Basket Of Hammers Presents Samhain 2025

Now in its fifth year on the Sunshine Coast, Samhain is a three day micro-festival of music, art, and film at The Old Ambulance Station, Nambour. Across three unique spaces, the festival presents live music, immersive sound works, visual art, and film premieres.

Gallery: Music & Art

Thursday 30th October

Doors -7:00 pm

Mick Turner

Guitarist and founding member of the internationally acclaimed Dirty Three has carved out a distinctive solo career since 1997, with four albums released on Chicago label Drag City.

Beyond his solo work, Turner has been central to bands including Mess Esque, Venom P Stinger, and, most recently, Bleak Squad. His collaborations span an extraordinary range, having recorded and performed with Nick Cave, PJ Harvey, Cat Power, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Courtney Barnett, Kurt Vile and many others.

For Samhain, Turner brings an exclusive live set that merges his unmistakable guitar style with immersive sound and visual art.

Heinz Riegler

Heinz Riegler, born in 1969 in Vienna, Austria, lives and works on Gubbi Gubbi land in South East Queensland, Australia.

Beginning in 1989, Riegler’s work spans performance, sound art, installation, and visual art. He has released music through various imprints and frequently performs and exhibits internationally. Riegler works solo and also collaborates with artists from diverse disciplines.

In recent years, he has released an LP titled Pear Feet and Square Words (via Room40), performed a series of Live Cinema Scores for Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s Homo Sapiens film in multiple Australian capital cities (presented by the Goethe Institute), and has presented three exhibitions, titled Supply Chain, Ghosts and Caress, in Australia and Europe. In curatorial capacity, he has programmed and performed a three-month season of improvised live scores at Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) in 2008 and co-founded minus20degree, a biennial art and architecture exhibition in Flachau, Austria, where he served as its Artistic Co-Director from 2012 to 2018. Riegler is an ARIAAward winner and is currently working on a score for a feature film by the Total Refusal collective, new music for a full-length (LP) release (with Room40), as well as a number of exhibitions to be scheduled in 2026-28.

Naomi Blacklock

Based in Meanjin (Brisbane), Australia, whose practice navigates the intersections of embodied performance, cultural heritage, and gender identity. Working across experimental sound, performance, sculpture, and video installation, she reimagines mythologies and archetypes to challenge and reconfigure constructions of gender and culture. Her ritualised sound objects and performances amplify the body and voice through performative bodily precision and aural/oral expression, merging layered soundscapes, breathwork, and visceral screaming into sonic disruption.

Her work has been presented at major festivals and institutions including Dark Mofo (Hobart), ACCA (Melbourne), Artspace (Sydney), PICA (Perth) and the Institute of Modern Art (Brisbane). In 2019, she was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy from Queensland University of Technology for her thesis Conjuring Alterity: Refiguring the Witch and the Female Scream in Contemporary Art.

Brinks Helm

Likes to conflate disparate themes, references, and sources, to conjoin lines of force in a work in order to act as a site of convergence - where original contexts can dissolve in an emergence of alternate readings.

Blackbox Theatre: Music

Friday 31st October

Doors -7:30 PM

Our Carlson

Our Carlson is a disabled artist exploring patriarchal privilege, sexuality, and trauma through ambient breaks and experimental music. He has performed at Meredith Music Festival, Dark Mofo, Yours & Owls, and other events, and has released albums A Bit Much (2021) and A Bit2Much (2023). His new album OC Spray is due for release in October 2025.

Kitchen’s Floor

Kitchen’s Floor deliver raw, lo-fi alternative rock with honesty and directness. Formed in 2007, they have built a dedicated underground following, releasing music on Siltbreeze, Negative Guest List, R.I.P. Society, and more. Their 2022 album None Of That, written and performed, was 4ZZZ’s Album of the Week. The band has toured internationally, including the U.S, UK, Europe, and New Zealand.

Deafcult

Deafcult is a six-piece known for their "noisy pop" sound, blending shoegaze and alt-pop, layered guitar fuzz, and catchy melodies, often with day-glo pop culture references. Formed IN 2015, their debut album Auras explored themes of romanticised memories and dreams, their second album Future Of Illusion in 2023, took a left turn with themes of environmental disruption and a more defiant, protest-oriented energy.

Mo Shak (Moscos)

Iranian-born sound artist Moscos works across ambient techno and industrial music, creating live sets from synthesisers and drum machines. His performances blend seemingly chaotic soundscapes into captivating rhythmic structures that evolve unpredictably, engaging audiences through immersive sonic experiences.

Ramp Space: Cinema

Saturday 1st November

A day of cinema featuring some of Queensland's finest, as well as the Australian premiere of an international folk horror.

Films and artists' talks. Single and multi-pass options available.

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Film Safari Ghana: Redux

Sunshine Coast redux premiere 18+

90 mins

Join Sunshine Coast filmmaker Andrew Leavold on his wildest adventure yet, deep into Kumawood, the filmmaking capital of Ghana. There, he directs The Taller They Come, a low-budget feature about no-budget African movies, blending mockumentary, chaos, and a cast of Little People, martial arts, and CGI spaceships.

In Leavold's film-within-the-film The Taller They Come, what begins as a remake of the reggae spaghetti western The Harder They Come quickly spirals into a reality-bending collision of fiction and fact, with Kumasi’s Action Kings, led by producer-director Samuel “Ninja” Nkansah, playing themselves. The result is a documentary of a mockumentary of a film-within-a-film: a wild glimpse into a unique cinema universe, and into the obsessive brain of one of Australia’s strangest filmmakers.

Directed and filmed by Andrew Leavold, this work captures vibrant cultural landscapes and storytelling through a distinctive regional lens.

Doors 11:30am

Screening: 12:00 pm

Artist talk: 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm

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A Grand Mockery

Sunshine Coast premiere - 18+

104 mins

Shot on soft, luminous Super 8 film, it follows Josie, a young man leading a life of passive mundanity in Brisbane. Slowly but surely, his psychic ills start to become more and more disturbing, so he sets out to roam the rainforest hinterlands of The Sunshine Coast.

Winner of Best Feature Film at SXSW Sydney, A Grand Mockery stars co-director Sam Dixon and Kate Dillon. Structured as a diptych, the film is tonally playful, beginning as a work of morbid comic realism before it transforms alongside Josie himself. It’s simultaneously singular and a flashback to underground filmmaking before it became codified.

Directed by Adam C Briggs, Sam Dixon

Doors 2 pm

Screening: 2:30 pm

Artist talk: 4:15 pm - 4:45 pm

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All You Need Is Death

Australian Premiere - 18+

96 mins

Anna and Aleks make their living hunting down forgotten Irish folk songs.
Their search leads them to a remote countryside singer whose ballads carry a dark legacy. But as secrets are uncovered and loyalties shift, the old songs awaken forces that blur the line between folklore and nightmare.

Starring Olwen Fouéré (Mandy, The Northman, Texas Chainsaw Massacre) and directed by Paul Duane, this is a chilling descent into obsession, betrayal, and the haunting power of a cursed melody.

Doors 4:45 pm

Screening: 5:15 pm

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Gallery: Closing Party - Saturday 1st November

Doors 7:30 pm (til late ) included with all ticket purchases.

BORG DJ

Borg DJ is based on Gubbi Gubbi country and has the finest vinyl collection in town. Borg will close out the party on November 1, along with some other surprises. Blending local influences with eclectic sets, Borg will bring the festival to a celebratory close.

Supported by the Regional Arts Development Fund - a partnership between Queensland Government, through Arts Queensland, and Sunshine Coast Council to support local arts and culture in regional Queensland.

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