Still Alive

As a man dies, his mind drifts back to the evenings of his childhood.

On 25 April 1995 16 year old Matthew Easdale was shot in Brisbane. His mother was interviewed on the radio. Using rotoscoped animation the film presents the story in two very different ways.

The world is a blazing atomic hell. Civilisation is dying in agony... What do you do? ...THROW A PARTY! The Third World War has happened. Bombs are dropping everywhere, even Elwood, Melbourne, Australia. In the ruins that follow, three survivors find a bomb shelter. Only to find that the survivors in there are having a party.

When Academy Award®–winning animator and painter Joan Gratz asked eleven filmmakers if they would contribute to an omnibus film, she wasn’t sure what to expect—after prompting them to make a “one-minute memoir,” she let them figure out the rest. The One-Minute Memoir is the exuberant result: eleven stories ranging from the heartfelt to the absurd, all reflective of each director’s personal style.

One of Australia’s leading landscape artists, William Robinson has twice won the Archibald Prize for his self-portraits. SILLY & SERIOUS presents Robinson at work, playing Debussy, and discussing his work: his love for old Laurel and Hardy movies; how humour and sadness can exist in the same portrait

This surprisingly lighthearted exploration of childhood trauma depicts a women falling through space while reflecting on her past mistakes, as well as how she was made to feel about them.

During a family outing to a cinema, a young boy falls asleep. His mind flashes back to an early memory where, as a toddler, his family try to take a photo of him in their backyard. As he drifts in and out of sleep, his memory and the present begin to merge. Dennis Tupicoff's 2017 short film premiered at the prestigious Annecy International Animated Film Festival. The film's combination of hand-drawn animation with live action clips of the 1950 Film Noir D.O.A,, awakeness with sleep, and past with present creates a surreal quality that emanates throughout the film.

Romance is like a chainsaw: a very dangerous beast indeed.

A bank robber flies in to a tropical town where the only conversation is: ”It's not the heat, it's the humidity”. First the weather wrecks his plans; then it destroys him.

An animated satire on television violence, set in a world where the skeletal Don Death runs a popular variety show called “Dance of Death”.