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1998 FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL & COMP: DEMOCRACY AT WORK IN THE FIVE-MINUTE FILM JUNGLE Last year was a sell-out. Each screening required a clap off. The audience was torn, the finalists nerve racked, you could have heard a pin drop until...the applause climbed higher and higher on the decibel counter. One of the winning films, Justin Case's"Final Cut", went on to even further acclaim as the only Australian short film to be invited to the 1997 Cannes Film Festival. Entries are pouring in for the 1998 Film & Video Festival where you are the judge. The winning filmmakers will receive a cash prize courtesy of the NSW Film & Television Office. The Bronze Thong awards will be judged by filmmakers, writers and representatives from the Film & Television Office and the Australian Film Corporation. The Film & Video Festival is an opportunity to see the latest and the greatest from behind the cameras - and that can mean anyone. You can still enter your five-minute film made in the past 12 months by sending it and an entry form to the Fringe Festival by 10 Jan 1998.
DATE: Tue 27 - Fri 30 Jan (Note: Festival Competition rules - CLAPPING ONLY - no foot stomping, screaming or fighting!)
Direct from Perth Artrage sell-outs, 50 of the hottest new and archival films from the international indie scene. Includes documentaries, animations, shorts, features, and retrospective programs from Australia, the UK, Cananda, the USA and Europe. The focus is mainly on counter-culture themes.
DATE: Jan 23 - Feb 1
Experimental film-maker Albie Thomas presents his video about the Yellow House and discusses his work.
DATE: Sun 18 Jan
Artist and film-maker Jill Carter-Hansen presents her latest animated film.
DATE: Sun 25 Jan
Australia's No. 1 film school presents the Sydney premiere of four short docos, the first fruits of a new commitment to documentary film-making by the Australian Film Television & Radio School (AFTRS). These upcoming"rats-in-the-documentary-ranks' end up with an enviable collection of letters after their names, having just completed a one-year Master of Arts degree in Directing Documentary. MaDD?? You be the judge! Introduced by multi award-winning AFTRS Head of Documentary, Trevor Graham (ŒMABO: Life of an Island Man'), with intros by the filmmakers and a Q&A session to wrap up.
Alias takes us into the daily life of a male sexworker and introduces us to the four sides of his world (Pr/Dir: Kim Farrant Pr: Kate Riedl, 11 mins)
If humans were farmyard animals, about 40 per cent would have to be put down, according to this film's hero. A playful portrait of the legendary Sydney fitness teacher Les Gronow, who's been making apes of everyone from sporting stars and politicians to humble garbage collectors for nigh on 50 years. (It's for their own good, of course.) (Pr/Dir: Anna Cater, 18 mins)
A 'storm-in-a-b-cup' involving the country's top judges and barristers and a naked woman each of them has very strong ideas about. Low art versus the high moral ground as the legal profession erupts over the curly subjects of consorship, sexism, pornography and political correctness. (Pr/Wr/Dir: Ian Walker, 26 mins)
A student filmmaker sets out to document the ideas of 'Technomadism', but begins to feel the heat when reality doesn't quite live up to fantasy. A film about what happens when cinema vérité goes off the rails....and into the desert. (Pr/Wr/Dir/Cin: Adam Sébire, 19 mins)
DATE: Sat 31 Jan 
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