A film by Margot Nash about family secrets and the ties of love, loss and kinship between a mother and daughter. The Silences is a personal essay documentary about the tangled bonds, secret histories and unspoken traumas of family life that stretches from New Zealand to the Australian suburbs. It…
“No one from any government has ever known our language. … How can they know us?” - David Gulpilil Another Country is a documentary which considers, from the inside, the ramifications of one culture being dominated by another. At the beginning of last century the Australian Government,…
REVELATION PERTH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL PRESENTS www.revelationfilmfest.org www.revstream.com.au Dir: Craig Baldwin Year: 1995 Country: USA Duration: 87mins By their own reckoning, members of the Bay Area recording and performance group Negativland got themselves into trouble by having…
REVELATION PERTH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL PRESENTS www.revelationfilmfest.org www.revstream.com.au Dir: Craig Baldwin Year: 2000 Country: USA Duration: 88mins Like his previous found epics Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America, O No Coronado and Sonic Outlaws, Spectres of the Spectrum…
Directed and Produced by Roger M. Richards "What happened in Sarajevo...it can happen in the middle of Paris. In Rome. It's possible." -Vedran Smailovic, The Cellist of Sarajevo What happens when a modern society implodes? Imagine waking up to find society collapsed: stores shuttered,…
Domestic abuse is a dark shadow that lives in the heart of Australian society, affecting individuals, families and neighbourhoods. In regional, rural and remote Australia, whole communities can be affected. In this powerful short film, this often hidden subject is brought to light by people willing to…
Teenage fugitive Colton Harris-Moore's superhuman ability to escape capture by stealing airplanes and living in the wilderness made him a modern day folk hero. Fusing documentary, graphic novel style animation, and dramatic recreations, the film contrasts the story of a real kid who fell into burglary…
Peter Mettler's inquiry into transcendence invites the viewer to participate in the making of meaning. It is a trip across four countries and cultures; a journey that includes evangelism at Toronto's airport strip, demolition in Las Vegas, tracings in the Nevada desert, chemistry and street…
REVELATION PERTH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL PRESENTS www.revelationfilmfest.org www.revstream.com.au Dir: Craig Baldwin Year: 1991 Country: USA Duration: 48mins In 1000 AD the distant planet Quetzalcoatl explodes. Several of its inhabitants manage to escape in a flying saucer and take refuge…
The Cost of Construction investigates the string of controversial deaths in Las Vegas, Nevada during the construction of MGM's CityCenter, the most expensive private construction project in US history. The story unfolds to reveal a nationwide pattern of ineffective regulations, lax oversight,…
Here is Episode 9 of the fly-on-the-wall documentary series which started in 2009 with a 3 minute upload to youtube that went viral. This is the year (2014) where we see Magdalena start to learn alongside Agnieszka with more independence, and enter the world of imaginative play to investigate, assimilate…
Provocateur, artist, performer: Peter Vanessa "Troy" Davies was a chameleon. Using layers of identity at will, Davies charmed his way through a lifetime of secrets and lies, prostitution, art, HIV, abuse, incest, and gender subversion. Leaving a legacy of unanswered questions, influential performances…
