SHORT FILM SESSION: LATE NIGHT CARTOONS

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.

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.

DEEP LOVE

Dir. Mykyta Lyskov | 14:00 mins | Ukraine | AUS Premiere | 2019

Deep love has finally happened in Ukraine.

FARCE

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.

FRIEND OF A FRIEND

Dir. Zachary Zezima | 14 mins | USA | AUS Premiere | 2019 A young man is sexually assaulted and subdues, punishes, then befriends his own attacker while confronting his past and the ambiguities of sexuality. Part fiction, part non-fiction, part autobiography and part dream, Friend of a Friend attempts to broaden the conversation around abuse and its motivations and implications, as well as the survivor vs. assailant dynamic and results of ostracism.

LITTLE MISS FATE

Dir. Joder von Rotz | 8:15 mins | Switzerland | AUS Premiere | 2020 Little Miss Fate lives in a world driven by fate. When the opportunity arises, she slips into the role of the world leader. Unintentionally she creates a monster, which greedily wants to suck up all the love of the world. Overwhelmed by the rapid development, she loses control.

SUCCOR

Dir. Steven Lapcevic | 4:22 mins | USA | AUS Premiere | 2020 The synopsis is simply “A warm, familiar friend.” I realize this is incredibly short and I hope that is acceptable. Dir. Maggie M. Bailey | 13:23 mins | USA/Chile | AUS Premiere | 2018 Take a sweet, sweet peek into the kinky world of bondage, dominance, and sadomasochism through three stories of intimate connection, consensual exploration, and deep self-reflection. Follow four members of the Austin, TX Kink/BDSM community reminiscing on the moments of exciting ‘firsts’, the long journey of healing, and beginnings of lifelong relationships.

SYMBIOSIS

Dir. Nadja Andrasev | 12:50 mins | France | AUS Premiere | 2019 A betrayed wife starts to investigate her husband’s mistresses. Her jealousy is gradually replaced by curiosity.

TURD

Dir. Matthew Salton | 1:52 mins | USA | World Premiere | 2020

SWEET SWEET KINK

Bird. Mouse. Poop. Vomit.

URBAN SPHINX

Dir. María Lorenzo | 5 mins | Spain | AUS Premiere | 2020 An animated short film that creatively documents the presence of street art at various neighbourhoods of Valencia, Spain, between 2018/2019. These pieces of ephemeral art, connecting each image like the frames of a film. All these faces look at us with widely opened eyes, as if they tell us that we exist, but we might not exist —and the world would go on.