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The WOMEN’S ADVENTURE FILM TOUR is back for its fifth season!

This is Australia’s original women’s adventure film tour, created by Adventure Entertainment and presented as an official part of WOMEN’S HEALTH WEEK by Jean Hailes for Women’s Health. This short film festival is a celebration of the inspiring women around us who are doing extraordinary things in the name of adventure.

Every year, our selection of unique films are carefully chosen to show women achieving their personally adventurous goals. Being adventurous doesn’t always have to mean being the fastest, going the highest or doing the most extreme things. Adventure for most of us is just stepping outside of our comfort zones and climbing our own personal Mt Everest. The films showcase real stories about women from a variety of cultures and sports around the world. We aim for the festival be enjoyed by women, children and men of all ages.

This year’s line-up features a diverse set of films with women of all ages including Australian Olympic champion Torah Bright, ultra trail running champion Lucy Bartholomew and many more including women in climbing, distance swimming and mountain biking. The official WOMEN’S ADVENTURE FILM TOUR line up includes 7 short films across 111 minutes.

All ticket buyers will have the opportunity to enter an awesome prize draw from the Women’s Adventure Film Tour official partners including THERMOS and OSPREY.

The WOMEN’S ADVENTURE FILM TOUR is exempt from classification, but the films are suitable for the entire family and would obtain G/PG ratings.

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*SORRY NO REFUNDS

** All competition entrants receive the opportunity to sign up for a 30 days free trial to ADVENTURE+ where you can watch the last 3 seasons of Women’s Adventure Film Tour and a host of bonus films.

Faster, steeper, higher, deeper! The most adrenaline-inducing mountain sport films from around the globe will thrill and inspire you with big-screen adventures when the Radical Reels Tour hits the road around Australia this October, November and December.
The festival is the Banff Mountain Film Festival’s more outrageous, adventurous little sibling and is characterised by ‘Oh my God’ moments as elite athletes and adventurers conquer their challenges and dreams.

This year’s tour promises to get your pulse racing, from the comfort and safety of your cinema seat. Watch death defying feats of pure genius, verging on insanity, shot in some of the planets most spectacular settings.

Featuring 8 short films from around the globe. Kayak the whitewater of South America, Mountain Bike the high Himalayas, Ski the European Alps, Climb Yosemite, paraglide the Indian Himalaya and more!
Please note, 3 of the 8 films are subtitled.

ONE NIGHT ONLY AT THE ASTOR : DON’T MISS THE ACTION

For more details visit
https://www.radicalreels.com.au

SEATING IS NOT ALLOCATED: Come early for the best seats.
SORRY NO REFUNDS

In the event of a COVID lockdown, this event will be postponed and your tickets will be automatically transferred to the new date. You will receive an email confirming this change. If you can’t make the new date you will be offered a refund.


The Radical Reels Tour is exempt from classification, but all coarse language has been beeped out, there is no nudity or adult themes.
*Adventure Reels does not take responsibility for any mountain bikes, ski gear, paddling equipment or adventure related purchases that result from attending the Banff Mountain Film Festival’s Radical Reels Tour.

The 31st Melbourne Queer Film Festival is coming – screening 18 – 29 November 2021 at ACMI, Village Cinemas Jam Factory, and Cinema Nova.

MQFF is moving to November! This is a great move for the festival and will mark the first time that we are moving the festival. We are expecting a great lineup of films, plus the return of some of our favourite festival events, and we are looking forward to celebrating this change with our community this November.

A November festival allows us to make the most of the latest queer content being released, including from the Northern Hemisphere festival circuit, before it appears on local streaming services. This means you will get to see some of the latest and best content celebrating LGBTIQ+ stories on film.

We also know that March is a busy time of year for festivals both in the queer community and in Victoria more generally.

Don’t worry, you will still get your MQFF fix in March. Our plans are to continue to hold a smaller festival during March to catch any of the new releases that didn’t make it into our November festival.

Tickets and passes for #MQFF31 will go on sale in October 2021 at mqff.com.au, following the program announcement.

In the meantime, mark the dates 18-29 November 2021 in your calendar.

Keep an eye out on our emails and our socials for further announcements.

