
Electric Shorts
Wednesday October 11, 2006, 7.15pm
LOOP
23 Meyers Place Melbourne
Free entry
The films are for mature audiences.
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A DEEP PERSONAL LOVE [2004] 3 min
Dir: Warwick Holt
Contemporary political satire.
CAFFEINE [1995] 8 min
Dir: Paul Dowie
What happens when a person consciously decides he no longer wants to sleep!
BABUSHKA [2006] 6 min
Dir: Frank Candiloro
A stop-motion animation which involves five Babushka dolls and crosses three generations of parenthood.
ALONE [2005] 11’ 20 min
Dir: Darren Maxwell
Mannix Foster is taking his new car for a drive but, the car suddenly stops running on a desolate country highway.
META4 [2005] 1’ 30 min
Dir: Katrina Mathers
An experimental conceptional argument that’s all 4 … four … for … fore …
MEN IN BOXES [2005] 10 min
Dir: Owen Elliot
A film that prompts people to think about family violence and men's responsibilities, and just as importantly, to talk about it.
FIRELIGHT [2005] 6 min
Dir: Matthew Clayfield
An essay film about images, the people who make them, the people who collect them, and their potential uses and limitations in a world that's been inundated with them.
THE HORSEMAN [2006] 16 min
Dir: Steven Kastrissios
Walter had an easy afternoon ahead, until … a council exterminator came knocking.
HOPE [2005] 5’30 min
Dir: Sean Rodrigo
A hopeful short film that provides a social comment of peace and equality.
THE SPACE BETWEEN [2006] 4 min
Dir: Chris King
Our figural assembly of sensory stimuli is both a sinuous dance and a pathetic catch-up stumble.
COMING OUT AT WORK IS HARD TO DO [2004] 4 min
Dir: Kylie Eddy
A closeted career gal doesn’t think anyone will spot her amid the sequins and sweat of Mardi Gras. A story about letting your true colour s show.
NOCTURNAL SUBMISSIONS [2006] 6 min
Dir: Bill Mousoulis
Three characters submit to the night. A sneak preview of Mousoulis' upcoming vampire feature A Nocturne.
THE ANGRY PENGUIN [2004] 10 min
Dir: Tom Vogel
A childless couple find an abandoned penguin in an alleyway and decide to adopt him. They are about to discover all is not as it seems.
SICK TO THE VITALS [2006] 20 min
Dir: Kim Miles
A punk piece … an evening in the life of an ex-Idol on a downward spiral.
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