Calendar | Wednesday 2 March 2005
11:00 AM | Wednesday 2 March
The Lives of Sir Hubert Wilkins
Born in the Flinders Ranges, Sir Hubert Wilkins' career as an adventurer, polar aviator, submariner, entrepreneur and occasional spy paralleled and often intersected with that of Australia's other early great documentary cameramen and filmmaker, Frank Hurley...More
12:15 PM | Wednesday 2 March
The 3 Rooms of Melancholia
(Melancholian 3 Huonetta)
Australian Premiere
Pirjo Honkasalo
Finland 2004
How many anti-war films can pack a punch without showing any war footage, explaining the politics, or relying on in-depth interviews, in fact barely using dialogue at all? With exquisite cinematography and music, Pirjo Honkasalo instead looks into the eyes and souls of Russian and Chechen children who bear the burden of the hatred generated by the Chechen war...More
12:45 PM | Wednesday 2 March
Beautiful Boxer
Ekachai Uekrongtham
Thailand 2003
He fights like a man so he can become a woman...More
1:00 PM | Wednesday 2 March
Haunting Douglas
Leanne Pooley
New Zealand 2004
Of the multiple hauntings in Leanne Pooley's film, the most fascinating is New Zealand born choreographer and dancer Douglas Wright's cruel possession of his own body...More
2:45 PM | Wednesday 2 March
The Holy Girl
(La Nina Santa)
Lucrecia Martel
Argentina 2004
Following her debut film, La Ciénaga (AFF 03), Lucrecia Martel emerged as one of the brightest figures of the new Argentinean cinema...More
3:00 PM | Wednesday 2 March
Demi-tarif
(Half Price)
Isild Le Besco
France 2004
Three children in a big city...More
3:00 PM | Wednesday 2 March
Merce Cunningham: A Lifetime of Dance
Charles Atlas
USA 2001
Through interviews with dancers, collaborators, scholars and Merce himself, Charles Atlas explores Cunningham's dancing career from his earliest days at the Cornish school up to the present, and affirms his status as one of the greats of twentieth century avant-garde dance and movement...More
5:00 PM | Wednesday 2 March
The Five Obstructions
(De fem benspænd)
Jørgen Leth
Denmark 2003
In 1967, Jørgen Leth made The Perfect Man, a favourite film of Lars von Trier...More
5:30 PM | Wednesday 2 March
Silent Waters
(Khamosh pani)
Australian Premiere
Sabiha Sumar
Pakistan 2003
The first narrative feature by acclaimed independent documentary maker Sabiha Sumar is set in 1979 Pakistan and tells the story of Saleem, an aimless youth in love with local beauty Zubeida and adored by his widowed mother, Ayesha...More
5:30 PM | Wednesday 2 March
Salvador Allende
Australian Premiere
Patricio Guzman
Chile 2003
September 11, 1973, is a deeply symbolic date for Chile...More
7:30 PM | Wednesday 2 March
South of the Clouds
Zhu Wen
China 2004
A retired engineer fulfils a youthful dream to visit the remote mountain province of Yunnan...More
7:45 PM | Wednesday 2 March
Greendale
Bernard Shakey (aka Neil Young)
USA 2003
Greendale takes its title from Neil Young's 2003 concept album and his fictitious Green clan, a small town American family with leftist leanings and more than its fair share of problems...More
8:00 PM | Wednesday 2 March
Celluloid & Tinsel (or 100 or so films you should see before you die)
(LIVE)
World Premiere
Trevor Stuar
UK
"What point is there in going to a film unless you crawl out of the cinema with an aching heart and an exploding brain, your clothes soaked in tears and your sense of time and place altered such that you can't remember where you parked the car or if you even had one...More
9:30 PM | Wednesday 2 March
Control
(Kontrol)
Australian Premiere
Nimród Antal
Hungary 2003
Deep below the cobbled streets of Budapest two rival groups of ticket inspectors rule the metro system and its passengers whilst trying to track down an anonymous killer...More
9:45 PM | Wednesday 2 March
Kill Your Idols
Australian Premiere
S.A Crary
USA 2004
First time filmmaker SA Crary couldn't have picked a more apt title for his vivid and complex history of New York's No Wave scene...More
9:45 PM | Wednesday 2 March
Appleseed: The Movie
Australian Premiere
Shinji Aramaki
Japan 2004
By the year 2131 the world as we know it will not exist...More