The indie filmmakers of Melbourne are as busy as ever. See their most recent fiction work on a big screen and on a Void sound system during our 80th screening. It’s fiercely non-competitive with an audience hungry for comedies, drama, suspense, animation, docos, experimental, trash, action, and everything in between in generally equal doses just by sheer luck of the spontaneous open-screen / BYOFilm submission process. Short films are under 5 minutes for a fast-paced evening and space for quick QAs with the directors.

$8.50 entry via Eventbrite ($7.03+fees).
$7 at the door if tickets are left.

FILMS UNRATED (18+ by default)

Tentative date WEDNESDAY November 24 at Loop Project Space and Bar. 23 Meyers Place, Melbourne CBD.
8:15pm doors
8:45pm-ish screening starts
10:15pm networking
11pm CLOSE

COVID-SAFE: QR code check in mandatory. We’ll follow Vic Gov guidelines in November for masks and density.

FILMMAKERS
It’s open-screen / BYOfilm; bring on a USB drive your most recent film that you own all rights to with a running time of 5 min and under and we’ll screen it. Limited screen availability and cutoff time 8:20pm. Best practice now is submitting in advance at https://filmonik.com.au/submit-your-film/ or announce to info@filmonik.com.au. Spontaneously submitted short films of any genre and of all filmmaking levels have been creating awesome and balanced screenings for the public. A quick QA with Iphy the host follows each film. Organize your own premiere with us or run a cheeky pre-premiere of your festival film. Guidelines here: http://filmonik.com.au/how-to-screen/.
Filmonik is part of the worldwide Kino movement active in 35 countries around the world (http://www.kinomontreal.com/kinoworld/).

A multi-day exploration of hopes, dreams and imagined worlds, curated by Static Vision.

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Our expanded program showcases short and feature films from the international festival circuit, and a unique games space (curated by Serenade).

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THURSDAY
19:00 – Paprika (15th anniversary screening)

FRIDAY (SV x Trash Night x Fantastic Film Festival Australia triple feature)
18:30 – Accidental Luxuriance of the Translucent Watery Rebus
20:20 – The Day of Destruction
21:45 – The Warped Forest

SATURDAY
12:00 – Pajeú
14:00 – Inside the Diamond
16:00 – Ecstasy
18:00 – Slow Machine
20:00 – Crestone
21:45 – True Stories (35th anniversary screening)

SUNDAY
12:00 – Dreaming Under Capitalism
14:00 – Window Boy Would Also Like to Have a Submarine
15:50 – Searchers
17:45 – The Good Woman of Sichuan
19:45 – Waking Life (20th anniversary screening)

A 15th-anniversary screening of Japanese master Satoshi Kon’s psychedelic animated film Paprika, which inspired Christopher Nolan’s Inception, kicks off Static Vision’s latest film festival.

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When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patient’s dreams is stolen, all hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist can stop it: Paprika. A stunning achievement in animation, Paprika cements late director Satoshi Kon’s status as a titan of subversive, genre-bending Anime madness.

“In Paprika, a gorgeous riot of future-shock ideas and brightly animated imagery, the doors of perception never close.”- Manohla Dargis, New York Times

Screens with: Twelve Tales Told [3D] (Johann Lurf, 2014) – The Australian premiere of the 3D cut of Johann Lurf’s cult favourite short, in which a dozen logos for Hollywood production companies play before you, as they would precede a normal Hollywood production, with a secret twist.

Director: Satoshi Kon
Runtime: 90 minutes
Classification: (M) – Moderate themes and animated violence
Festivals: Venice Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Tokyo International Film Festival, Fantasporo, NZIFF
Premiere: Anniversary Screening
Country: Japan
Year: 2006
Language: Japanese

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Tix: $20 / $17.50 (General / Concession)

Discounts for Lido members and Static Vision subscribers.

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Paprika screens exclusively as part of Dreamscapes: A Static Vision Festival at Lido Cinemas (15-18 July).

Rotoscoped noir, doom metal exorcisms and drug-like anatomically-correct fruit – join us for three of the weirdest, wildest and most fantastic films currently traversing the international festival circuit in our extra special collaboration with Trash Night and Fantastic Film Festival Australia.

