PROGRAMMED & CURATED BY JASON TURLEY
MUFF 9 PRESENTS SEVEN SESSIONS OF PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT SHORTS FROM ACROSS THE GLOBE. STANDOUTS INCLUDE THE STRANGE; WITH A SEED BETWEEN THE TEETH AND REBEL. AND THE CLEVER; A BREAK IN MONOTONY, THE CYPRIOT. AND BE SURE NOT TO MISS THE CHARCOAL TRAFFIC, THE FIRST FICTIONAL FILM PRODUCED IN SOMALIA IN OVER 15 YEARS – JT
SESSION 1 (112 mins)
5pm / Mon 13 Oct / The George
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ADDICTION
3 mins, Dir: Mark Aquilina
Bronson, a street-smart cop, falls victim to a deadly drug called Xtreme. Knowing her days are numbered and with nothing left to live for, Bronson turns vigilante and declares war on the underground drug world. What the cops can’t touch, she’s going to obliterate….
A GOOD DAUGHTER
12mins, Dir: Risto Tuominen
Her father’s love cost her everything.
WHEN SALLY MET FRANK
8mins, Dir:Victoria Waghorn
Sally and Frank share a common obsession.
GRAVEL 300
6mins, Dir: Makoto Takaoka
Nobody gets out alive.
TRIPSWITCH
2mins, Dir: Anthony Sutcliffe
A master scientist has finally finished his greatest achievement. And now, history beckons.
THE CYPRIOT
11mins, Dir: Vincent Taylor
A Heat wave, a motel room and a
conversation...
STATUEKILLER
7mins, Dir: Clay Burke
A man comes home from work with a surprise gift for his wife.
AVATAR
5mins, Dir: James Pickles
A young woman turns to technology in an attempt to live out her desired life.
THE RACE
5mins, Dir: Kate Mills
2007 sees The Race between Government, Corporation and Religion who are all competing for the ultimate prize - Miss Public Opinion!
WITH A SEED BETWEEN THE TEETH
16mins, Dir: Joao Oliveira
With a seed between the teeth is a sultry tale of sexual repression amidst the monotony of everyday life in Brazil.
NIGHT BIRDS
11mins, Dir: Nicholas Prideaux
‘Night Birds’ centres on a beautiful chanteuse, a young and innocent waiter and a tyrannical club owner. Saul, the young waiter, watches the weathered and dark jazz singer (Evie) drown night by night; trampled and battered by the ominous and overpowering owner of the club (Miles).
ROLLER DERBY DOLLS
26mins, Dir: Phobe Hart
In the sprawling outer suburbs of Brisbane, a revolution is brewing. A sassy group of women have a dream: to resurrect the lost sport of full contact roller derby in Australia.
SESSION 2 (115 mins)
7pm / Mon 13 Oct / The George
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DIVA
7mins, Dir: Josephine Mackerras
Escaping his home-town that has completely rejected him, alone, Vincent goes to Paris to be entirely Herself, but life is never that simple..
JAILBIRD
7mins, Dir James Breen
Prison is a scary place. But it can be even scarier getting out.
A BREAK IN MONOTONY
4mins, Dir: Damien Slevin
In a post Zombie holocaust world, a man laments his empty lifestyle and questions the futility of working in a corporate wasteland. But all is not what it seems.
ODDS ON
17mins, Dir: Nicholas Sherry
Odds On details one of the most famous heists in Melbourne’s history - The Great Bookie Robbery of 1976. It follows the paths of the six gang members who came together to pull off the risky robbery and who inevitably turned on each other.
GREASELAND
7mins, Dir: Peter Boyd Maclean
Greaseland is a short animation comedy set in a road side cafe in the middle of the middle of nowhere. The owner Leroy likes to reminisce about the days he used to be Elvis Presley’s minder.
METHOD
4mins, Dir: Ben Power
A terrified man is held captive by a brutal interrogator who will use any method to get the information he needs. This can only end one way...or can it?
REBEL
10mins, Dir: Nicole Brending
A developmentally disabled man has his first sexual experience while out with his meth-addicted step brother.
PRIMAL URGES
8mins, Dir: Ben O Mara
Primal Urges is a sumptuous and gleefully twisted horror comedy.
