SCREENING SATURDAY 10TH SEPT 4PM (BOILER ROOM)
MOTHER’S MILK
A outrageously diverse and imaginative session of films made by talented female directors. What woman wouldn’t make a film about Nazi doctors and bees-waxed models.
MELT | NOEMIE LAFRANCE | 2010 | USA | 9:50 | AUS PREMIERE
Wrapped in sculptural beeswax and lanolin costumes that melt away, dancers progress in euphoria and exhaustion.
DR NAZI | JOAN CHEMLA | 2010 | FRA |15:00 | AUS PREMIERE
Charles Chinaski is a guy with many problems and feels responsible for most of them: women, alcohol, his hostility towards groups of people. One day he decides to consult a doctor.
ESCAPE | DEE HOOD | 2010 | USA | 4:40 | AUS PREMIERE
A richly layered experimental video exploring ideas about time and the parallel universe?
DULUTH | NICOLE BRENDING | 2010 | AUS | 9:00 | AUS PREMIERE
Frankie, a small town stripper, who, after finding out that her grandfather has died, tries to finish her shift dancing for the old men who patron the club.
REAL LIVE PHONE CONFESSIONS | CLARE FERRA | 2011 | AUS | 3:00 | WORLD PREMIERE
Phone sex commercials become transformed into the site of a repressed trauma.
BENEATH THE WAVES | RENEE MARIE PETROPOULOS | AUS | 13:30 | AUS PREMIERE
A deaf teenager suffering from severe tinnitus strives to overcome her own irrevocable psychological and physical alienation in order to find peace within her world of constant noise.
TERREMOTO | SHELLEY JORDON | USA | 7:00 | AUS PREMIERE
A hand painted animation, which intertwines personal dreams and memories with images culled from Roman history and mythology.
SUN MOON STARS RAIN | LESLIE SUPNET | 2010 | CAN | 3:30 | AUS PREMIERE
A psychedelic visual elegy, lamenting the death of Mother Nature’s children.
DOLLS FACTORY | AINHOA MENENDEZ GOYOAGA | 2010 | SPAIN | 11:00 | AUS PREMIERE
Ana works in a doll factory, where her entire life revolves around her mechanical duties, but a small adjustment to her job will change her life forever.
A WHOLE NEW WORLD | JOSEPHINE SKINNER | 2011 | AUS | 3:10 | AUS PREMIERE
A whole new world brings together 5 YouTube performances of the eponymous romantic duet from the Disney cartoon, Aladdin.
DIRTY GIRL | JENNIFER CLARY | 2007 | USA | 5:00 | AUS PREMIERE
Frightened and anxious, the woman’s mind wanders as she imagines the battle between her dirty, cancerous tumours and the surgeon.
