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Main Cinema : Session 1 Saturday |
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The Lingering and the Stain
Dir. Roberto Jean Francois & Elena Knox AUS / 2008 / 11:15
Conceived at the nexus of fantasy and flesh this film records the actual etching of a poem onto a woman’s skin by a mysterious blind tattooist. Part gruesome Gothic neo-noir and part hyper-real documentary.
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Partition for Obsolete Visuals
Dir. Emmanuela Prigioni / AUS / 2008 / 3:55
This film interprets discarded 16mm records of the past, deemed to be obsolete and irrelevant, in a piece of ‘reconstructed cinema’. |
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Remembrance Day Speech
Prod. Dirk De Bruyn / AUS / 2008 / 8:00
An ‘exquisite corpse’ like animation involving 19 animators each responding to a section to Paul Keating’s Remembrance Day speech. |
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Aqua/ship
Dir. Merilyn Fairskye / AUS / 2009 / 3:15
On a grey day, surfers paddle out towards a ship that passes without stopping. |
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AKA
Dir. Josephine Starrs & Leon Cmielewski AUS / 2001 / 2:30
a.k.a. - “also known as”, an alias, a front, a smokescreen - poses the question: how will we respond when the day of universal surveillance arrives? |
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Piss
Dir. Girard Dorney / AUS / 2008 / 12:07
Francis has thought of the right words for Matthew and Matthew’s son likewise wants to communicate with his dad. It’s easier to talk with someone who’s dead. They’ve already replied. |
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Cstation
Dir. Emmanuela Prigioni, Marieka Walsh, Rachel Peacock / AUS / 2009 / 2:24
A train station, late at night, is captured through the random glitches of a Bolex camera. |
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Cane Cutter
Dir. Dustin Clare / AUS / 2008 / 9:00
Roo and Barney are best mates but when Roo’s attention turns to Barney’s younger sister, Pearl, everything comes crashing down. |
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Blowback
Dir. David Hansen / AUS / 2009 / 5:30
A group of Indigenous leaders from the Northern Territory decide that the incidence of child abuse in white Australia is too high. They send in a militarised task force to Sydney to intervene. |
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Spilt
Dir. Kitty Green / AUS / 2008 / 8:30
A litter of kittens ignite a fierce sensuality in three little girls. Dolled in white tulle and lace, the girls paw and purr with the silver cats. As their games evolve, the claws come out. |
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Breathless
Dir. Sumugan Sivanesan / AUS / 2009 / 1:33
A self inflicted, potentially comedic, but generally pointless near death experience. |
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Schadenfreude
Dir. Peter O’Brien / AUS / 2008 / 9:02
An existential fable about a man who wakes to find himself broke, homeless and missing one shoe. |
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The Dreaming Man
Dir. Amber Wright / AUS / 2009 / 3:00
A comment on the ways in which Western society has failed Aboriginal Australians. |
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Road Movie (part 1)
Dir. John Gillies / AUS / 2008 / 9:30
A man drives out of the city to secluded place. He gets out of the car and opens the boot. |
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