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ACCIDENTAL LUXURIANCE OF THE TRANSLUCENT WATERY REBUS (https://bit.ly/3gLRimB)

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Collage film and rotoscoping combine in Dalibor Barić’s stunning and dizzying film noir feature, part-Alphaville and part-Lewis Klahr, in which a detective’s pursuit of a fugitive and a conceptual artist bleeds away into a hazy dream world of old Hollywood movies and sci-fi paperbacks.

“…a fascinating kaleidoscope of incredible richness and visual inventivity, no doubt deserving to be seen on the big screen to be fully appreciated in all its immersive glory.”- Fabien Lemercier, Cineuropa

Screens with: Sun Dog (Dorian Jespers, 2020) – A young locksmith in the obscurity of the Russian Arctic roams through the alleys of concrete, animated by a fantasy that isolates him from the city and its population.

Original title: Slučajna Raskoš Prozirnog Vodenog Rebusa
Director: Dalibor Barić
Runtime: 81 minutes
Classification: 15+
Festivals: IFFR, Annecy Animation Film Festival
Premiere: Australian premiere
Country: Croatia
Year: 2020
Language: Croatian

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THE DAY OF DESTRUCTION (https://bit.ly/3iOu0ii)

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Seven years ago, a mysterious monster was found deep in a rural coal mine. Since then, rumours of a plague spread through the small town, and people experience an unexplainable mental illness. A young Shugendo practitioner goes missing only to resurface transformed, intent on exorcising the world from the monsters haunting it. With this blistering feature, director Toshiaki Toyoda sets out to “exorcise a society obsessed with the monstrosity of self-interest and greed.”

“The Day of Destruction returns Toyoda to the disillusioned rage of his early career in a painful wail of protest against an infinitely self-interested society…”- Hayley Scanlon, Windows on Worlds

Screens with: Wolf’s Calling (Toshiaki Toyoda, 2019) – A girl finds an old handgun in her attic and the symbolic object conjures a mystical scene of samurai.

Original title: 破壊の日
Director: Toshiaki Toyoda
Runtime: 60 minutes
Classification: 15+
Festivals: Japan Cuts, Golden Horse Fantastic Film Festival
Premiere: Australian premiere
Country: Japan
Year: 2020
Language: Japanese

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THE WARPED FOREST (https://bit.ly/3ztvtR4)

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In 2005, directors Shunichiro Miki, Katsuhito Ishii, and Hajime Ishimine teamed up to deliver Funky Forest: The First Contact, an outrageous collection of surreal stories that has become a mainstay on the cult Japanese cinema circuit. Six years later, Shunichiro Miki returned, flying solo this time, with an in-universe not-quite-sequel, featuring a giant shop-girl who can barely fit in her store, a weird green pod in every bedroom, and terrifying wood nymphs who provide a heartbroken woman with the anatomically correct fruit everyone seems to covet. Long considered lost, and not available to access following its initial festival run, Static Vision are proud to present the second ever screening of its brand new 2K scan, newly unearthed from the director’s personal print.

“What begins as a parade of relentless, Dadaist non-sequiturs slowly turns into a very clever – and tightly structured – play on the idea of blurring dreams and reality.”- Rich Haridy, screenhub

Original title: あさっての森
Director: Shunichiro Miki
Runtime: 82 minutes
Classification: 15+
Festivals: Fantastic Fest, Sydney Film Festival
Premiere: Victorian Premiere
Country: Japan
Year: 2011
Language: Japanese

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Tix: $30 / $17.50 / $15 (Triple Feature / Single Feature Tickets / Single Feature Concession Tickets)

Discounted single feature tickets for Lido members and Static Vision subscribers.

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Accidental Luxuriance of the Translucent Watery Rebus, The Day of Destruction, and The Warped Forest screen exclusively as part of Dreamscapes: A Static Vision Festival at Lido Cinemas (15-18 July).

In this Brazilian doc-fiction hybrid, a nightmarish vision prompts a young teacher to investigate her city’s dark past.

