SHORT FILM SESSION
Best watched in the late hours, this adults-only assortment of alternative animations is the perfect package for the young at heart. For fans of programs like Liquid Television, Tim and Eric and Adult Swim, these Late Night Cartoons will take you back to the golden age of animation. Throw together a midnight snack and settle in for a package of toons sure to melt your mind.
BELA
Dir. Nick Simpson | 4:52 mins | Australia | AUS Premiere | 2019 The biography of Bela Julesz, Hungary’s most famous visual neuroscientist, creates a disturbance in the tedious lives of two isolated people.
DEEP LOVE
Dir. Mykyta Lyskov | 14:00 mins | Ukraine | AUS Premiere | 2019 Deep love has finally happened in Ukraine.
FARCE COSMIC SPAGHETTI
Dir. Gurleen Rai | 07:37 mins | USA | AUS Premiere | 2019 An experimental feminist think piece disguised as an absurdist comedy. Start out with a little bit of water and you fry some garlic. Then you throw in some tomatoes and tomato paste. You make sure it doesn’t stick. When ya’ got it to a boil ya’ shove in all ya’ sausage and ya’ meatballs, eh? Add a little bit ‘o’ wine and a little bit of sugar, and that’s my trick.
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Dir. Robin Jensen | 10:55 mins | Norway | AUS Premiere | 2019 A Sami man ends up in greedy and decadent claws as he tries to save both his reindeer herd and the woman he desires. An awful fable about fatal passion.