SHORT FILM SESSION: WTF

SHORT FILM SESSION WTF! Presents a package of confounding curiosities for the cinematically adventurous at heart. These films all venture into subject matter disturbing, delirious and deranged. Featuring films from Masters of the absurd Lathimos and Maddin, and some of independent cinemas’ brightest rising stars, this collection of shorts is so mind-meltingly weird, you’ll be left asking…WTF!

BREEZE

Dir. Elvis Xia | 7 mins | Australia | Animation | World Premiere | 2019 Two astronauts stumble across an unpredictable alien drug dealer and risk everything to save earth from crisis.

NIMIC

Dir. Yorgos Lathimos | 12 mins | Germany/UK/ USA | Drama | 2019 A professional cellist has an encounter with a stranger on the subway which has unexpected and far-reaching ramifications on his life.

STUMP THE GUESSER

Dir. Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson | 19 mins | Canada | Drama | AUS Premiere | 2019 He works at the fairground as “Stump the Guesser”, who can guess anything for a fee. But suddenly his tricks stop working. And then he unwittingly falls in love with his sister whom he believed to be lost. He sets out to scientifically disprove the theory of heredity and marry his beloved as soon as possible.

COIL

Dir. Spencer Ryerson | 12 mins | Canada | Horror | World Premiere | 2020 A young woman struggles to fight her anxiety, and the malevolent creature inside her, while she prepares to go out to a party.

CONSPIRACY CRUISE

Dir. Brad Abrahams | 12 mins | USA | Comedy | AUS Premiere | 2019 Inspired by a real event, this is a cruise ship vacation for conspiracy theorists that takes a turn for the surreal when their most outlandish theories come true on board. A nuanced portrait of the subculture and its figureheads.

FLICK

Dir. Ariel Zengotita | 10 mins | USA | Horror | AUS Premiere | 2019 A reclusive college student is driven mad after picking a booger he can’t flick away.

GLOW DORRIS

Dir. Shelby Wilson | 15 mins | Canada | Horror | World Premiere | 2020 Dorris, mysteriously receives a package containing an old Liz Luv workout VHS. Without hesitation, she decides to play the VHS, only to find herself dangerously falling into a deep trance by the host. With no idea of impending doom, Dorris sinks into this self-loathing trance, with the only escape is to kill herself.

HEAT

Dir. Thessa Meijer | 2 mins | Netherlands | Comedy | Sydney Premiere | 2019 During an extreme heat wave, a shy girl seeks refuge in an ice cream shop. But when she looks into the eyes of the charming vendor, she

is on thin ice.

MIDNIGHT COFFEE

Dir. Jaime Levinas | 12 mins | USA | Comedy | AUS Premiere | 2020 On a late-night shift, a barista burns a coffee unleashing a strange force. This wacky, highly stylised film is an absurd examination of work

addiction and millennial post-humanity.

THE LAST DAY OF SPICY JACK

Dir. Giulia Mucci | 9 mins | Germany | Western/ Sci-Fi | AUS Premiere | 2018 In a motorway restaurant by the space highway, customers in love disappear without leaving traces. A similar fate is reserved to its waitress and a charming, wacky robber in this grotesque spaghetti sci-fi.