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A terrified young woman finds herself staring at a disturbing monstrosity, a kind of Pagan spirit that has sprung out of a river. Eager to get rid of this nightmare that is infecting her life, she looks into the story of Pajeú, the now-forgotten figure buried in the depths of the city of Fortaleza. As her paranoia increases, she slowly sinks into a depressive state. The border between dream and reality fades.

“This is the kind of pleasant surprise that justifies festival crate-digging.”- Vadim Rizov, Filmmaker Magazine

Screens with: Erpe-Mere (Noemi Osselaer, 2019) – Surrounded by the sound of nocturnal animals, a girl falls into a deep sleep. Gradually we are drawn into her dream, which unfolds into a cosmic journey through the meadows of a Belgian village.

Director: Pedro Diógenes
Runtime: 74 minutes
Classification: 15+
Festivals: FIDMarseille, Olhar de Cinema
Premiere: Australian premiere
Country: Brazil
Year: 2020
Language: Portuguese

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Tix: $17.50 / $15 (General / Concession)

Discounts for Lido members and Static Vision subscribers.

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Pajeú screens exclusively as part of Dreamscapes: A Static Vision Festival at Lido Cinemas (15-18 July).

A psychedelic portrait of a rundown Swedish town, where the dreams of locals are brought to life.

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Coral grows outside of the government-run liquor store and the closed diamond factory’s soul watches over ghosts, refugees and sleepers who move through a depopulated northern Sweden in this magically told hybrid film, set in the post-industrial Swedish town of Robertfors and made in collaboration with its protagonists.

“One of the funniest and quirkiest films to come out of Sweden in recent years.”- CPH:DOX

Screens with: Anteu (João Vladimiro, 2018) – A series of strange incidents leave only one man left in a rural Portuguese town. He becomes obsessed with the problem of his own burial.

Original title: Inuti Diamanten
Director: Viktor Johansson
Runtime: 78 minutes
Classification: All ages
Festivals: CPH:DOX, Göteborg Film Festival
Premiere: Australian premiere
Country: Sweden
Year: 2020
Language: Swedish, English

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Tix: $17.50 / $15 (General / Concession)

Discounts for Lido members and Static Vision subscribers.

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Inside the Diamond screens exclusively as part of Dreamscapes: A Static Vision Festival at Lido Cinemas (15-18 July).

A young girl experiences both rapture and torture starving herself amidst the political upheaval of Brazil in the 1990s.

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Part memoir and part essay film, director Moara Passoni’s debut film tells the story of Clara, a teenager who spirals into self-destruction after her mother becomes a congresswoman in Brasilia. Produced by Oscar-nominee Petra Costa and soundtracked by David Lynch and Lykke Li, Ecstasy is a confronting and immersive exploration of the agony and paradoxical pleasure of anorexia.

“A painfully personal, woozy essay on anorexia becomes a profound interrogation of the relationship of the body to the mind, to memory and to the world…”- Jessica Kiang

Content Warning: extensive discussion and occasional depiction of eating disorders.

Screens with: horizōn (Sid Iandovka and Anya Tsyrlina, 2019) – Newsreel footage from 1970s Siberia forms the basis of this enchanting mixed-media work.

Original title: Êxtase
Director: Moara Passoni
Runtime: 80 minutes
Classification: 18+
Festivals: CPH:DOX (in competition), Visions du Réel, MoMA Doc Fortnight
Premiere: Australian premiere
Country: Brazil
Year: 2020
Language: Portuguese

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Tix: $17.50 / $15 (General / Concession)

Discounts for Lido members and Static Vision subscribers.

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Ecstasy screens exclusively as part of Dreamscapes: A Static Vision Festival at Lido Cinemas (15-18 July).

Chloë Sevigny cameos (as herself) in this paranoid comedy about a dangerous fling, shot on 16mm.

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Stephanie, a restless and vibrant actress, meets Gerard, an NYPD counter-terrorism specialist who’s an aficionado of experimental theater (and maybe out of his mind). Flirtation ensues, ends disastrously, and forces Stephanie to the ramshackle upstate home of musician Eleanor Friedberger, yet this supposed escape is infected by violent memories of her past life. A miniature epic of paranoia, espionage, subterfuge, music, and performance captured on lush and invigorating 16mm, Slow Machine heralds major new talent.

