaring wind and each other in a celebration of human connection, our experience of nature and the vast wilderness that is the Wilyabrup sea cliffs.
Shorts

Through Her Eyes

Started on July 8, 2022 to July 8, 2022

Through Her Eyes

Directed by Jason Haji-Ali. First Nations filmmaker Jason Haji-Ali who wrote, produced and directed this film explores his cultural identity as he reflects on his childhood, the toxicity of social media and conversation with his grandmother, Phyllis.
Shorts

Tidal

Started on July 9, 2022 to July 9, 2022

Tidal

Directed by FILTH GODDESS. A slow metamorphosis of manipulated video, echoing images shifting and changing, accompanying the waves and drones of sound. Colour and form, tone and timbre, movement and stillness combine in a ritual of transformation and noise.
Shorts

Tooly

Started on July 9, 2022 to July 9, 2022

Tooly

Directed by Karla Hart. A young indigenous girl learns of Tooly, the sign of impending death in the family.
Shorts

Two Cancers

Started on July 9, 2022 to July 9, 2022

Two Cancers

Directed by Josh Weissbach. Two Cancers that are simultaneously different and the same.
Shorts

Vanitas

Started on July 10, 2022 to July 10, 2022

Vanitas

Directed by Steven McIntyre and Glenn D'Cruz. A son’s belated eulogy to his long-dead Anglo-Indian father whose modest aspirations were crushed by bad luck, ill-health and racism.
Shorts

Walk Run Strive

Started on July 17, 2022 to July 17, 2022

Walk Run Strive

Directed by Emma Jackson. Madison Heady is an athlete managing the challenges of Cerebral Palsy and achieving success, but when tragedy strikes, she must harness her resilience and optimism to once again walk, run and strive.
Shorts

We Stop… To Start Again

Started on July 9, 2022 to July 9, 2022

We Stop… To Start Again

Directed by Talitha Maslin. An absorbing study of movement and form, the camera shifting through the studio, the dancer shifting through the spatial environment, responding to the transforming demands of the soundtrack.
Shorts

Welcome To Womanhood

Started on July 9, 2022 to July 9, 2022

Welcome To Womanhood

Directed by Taihra Swaine and Alzbeta Rekosh. Two women set out to ‘shed their shit’ and struggle with body image and learn to love their ever-changing bodies.
Shorts

What Travellers Are Saying About Jornada Del Muerto

Started on July 10, 2022 to July 10, 2022

What Travellers Are Saying About Jornada Del Muerto

Directed by Hope Tucker. Visitors and residents of the Tularosa Basin, the site of the first detonation of an atomic bomb, contribute to the production of public memory as they offer philosophical reckonings, logistical advice, and plaintive cries about making "the journey of the dead."
Shorts

Whisper, Rustle

Started on July 9, 2022 to July 9, 2022

Whisper, Rustle

Directed by Maureen Zent. Order gives way to chaos. Chaos generates ferment. Ferment spurs fecundity.
Shorts

Who Are You Trying To Impress?

Started on July 9, 2022 to July 9, 2022

Who Are You Trying To Impress?

Directed by Benjamin Taylor. Through an exploration of his own childhood YouTube channel, a young filmmaker seeks to explore the unspoken collective conscious shared by those raised in the digital age.
Documentary Feature Films & Documentaries Shorts Showcases

Different Voices: Three Short Documentaries

Started on July 10, 2022 to July 10, 2022

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.
Shorts Showcases

Experimental Shorts: Changing Perspectives

Started on July 10, 2022 to July 10, 2022

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.
Shorts Showcases

Experimental Shorts: Space, Place, Nature and Culture

Started on July 9, 2022 to July 9, 2022

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.
Shorts Showcases

From The Haunted to The Darkness

Started on July 10, 2022 to July 10, 2022

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.
Shorts Showcases Special Events

Get Your Shorts On! 2022 + City of Vincent

Started on July 17, 2022 to July 17, 2022

Get Your Shorts On! 2022 + City of Vincent

Don't get caught short, put Get Your Shorts On! in your calendar now! Join us for an exciting selection of short films in a nod to WA's talented emerging filmmakers - thanks to the City of Vincent Film Project.
Shorts Showcases

Truth, Lies and All Besides

Started on July 11, 2022 to July 11, 2022

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.
Shorts Showcases

WA Day 1: Fierce Encounters And Fever Dreams

Started on July 12, 2022 to July 12, 2022

WA Day 1: Fierce Encounters And Fever Dreams

Special Event / 2022 / A showcase of Western Australian made screen productions
Shorts Showcases

