A special selection of experimental films, showcasing a combination of works curated by Andrea Rassell and Cassandra Tytler

Asset. Everything Used. All As It Used To Be.

Sophia Ioannou Gjerding Denmark/2024/15 min

Examines the diverse dimensions of collecting, exploring collections contained in private households and those in museums, highlighting the intertwined relationship between people and things.

Toil and Spin

Maureen Zent USA/2024/5 min

Cast off from shore. Into the dim, the dark. Away, away. Adrift in an oarless boat. And deep, deeper below the mirror surface. Then snap.

Machine Learning

Patrick Anthony Tarrant Australia/2024/16 min

The digital capture of analogue strata: two analytical film projectors and their educational outputs reimagined for the age of machine learning.

Instagram Auto Surgery

Ian Haig Australia/2024/2 min

The idealised cosmetically augmented bodies and selfies of instagram are depicted in all their visceral surgical reality.

Carnival

Darren Kyle Tynan Australia/2025/9 min

In a carnival setting where time, matter, and space have congealed differently, 'reportage‘ videos offer glimpses into a parallel reality.

Mao

Li Zechen China/2024/13 min

A specter is haunting mainland China—the specter of communism.

Red Earth

Bryce Kraehenbuehl Australia/2024/9 min

An imagined future where a rediscovered archive of photographs, sound and film captures the beauty of extinct ecosystems in South Australia on an extinct film stock.

Bozo Over Roses

Matty Sidle USA/2025/11 min

The 100 Year War of Softness dropped like an atomic duvet (with a toxic thread count). No one felt it coming. We survivors are left with the remaining stuff to contemplate.

Final Whistle

Lotti Bauer Switzerland/2024/3 min

Grand gestures, determined expressions and tight legs. Roughly collaged footballers don‘t owe each other anything and a referee loses the overview. Non-football fans love this film.