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AUS / 2006 / 6:30mins
director MARK LAGANA
Austrlian premiere

A stop animated short that explores the construction and culture of the soap opera. It illuminates the surreal generic environments in which soap operas seemingly attempt to recreate reality.

USA / 2006 / 7:30mins
director JG QUINTEL
Austrlian premiere

What happens when two teenagers are left alone to run a gas station on Halloween night? They feed each other candy... filled with drugs.

UK / 2008 / 6:50mins
director PETER BOYD MACLEAN
World premiere

This comedy is set in a road side cafe in the middle of the middle off nowhere. The Café owner Leroy likes to reminisce about the days he used to be Elvis Presley’s minder.

USA / 2008 / 3:30mins
director KARA NASDOR-JONES
World premiere

The film details a woman’s struggle with and triumph over domestic violence.

AUS / 2008 / 2:00mins
director ANDREW GOLDSMITH
World premiere

Videotape is a live-action stop-motion short about a man who abuses technology until it fights back.

USA / 2008 / 2:40mins
director RICKY SPRAGUE
World premiere

An eccentric, bald surgeon grafts a sexual deviant’s penis onto the pianist husband of a woman he loves.

AUS / 2007 / 5mins
director CAMERON EDSER AND MICHAEL RICHARDS

Animal Instincts is an action packed claymation of epic proportions. A cow and a sheep battle it out in a fight for ultimate farmyard supremacy.

AUS / 2007 / 4mins
director DAMIEN SLEVIN
World premiere

In a post Zombie holocaust world, a man laments his empty lifestyle and questions the futility of working in a corporate wasteland. But all is not as it seems.

USA / 2008 / 3:30mins
director MAX WINSTON
World premiere

A Woodsman’s fast-paced journey, fuelled by happiness, slaughter, and a confrontation with America’s God

USA / 2008 / 10mins
director ROY MAGNUS
World premiere

A robot captures a man and performs a series of experiments on him in order to learn exactly what makes a human a human.

NETHERLANDS / 2008 / 1min
director WYKPE JANNETTE WALDEN
World premiere

A one minute photoanimation of a girl in a room and the feeling of time passing by.

USA / 2008 / 3:30mins
director BRADLEY SCHAFFER
premiere

Can the human brain really move inanimate objects through scientifically unexplainable means? Or is it just a crazy myth created by desperate liars attempting to sell books to meat-headed morons?

CANADA / 2008 / 3mins
director WRIK MEAD
Australian premiere

Prick is a short animation where the technique used manipulates a penis whose desires become its own demise.

NZ / 2007 / 3:30mins
director JILL KENNEDY
premiere

A nostalgic pastiche of found graphic material from AV learning programs of the 1970s. The viewer is taken on a psychedelic journey through a book of canaries, with animated excursions to scrolling landscapes in New Zealand and back again.

AUS / 2008 / 2mins
director SHAHRIAR SHADAB
premiere

An Australian boy visiting his Persian Grandmother in post Islamic revolution Iran realises there is more to his heritage than he previously thought. He looks out the window to see a world in turmoil then his grandmother helps him understand why.

USA / 2008 / 5:10mins
director JON MONAGHAM
premiere

Brutal, spiritual, and completely digital imagery based on Kundalini yoga and Alchemy.

Italy / 2008 / 7mins
director BLUBLU
Australian premiere

An incredibly captivating and at times bizarrely ambiguous animation painted on public walls.

AUS / 2008 / 1:25mins
director EMMA PRESSMAN

A fantastical exploration of a family portrait within a mountainous Mexican landscape.

GERMANY / 2007 / 4:30mins
director KARL TEBBE

A mixture between sauna and disco, as a man imagines himself a rock star.

USA / 2008 / 2:30mins
director Leetal platt
Australian premiere

Zombie has a date tonight, but his poor partner isn’t so excited about what’s in store for her.

USA / 2008 / 6mins
director NANDITA KUMAR

Birth of Brainfly charts a surreal course of a psyche’s evolution within the invisible landscape of the mind.

AUS / 2008 / 1:30mins
director JESSICA MUTASCIO
World premiere

A visual interpretation of what happens when the weight of one’s mind exits through the eyes.

AUS / 2008 / 90 mins
director GEORGE GITTOES
special preview

George Gittoes’ eagerly anticipated new film, The Miscreants (follows Soundtrack to War, Rampage) will be given three special Preview Screenings at this year’s festival.

A mind blowing and entertaining mix of doco and drama, darkness and light, The MISCREANTS does some serious film rule bending and asks: what is real, what is unreal, what is too real?

Gittoes takes us on an extraordinary journey to a forbidden zone, gathering an astonishing cast of characters and dodging the anti-entertainment forces to make the ‘last tele movie’, an over the top action drama, played out in what must be one of the craziest locations in the world - just a cave or two away from where the most wanted man in the world reportedly runs ‘Terror Central’.

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