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USA / 2007 / 80mins
director CHRIS LAMONT

Meet Stewart Savage – Stewart lives in an idyllic, soft-focus universe, where his girlfriend adores him and his family is as wholesome as the Osmond’s. He also lives in a world where he strangles his girlfriends, hates his meaningless job and prefers the psychotic solace of the world inside his head.

One day, Stewart brings home his latest girlfriend and victim to meet the parents for a family birthday celebration. Accustomed to their son’s antics, the helpless Savage’s play along with Stewart’s quickly devolving sense of reality while attempting to bag the fresh body of his girlfriend before others arrive.

Corin Nemec (Parker Lewis Can’t Lose), Nancy Allen, and John De Lancie stars in this dark, dystopian, surrealistic comedy, where a heightened and experimental execution of its visuals builds to an unstable and engrossing crescendo. Quality Time is all wrapped into a package that will keep an audience entertained with a fresh innovative style.

AUS / 2008 / 3mins
director Geoff Weary
World premiere

Light/Strike is one of a series of short works created and recorded with the use of an original Sony Porta-Pak camera system, circa 1975. The unique properties of the camera render the subject matter of the film as a fragile, vaporous presence.

USA / 2008 / 18mins
director BILL MORRISON
Australian premiere

Ship passengers are depicted staring wordlessly into the camera’s lens. All of their numbers have by now been called. And in staring back at them, we contemplate our own fate.

AUS / 2008 / 15mins
director PAUL WINKLER
Australian premiere

Impressed by the enormous variety of Buddha figures seen in South-East Asia Winkler, creates a kind of homage to the Buddha figure.

AUS / 2007 / 2mins
Editor NICHOLAS RYAN

An experimental underwater emulsion adventure.

AUS / 2008 / 4mins
director PETER NEWMAN

Free-to-air television fuses at 5:19pm

USA / 2007 / 6:20mins
director David Yun
Australian premiere

Juxtaposing found footage of Japanese Internment camps in Arizona with a found letter written by Babar Ahmad (a Muslim prisoner accused of running Al-Qaeda websites and awaiting extradition to Guantanamo Bay) this film traces a connection between the way Japanese Americans were perceived during World War II and how Arabs and Arab Americans are being treated in a post-9/11 world.

AUS / 2008 / 6mins
director CHRIS KENNEDY
Australian premiere

Inspired by a poem, the film is a consideration of the relationship of gravity and politics – the beauty and necessity of rising up, but also, perhaps the significance of allowing oneself to fall.

AUS / 2005 / 2mins
director DAVID MACKENZIE

In the first snows of winter, Ayvali a small Turkish village, is terrorised by a stray dog. Inspired by early Surrealist documentaries, Mackenzie explores the uncertain worlds of observation and documentation.

UK / 2008 / 3:35mins
director DAVID FIRTH

Firth decided to make the most of the fact that his room was crawling with insects last summer and filmed them all close up. Music video for EVENT CHOKE by Datach’i.

GREECE / 2007 / 30 mins
director ANTONIOS PAPANTONIOU
Australian premiere

A vehicle of unknown origins. A driver of unknown purpose. A trip inside the forest’s web.