Experimental Shorts

Celebrate the filmmakers who break convention and challenge form with this selection of experimental works.

Will the filmmakers who challenge cinema conventions today be the creative leaders of tomorrow? Join us in ACMI Cinemas for a selection of films that push the boundaries beginning with Sabina Maselli's Geometry of Faith which transforms the crescent light of an eclipse in Western Australia into an abstract and haunting delight.

Films

Geometry of Faith, Dir. Sabina Maselli, Australia, 8 mins.
Captured on 16mm film during a solar eclipse in Western Australia, a crescent of light peeking around the moon conjures a mystical and mysterious feeling. Created with hand manipulated analog process techniques to form layers and experimentations.

Mouthbreather, Dir. Tiyan Baker, Australia, 13 mins.
Commissioned by the Institue of Modern Art and Nowness Asia, in mouthbreather we witness the world from behind the artist's teeth as she walks across her Ancestral lands and mouths, breathes, calls forth and gives form to a buried language.

Katele (Mudskipper), Dir. John Harvey, Australia, 12 mins.
Winner of Best Australian Short at Flickerfest 2023, John Harvey's Katele (Mudskipper) follows a Torres Strait islander woman who is working at a laundromat when a mysterious visitor reminds her of the life she's left behind.

Me and Mazzy Melancholy, Dir. David Tse, 13 mins.
Premiering at MIFF's Accelerator Lab & starring Jillian Nguyen, three lonely souls confront their urban isolation in interwoven portraits evoking the Taiwanese New Wave.