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PROGRAM AT A GLANCE
Opening night - Thursday 10 September 6pm
Opening Night Extravaganza
Join us for the opening of the 2009 festival with the new film by the anti-capitalist pranksters Mike Bonanno and Andy Bichlbaum called, THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD. Have you been like us and dying to see what they would get up to next? Screening alongside will be two great shorts, My Name is Pochsy and Cattle Call. Plus KAMAHL treats opening night guests to a special one-off performance. Tasty delights will be supplied including premium salmon from Huon Aqua, Ashgrove Farm Cheese and Island Olive Grove olives. After the film screening enjoy gourmet pizza thanks to our friends DOUGHBOY PIZZA Newtown. Plus complimentary Fat Yak Beer (thanks to Matilda Bay Brewery) and fine wine by Beelgara Estate Winery will be flowing.
Short film programs
MAIN CINEMA
Sgt. Ballsack’s Comedy Corner
This quality assortment of shorts is guaranteed to have you on the floor in stitches or at least wonder what your drink was spiked with. Full of entertaining, dark, politically incorrect, awkward and surreal humour, Sgt. Ballsack has certainly outdone himself this time.
Come and experience 18 incredible animations in 90 minutes. Showcasing various styles and techniques from filmmakers around the world, this session is always fun and a festival favourite.
A unique program of artistic and entertaining films where the filmmakers explore compelling characters, create fantastical worlds and play with narrative structures. This session is extremely engrossing, subversive and enjoyable.
A session that celebrates diversity and ingenuity in Australian filmmaking. One of the few chances you’ll get all year to see the most original and challenging Aussie films, which will leave you feeling inspired about the state of the industry.
A heart-warming/heart-wrenching session of several uniquely crafted short documentaries, that range from international tragedy to an intimate story about one man’s foreskin.
Recycling, reusing, reclaiming, retrieving, recovering, rescuing film footage and image. Come and see the session that’s 100 percent green (well, sort of).
An experimental selection of short films for art cinema connoisseurs and film adventurers alike. Hallucinatory, textural, sensual, and engaging. In this session each film’s material is just as important as the story it evokes. This is where cinema begins and ends.
(Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno)
They have an unusual hobby: posing as top executives of corporations they hate and make it their mission to expose corporate crime, stupidity and greed.
(Chusy Jardine)
At 2pm every Tuesday, Tammy beats Gene with a tennis racquet. It’s his penance. In retrospect, he shouldn’t have jumped to conclusions about the pistachio nut.
(Ben Ferris)
If Bill Viola and Peter Greenaway had an illegitimate love child, it would be Penelope. A lavish and visually arresting feast, that tells the timeless tale of Homer’s wife, Penelope.
(Sonia Escolano & Sadrac Gonzale)
Myna has a terrible dilemma and will risk her dignity to resolve it. This film is one of the most challenging pieces of cinema in a long time.
(Mathew Kaufman)
Forget the celebrities at Studio 54, the real place to be was Plato’s Retreat, where ordinary folk would spend their nights having sex with a gleefully free abandon previously unheard of in the modern world.
