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The Klaus Initiative |
A selection of the most wack shorts, documentaries and experimental gear.
OPENING NIGHT
I Call it Love by Mira Gittner 13m
Annie Mae by Nassiem Valamanesh 11m
Crash Test by Sam Voutas 5m
Gravity by Brad McMillan 10m
Bad Ass Mono-Winged Angel by Kieran Galvin 2m 30s
Wheels of Fortune by Britt Arthur 15m
A Fistful of Heart by Bernie Clifford 29m
Shrimper by Miles Blow by Julie Pitt 14m
Man's Best Friend by Steve Baker 5m
Whyspers by Lindsay Cox 8m
In Darkness Under The Sun by Brendan Cook 7m
Blood and Ash by Emma Freeman 24m (PG)
The Original by Josh Szeps 12m 50s
Circadian Rhythms by Jake Robb 15m
Babelangue by Troy Rhoades 6m 30s
Yanked by Miles Merrill 6m 51s
Bound by Serhat Caradee 8m
Mercury by Brendan Hay 5m
Snack by Ali Ashdown 2m
3 Breaths by Roberto J. Salvatore 5m 25s
Creamy Love by Dick Dale 6m 45s
A Kind of Portrait by Rebecca Gallagher 8m
Comfort by Karin Cheung 7mins
Brother by Angus Strachan 5m 20s
The Rivulet by Marcus Murphy 20m 25s
Mutating Passenger by Kristen Condon 7m
The Monkey Who Knew Too Much ... by Myles Conti 7m
Alternate Straight by Luke Preston, C. Hague 7mins
The Masterplan by Gregory A. Erdstein 15m
Capricorn by 17m
Someone Flew Over The Brooklyn Bridge by Matteo Fiacchino 23m
Facts are Safety by Nicolas Debot 6m 30s
Filum by Sarah Logan 1m
Mr Sweety by Nicholas Kallincos 2m 30s
Security Officer Dan by Luke Preston 10m
Rose by Pandarosa 3m
Funktionslust by Maya Linden 10m
S-Crash by Lindsay Cox, Victor Holder 3m
Pencildick by Joe Villanti 1m 45s
Pennies For Beer by Matthew T. 3m 50s
Stiff by Joe Villanti 5m 15s
The Cutting Room Floor by Steve Baker 3m 10s
Saturday 7 July 9pm @ Kaleide
While Eastern Europe begins to embrace Western Capitalism, Belarus is locked in a culture of fear reminiscent of the harshest communist regimes. In his film Long Knives Night, director Victor Dashuk explores how power, dictatorship and human despair can
destroy a nation.
Entering a city through 15 gates: Glimpses at people and places of Los Angeles, as quick as intense. Kid's casting agency, an exterminator, a news hound. Relaxed by narcotic sounds we withdraw into chillout spaces of transparent beauty. A journey's log, both entertaining and apocalyptic.
- screening with Trippers by Pedro Brenner 24m
The perverse thoughts of people who ride
the metro in Monterray.
A documentary about the pro-independence guerrilla army and their fight for independence in East Timor. A struggle that was only won by the guerrillas laying down their arms in order to win the war.
- screening with Gordon Gordon by 24m
Like a lucid dream of the past remembered in the landscape
of a Latin land.
The story of Australia's Star Wars fan community leading up to and following the release of Episode 1: The Phantom Menace.
- screening with CANVAS: The Skateboarding Documentary by Mick Erausquin, Matt Hill 40m
Australia 1998: A professional film crew go on tour with eight of the most diverse skaters in the sport on the Hardcore 900 Degree Tour.
Heath Kirchart and Jeremy Klein are two skateboarders just out to have a good time in a race across the good old US of A.
- screening with The End 45m
One of the best skateboard videos of the century. Features the skating and trademark style of the famed Birdhouse team.
Nate's thing is definitely style. Backside flips, tre flips, and the memorable back tail commercial with the Gonz stunt double. For any of the doubters, Matt Field came through with a surprisingly good part; loud, roughneck Rasta beats and way more than just the nollie.
- screening with Baker 2G 40m
Super freak show follow up to the Baker bootleg original.
Thursday 5 July 7pm @ Cinemedia at Treasury Theatre
...authentic channelled histories and documents combine artfully in a work of fiction more challenging and compelling than any newscast or documentary......
Friday 13 July 9pm @ Storey Hall
Screening with the feature Das Zimmer
Anna Krone is an ordinary, lonely and discontented woman, imprisoned in her own created compulsions.
