Projects in genres: Experimental

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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.

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A Filipino migrant has been living and working in Israel for ten years. Without a residence permit, in a country with very harsh law enforcement, she is only free to move around the house and the garden where she works. She has a special bond with her pet, a tortoise.

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Untitled Composition #1 is a poetic and surreal study of identity, human relations and self analytical on the very subject of cinema and theatre itself as an artform. This is an experiment in minimalism rather than an attempt to entertain. Two members of a disilllusioned generation, a man and a woman, get together one dark November night to discuss life, love, sex, politics and almost everything in between. At first she is the more talkative of the pair. Using his silence and reluctance to reveal anything about himself, he gradually manipulates her into taking part of his darker agenda. As they slowly start revealing their true identity to each other and decide to play Russian roulette, they begin a journey that will change their lives forever.

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Every time she woke up in the arms of other men, she'd have to remember he was dead all over again - the sensual journey of a young widow.

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A no-budget, non-dialogue documentary about a man living and working on an organic farm in Cornwall, England. Filmed towards the end of the two months he spent there, when the isolation and the sometimes harsh weather were making life harder. A portrait of one man and his environment.

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Twenty-one dancers are held by your gaze. Losing contact can be traumatic.

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A Map With Gaps is an account of a journey made by the director's father through Soviet Russia in the early 'seventies, in a van he built and named Supervan. Utilising a combination of archive audio recordings and still photographs, drama reconstruction and animation, a surreal and comic tale unfolds of 12,000 miles, 14 countries and 26 very peculiar days. Essentially this is a catalogue of minor disasters, a story that demonstrates that fact can indeed be stranger than fiction and sometimes the grey area between the two is the most interesting place to explore, particularly if you forgot to bring a map.