IN THE GENES
9mins, Dir: Tony Chu
Just about to meet his future mother-in-law, nothing can prepare Gary for the shocking secrets of his new family
BEING BARRY
9mins, Dir: Kayla Davison
Being Barry is a dark, skewed comedic tale of Australian suburbia. The suburbs you don’t see on Australian soap opera or in glossy real estate development brochures. When you hate the soulless grind your life has become, what are the consequences?
DOTCOM
7mins, Dir: Magda Matwiejew
An agrophobic young woman who is physically disfigured visits a matchmaking site where she becomes involved in a cyber romance.
SPLIT
8mins, Dir: Kitty Green
a litter of kittens ignite a fierce sensuality in three little girls.
DAY SEVEN
7mins, Dir: Tim Marshall
An attractive young man enters the apartment of an older man in his thirties. The young man knows what to do. He goes to the bathroom and removes his shirt.
BIOTECH 8
7mins, Dir: Alex Nakone
A futuristic satire about a Biotechnology firm that markets Genetically Modified Workforce technology.
SESSION 3 (115 mins)
9pm / Mon 13 Oct / The George
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STRANGERS
21mins, Dir: Phillipe Lord
A woman choose to abandon everything to start a new life. Someone won’t let her.
YOU BETTER WATCH OUT
21mins, Dir: Steve Callen
“You Better Watch Out” is a wickedly dark comedy about a two disgruntled brothers who kidnap a department store Santa Claus because they want to know why they never got the presents they wanted when they were kids.
WHY LONG FACE?
13mins, Dir: Christina Yiannakis
It’s Nathan’s 21st birthday. His mother, Carol, is throwing him a party, but Nathan hasn’t invited anyone.
ME & EX ME
15mins, Dir: Adam Bigum
After a young man’s near death followed by an outer body experience, his world is turned upside.
STROKING 8
4mins, Dir: Jack Wareham
Power, strength, timing and the ability to push through the pain barrier. As the cox keeps telling his rowing eight, coming first requires discipline.
CHARCOAL TRAFFIC
7mins, Dir: Nathan Collett
Two brothers are trapped in a murderous
cycle of environmental and cultural devastation in Somalia.
DEAD BOYFRIENDS
7mins, Dir: Xstine Cook
Fire! Blood! Puppet death! Trickster Coyote falls for vampy Pandora, a cursed temptress with a taste for dodgy circus performers.
DUALITY
7mins, Dir: Jerry Rector
A loving husband and father straddles the thin line between reality and fantasy in this dark examination of the human psyche.
ALICIA IN WONDERLAND
20mins, Dir: Martin Gauvreau
You will see, you will love me too.
SESSION 4 (109 mins)
7pm / Tues 14 Oct / The George
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PANACEA
21mins, Dir: Benjamin Samuel Broso
A troubled psychiatrist. A bad paitent. An unhappy family...and Beethoven.
NINE
9mins, Dir: Ulysses Oliver
A young woman resorts to drugs in a desperate attempt to block out an ever increasing sense of anxiety and despair and reconnect with her early childhood when feelings of joy were possible.
AGAMEMNON
4mins, Dir: Jamie Sewell
Los Angeles - in the suite of an airport hotel a trophy wife and her wealthy husband are getting ready to catch their flight, but everything is not quite what it seems…
TRANSPORT
4mins, Dir: Richard Plumridge
On a late night suburban train, a vagrant scores, a suit is shaken and a kid gets his fix of music.
THE END
5mins, Dir: Luke McKay
“The End” is a gritty, ultra realistic tale of brotherhood and loss told through the eyes of Jules, a tormented Western Suburbs boy left clinging to the past and Marcus, a young man from the North Shore driven by his blind rage.
PANTY PORTAL
7mins, Dir: Sandi Somers
The Panty Portal is a spoken word film shot Paris, the city of love.
LA TANGENTE
12mins, Dir: Vincent Vesco
A young man washing his car offers an attractive woman a ride wherever she wants to go. Love ensues.
MACHINA
12mins, Dir: Andrew Wilson
When Joe, an unsuspecting schoolboy, begins to play a mysterious games console, he offers himself to a force stronger and darker than he can resist.
