THE MERCURY CINEMA

The Mercury and Iris Cinemas are run by the Media Resource Centre to enhance screen culture and to give screening opportunities to emerging South Australian film, video and digital media artists.

Cinemas are also available for hire. For more information CLICK HERE.

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Ph. (08) 8410 0979

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WORLD OF WOMEN FILM FESTIVAL

Sun 8 Feb 2009

The World of Women Festival promotes and awards the talents of women filmmakers working in Australia and Oceana. This unique festival offers both emerging and established talents the opportunity to screen works that look at the world through the eyes of women.

Tickets $12/$10 or $20/$16 for both shows.

 

WOW AUSTRALIAN SHORTS || SHOOTING WOMEN

2:30pm Sunday 8 February

WOW AUSTRALIAN SHORTS (18+)

Australia 2008 85mins
A selection of the best short films made by women, includes Shadow Play, Love On Track, One Shoe Short, The Threat That Came From Beyond Tomorrow To Destroy Us All, Bitter Winds, Rope Burn and Feeling Lonely?


1. SHORT FILM: SHADOW PLAY - Drama (12 mins) AUS
Linda Micsko (producer)
Madeleine Hetherton (director/writer)
Tamara Meem (editor)
When the magical play world of a young girl is interrupted by her parents' conflict, she tries to pull them back together. Told through dance, Shadow Play is a film about the moment when we see our parents as humans.

2. SHORT FILM: LOVE ON TRACK - Comedy (4 mins) AUS
Alison Heather (producer/director/writer)
Granaz Moussavi (editor)
Bonnie Elliot (cinematographer)
A chance encounter. The promise of true love goes temporarily off the rails when a man and woman have a wordless misunderstanding on the Sydney monorail.

3. SHORT FILM: ONE SHOE SHORT - Comedy (8 mins) AUS
Jackie Van Beek (producer/director/writer/editor)
On a town camp in Alice Springs, Australia, a boy searches for a pair of shoes so he can go to school. His friend tries his best to help him out.

4. SHORT FILM: THE RACE - Animation (4 mins) AUS
Kate Mills (producer/director/writer/cinematographer)
The Race between Government, Corporation and Religion who are all competing for the ultimate price - Miss Public Opinion!

5. SHORT FILM: HAMISH - Documentary (7 mins) AUS
Hannah Moon (producer/director/writer/editor/cinematographer)
When you're young, autistic and living in rural Australia, sometimes you find the best friends in unexpected places.

6. SHORT FILM: THE THREAT THAT CAME FROM BEYOND TOMORROW TO DESTROY US ALL - Comedy (8 mins) AUS
Aimee Knight (producer)
Chris D Anderson (director)
Irene Ngo (editor)
Kirsty Stark (cinematographer)
Suburban America, 1954. A small town infested with what seems to be an alien plague in this homage to 1950s B-Grade SciFi Paranoia films.

7. SHORT FILM: BITTER WINDS- Music Video (4 mins) AUS
Lina Eve (producer/director/writer/cinematographer)
In the 1950s, 60s and 70s more than 85,000 young women in NSW alone, lost their babies to adoption. I was one of these women.

8. SHORT FILM: FEELING LONELY? - Drama (10 mins) AUS
Melissa Beauford (co-producer)
Rachael Turk (co-producer)
Rachael Turk (director)
Bonnie Elliot (cinematographer)
Rob is the "man who has everything" (and everyone). But when 45 year old 'Mother Manchester' catches his eye on the Net, he gets more action than he bargained for. In the age of high-density living, online dating and ritualized surveillance, familiarity is often confused for intimacy. Feeling Lonely? is about watching and being watched, and the lengths to which we'll go to make a connection.

9. SHORT FILM: BRUNO - Comedy (6mins) AUS
Annette Sicari (producer/director/writer/editor)
Peggy Yabevula (cinematographer)
Bruno is a simple country boy - or is he? He takes us on a journey through his daily farm chores and introduces us to his quirky Italian family. We soon learn that there is more to Bruno than what the eye can see.

10. SHORT FILM: PANEYE - Experimental (2 mins) AUS
Jessica Mutascio (producer/director/writer/editor)
In a place between sleep and reality, a young woman finds the weight of her mind overbearingly oppressive.

11. SHORT FILM: ROPE BURN - Drama (8 mins) AUS
Adam Bishop (producer)
Melvin Montalban (director)
Clytie Smith (writer)
Ann Foo (editor)
A love triangle precariously set above the stage of a sexy trapeze circus. The rope gained from saving a fall symbolizes a burning heart

12. SHORT FILM: THE PRAMS - Drama (5 mins) AUS
Charlotte Cutting (producer/writer)
Attacked by a single pram whilst walking to an inner city cafe, career focussed Melanie suddenly finds herself in the centre of a frightening pram epidemic that has hit Brisbane.

13. SHORT FILM: LULLABY - Fiction (11 mins) AUS
Kate Breen (producer)
Katie O’Neill (director)
Poppy and Bella struggle to bring themselves up in a rundown warehouse space above the burlesque club where their mother sings. When Bella's fantasy of a loving mother becomes obsessive, Poppy must wrestle with how to tell her little sister the truth.

4:30pm Sunday 8 February

SHOOTING WOMEN (18+)

Dir: Alexis Krasilovsky
US 2008 53mins
This documentary celebrates the history of camerawomen working in Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Mexico, Senegal, Russia, the US and other countries in a way never seen before. Hear the stories of pioneer camerawomen who have filmed in war zones and on major sets in Hollywood and Bollywood. WOW Best International Documentary winner. Includes SA made short documentary Talk Derby to Me.