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USA / 2005 / 37mins
director LARRY CLARK
NSW festival premiere

Impaled is a documentary about the accessibility of pornography and how it has influenced the sexual development of young people. Clark interviews men between the ages of 19 and 23 and questions how seeing pornography at such a young age shaped their views on sex and how their sexual fantasies are directly influenced by growing up with pornography. Clarke searches for a volunteer to star in a porn film and documents the way the experience impacts the young man’s life.
The honesty of the subjects and their responses to pornography makes for a truly accessible, intimate docu-experiment. Clark’s uncensored opinions can be refreshingly startling, shedding light on a more obscure corner of the cinematic world.

UK / 2008 / 17mins
director SEAN CONWAY
Australian premiere

The psychology of sexual jealousy is explored in this film about a scooter-riding zelophile (a person who gets their kicks from jealousy, apparently) called Baby Shoes, his nymphomaniac girlfriend Alex, her other lover Nylon, a mentalist named Pubelles, and a pair of drug dealing lesbians.

AUS / 2006 / 6:30 mins
director PEARL TAN
premiere

Mel’s girlfriend Rach is headed overseas... This is Mel’s goodbye video.

UK / 2004 / 2:20mins
director DAVID FIRTH
Australian festival premiere

A short cartoon about video dating.

AUS / 2007 / 7 mins
director ROBIN ROYCE QUEREE and MIKE KANE

Klint has looked after his handicapped son for over 20 years. Since his wife left him, the responsibility and pain of seeing his son like this begins to take its toll on him.

AUS / 2007 / 8:50 mins
director KAYLA DAVIDSON
Australian premiere

Being Barry is a dark, skewed comedic tale of Australian suburbia. The suburbs you don’t see on Australian soap operas or in glossy real estate development brochures.

USA / 2008 / 4 mins
director DAVID BURNS
Australian premiere

The film depicts a young man’s erotic relationship to nature. The man’s clothes are cast off, in parallel to the stripping away of the politics of American culture.

AUS / 2008 / 7 mins
director AARON MCLOUGHLIN
NSW premiere

It wasn’t what he was expecting at Heartbreak Motel.

Czech Republic / 2007 / 84 mins
director LUCIE KRALOVA
NSW premiere

While on holiday in Sweden Czech tourist Lada finds a suitcase in which there are 22 rolls of film. Developing the films Lada discovers 756 photographs of six Chinese tourists; these are exhibited in a gallery in Prague and become a cult success. Lost Holiday examines the interest in these images in Prague before director Lucie Kralova and her crew start to retrace the tourists’ travels in the hope they can locate the six men amongst a billion Chinese nationals. By turns bizarre, funny, and fascinating, Lost Holiday becomes a gripping detective documentary and an absorbing study into the nature of travel, holidays, memory, and images, as the director asks “is our world really connected?”