“Exemplifies the best qualities of a genuine indie: a spirited, intelligent, ambitious and more than a little reckless endeavor which transcends its extremely modest means through sheer invention.”- Giovanni Marchini Camia, Filmmaker Magazine

Screens with: The Rabbit Hunters (Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson, 2020) – Isabella Rossellini stars in this magical tribute to the films of Federico Fellini.

Also screens with: Stump the Guesser (Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson, 2020) – After a bad day at work, a fairground performer sets out to disprove the theory of heredity so that he can marry his sister.

Director: Paul Felten and Joe DeNardo
Runtime: 72 minutes
Classification: 15+
Festivals: IFFR, Viennale, NYFF
Premiere: Australian premiere
Country: USA
Year: 2020
Language: English

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Tix: $17.50 / $15 (General / Concession)

Discounts for Lido members and Static Vision subscribers.

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Slow Machine, The Rabbit Hunters and Stump the Guesser screen exclusively as part of Dreamscapes: A Static Vision Festival at Lido Cinemas (15-18 July).

A group of SoundCloud rappers live a solitary, post-societal existence in a Colorado desert town in Crestone, an Animal Collective-scored speculative doc, and an unnamed, cowboy-hat wearing stranger (played by director, David Byrne) watches over a fictional town as they prepare for the “Celebration of Specialness”, to mark the 150th anniversary of Texas’ independence in a 35th-anniversary screening of cult Talking Heads-scored hit, True Stories.

Crestone and True Stories screen as part of our special Saturday night double feature (curated by Crestone director Marnie Ellen Hertzler) during Dreamscapes: A Static Vision Festival at Lido Cinemas.

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CRESTONE (https://bit.ly/2S6nSqO)

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Cannabis-growing, conspiracy theory-espousing SoundCloud rappers congregate in a makeshift commune in Crestone, CO, a prolific desert town that was once a religious and spiritual mecca for many. Crestone’s endless sand dunes, waterfalls, and dark caves act as a backdrop for images of tattooed bodies, cosplay wardrobes, and clouds of weed smoke. In a world heading for apocalypse, Crestone explores the often hidden aspects of collaboration and friendship as well as the human desire to persist against all odds. What does music sound like if there is no one left to repost and share it?

“A short attention span extravaganza for the post-future generation.”- Cosmo Bjorkenheim, Screen Slate

Screens with: In the Air Tonight (Andrew Norman Wilson, 2020) – A mysterious stranger explains the inspiration behind Phil Collins’ iconic 1980 single “In the Air Tonight”.

Director: Marnie Ellen Hertzler
Runtime: 73 minutes
Classification: 15+
Festivals: True/False, SXSW
Premiere: Australian Premiere
Country: USA
Year: 2020
Language: English

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TRUE STORIES (https://bit.ly/2Uh7BQE)

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Music icon David Byrne was inspired by tabloid headlines to make his sole foray into feature-film directing, an ode to the extraordinariness of ordinary American life and a distillation of what was in his own idiosyncratic mind. In True Stories, Byrne uses his songs to stitch together pop iconography, voodoo rituals, and a singular variety show—all in the service of uncovering the rich mysteries that lurk under the surface of everyday experience.

“True Stories is a pure and jubilant extension of Mr. Byrne’s distinctive world view.”- Janet Maslin, The New York Times

Director: David Byrne
Runtime: 89 minutes
Classification: G
Festivals: Edinburgh International Film Festival, New York Film Festival
Premiere: Retrospective screening
Country: USA
Year: 1986
Language: English

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Tix: $23.50 / $17.50 / $15 (Double Feature / Single Feature Tickets / Single Feature Concession Tickets)

Discounted single feature tickets for Lido members and Static Vision subscribers.

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Crestone and True Stories screen exclusively as part of Dreamscapes: A Static Vision Festival at Lido Cinemas (15-18 July).

Job stresses invade the dreams of workers in this provocative documentary co-presented by Prototype, Australia’s groundbreaking experimental video art newsletter.

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Twelve people recount and then interpret their memory of a dream about work. These mistreated souls describe, in a poetic and political way, their subjective suffering.

