A selection of daring short films that challenge, provoke, and thrill audiences. These filmmakers push conventions to their breaking point, fragment the simple into absurdity, and promise a challenging experience for all.

Crossover

Sam Boe Nielsen

Australia/8min/2021

When Pat joins a group therapy class, he finds that the enigmatic group members have more to offer than healing.

Shattered

Mason Allen

Australia/8min/2021

With her mother about to undergo emergency surgery, Kyra descends into the wild and unfamiliar world of nightclubs to find her brother so as to reunite her family for perhaps the last time. But every action comes with consequences, the night takes an unexpected turn

Stare

Eliza Pritchard

Australia/3min/2021

Two friends find themselves stuck in a terrifying situation, where they are convinced that they need to maintain direct eye contact with a mysterious box in order to survive.

Maenad Fever

Tamara Cook

Australia/18min/2021

A celebration of the power of the Feminine Divine and is inspired by real events.

Christmas Movie

Owen Lawie

Australia/7min/2021

Rooming together in a garage, two friends' Christmas eve night escalates into a realm of psychedelic hedonism.

Dirty Beats - ABSTRKT XNOIS

Sioux Tempestt

Australia/3min/2021

Perth artist transcending creative disciplines, ABSTRKT XNOIS delivers the first track from her forthcoming album Innominate.

Prayer

Justin Reid

Australia/9min/2021

What is a call? In an age of frictionless and ceaseless communication, life takes on the tenor of cacophony over symphony - all noise without signal.

We Stop….To Start Again

Talitha Maslin

Australia/14min/2021

An absorbing study of movement and form, the camera shifting through the studio, the dancer shifting through the spatial environment, responding to the transforming demands of the soundtrack.