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USA / 2007 / 18mins
director BENJAMIN WILSON
Australian premiere

Adulthood comes with strings attached for Stephen, who at 17 years old has had twenty-seven surgeries. He must leave his childhood neighbourhood behind to reflect on his past, present and future.

USA / 2007 / 19mins
director NICK MOSHER
Australian premiere

Watch out, Nick Mosher is back with another wacky Homeless Keg Party.
Bring the family!

USA / 2007 / 48mins
director DON RAMIREZ
Australian premiere

Trailer Trash - A Film Journal is an intimate documentary that chronicles nearly a three year period of intense turmoil in the filmmaker’s family. Don’s honest and open documentary of his familial decay, unfolds as a white trash story of deceit, illness and murder.

USA / 2008 / 114 mins
director CRAIG BALDWIN
NSW premiere

It’s the year 2019 on the Empire of Mu -- aka the moon -- where L. Ron Hubbard (Damon Packard) is building theme parks, selling crater-naming rights and beaming corporate logos back to “that prison planet called Earth.” Craig Baldwin offers with his new feature MOCK UP ON MU, his usual blend of fantasy and bizarre satiric narrative. It combines existing footage from spy, sci-fi, Western, and even horror films and new footage, of real life and fictional characters. The result is a collage of stories (mostly true) about Californian post war subcultures and religions, including scientology and the ‘new age’ movement.

This combination of archival and newly-shot footage makes up a playful, exploratory trajectory through the now-mythic SoCal matrix of Jack Parsons (founder of the Jet Propulsion Lab), L.Ron Hubbard (science-fiction author-turned-cult-leader), and Marjorie Cameron (bohemian artist and “mother of the New Age movement”). These intertwined tales spin out into a speculative, farcical critique of the militarization of space and the corporate take-over of spiritual fulfillment and leisure-time.