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Directed by Neal Wynne | 77 minutes | 15+ | Australian Premiere |
7:10pm Saturday, 16 May | Balam Balam Place - Cinema 2 | Buy Tickets | Buy Passes
A kidnapped rapper... An aging vampire... They went to find Aidan but found more: WHAT IS THE TRICK?
During a music video shoot, a mysterious actor kidnaps an up-and-coming rapper. The video’s aimless director and stressing producer set out to save the rapper and finish the video, a quest that takes them to a nearly empty hotel in the mountains, and then further.
A spooky comic noir full of menacing images and bizarre line readings in and around a knockoff Overlook Hotel. It’s a slippery movie that tackles labour, imagination, self-delusion, and slackerdom with eyes and ears for the ultra-uncanny. It’s a full body haunt designed to leave questions lingering: What just happened? What am I doing with my life? Was that film incredible?
Screens with a precorded interview with Neal Wynne.
Screens with LIKE THAT DVD SCREENSAVER (2025, dir. Aditya Raj Gureja, 17:00)
Running late, Kabir anxiously rushes towards a dinner with his friends. But when he arrives, a friend's playful comment causes him to disassociate from the entire night. The meta-theatrical narrative follows the protagonist trying to create a film in his head to exert control over his dissociative state.
SIMILAR: The Beast (2023), RapWorld, Silent Hill franchise, The Plains by Gerald Murnane, We Are Your Friends
“… Saying it’s the story of a music-video crew tracking down an AWOL rap star is like saying Blue Velvet is the story of an ear. Curious viewers may find, like me, new worlds of imagination and emotion inside The Trick.” - Eric Allen Hatch, New/Next Film Fest
"It’s a strange, adventurous, funny, psychedelic film that represents the limitless possibilities (and setbacks) of low-budget filmmaking." - Eddie Averill, Vintage Violence
Country: United States
Year: 2024
Language: English