WA Day 2: Hearts From the Hills and Valleys

Started on July 17, 2022 to July 17, 2022

WA Day 2: Hearts From the Hills and Valleys

Special Event / 2022 / A showcase of Western Australian made screen productions
Shorts Showcases

WA Day 3: Unseen, Untouched, Unknown

Started on July 17, 2022 to July 17, 2022

WA Day 3: Unseen, Untouched, Unknown

Special Event / 2022 / A showcase of Western Australian made screen productions
Shorts Showcases

WA Day 4: Pursuit of Compassion

Started on July 16, 2022 to July 16, 2022

WA Day 4: Pursuit of Compassion

Special Event / 2022 / A showcase of Western Australian made screen productions
Shorts Showcases Special Events

Westralia Day 2022

Started on July 9, 2022 to July 9, 2022

Westralia Day 2022

Special Event / 2022 / A showcase of Western Australian made screen productions at The Backlot Perth.
Special Events

Decibel

Started on July 11, 2022 to July 11, 2022

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.
Feature Feature Films & Documentaries Special Events

Even Mice Belong In Heaven

Started on July 7, 2022 to July 7, 2022

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. 
Shorts Showcases Special Events

Get Your Shorts On! 2022 + City of Vincent

Started on July 17, 2022 to July 17, 2022

Get Your Shorts On! 2022 + City of Vincent

Don't get caught short, put Get Your Shorts On! in your calendar now! Join us for an exciting selection of short films in a nod to WA's talented emerging filmmakers - thanks to the City of Vincent Film Project.
Special Events

International Family Animation Explosion

Started on July 7, 2022 to July 7, 2022

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.
Special Events

Opening Night 2022: Sissy

Started on July 7, 2022 to July 7, 2022

Opening Night 2022: Sissy

Join us at the REV Opening Night 2022!
Special Events

Shadow with DADAA

Started on July 15, 2022 to July 15, 2022

Shadow with DADAA

Revelation and DADAA present a special screening of SHADOW at the DADAA Cinema! The film will be open-captioned and audio-described. About Shadow Australia/2022/56min/Directed by Bruce Gladwin  Every once in a…
Special Events

Shaun Gladwell: The Cinematic

Started on July 7, 2022 to July 7, 2022

Shaun Gladwell: The Cinematic

Experience Shaun Gladwell's works
Feature Feature Films & Documentaries Special Events

Terra Femme

Started on July 7, 2022 to July 7, 2022

Terra Femme

Directed by Courtney Stephens. Using archive footage and home movies, Terra Femme examines the history and experiences of women travellers.
Shorts Showcases Special Events

Westralia Day 2022

Started on July 9, 2022 to July 9, 2022

Westralia Day 2022

Special Event / 2022 / A showcase of Western Australian made screen productions at The Backlot Perth.
Special Events

While You Sleep

Started on July 13, 2022 to July 13, 2022

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. 
Talks / Q&As

Breaking Into The Screen Industry

Started on July 16, 2022 to July 16, 2022

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 inspire emerging filmmakers today on their journey toward getting their projects made, as well as their views on the changing landscape of development, finance, and production today.
Talks / Q&As

Demystifying The Role of The Producer

Started on July 17, 2022 to July 17, 2022

Demystifying The Role of The Producer

If you’ve ever wondered who identifies, acquires, develops, finances, and produces the film, television or online content you love, this is the session for you. Some of WA’s leading producers will explain what it is they do, and how and why they do it.
Talks / Q&As

Event Cancelled – Props, Prosthetics and Practical Effects

Started on July 1, 2022 to July 1, 2022

Event Cancelled – 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.
Talks / Q&As

Indie Filmmaker Panel

Started on July 17, 2022 to July 17, 2022

Indie Filmmaker Panel

Writer/Director Adam Morris (Edward & Isabella), writer/director Platon Theodoris (The Lonely Spirits Variety Hour), and writer/director Matthew Victor Pastor (A Pencil to the Jugular), explore what goes into making an indie film in Australia: from the writing, to the directing, to the difficulty of shooting during a pandemic.
Talks / Q&As

It’s Time For Change

Started on July 17, 2022 to July 17, 2022

It’s Time For Change

A panel of cinematography, sound and composition practitioners discuss diversity, gender, industry culture and mental health issues affecting the screen industry sector - and what we need to do to change it. 
Talks / Q&As

Keynote: Shaun Gladwell

Started on July 10, 2022 to July 10, 2022

Keynote: Shaun Gladwell

A talk with artist Shaun Gladwell on his works, hosted by Dr Greg Ferris
Talks / Q&As

