In a world where all our desires are controlled, a young man goes where no one dares to tread.
Country: Australia
WALKABOUT
Two city-bred siblings are stranded in the Australian Outback, where they learn to survive with the aid of an Aboriginal boy on his “walkabout”: a ritual separation from his tribe.
CHOPPER
Mark “Chopper” Read bungles his childhood dreams of becoming a legendary crime figure by landing in a maximum-security prison for a failed kidnapping attempt. There he works hard to establish himself at the top of the prison power hierarchy through extraordinary erratic behaviour, alternately violent, affectionate and self-destructive. Physical brutality, lies, rationalisations and distortions comprise… Continue reading CHOPPER
Stephan Elliott
In 1993, this Australian writer-director made his debut with the very original Frauds, in which a surprising Phil Collins played the lead. The movie was selected for Cannes and won our Golden Raven in 1994. His second film, the sensational The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Dessert, featured Terrence Stamp in drag. Two years… Continue reading Stephan Elliott
TWO HANDS
Jimmy, a 19 year old ex-street kid and aspiring hooligan works at a Kings Cross strip club when he not only gets his big break into the world of crime but also meets Alex, the girl of his dreams. Local drug dealing gangster Pando asks Jimmy to act as a courier. He is sent out… Continue reading TWO HANDS
EYE OF THE BEHOLDER
The Eye is a lonely, isolated British intelligence agent who has lost his wife and daughter, for which he blames himself. Yet detachment is part of the job. The Eye’s current mission is to track Joanna Eris, a woman suspected of blackmailing the son of a senior British official. But Eris is more than a… Continue reading EYE OF THE BEHOLDER
CUT
A group of film students, led by the vivacious and charismatic Raffy, decide to complete a horror movie that was left unfinished 14 years before when its director, Hillary Jacobs, was gruesomely murdered. The students are eager to start working, despite the disapproval and warnings of their lecturer Lossman, who was assistant-director for the original… Continue reading CUT
Russell Mulcahy
Australian director Russell Mulcahy (°1953) learned the tricks of the trade by making videoclips. His work for bands like AC/DC and Air Supply brought him to England, where he made the first modern videoclip: Ultravox’ Vienna. Other artists like Elton John, Rod Stewart and Duran Duran also used his services. In 1984, Mulcahy got the… Continue reading Russell Mulcahy
ABERRATION
Something is seriously amiss in Langdon, a holiday and fishing resort in mid-West America. Marshall, a local field researcher who has fallen short of his own expectations, is investigating the area’s sudden ecological devastation. Populations of small wildlife are rapidly disappearing and strange, gooey nests are springing up over the countryside. He watches a young… Continue reading ABERRATION
FRANZ , KAFKA
Ernst FRANZ and his alter-ego Jozef KAFKA, throw themselves into writing their first novel. From the first phrase, they are confronted with the mortal fears of creation. They find themselves face to face with the surrealist nightmare that slumbers in both of them : a monstrous bug called Gregor SAMSA.