FREQUENCY
10mins, Dir: James Base
The year is 2025, ten years after smoking was universally outlawed. Music has been classified as a mind-altering drug. It is illegal for any persons under the age of 15 to listen to any form of music.
NIGHT OWLS
15mins, Dir: Peter Powell
An 83 year Old Russian ex naval captain attempts to manipulate her 30 something agoraphobic, soccer obsessive neighbour into helping her down stairs in the middle of the night to get to a cataract operation.
SESSION 5 (113 mins)
9pm / Tues 14 Oct / The George
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UNDERTOW
3mins, Dir: George Karpithakis
Rust and decay slowly but surely attack and erode our support structures. Undertow is an exploration of texture, movement and light within a freeform animation style.
DEADLY BASTARD
11mins, Dir: Steven Whatmough
Friction between the art and science university wings is demonstrated by gang violence, car crashes and an explosive laser battle.
THE SUNRISE
12mins, Dir: David Fairclough
Albert is an elderly man, trying to cope with the sudden death of his wife Evelyn.
UNDEAD TED
7mins, Dir: Daniel Knight
Edward Grey’s life has been on the downward spiral ever since the day of his death. Not only must he deal with rising damp, bone decay and rot – but also the fact that he is now jobless, penniless and without girlfriend.
THE PINK BOX
3mins, Dir: Matt Pastor
A short story about wanting sentimental memories with a person.
SAFE HOUSE
15mins, Dir: Stephen Sherrard-Griffith
An Israeli and Palestinian agent are sent to kill each other.
THE ACCOUNTANT AND THE CLOWN
6mins. Dir: Josh Tanner
Larry, a mild mannered accountant whom waiting for his bus notices a sobbing clown on a bench.
PASOLINI THE PORNOGRAPHER
15mins, Dir: Christian Gilbert
Documentary that follows the saga of “Salo” in Australia from the mouths of people who kept it locked away and those fighting for our rights.
YESTERDAY
8mins, Dir: Adam Marshall
Tom a mid twenties male is experiencing the many different emotions felt through having a relationship with girlfriend of three years, Jesse.
A DIFFERENT CUT
10mins, Dir: Fahim Ahad
Beneath our superficial wounds, we’re all just different cuts of the same meat.
WHAT DO YOU RECKON, GRUSTOV?
5mins, Dir: Amy Thomas
Retired, old Aussie gold miner Arthur Buckley, lives at 1 Buggers end with his pet rat Grustov.
THE ONLY HOUSE ON THE STREET
11mins, Dir: David Wade
Frustration. Isolation. Terror. The perfect ingredients for a great party!
HEARTBREAK MOTEL
7mins, Dir: Aaron McLoughlin
It wasn’t what he had in mind. Life is cheap at Heartbreak Motel.
SESSION 6 (119 mins)
7pm / Thurs 16 Oct / Noise Bar
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CORRECTIONS
Dir: Bob Franklin
In the waiting room of an isolated run down clinic Amy anxiously anticipates seeing a doctor. When the only other patient is called in, Amy’s wait becomes increasingly unsettling.
SOPHIE’S SECRET
5mins, Dir: Yen-Jung Chang
Sophie came across a worm on a street and the worm penetrated her chest into her body. The worm in the body became a secret of her.
JUMPING JACK
14mins, Dir: Julian Vincent Constanzo
Australian soldiers in Vietnam are on a break when the youngest one known as ‘dancer’ steps on a jumping jack mine.
TAR
6mins, Dir: Carl Stella
an isolated man sits at a table in a darkened room and focuses on making a perfect cigarette.
SAUCER
9mins, Dir: Gary Maas
Nervous and depressive, John is out of place in his rigid 1960’s world and his straight-laced wife janet is frustrated by his tendency toward paranoia and delusion.
THE KILLER
6mins, Dir: Kate Witchard
She waits in a smokey bar to rendezvous with her suspicious lover.
THE MAKING OF A WINNING TROPFEST FILM
4mins, Dir: Tim Maricic
When Tim’s unseemly approach to filmmaking sees him rewarded with a criminal record and a substantial legal fine, he believes his only way out is to finally make it as a director.