“Documentarian Sophie Bruneau has come up with an original Freudian angle from which to broach the issue of unpleasant working conditions in the modern world.”- Fabien Lemercier, Cineuropa

Screens with: Talking Dreams (Bruno Rocchi, 2020) – This award-winning ethnographic film is set in a village in West Africa where the hosts of local radio interpret the dreams of their listeners.

Director: Sophie Bruneau
Runtime: 63 minutes
Classification: All ages
Festivals: Cinéma du Réel, Munich International Documentary Festival
Premiere: Australian premiere
Country: Belgium
Year: 2017
Language: French

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Tix: $17.50 / $15 (General / Concession)
Proto sub tix: $14.50 / $12 (General / Concession)

Further discounts for Lido members, Static Vision subscribers and Prototype patrons.

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Dreaming Under Capitalism screens exclusively as part of Dreamscapes: A Static Vision Festival at Lido Cinemas (15-18 July).

Winner of the Tagesspiegel Readers’ Jury Award at Berlinale Forum, this surreal globetrotting mystery from Uruguay sees portals into mundane worlds emerge across the globe.

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On a cruise ship off the Patagonian coasts, a crewman discovers a magical portal leading into a woman’s apartment. Simultaneously, villagers happen upon a frightening concrete hut near their settlement in the Philippines. Two stories are woven into a cinematographic labyrinth where people overlap and lose themselves. Somewhere between dark engine rooms and middle-class living rooms, between the sea and the jungle, individuals observe one another with curiosity, skepticism and anxiety.

“…it’s a mystery box that slow but steadily unveils its protagonists, lonely characters that imbue the film with a sense of longing.”- Emiliano Granada, Variety

Screens with: All Inclusive (Corina Schwingruber Ilić, 2018) – Consumer society is skewered in this amusing portrait of a luxury cruise ship, a world in which every paying customer’s wish can be fulfilled.

Original title: Chico ventana también quisiera tener un submarino
Director: Alex Piperno
Runtime: 85 minutes
Classification: 15+
Festivals: Berlinale Forum (winner of the Tagesspiegel Readers’ Jury Award), New Directors/New Films, Mar del Plata
Premiere: Australian premiere
Country: Uruguay/Argentina
Year: 2020
Language: Spanish, Tuwali

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Tix: $17.50 / $15 (General / Concession)

Discounts for Lido members and Static Vision subscribers.

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Window Boy Would Also Like to Have a Submarine screens exclusively as part of Dreamscapes: A Static Vision Festival at Lido Cinemas (15-18 July).

Fresh from its premiere at Sundance, Pacho Velez’s (Manakamana) latest documentary sees a diverse set of New Yorkers navigate their preferred dating apps.

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New Yorkers of different races, genders, ages, social classes, and sexual preferences, all searching for their special someone. The film unfolds online; the interviewees, including the director himself, wade through various platforms, narrating their decision-making process, with text and graphics from each application overlaid on-screen. An exploration of loneliness and companionship in our increasingly digitized era.

“As the film progresses what emerges is an expansive and rather mesmeric meditation on contemporary dating.”- James Kleinmann, The Queer Review

Screens with: Blue Honda Civic (Jussi Eerola, 2020) – A minimalistic road movie that mirrors the emotions of the driver through the landscapes they have chosen to look at.

Director: Pacho Velez
Runtime: 81 minutes
Classification: 15+
Festivals: Sundance, Visions du Réel
Premiere: Australian premiere
Country: USA
Year: 2021
Language: English

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Tix: $17.50 / $15 (General / Concession)

Discounts for Lido members and Static Vision subscribers.

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Searchers screens exclusively as part of Dreamscapes: A Static Vision Festival at Lido Cinemas (15-18 May).

Fresh from its premiere in Berlinale’s Forum section, run at CPH:DOX and US premiere in MoMA’s Doc Fortnight, this meditative journey into rural China sees two old friends unexpectedly reunited.

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A young woman goes on an anonymous journey to her late husband’s hometown Leshan, a small city in Sichuan province. There, she meets an old friend, a local theatre actress preparing for an adaptation of Bertolt Brecht’s The Good Person of Szechwan. Ghosted by Shen Te, the protagonist of the play, the actress loses the self at the intersection between fiction and reality. Unprepared, the filmmaker loses control of her camera.

