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Retrospective of Australian Cult Cinema - Part deux |
Rolf De Heer focus:
Grossly underseen film, de Heer's second, finds all manner of strange goings-on going on in a small nowheresville town, coinciding with the reintegration into society of Eddie (Steven Vidler), a troublemakin' bleached-haired won't-play-footy good-for-nothing with Friday on his mind… Suddenly, weird electrical phenomena become rife, pets attack and other animals drop dead, sometimes all too literally, from above… Incident at Raven's Gate sadly will NOT now be able to be screened.
Another singular Rolf de Heer film, if one less likely to be forthrightly confrontational through a stridently challenging premise, imagery and bizarre salmon-heading-upstream leaps of narrative faith a la Bad Boy Bubby than to instead niggle away at a viewer's complacency about matters environmental taken daily for granted by we earthbound folk. Epsilon - the Director's Cut - will now screen Saturday 14 July 6pm, Treasury Theatre
A Freudian's ultimate fantasy, a young man is raised never leaving his ramshackle home and has only his mother for company, including of the sexual kind. Yes the words "Mother fucker" take on a literal meaning in this bizarre, touching, powerful and disturbing movie. So tie your cat up in glad wrap and bring him along to this special screening of one of the truly original and great OZ movies. Oh and when in Adelaide be sure to stop for Pizza at Milano's pizza shop in Port Adelaide and demand, "bubby want Pizza"...they fully get the joke.
Bad Boy Bubby will screen Saturday 14 July 8pm, Treasury Theatre
A truly dark and grim prison movie starring Nick Cave during his pre-Christian loony phase. Magnificently directed with stark visuals and disquieting commentary on the realities and cruelties of prisons, this semi-surreal film is one of the real treats of our Oz retrospective this year. Bloody, violent and terrifying, another fine example of original and innovative OZ filmmaking that should be fostered
and not suppressed.
Ghosts of the Civil Dead will screen Friday 6 July 7pm, Treasury Theatre
Shot on Super-8 this feature film of a lonely office worker (Rhys Muldoon) who likes to kill people is unique and dark. Mousoulis' style of contemplative realism pays off to the max as the sombre exploits of a seriously unhinged individual come to the screen in a film that contains scenes of what I would call actual "ecstatic beauty". Using the grain and aesthetic of Super-8 to its full potential we are proud to present this rarely seen OZ serial killer classic that gives a nod to both "American Psycho" and Godard. Don't miss this one.
Introduction and Q+A after film with Bill Mousoulis Sunday 8 July 7pm, Kaleide
Starring the 'sexgod' Paul Harrington and the stone cold intensity of Colin Savage, this early made on video feature is Mark Savage's feature debut and something of a 80's classic. The story concerns two psychos who wake up one day and go on a murderous rampage. Paul Harrington's character runs over one of the psychos by accident, injuring the loon's leg and does a hit and run. A pursuit follows that leads to an apocalyptic showdown in the deep woods of, wait for it... Kinglake. It's the product of the early creative collective "The Magic Men", with great fun thespian turns by the aforementioned Harrington & Colin Savage plus Zero Montana, Megan Spencer and a young Richard Wolstencroft as "John Smith" (one of his many alter egos), who just wants to help people achieve...
Introduction and Q+A after film w/ Mark Savage/cast+crew Tuesday 10 July 9pm, Kaleide
Distinguished by great roving camera work with canted camera angles galore and claustrophobic and inventive framing, and with fantastic use of lighting (and of the dark!), and with very impressive sound design and editing, this is a great and really moody and enigmatic flick – suspenseful, a little violent, a little scary and with great turns too from Terry Camilleri, Max Cullen, Celine O'Leary, Ritchie Singer and the rest, all doing justice to a really good script.
The ** Director's Cut ** of Epsilon will screen in its place on Saturday 14 July 6pm, Treasury Theatre.
You are nonetheless highly recommended to seek this film out on video!
Epsilon (1994) (PG)
A female alien (Ullie Birve) mistakenly lands on Earth, in the Outback in fact, and proceeds to educate a befuddled average Joe (Syd Brisbane) as to the error of his species' ways through manipulations of time and space (well, through motion control and time-lapse photography).
Some may find it its message a little heavy-handed – but none can deny that it successfully strikes a few (minor) chords along its story's telling way, nor deny the panache of this rarely seen, beautifully shot film unlike any other Oz (sci-fi) flick. Shot on location over eight months all over Australia and in the US in Las Vegas, Los Angeles and
Palm Springs too!
Bad Boy Bubby (1993) (R)
Ghosts of the Civil Dead (1987) (R)
Directed by John Hillcoat
Ladykiller (1994)
Directed by Bill Mousoulis
Marauders (1986) (R)
Directed by Mark Savage