PACHINKO
6mins, Dir: Brenton Priestley
Weird neo-Nazi dude hunts down a fat guy, murders him and then goes poking around in his innards.
SUBJECT
5 mins, Dir: Ben Wade
Something is putting this young man on edge.
WOMEN AND CHILDREN
19mins, Dir: Karl Madderom
Women and Children is the story of Andy, a man in his early thirties who spends most of his time either to the pub or going from one woman to the next.
CUT AND PASTER
13mins, Dir: Stefan Pagenstecher
Erik, male, 26 years old, is the sole survivor of a bus crash which kills family and friends.
THE GIRL IN THE RED DRESS
7mins, Dir: Chris and Robert Smellin
A family torn apart by the paedophilic relationship between father
and daughter.
KARAOKE SHOW
5mins, Dir: Karl Tebbe
A mix between disco and sauna.
PITER
11mins, Dir: Georgina Foley
Piter moved to Australia at age two. By six, he was living on the streets.
SESSION 7 (115 mins)
7pm / Fri 17 Oct / Noise Bar
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PROBLEMS
15mins, Dir: Nathan Mewett
an experimental look into the brain of an obsessive compulsive
sex addict.
EEL GIRL
5mins, Dir: Paul Campion
In a secure military laboratory, a Scientist has become obsessed with the strange half-eel, half-human creature he’s studying. When she beckons him to her, it’s the call of a siren...
19 DAYS
8mins, Dir: Kristy Chooi
Peter hasn’t slept in 19 days and ex periences a state of insomnious nightmare.
DUST TO DUST
6mins, Dir: Darren Clark
Showing an asbestos victim coping with his family and friends and the after effects while making a social comment.
A DIFFERENCE IN SHADOW
3mins, Dir: Michael Mier
As the sound of approaching soldiers grows louder an Old Man and a Young Girl must escape the darkness before too much light is shed on the situation.
LOVE ON TRACK
4mins, Dir: Alison Heather
The promise of true love goes temporarily off the rails when a man and woman have a misunderstanding on the Sydney monorail. Hardly a word is spoken, yet passions ignite and feelings fray.
THE NEW LIFE
10mins, Dir: Daniel Giambruno
A man’s ideal world crumbles as he realises that his source of inspiration has been instead, a source of delusion, guilt and obsession.
I KNOW WHAT GIRLS LIKE
4mins, Dir: Steffen Frech
“I Know What Girls Like” portrays Torsten Kretchzmar’s careful approach to the subject using his unique German charm. However, to avoid any possible rejection, he tests himself only on very realistic looking mannequins.
LIPSTICK
7mins, Dir: Shane Pullen
While an ordinary man goes to the aid of a young boy involved in a car accident his deep secret is exposed.
CIENFUEGOS
15mins, Dir: Richard McFarlane
A short film portraying the atrocities that happened to political prisoners during Castro’s Communist takeover in Cuba.
BIRD
5mins, Dir: Melanie Brunt
A broken wing, the will to fly, an escape, a high.
MONKEYNAUT
7mins, Dir: Susie Jones
48 hours til launch. Captain Baker is nervous. No Monkeynaut has ever returned from a mission alive. Will his Jupiter 18 flight suffer the same fate as the others?
VIDEOTAPE
2mins, Dir: Andrew Goldsmith
VIDEOTAPE is a 2:00 live-action stop-motion short about a man who abuses technology until it fights back.
THE COUNTDOWN
7mins, Dir: Martin Copping
Love. Greed. Betrayal. Charlie’s stolen the money. Max’s caught him at the last turn. One thing’s for sure: This will be the final countdown.
HAMISH
7mins, Dir: Hannah Moon
When you’re young, autistic and living in rural Australia, sometimes you find the best friends in unexpected places.
ELEVEN
10mins, Dir: Lawrence Lim
Amazingly shot predominantly in one continuous take, three gunmen’s attempt to shoot themselves out of a closing police net.
CASH SAVVY
7mins, Dir: James Aitchison
Mike ‘Cash’ Savvy is an incompetent vigilante debt collector. On the hunt for an overdue rental of ‘Meet The Fockers’, things are about to get a little more than personal.
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