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Directed by Daniel Tune | 109 minutes | 15+ | Victorian Premiere |
2:45pm Saturday, 31 May | SV HQ Inside | Buy Tickets | Buy Passes
MovieJuice is an Adelaide-based film collective dedicated to the screening & distribution of alternative & experimental cinema. In addition to showcasing boundary-pushing movies and music, they also make their own awesome magnificent microbudget art! BUFF is proud to present a triple feature of MovieJuice onscreen, with the filmmakers in attendance.
Malls (2025, Dir. Daniel Tune, 60 mins)
A STRUCTURAL ROMANCE
Lou and Noodles are consumers. Adrift and empty, they are separate from each other and from the world. Ruled by desire and uncontrollable drives to excess, they spend their solitary hours in spaces both real and unreal. Occasionally, they are in the same part of the mall.
In a landscape of increasing alienation and drab horrors masked by an endless feed of bright, colourful ones, Malls is a lament for a culture that is most alive in its doomed attempts to escape itself. An ambient city symphony that draws from the urban slow cinema of Tsai Ming-liang and the microbudget spirit of early John Waters, Malls sets on a search for the persistent poetry amongst and in spite of the glaring lights, piss-stained alleys and cold concrete slabs of the Adelaide CBD. Can we find it together?
SIMILAR: Safe, Stranger Than Paradise, The Hole, Je Tu Il Elle, Nick Pinkerton's monograph on Goodbye Dragon Inn
Night of the Cryptoid (2024, Dir. Aubrey Winslow + Jack Langford, 3 mins)
PUNK'S NOT DEAD ... YET
After accidentally killing a hippie cleaning up the woods, two littering youths are hunted down by nature incarnate. An homage to schlocky B-horror, shot on 16mm. Perfectly paced bloody mayhem!!!
Ships That Bear (2023, dir. Gabriel Bath, 49 mins)
POP. BANG. CRASH. IT'S AN EPIC HISTORICAL YARN
Gabriel Bath’s Ships That Bear takes the audience on a journey that starts in the Cuban plains and ends in The Big Apple, all whilst his camera never leaves good ol’ Adelaide. A a backyard historical epic that is at once a dizzying symbolic treatise on the meaning of history and a very funny exercise in poetically goofing off. No money, no fear, a movie of infinite possibility.
SIMILAR: Natural Born Killers, I Shot Andy Warhol, Bad Girls Go to Hell, the films of Julio Bressane
Screens with a live Q&A.
PRAISE FOR MALLS
"Malls is melancholy and often gross, appropriate for a film titled in mock tribute to some of the worst, most lonely places on Earth." - Kai Perrignon, BUFF Head Programmer
"Mcbeautiful. Mchypnotic." - Jordy Pollock, Letterboxd
PRAISE FOR SHIPS THAT BEAR
"Multidimensional friction that feels like the vibrations in a room full of people trying to figure out a revolution." - Kai Perrignon, BUFF Head Programmer
"Wild, funny, riotous, experimental, abstract, political, playful, joyous, this is the best Australian film of the year by far. Now this is the kind of cinema Australia needs!" - Bill Mousoulis, Unknown Pleasures
Co-Presented with Unknown Pleasures
Country: Australia
Year: 2025
Language: English