The First and The Last
Experimental International Film Festival

Reading Cinemas Auburn

September 27-28, 2003

Catalogue

&

Distributors List

(18+)

Dance of Destiny Abigail Portwin, Documentary 10' Australia 2002
"An experimental documentary about death in relation to 'the day of the dead' in Oaxaca, Mexico."

Distribution Contact: Abigail Portwin
1 Short St. Dulwich Hill NSW 2203 Australia
Tel/ 612 956 95273 Email/ a_portwin@hotmail.com

Autumnal Twigs Sedeh S Ebrahimi, Live Action 18' Iran 2002
"An experimental documentary about the forest and its trees getting cut off in Northern part of Iran."

Distribution Contact: Sedeh Sahar Ebrahimi
No. 16 Northern Razan St. Mirdamad blvd. Tehran 19117 Iran
Tel/ +98 21 2227212 Fax/ + 98 21 9503377 E-mail/ sahar192000@yahoo.com

Beyond Boris Poljak / Damir Cucic, Experimental Croatia 2002
"A play with light and shadow is transcending beyond present time."

Distribution Contact: Croatian Film Clubs
Dalmatinska 12 Zagreb 10000 Croatia
Tel/ 00385 1 4848771 Fax/ 0038 1 4848764 E-mail/ vera@hfs.hr

Dupion Dean Francis, Live Action 9' Australia 2003
"Dupion tells the story of two boys who rob a petrol station and begin a journey back home on the train. Through a series of surreal encounters, the boys come to realise that they have in fact been killed in the bungled hold-up and they are condemned to purgatory: a never ending journey on Melbourne's' public transport"

Distribution Contact: JJ splice
58 Annand St. Fitzroy North 3068 Victoria Australia
Tel/ (03) 9846 6049 Fax/ (03) 9481 5960 E-mail/ dean@jjsplice.com

From The Street Stano Petron, Live Action 5' Slovakia 2003
"Dead man is lying on the street and the story is about to begin..."

Distribution Contact: FTF VSMU
Venturska 3 Bratiszava 81301 Slovakia
Te/ +42125443218 Fax/ +42125443218l E-mail/ festivals@vsmu.sk

G.M. Martin Pickles, Live Action, 8'30" UK 2001
"An Edwardian gentleman is tormented by spirits who appear through holes in his sitting room wall paper"

Distribution Contact: British Film Institute
21 Stephan St. London W1T 1LN UK
Tel/ +44 7887 608 457 E-mail/ gmfilm@hotmail.com

Harlem Ines Maria Mulle, Live Action 29' Germany 2003
"The old man, Nicolas, gets a new job as parking lot guardians in Harlem a godforsaken place at the Dutch north sea."

Distribution Contact: Ines Maria Mulle
Klaus-Groth-Str. 28 Hamburg 20535 Germany
Tel/ +49 4025497136 E-mail/ ines.maria@motionshadow.de

Hederse Ramtin Lavavfipoor, 23', Live Action Iran 2003
"A film about tradition that belongs to thousands of year ago in Iran. Kids will visit each house in the village to gather dates to leave for crows in the desert. Ideally, the birds after eating the dates will bring rain to the barren land."

Distribution Contact: Fatemeh Shariatia faed / IRIB
9th Floor Jam-ejam Bldg Vali-e-Asr Ave Tehran 19997 Iran
Tel/ 0098 21 2013724 Fax/ 0098 2013724 E-mail/ Shariatfrd@irib.com

Lines of Fire Jorge C. Dorado, Documentary 20' Spain 2002
"1937, Spanish Civil War. One Republican Army squad lies hidden in an isolated psychiatric hospital in the National Zone."

Distribution Contact: Jorge C. Dorado
Barco, 42, 4' DHCA Spain
Tel/ 34 617630960 E-mail/ lineasdefuego@yahoo.es

Local Hero Witja Frank, Music Video 2'95" Germany 2002
"The Symbol of Berlin, Germany is a bear with a crow on his head"

Distribution Contact: Witja Frank
Pfarrstr. 142 Berlin 10317 Germany
Tel/ 0049 177 24 112 10 Fax/ 0049 30 81858935 E-mail/ Witja.Frank@berlin.de

Memosium Louis DuPont,Live Action 6'40" France 2002
"Memosium, a modern tale and hallucinated Nosferatu. Prisoner of it's own memory. Only flight (death?) may allow to escape the imprisonment of time."