Mind The Gap: Bringing Mature Women Back Into The Screen Industry

Started on July 16, 2022 to July 16, 2022

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.
Talks / Q&As

Music and Storytelling

Started on July 10, 2022 to July 10, 2022

Music and Storytelling

A lecture that will explore both the creative process of film scoring and its rich history, hosted by Kenneth Lampl
Talks / Q&As

Q&A: A Life On The Farm

Started on July 17, 2022 to July 17, 2022

Q&A: A Life On The Farm

An after-film talk with Producer Dominik Platen
Talks / Q&As

Q&A: A Pencil To The Jugular

Started on July 12, 2022 to July 12, 2022

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. 
Talks / Q&As

Q&A: Cherubhead

Started on July 12, 2022 to July 12, 2022

Q&A: Cherubhead

An after-film talk with director Sarah Legg, hosted by Andrew F Pierce of The Curb. 
Talks / Q&As

Q&A: Edward and Isabella

Started on July 16, 2022 to July 16, 2022

Q&A: Edward and Isabella

An after-film talk with director Adam Morris, hosted by Andrew F Pierce of The Curb. 
Talks / Q&As

Q&A: Flux Gourmet

Started on July 14, 2022 to July 14, 2022

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
Talks / Q&As

Q&A: Hatchback

Started on July 7, 2022 to July 7, 2022

Q&A: Hatchback

An after-film talk with director Riley Sugars, producer Anthony Littlechild, and executive producer Darren Collinson, hosted by Richard Sowada
Talks / Q&As

Q&A: Namarali

Started on July 8, 2022 to July 8, 2022

Q&A: Namarali

An after-film talk with Director/Editor/Producer Tim Mummery
Talks / Q&As

Q&A: Sissy

Started on July 7, 2022 to July 7, 2022

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.
Talks / Q&As

Q&A: Slaughterhouse-Five

Started on July 10, 2022 to July 10, 2022

Q&A: Slaughterhouse-Five

Join us for a Q&A about Slaughterhouse-Five with the Book-To-Film At The Backlot team. 
Talks / Q&As

Q&A: Stage Changers

Started on July 14, 2022 to July 14, 2022

Q&A: Stage Changers

An after-film talk with director Ella Wright, hosted by Victoria Laurie
Talks / Q&As

Q&A: The Lonely Spirits Variety Hour

Started on July 13, 2022 to July 13, 2022

Q&A: The Lonely Spirits Variety Hour

Q&A with the cast and crew of The Lonely Spirits Variety Hour
Talks / Q&As

Q&A: When The Camera Stopped Rolling

Started on July 16, 2022 to July 16, 2022

Q&A: When The Camera Stopped Rolling

Join Erika Addis, the National President of ACS, as she speaks with filmmaker Jane Castle!
Talks / Q&As

Short Film Panel

Started on July 10, 2022 to July 10, 2022

Short Film Panel

Producer Kate Separovich (Evie, Good Night), writer/director David Vincent Smith (Good Night), and director Chris Elena (Refused Classification) share insights about making short films, storytelling in short films, and the importance of short films as their own entity plus more in this panel discussion.
Talks / Q&As

Writing An Interactive Story (now via Zoom)

Started on July 16, 2022 to July 16, 2022

Writing An Interactive Story (now via Zoom)

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.
Talks / Q&As

You’ll Never Work In This Town Again

Started on July 16, 2022 to July 16, 2022

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.
Feature Feature Films & Documentaries REV Online

18 1/2

Started on July 8, 2022 to July 8, 2022

18 1/2

Directed by Dan Mirvish. It’s 1974 and a White House transcriber has a copy of missing 18 1/2 minutes of Nixon tapes, but what can she do with them and what secrets do they hold?
Documentary Feature Films & Documentaries REV Online

A Life On The Farm

Started on July 10, 2022 to July 10, 2022

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”…
Feature Feature Films & Documentaries REV Online

A Pencil To The Jugular

Started on July 12, 2022 to July 12, 2022

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.
Documentary Feature Films & Documentaries REV Online

Make Me Famous

Started on July 9, 2022 to July 9, 2022

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.
Documentary Feature Films & Documentaries REV Online

Namarali

Started on July 8, 2022 to July 8, 2022

Namarali

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.
Feature Feature Films & Documentaries REV Online

Paris Is In Harlem

Started on July 9, 2022 to July 9, 2022

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.
REV Online

REV’22 ONLINE

Started on July 18, 2022 to July 18, 2022

REV’22 ONLINE

After selling out 700 seats throughout REV'22, here's your final chance to see the movie that took over Perth's heart - BASSENDREAM!
Documentary Feature Films & Documentaries REV Online

When The Camera Stopped Rolling

Started on July 14, 2022 to July 14, 2022

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.

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