2022 Program
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18 1/2
Started on July 8, 2022 to July 8, 2022
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
Lonesome
Started on July 9, 2022 to July 9, 2022
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.
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.
Planet X
Started on July 7, 2022 to July 7, 2022
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.
Shadow
Started on July 16, 2022 to July 16, 2022
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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”…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Namarali
Started on July 8, 2022 to July 8, 2022
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
30 Second Thoughts
Started on July 9, 2022 to July 19, 2022
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.
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
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Tidal
Started on July 9, 2022 to July 9, 2022
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Opening Night 2022: Sissy
Started on July 7, 2022 to July 7, 2022
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…
Shaun Gladwell: The Cinematic
Started on July 7, 2022 to July 7, 2022
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
Q&A: A Life On The Farm
Started on July 17, 2022 to July 17, 2022
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.
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.
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.
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
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
Q&A: Namarali
Started on July 8, 2022 to July 8, 2022
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.
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.
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
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
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!
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.
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.
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.
18 1/2
Started on July 8, 2022 to July 8, 2022
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”…
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.
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.
Namarali
Started on July 8, 2022 to July 8, 2022
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’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!
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.