Distribution Contact: Louis DuPont
Jo, Rue Merlin Paris 75011 France
Tel/ 0633 (0) 687852022 E-mail/ dupont.louis@free.fr

Papillion de Nuit Wayne Tindall, Live Action 4' Australia 2002
"An erotic painting on film about an artist and her lover"

Distribution Contact: Anne Tindall
Big Time Media 12 Luxton Rd South Yarra Australia
Tel/ (03) 9856 3222 Fax/ (03) 9832 1954 E-mail/ anne@bigtime.com.au

Pinky's Adventure - The Odyssey a Disposable Hero Julian Ashton, Live Action/Animation 7' Australia 2003
"Pinky, the cigarette lighter, endures a whirlwind journey through the lint filled pockets of a crazy twenty four hours."

Distribution Contact: Ashmore Films
Unit 1/11 Simpson St. Mitcham 3132 Australia
Tel/ 039874 0556 E-mail/ ashmorefilms@bigpond.com

Pipe Ana Grgic, Live Action 4' Australia 2002
"A boy is in love with his computer."

Distribution Contact: CINEWEST Ltd.
PO Box 861 Auburn W Sydney NSW 1835 Australia
Ph: 61 402 707010 Email: cinewest@hotkey.net.au Website: http://www.hotkey.net.au/~acdn/cinewest.htm

Rendezvous Farid Parsa, Live Action 6' Australia 1998
"What happens when you find yourself in another world once the rendezvous takes place."

Distribution Contact: CINEWEST Ltd.
PO Box 861 Auburn W Sydney NSW 1835 Australia
Ph: 61 402 707010 Email: cinewest@hotkey.net.au Website: http://www.hotkey.net.au/~acdn/cinewest.htm

Seek the Women Daniel Hopfner, Live Action 12' Germany 2002
"Her delusions consisted in the supposed position of great wealth, and an exalted station of a queen."

Distribution Contact: Hochschule fur Hilm und Fernsehen \ Konradwolf
Malene-Dietrich-Allee 11 Potsdam-Babelsberg D-14482 Germany
Tel/ +49 (0)331 6202 564 Fax/ +49 (0)331 6202 569 E-mail/ distribution@hff-potsdam.de

Split Heidi Kocevar, Animation 10' Croatia 2002
"Like many among us the clown sometimes wants to run away from himself… but is that possible."

Distribution Contact: Zagreb Film
Vlaska 70 Zagreb 10000 Croatia
E-mail/ Zagrebfilm@zagrebfilm.hr


Shadow Days Various Students, Live Action 10' Australia 2002
"A young man is searching for his identity, in the meantime his world uncovers voices and figures that appear only to him. Is it real, imagined or just plain foolish?"

Distribution Contact: P.O. Box 281
Croydon Park 2133 Australia
Tel/ 0417 167 877 E-mail/ anascott@bigpond.net.au

Syndrome Juan Martinez Ros, Experimental 9' Spain 2001
"An experimental approach to love and its syndrome."

Distribution Contact: McAllister Production
Gesammi 11 Sant Just Desvern 08960 Barcelona Spain
Tel/ 686 39 7777

The Awakening of Mattsi & Katochek Kate Sobol & Matthias Schubert, Animation / Live Action 12' USA 2002
"Mattsi and Katacheck lead a happy, unwed existence, at least until vague anxieties in thhe form of animated nightmares come crowding into their waking lives."

Distribution Contact: Kate Sobol & Matthias Schubert
23223 Hwy 99, C#113 Edmonds 98026 USA
Tel/ 206 999 1305 E-mail/ katesobol@hotmail.com or matthiasbertrand@hotmail.com

The Bond Anjali Monteiro & K P Jayasankar, Documentary 45' India 2003
"An experimental documentary about the being an Indian despite the differences in regions and religious beliefs."

Distribution Contact: Anjali Monteiro / K.P. Jayasankar
Tata Institute of Social Sciences
Deonar Mumbai 400088 India
Tel/ 91 22 5563290 Fax/ 91 22 5562912 E-mail/ umctiss@vsnl.com

The Commuter Martin Pickles, Live Action 1'30" UK 2002
"An office worker shaves his face off every morning to blend in with all the other faceless commuters."

