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Directed by Various | 105 minutes | Unrated |
12:45pm Saturday, 31 May | Estonian House | Buy Tickets | Buy Passes
A program of shorts by righteously image-pilled filmmakers from Melbourne and Sydney. Across tender documentary, paranoid science fiction, and expressionist horror, urban alienation spurs existential crises, mass surveillance drives vulnerable beauties to the brink, and children struggle through their parents’ wreckage, all haunted by the cruel and hungry world outside.
Beginning with a tribute to the late underground materialist filmmaker Shane Lyons, who channeled the spirit of the Cinema of Transgression with his 2001 short “Lust in Me” (last screened over 20 years ago) and fought relentlessly for an inclusive underground cinema culture in Melbourne, the program then jumps to the present future of Australian microbudget insight and invention.
Overall Runtime: 82 mins
WARNING: Strobe lighting
LUST IN ME (2001, Dir. Shane Lyons, 9 mins)
A comedy of relationships, desire, and violence, on 8mm.
CLOCKWATCHERS (2025, Dir. Luke Skineki, 18 mins)
A DVD rental store clerk remains the same while everything around him begins to atrophy.
MAN IN A ROOM (2024, Dir. Ingrid Dieckmann, 14 mins)
A documentary on three searchers reflecting on their private selves in a sparse set with a solitary window. If these are among god's lonely men, they find a different way forward than the violence of their cinematic ancestors.
EMILE IS MISSING (2024, dir. Sam Carson + Félix Morreo Zissermann, 16 mins)
In the style of an investigative documentary, Emile Is Missing follows
trans filmmaker Isobel as she pieces together interviews, webcam
footage, security tapes and her own growing suspicions to solve the
disappearance of her missing girlfriend Emile.
TRY TO REMEMBER, PLEASE (2024, Dir. Maria Dudko, 13 mins)
A picture of a pet cat prompts the filmmaker to talk to her father for the first time about the trauma hiding in their past.
# MONEYKING$ (2024, Dir. @dreamboynicky, 12 mins)
The newly crowned King of California struggles with the responsibilities of his birthright, driving him to disfigurement; a loss of eternal beauty. The film was edited and illegally distributed by the director in a state of drug-induced psychosis.
Country: Australia
Year: 2025
Language: English