SESSION #4
Loop - Wednesday 9th July 9pm

MAN'S SEARCH FOR HAPPINESS
Caz McIntee | 2002 | Japan | 6 min
A self-help video for genetically bioengineered teenagers indulging in biology threatening activity (sex, drugs) and considering suicide. The video helps to re-focus them on the reasons they were created (to provide bio-engineered media resources) and away from any biology damaging experimentation.

LARRY IN RELATION TO THE GROUND
Ted Fisher | 2002 | USA | 3 min | DVD
A very brief documentary on Larry Walter's 1982 flight over Southern California in a lawnchair

PHANTOM HAM
Simon Sackville | 2002 | Australia | 4 min
A little Jewish boy is terrorised by a leg of ham that none else can see. It is Friday night in a regular Jewish household. The family is sitting down to their shabbat dinner, when a leg of ham crashes on to the little boy's plate.

(DANCER IN SITU)
Richard Munsie and Bec Reid | 2001 | Australia | 6 min
A micro-documentary about Phoebe, a contemporary dancer who works part-time in a Greek family's dry-cleaning factory to help pay the bills. We watch her working as she describes a typical day, however her graceful movements remind us that her ambitions lie elsewhere.

PILLS
Anto Skene | 2002 | Australia | 12 min
Video piece exploring the physical/chemical structure of pharmaceuticals and questioning western society's dependence on them

JET BLACK
Siouxzi Conner | 2002 | Australia | 4 min
Many believe Jet Black to be a phantom in the minds of the paranoid. Ignoring him won't make him go away…a short satirical horror based on a local urban legend.

THE DISTANCE BETWEEN
Andrew Hickinbotham | 2002| Australia | 11 min
The distance between is a memoir in 3 voices; a site of possible entry beyond tissue boundaries, a glimpse of the hereafter

SCENES FROM AN ENDLESS WAR
Norman Cowie | 2002 | USA | 32 min
Scenes from an endless war is an experimental documentary on militarism, globalisation, and the 'war against terrorism'. Part meditation, part commentary, Scenes employs recontextualised commercial images, rewritten news crawls, and original footage and interviews to question received wisdom and common sense assumptions about current American politics.