Distribution Contact: Martin Pickles
67 Ballater Rd London SW2 5QX UK
Tel/ +44 7887 608 457 E-mail/ gmfilm@hotmail.com

The Crooked Nose Antonio Ciano, Live Action 15' Italy 2003
"His late mother tells him that often when he had the opportunity to be himself he didn't take it. Giovanni, a successful 40 year old has a change of character and begins to live up to his new, uncontrollable persona."

Distribution Contact: Nuvola Film
Via Belisario Roma 00187 Italy
Tel/ +39 06 42905173 Fax/ +39 06 42905173 E-mail/ a.ciano@murolafilm.com

The Diver Pu Lehtinen, Documentary 21' Finland 2000
"Diving is like Poetry, every movement flowing into the next, The Diver is a hymn to diving and the aesthetics of movement."

Distribution Contact: The Finnish Film Foundation
Kanavakatu 12 Helkinki 00100 Finland
Tel/ +358 9 6220 300 Fax/ +358 9 6220 6220 E-mail/ mirji@pallassalb@ses.fi

The Many Faces of Katherine Chronis Lynn King, Documentary 10'06" USA 2001
"An exploration into the philosophy, art and life of Katherine Chronis."

Distribution Contact: Lynn King
15415 Lemay St. Van Nuys 91406 USA
Tel/ 818 781 3361 E-mail/ KingLynn@SBCglobal.net

The Matador Alanya van de Wiel , Animation 30" Australia 2000
"A film about passion, desire, hypnotic erotic exotic dancing, allergy, and the Spanish way of love."

Distribution Contact: Alanya van de Wiel
Tel/ 61 3 983533477 Fax/ 61 3 98527523 E-mail/ shlombil@yahoo.com

The Twilight Mohammad Rasoulof, Live Action 83' Iran 2002
"The head of the prison chose a man-prisoner of 34, who have been sentenced many times during his youth, to marry a woman-prisoner sentenced to life imprisonment. They begin to live the life together for one day a week in one of the rooms in prison."

Distribution Contact: Shererazad Media International
Pasdaran St, Shariati Ave Tehran 16619 Iran
Tel/ +98 (21) 2858962 & 61 Fax/ +98 (21) 2858962 E-mail/ katysha@dpimaik.net

The Voice of Ivan Frost Alanya van de Wiel, Animation 7'05" Australia 2001
"Ivan Frost is the most magnificent singer in the world. The power of his voice causes the wealthy to lament their wealth into the bellies of the poor, it caused the lonely to leap of buildings and laugh before they hit the ground. That is until Ivan's voice is stolen and he is confronted with a soul- destroying realisation."

Distribution Contact: Alanya van de Wiel
Tel/ 61 3 983533477 Fax/ 61 3 98527523 E-mail/ shlombil@yahoo.com

un?! Jojo Chuk / Chiu Ying, Live Action 7'40" Australia 2003
"Divided into four short segments, each describing one Chinese idiom and they are in relation to chicken."

Distribution Contact: Jojo Chuk / Chiu Ying
3006 / 393 Pitt St. Sydney 2000 Australia
Tel/ 0414 616172 E-mail/ cipher_beryl@yahoo.com.hk

Vows Ana Djordjevic, Live Action 5' Australia 2002
"A day in the life of a couple married for 23 years. Who stay married out of habit."

Distribution Contact: Ana Djordjevic
10 Olsen Court Brookfield 4069 Brisbane Australia
Tel/ +617 33740678 E-mail/ mountmoritz@bigpond.com

Wake Up Eva Vazquez, Animation 5' Spain 2003
"An animation about a person at the bar drinking."

Distribution Contact: Eva Vazquez
Modesto Lafuente 8 4'CIZP Madrid 28010 Spain
Tel/ 0034 647739892 E-mail/ MALAFLOR1@hotmail.com

What I did on my Nervous Breakdown Karen Pearlman, Live Action 1'55" Australia 2002
"An alternative way to deal with Nervous Breakdown by dancing and expressing yourself."

Distribution Contact: Physical TV Company
PO Box 522 Surry Hills 2010 Australia
Tel/ +612 9699 1147 Fax/ +612 9699 1169 E-mail/ PhysicalTV@bigpond.com

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