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USA / 2008 / 78mins
director MIKE DAVIS
World premiere

One hundred years in the future... Due to overpopulation and the effects of global warming, sex has been declared illegal on Earth. When a crew of astronauts hear of a distant planet inhabited by insatiable female creatures who exist only to satisfy man’s desires, they decide to take a detour from their routine mission in search of the mythical star system known as the Sex Galaxy. Written and directed by Mike Davis, ‘Sex Galaxy’ marks the auteurial debut of the twisted mind behind cult comedy sensation and Russ Meyer grindhouse horror homage ‘Pervert!’ starring Mary Carey.

AUS / 2008 / 6:30 mins
director SODA_JERK
Australian premiere

A lesson in the intergalactic origins of hip-hop turntablism, this narrative remix video is composed entirely of samples from existing film and music sources. Set in the Bronx in the mid 70s, this video remix kicks off with the alien abduction of three pioneers of the hip-hop ‘old skool’: DJ Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash and Afrika Baambattaa. Once on board the Mothership with Sun Ra and George Clinton, the three DJs are transported to Planet Rock where they are skilled in a secret alien technique – the scratch. Armed with this sonic intelligence, they are returned to the Bronx to unleash hip-hop turntablism onto the airwaves of planet Earth.

AUS / 2006 / 2mins
director TONY LAWRENCE
World premiere

8mm 50’s burlesque reels, ‘club films’ and 60’s American Mid-West home movies marry with the raw fuzz rock of Alien Christ.

AUS / 2005 / 1:10mins
director ATANAS DJONOV
premiere

Read aloud, each word in an excerpt from Eisenstein’s Film Sense is matched by the artist with an image found by searching for that word in Google.

AUS / 2008 / 6:30mins
director MICHAEL HOATH
World premiere

This is the story of a woman who loses her young daughter while out shopping and the subsequent confusion that leads to a man being accused of the young girls abduction.

AUS / 2005 / 6mins
director JOHN HOBART HUGHES

The film is an open narrative, a collage of landscape and objects, a weaving of places, a rediscovery of moments, a reflection of the past, an arrival at a mound of dust, and a reinvention of self.

AUS / 2008 / 13:30mins
director ZAK HILDITCH
World premiere

Alex deals with the aftermath of his girlfriend’s ordeal, only to discover that his actions trigger a chain of events which prove nothing except his misguided love.

AUS / 2007 / 3:30mins
director MICHAEL MIER
NSW premiere

As the sound of approaching soldiers grows louder an Old Man and a Young Girl must escape the darkness before too much light is shed on the situation.

AUS / 2007 / 4mins
director TIM MARICIC

When “Australia’s Funniest Home Videos” rejects his entry, an ambitious filmmaker is forced to seek success in the most prestigious, respected, career-boosting, and quintessentially Australian film festival of all time.

AUS / 2006 / 12mins
director DAVID FARNJIC

A prostitute acts as a confidant for a disturbed man who forces her to question the morals of every day people and reassess her place in life.

AUS / 2007 / 2:30mins
director CHRIS ROBINSON
World premiere

Real life is not as shocking as fiction.

AUS / 2007 / 3:30mins
director HAMISh CHARLTON
World premiere

Psycho with a truly psychotic twist.

AUS / 2005 / 5mins
director JAMIL YAMANI
premiere

An Indonesian woman prepares a chicken for a tourist customer.

AUS / 2008 / 4mins
director ROD MCMILLAN
NSW premiere

In June 2007 massive rains swept across Gippsland, Victoria. How did one small swing bridge spanning the George Creek cope with the rising flood waters?

AUS / 2005 / 4mins
director ATANAS DJONOV

A little human figure made from wire is depicted in his film editing studio, where he is lured into embarking on a journey of exploration into the mysterious realm of photography and cinema.

AUS / 2008 / 4:24mins
director VIRGINIA HILYARD
Australian premiere

An intriguing story, combines moving image, historical scientific data, photography and medical imaging. The physicality of the image takes us on a journey of disquiet.

AUS / 2007 / 3mins
director PIA DULU
World premiere

A dark fairytale emerges in the western suburbs of Melbourne, where the backyard is the setting for sibling rivalry.

AUS / 2003 / 4:30mins
director MAHMOUD YEKTA
premiere

‘Fled’ is an experiment with the limits of becoming other. Fled is the story of becoming shadows and its “flesh”ing out.

AUS / 2006 / 1:20mins
director DOUG MASON
World premiere

During APEC, the scale and intensity of the state and federal agencies presence dwarfed the demonstration conducted by the public so much the event could be viewed as a police demonstration.

AUS / 2008 / 4mins
director RICHARD TUOHY
World premiere

Super 8 pixilation, exploring seductive forbidden fruit and the borders between peoples.

AUS / 2007 / 3:30mins
director DAN MONCEAUX AND EMMA STERLING
NSW premiere

This turbulent portrait of the artist’s recent travels reanimates the inanimate (architecture, scultpure, concrete urband space) by camera technique, and contrasts this mechanical movement with the natural wonder of Niagra Falls.