It’s happening and on us! The 11th installment of Rev is here with a new venue, new program director and event activity that extends the festival beyond the wonderful screens at Mt Lawley’s beautiful Astor Cinema and into galleries and clubs.
The 2008 event contains over 100 films drawn from the four corners of the globe and features live musical performances in the cinema, a micro-cinema and machinima showcase at the Spectrum Gallery (also Mt Lawley), a bar and lounge throughout the event at the Astor, guest presentations, industry based seminars and open forums designed to engage the local film community in its cultural funding strategic direction.
It brings to Perth national and international guests from the production, screen culture and broadcast sectors as well as providing some of the finest independent work on show in Australia curated with vision and purpose.
Although I don’t have the dosh to attend most of my prefered events, I may make an appearance at a few. Here are my personal picks:
Duration: 73 mins
Country: Various
Print Source: VariousA selection of animation, ranging from the latest digital techniques to low key home made films and claymation. See: underwater adventures, a magical coke can, an ogre lose his teeth, zombies, farmyard animals on the rampage, office mayhem, fish at play, and more.
Get on down to Get Your Shorts On! – for a line-up of awesomemshort films – all 100% Western Australian made.
The 2008 event showcases a diverse range of Western Australian short films, including a quirky comedy, an Aboriginal Dreamtime legend, edgy coming of age stories and an innovative one shot drama told in a single unbroken steadicam shot.
Dir: Craig Baldwin
Country: USA
Year: 2008
Duration: 120mins
Craig Baldwin should be a familiar name to devotees and fans of the modern underground film and truly independent visionary cinema. Craig Baldwin is a Revelation favourite, and his previous movies include the plunderphonic documentary Sonic Outlaws and avant-garde conspiratorial science fiction epic Tribulation 99, both are rightly revered as classics of radical filmmaking.
Mock Up On Mu is Baldwin’s latest feature film, finished only a month before this year’s festival. Mock Up On Mu uses real events and rumours as a starting point for its narrative. Telling the story of occult California, the history of rocket science, contemporary politics, conspiracy, and counter conspiracy Craig Baldwin takes these apparently wild and disparate themes and mixes them into his own modern crypto-science fiction mythology.
The Life and Death of Hunter S. Thompson
Dir: Alex Gibney
Year: 2008
Country: USA
Duration: 118minsGonzo tells the story of infamous author, legendary journalist, and radical powerhouse Hunter S Thompson, whose books Hells Angels, Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas and Fear And Loathing On The Campaign Trail invented the wild affirmation of gonzo journalism. Under the slogan “when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro” Thompson’s books took the reader with the author into the less familiar side of America, while reinventing the very role of the journalist.
Dir: Ivan Kavanagh
Country: Ireland
Year: 2007
Duration: 83 minsThis award winning Irish independent feature may be the darkest psychological thriller-cum-horror movie of this year’s festival. Tin Can Man is a claustrophobic exercise in truly terrifying filmmaking that sees one man’s life exposed and exploded in a single night under the brutal hands of a cruel visitor.
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