Australian Shorts in Margaret River
presented by the Human Rights Arts & Film Festival and Xanadu Wines
6pm for 7.30pm films Tuesday, 18 November 2014 at Arts Margaret River Tickets available at the door (unless sold out prior)
Exempt from Classification, 18+*
Come and see the latest short films from emerging Australian filmmakers in Australian Shorts, screened earlier this year as part of the 2014 Human Rights Arts & Film Festival. The event will feature a series of thought-provoking, revealing… Show more narratives that explore what lies behind our history and examines facets of our every day lives, unveiling what it is to be Australian. Check out the film synopses below.
The line-up includes the Western Australian short Cannibal Story and tickets include a complimentary glass of Xanadu Wine upon arrival (upon presentation of your ticket).
Raffle tickets will also be for up sale for your chance to win a great hamper - all proceeds go towards supporting Surfaid. More about them here: http://www.surfaid.org/
Running time: 85 minutes This session has been exempt from classification by the Classification Board. This screening is restricted to people over 18 years.
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Image from Ngurrumbang
PART One: Love Tony Radevski/Australia/2012/10mins/English/Documentary Hiv and Aids in the modern day are still shrouded in misunderstanding. In Part One: Love a group of men speak openly and honestly about what it’s like to live with Hiv in the here and Now.
Ngurrumbang Alex Ryan/Australia/2013/18mins/English and Wiradjuri with English subtitles/Narrative In colonial Australia during white settlement an uneasy truce emerges between a young Irish girl and an injured indigenous man. Inspired by true events surrounding a massacre of indigenous people in the 1830s, Ngurrumbang explores a deep-seated fear of black Australia and offers hope for understanding.
THE Fence Lucy Gaffy/Australia/2013/15mins/English and Khmer with English subtitles/Narrative It’s 1992 and a Cambodian asylum seeker waiting for his application to be processed is suddenly caught-up in the turmoil surrounding the introduction of the first detention centres in Australia. The Fence is a powerful reflection on how increasingly oppressive restrictions affect human Dignity.
Toombaworth Lucy McKendrick/Australia/2012/15mins/English/Narrative It’s hard enough being a teenager without also living in a rural town where generational cycles of poverty and drug-use mean the chance to get out is always just out of reach. You’ve never been anywhere as strange yet as familiar as Toombaworth.
BENEATH Heaven Logan Mucha/Australia/2013/5mins/English/Documentary An exploration of how childhood abuse can affect a person for life, Cynthia recounts an unexpected face-to-face encounter with her abuser years after the fact.
CANNIBAL Story Sohan Ariel Hayes/Australia/2013/7mins/Martu with English subtitles/Animation Bringing to life the terrifying beings of the Western Desert salt lakes, Cannibal Story animates the art of Martu artist Yunkurra Billy Atkins.
GHOST Train Kelly Hucker and James Fleming/Australia/2013/15mins/English/Documentary An elderly Melbourne man has had to place his ailing wife into aged care, but he finds solace in a very unexpected source: Dracula’s Cabaret Restaurant.
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