A film about lost emotions and the futile hunt for them.
SHORTS PROGRAM 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 docos
Saturday 7 July 7pm @ Storey Hall
How does one juggle commitments to friends, parents, & lover? Sometimes the hardest decisions are made on the toilet.
A young girl ventures from her suburban home and into the city.
Crash test dummy. Crash test film. Both torn, beaten, released.
John is trapped in the claustrophobic world of a twelve year old boy. It is a world that he is desperate to escape.
Owen is infertile; when he asks his best friend Chas to help get his girlfriend pregnant, little does he know the price he will have to pay.
There is as much chance of good things as bad things. - TRIPITAKA
Compulsory DNA testing has made crime investigation deadly accurate.....but not all Bounty Hunters are in it for the money.
Sunday 8 July 5pm @ Kaleide
Pays homage to film noir as a black comedy. A detective begins to obsessively examine the commentary in his head.
After an encounter with one of his customers, a man realises that he can not deny his fetishistic desires any longer.
In the middle of nowhere, on a single deserted city street, sits a chihuahua listening to a mysterious voice...
Stop-animation. Massive bronze heads atop towers of crumbling stone communicate via small grey servants. One day a thousand years later a visitor interrupts a conversation.
Based on the short story Blood Sea' By Italio Calvino, the film depicts a surreal journey from an industrial wasteland to the sea.
A short fable that traces a young woman's journey, both physically and spiritually, into unfamiliar and threatening terrain.
When you make your living designing comfortable & practical office footwear, creativity is paramount. So when one shoe designer finds his inspiration drying up, his whole world begins to change .....
How far must Joshua Wright sink into waiting room obscurity before he'll need a modern icon to haul him out?
Is the biblical story of Babel, Genesis 11:1-9, translated from latin to computer binary code to cinema.
Sunday 8 July 9pm @ Storey Hall
A furtive dialogue takes place inside a car in the shadows
outside a sex shop.
A short film about hypocrisy and racism, Australian
and American accents.
A young boy, fatally shot by police, for being mistaken
for another crime.
A woman of non-descript nature is running from some
sort of bounty hunter.
Stop-animation. One man discovers there is more to his midnight snack than he ever dreamed possible.
A vacant space ferociously clenches to its ghostly past. It secludes three barbaric memories of prior occupants.
Ricky Wildebeast got Creamy Love for stardom. Now it's more than just his career that is rising.
A woman who can only see herself through the visual representations of women within her surroundings.
A young boy is falling asleep, haunted by memories of his mother.
A rough blast of a film about two brothers running wild on
the streets of Kings Cross.
The story of a Hobart street kid's search for the injured author of a message for help.
Surreal metamorphosis on a train ride by a young multi media artist.
Tuesday 10 July 1pm @ Kaleide
A film about some of the perils of being a mummy's boy.
Screened at Cannes.
A concept film that explores the continual changing of film genres.
Three lives controlled by gambling. Worse still it's not for
money anymore.
A menial employee discovers a dark secret about the corporation for whom he works.
Two filmmakers attempt to make a sci-fi flick in their backyard. Stupid??... Possibly!
It's not what you're doing but how you're doing it.
A young couple enjoy the sensual harmony of their love session.
In an accelerating tempo, their relationship is distorted into
a scientific experiment.
Tuesday 10 July 3pm @ Kaleide
Tuesday 10 July 9pm @ Revolver
Uber-feminist super-heroine Femi Diablo fights macho evil in this sensitive study of slapstick biffo action and contemporary sexual politics.
A visual & textual look at words & people. Open to interpretation.
The community park isn't quite what it used to be. For a start there's Mr Sweety. Everybody loves Mr Sweety.
A character study that reveals the stress and pain of a security guard and his descent into madness.
Blurb times a quarter. Experimentale
A filmic poem. Experimental.
A practising DJ samples his neighbours complaints and throws their noises right back at them.
What kind of a person would buy an Erotic Join-the-Dots magazine from an adult bookstore?
A film following the time-honoured tradition of turning seemingly useless copper into sweet sweet beer. Elixer for all that ails. Realism so fine you can smell the hops.
On the first day of his new job a funeral director's assistant discovers that there is more than one meaning of the term 'stiff'.
In the world of movies, there is a place not known to many....a place you were never meant to see...the cutting room floor....
Wednesday 11 July 8pm @ Pony Club
Strap your skates on. From Whyte House productions, a collection of cutting edge, streetwise skating kultur. Achtung, Baby!