“The Good Woman of Sichuan actively urges us to stop being concerned with linear storytelling; similarly, it encourages the viewer to let their imagination roam free…”- Ren Scateni, Filmmaker Magazine

Screens with: Still Processing (Sophy Romvari, 2020) – A box of stunning family photos awakens grief and lost memories as they are viewed for the first time on camera.

Original title: 四川好女人
Director: Sabrina Zhao
Runtime: 87 minutes
Classification: All ages
Festivals: Sundance, Venice Film Festival, TIFF, New York Film Festival, IFFR
Premiere: Australian premiere
Country: Canada/China
Year: 2021
Language: Mandarin, Sichuan dialects

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Tix: $17.50 / $15 (General / Concession)

Discounts for Lido Members and Static Vision subscribers.

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The Good Woman of Sichuan screens exclusively as part of Dreamscapes: A Static Vision Festival at Lido Cinemas (15-18 May).

A 20th-anniversary screening of Richard Linklater’s highly-acclaimed animated deep dive into the world of lucid dreaming, co-presented by Melbourne Cinémathèque.

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“Are we sleep-walking through our waking state or wake-walking through our dreams?”

A young man (Wiley Wiggins) moves through a lucid dream state, observing and later participating in philosophical discussions that weave together issues like reality, free will, our relationships with others, and the meaning of life. Richard Linklater’s singular animated drama was created through rotoscoping, with a team of over 30 artists drawing over each frame of digitally shot video.

“Watching this film is like inhabiting two planes of emotion simultaneously, one soaring, the other down-to-earth.”- Peter Rainer, New York Magazine

Director: Richard Linklater
Runtime: 101 minutes
Classification: (M) Adult themes, medium level coarse language
Festivals: Sundance, Venice Film Festival, TIFF, New York Film Festival, IFFR
Premiere: Anniversary screening
Country: USA
Year: 2001
Language: English

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Tix: $17.50 / $15 (General / Concession)
Cinémathèque members: $12.50 / $10 (General / Concession)

Additional discounts for Lido members and Static Vision subscribers.

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Waking Life screens exclusively as part of Dreamscapes: A Static Vision Festival at Lido Cinemas (15-18 May).

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The Melbourne Cinémathèque is a not-for-profit, volunteer-run film society. We hold screenings at The Australia Centre for the Moving image every Wednesday night for most of the year. Screening programmes include a diverse selection of classic and contemporary films showcasing director retrospectives, special guest appearances and thematic series including archival material and new or restored prints.

The Melbourne International Film Festival and Hear My Eyes present Two Hands with an original live score performed live by The Murlocs.

Hear My Eyes returns to MIFF as garage-rock faves The Murlocs perform their very own reimagined live score to the Aussie classic Two Hands, Gregor Jordan’s crime caper starring a breakout Heath Ledger and Rose Byrne.

SAT 23RD OCT – 6pm & 9PM and SUN 24TH OCT-3PM and 6PM | THE ASTOR THEATRE

After three hugely successful events, Hear My Eyes – MIFF’s much-loved night of sound and cinema – is back, this time to celebrate Gregor Jordan’s 1999 debut feature at the Astor Theatre. Set in a now-unrecognisable Sydney, where Kings Cross shimmered with seedy nightlife and you could make a getaway on something called the ‘monorail’, Two Hands stars a then–virtually unknown Ledger as Jimmy, an ex–street kid and strip-club bouncer. After misplacing a chunk of cash he’s meant to deliver for his boss, Pando (Bryan Brown at his absolute most Bryan Brown), he finds himself on the run from the mob, joined by the girl of his dreams, Alex (Byrne, making only her second film appearance).

A box office smash, Two Hands won Best Film at the 1999 AFI Awards, set Jordan on a path to Hollywood and propelled Ledger and Byrne to stardom, while going on to become a modern Australian classic that remains compelling more than two decades after its release.

This exclusive Hear My Eyes presentation joins two antipodean icons, with garage-rock five-piece The Murlocs bringing their salty rhythm and blues, harmonica-driven psych and unmistakeable swagger to Jordan’s rollicking, irreverent film.