BLACKWOOD RIVER ARTS TRAIL 2027 3 - 11 APRIL
The Blackwood River Film Festival 2024
Showcased films by Australian filmmakers, 8 Short Films and 3 Features
FEATURE FILMS
Drift
Directors: Ben Nott and Morgan O’Neill
Runtime: 1hr 53min
In the 70s two brothers battle killer waves, conservative society and ruthless bikers to kick-start the modern surf industry.
Breath
Director: Simon Baker
Runtime: 1hr 55min
Based on Tim Winton's award-winning and international bestselling novel set in mid-70s coastal Australia. Two teenage boys, hungry for discovery, form an unlikely friendship with a mysterious older adventurer who pushes them to take risks that will have a lasting and profound impact on their lives.
Frank and Frank
(or the Valley and the Walrus: Ruminations on the Mystery from Soup to Nuts)
Director: Adam Morris
Runtime: 90min
A faith and finance guru heads to the country to present at a regional conference only to find out his wife is thinking of leaving him. As his life unravels, he finds comfort in his new neighbour, an itinerant artist, bonvivant and serial womaniser who just might save his life or ruin it completely once and for all.
8 SHORT FILMS
Me, Myself & Pie
After a class presentation goes horribly wrong, a young boy seeks refuge at a quiet park bench where he gets some life advice from the most unlikely person.
We’re always touching underwater
In this experimental underwater film. the syrupy-slow vision of submerged ecologies is interrupted by an uncanny presence – a hand, deathly-pale and unnaturally articulated. We’re always touching underwater uses the horror trope of ‘the body in pieces’ to examine environmental anxiety and the nature of loss, bringing dark absurdity and a transgressive aesthetic to the benthic zone.
Marlu Man
An Aboriginal man who is pushed to his limits by a racist society creates the gammonest super hero alter-ego; Marlu Man. Armed with a pouch full of ping pong balls, a polony sandwich (yes polony, not devon) and a thirst for justice, Marlu Man kidnaps online trolls and dishes out punishment in his fortress of solitude, Mum's shed.
Bird Drone
A heartfelt story of unrequited love explored through a lonely seagull struggling to accept that his newfound object of affection is a human-operated drone with a limited battery life.
Requiem
Requiem imagines the last remaining astronauts onboard the International Space Station (ISS) bidding farewell to their vessel before it is deorbited and crashed into the remote South Pacific (an event scheduled to take place by the end of 2030)
Raising Thunder
A young girl discovers a magical cloud that may hold the key to mending her father’s broken heart.
Tee Ken Ng
From freezing cold swims in the depths of winter to the wildest imaginative artistic outputs, Tee Ken Ng's Mind is one that pushes the boundaries of life and art to extremes, and one we could all learn a lot from.
First-ish Contact
A low paid government employee makes first contact with an alien species.