Dest Fest
WHAT
DESTINATION FESTIVAL
WHERE
CARRIAGEWORKS, 245 WILSON STREET, EVELEIGH
WHEN
SAT NOV 24, SAT DEC 1, SAT DEC 8
GET TICKETS
HERE
WIN
ONE OF THREE DOUBLE PASSES. JUST EMAIL YOUR NAME AND POSTAL ADDRESS WIN@TWOTHOUSAND.COM.AU WITH THE SUBJECT ‘DEST FEST'
Three afternoons of film and talk? Compared to the exhausting three-week grind offered by other Australian festivals, the inaugural Destination Festival's tightly curated selections and candid panel discussions sound like bliss.
Week One features international cinema, notably the Australian premiere of WHOLPIN VOLUME IV, the DVD magazine from everyone's favourite hipster overlords Dave Eggers, Brett Hoff, and MCSWEENY'S. Week Two is Australian shorts, hand-picked by DestFest curator and JJJ veteran Megan Spencer.
The most intriguing material comes in Week Three's focus on 'Cyber-Born Films'. It sounds vaguely Frankensteinian, but the featured project is astonishingly sweet. Award-winning FOUR EYES MONSTERS is an 80 minute feature by New Yorkers Arin Crumley and Susan Buice, who mined their new relationship for multimedia material and made the most of new technology and digital distribution.
Their making-of episodes are so deftly soundtracked and cut that they're more entertaining than many full films, documenting the toll of the project through wince-worthy lines like Susan's "Do you think that being a good boyfriend is important? As important as making this film?" Ouch. The least you can do is help them pay off their credit card debt.
Format: Festival
Mood: Smarts
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