Projects in genres: Experimental

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Night falls in a big city. Down dark alleys and in the backstreets, a man looks for a woman who drifted in and out of his life a long time ago. Convinced she has come back, he follows her trace, as she wanders mindlessly through the streets they once knew together. Or did they?

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In this urban ghost story set in a supermarket, we find our heroine Isabel resigning her self to a life of shelf stacking and shop displays at Cheapi Cheapi Cutz, where Stanley the manager bosses her around and memory of her mother undermining her, grinds her down.

She is forced into action, however, when she is visited by a very unusual ghost and given an ultimatum she cannot refuse!

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Tehran Trace takes the same motion path slowly and silently across four still photographs; the foyer of the Hotel Laleh, the Mirror Hall of the Golestan Palace, a stone arch towards the north of the city, and a bazaar with a view of mountains. Each 'trace' begins close up, curves away from its opening subject and ends with the original image fully framed.

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Based on the critically acclaimed stage play by Glyn Maxwell, The Best Man tells the story of Bailey, the best man at his oldest friend's wedding. In his search for anecdotes to embellish his speech, Bailey has stumbled across a secret so shocking that it change everything. And now it's time for his speech. Just what does he know? How much will he reveal?

Moving between the fraught wedding reception and the darkest moments from their past, The Best Man is a tale of love and cheating - with a sting.
 

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A day in the life of a traditional shoemaker - seen throughout the process of making a pair of shoes, then off for a walk in the countryside.

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A young businessman, John Maxted, checks into a hotel for a weekend conference. Upon entering his room, he discovers a button on his wall.

Due to Maxted's lonely and introverted personality and with the increasing pressures from the oddball characters surrounding him, the button begins to play on his mind and he slowly sinks into a deep state of paranoia. Maxted's fascination with the button becomes an obsession, but his profound mental insecurities deter him from pressing it.

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A wry animated documentary about how Holocaust tourism distorts history. A whistlestop tour from Auschwitz hot-dogs to Krakow's kitsch Judaica.
 

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'The Memory of Water' is a trilogy exploring the nature of human consciousness. 'Part One' examines the themes of memory and reflection. 
In 2004, the film was acquired by ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image) as part of its permanent collection of exemplary works by Australian and international filmmakers.

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Two disillusioned subtitles are waiting for a film to start.

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2015, the last known oil fields have been vanquished by corporation run governments throwing the world into disarray. Out of this apocalyptic nightmare the corporations embark on a course of action to cull the human race and initialise a depopulation programme.
 
But the scientists tasked with this heinous act revolt, thus creating a drug that will keep the human race alive. But with no time to test the drug, humans are left in a state far worse than death. Reduced to a primitive ape-like state, their only instinct is to kill. For they are no longer human, but 'Biosyns'.

Cast adrift to survive alone in the wilderness, Max has learnt to become a hunter/gatherer, living off the land, but under constant threat from the Biosyns. He has forged a life without human contact, a young man living from moment to moment. Soon he learns that the Biosyns are learning to communicate, and are banding together to become the new dominant race, and then Max will have to face a greater number than ever before.

So when he encounters a 'Tracker' (genetically enhanced POWs from the oil wars) his first instinct is to kill him. Surviving the attack, the Tracker reassesses his original mission - track down and kill Max - to take him south to safety - as the Corporation believe Max’s blood may contain the antidote to the Biosyn Holocaust.

And now, if Mankind is to survive, then Max must undertake an odyssey fraught with rampaging Biosyns and deadly Trackers.

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This story takes placed somewhere between the present and the future. Loosely set within the science fiction genre we enter a time when the government have declared societies urban youth as out of control and in need of readjustment. Sighting the medias glamorisation and endorsement of images of cultural resistance, namely hip-hops 'ghetto fabulous' aesthetic as a root cause of the problem, a new antisocial law has been decreed. It has been declared that any unruly youth must be rounded up and literally reprogrammed in order for them to fit more harmoniously into current society. The idea is to first remove from their mind images associated with the 'ghetto fabulous' culture and then implant a microchip containing a standardised alternative that allows them to quietly reintegrate.

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An astute and affectionate portrait of the unseen community of HAM radio enthusiasts. The space age hobby where the world is your friend.