EASTSIDE: Interconnected Shorts
Locally Curated Arts Event
SUNDAY 1 MAY | 4:00PM
CLAYTON THEATRETTE
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Locally Curated Arts Event
Curated by Margot Tanjutco, this event will include artist activations interspersed with the films.
About
These shorts reflect the interconnected themes that are core to our program this year. To read more about these themes visit our program page.
Screening Info
Screening Location: Clayton Theatrette (inside the Clayton Community Centre), 9/15 Cooke St, Clayton VIC 3168
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Where Is My Darling?
Theme: Environment
Adam Finney / Australia / 2021 / 20 min / Documentary
"Where is My Darling?" follows Lanz Priestley, a charismatic homeless man who owns nothing but a phone and a Facebook page. When Lanz discovers that taps have run dry in the drought-stricken outback, he raises the money to deliver drinking water himself.
膠著人生Recycle Project
Theme: Environment
Peng Hsiao-yin / Taiwan / 2021 / 10 min / Dance
Recycle Project, directed by Peng Hsiao-yin, is the dance film produced by Dancecology. It's the commission work of Jumping Frames International Dance Video Festival 2016, and has been screened in USA, Hong Kong, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Macau, Norway, Malaysia, Australia and Beijing.
"We repeat, we recycle. In this loop of " recovery ", we continuously be filled and emptied of humanity and wastes, which co-exist and then be discard together. In waves of life, we are coming back and forth in the failure of resistance."
Taboo
Theme: Ancestors
Olivia Altavilla / Australia / 2018 / 14 min / Narrative / HRAFF Retro Short
After witnessing the local priest abuse his power, Sofia attempts to convince her devout Catholic family to act.
Play It Safe
Theme: Bodies
Mitch Kalisa / UK / 2021 / 13 min / Narrative
Coaxed into playing a racial typecast in a fellow student’s play, Black drama student Jonathan is faced with an all too familiar decision: to challenge prejudice, or play it safe.
Jonathan is out of place in his middle-class London drama school. Pigeon-holed for a role as a Black hoodlum in a classmate’s play and coaxed by his teacher to take the typecast part, Jonathan decides to demonstrate to his peers the prejudices, during a class role play exercise.
"Play It Safe" is a story about implicit racism: unconscious racism by those who think of themselves as above prejudice, but whose conditioned racism is just as impactful as those who wear their intolerance proudly. Jonathan’s realisation that he is not in a liberal safe-space, but that his alarmingly well-intended classmates hold entrenched stereotypes, reflects the real stories of countless drama schools across the UK.
Nasir
Theme: Distance
Listen to the Beat of Our Images / Écoutez le Battement des nos Images
Theme: Distance
Jackson Kroopf, Nasir Bailey / USA / 2021 / 17 min / Documentary / Premiere Status
Musician Nasir calls several family members by phone to discuss the decision to transition.
Audrey Jean-Baptiste, Maxime Jean-Baptiste / France, Guyana / 2020 / 15 min / Documentary
A narrated fictional documentary, Listen to the Beat of Our Images explores the construction of the Kourou Space Centre in French Guyana as seen through the eyes of the local population.
Locally Curated Arts Event
Curated by Margot Tanjutco, this event will include artist activations by:
Margot Tanjutco is a writer, director, and actor in Melbourne. They have just finished directing And She Would Stand Like This by Harrison David Rivers with Antipodes Theatre Company for Midsumma 2022 and are currently part of Theatre Works’ two-year writing program, She Writes Collective. Their experimental digital work psyche404error won Best Work In Festival at Melbourne Fringe 2021 as well as Best Emerging Writer and Best Adaptation from Stage To Screen. With Melbourne Theatre Company, she was the Associate Director for Benjamin Law’s Torch The Place, Assistant Director on The Truth, and presented her own play at MTC’s Cybec Electric 2021. She developed a spicy series bible with Film Vic’s Cinespace StoryLab and directed a series of satirical music videos for VCA First Commissions. Her work has been featured by ABC’s The Mix, The Wheeler Centre, and SBS Voices.