Feminist Shorts
Live music and visuals by nomadicstatic
Westside Event
Friday 6 MAY | 7:00PM
Kindred Bandroom
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Live music and visuals by nomadicstatic
Stay for drinks, music and visuals with DJ nomadicstatic.
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Saba
Mohammad Reza Khavari / Iran / 2020 / 13 min / Drama
In the course of Iran's ban on women's presence in football stadiums, Saba, 22, disguises herself as a boy to sneak into the stadium at her father's suggestion. Her father takes her to a traditional cafe instead of the stadium. Asking her how hard it is to hide her true identity, he lets her—now impersonating a boy—in on the secret that he realized he could not be a man any more when Saba was three, but he had to hide it for years to let her daughter feel having a father. On the pretext of helping her enter the stadium, he creates a circumstance where his daughter has to put herself into his shoes, thereby hiding her true identity. He then tells her that he intends to continue living with his true identity from now on.
Becky
Nicola Cross / Kenya / 2020 / 13 min / Narrative
“Becky” is an unexpectedly uplifting story about a Kenyan woman’s resilience on her journey to feeling complete.
Wurundjeri Baggarrook
Rochelle (Rocky) Humphrey / Australia / 2021 / 16 min / Documentary / Australian Premiere
The last Coming of Age ceremony held by the Wurundjeri people took place at Coranderrk, 185 years ago; from that point all cultural ceremony and practice was forbidden. A group of Wurundjeri women, descendants of the families who went through the last recorded Wurundjeri ceremony are determined to be a 'living culture', reviving ceremonial practice. Wurundjeri Baggarrook is not only documenting this history in the making, but leading insight into the complexities of contemporary Aboriginal identity. A significant untold story is ready to be revealed, whilst the rest of Australia is getting up to speed with the nations real history; these brave Wurundjeri women know how to build a strong and proud community.
My Mother’s Girlfriend
Arun Fulara / India / 2021 / 15 min / Narrative
RENUKA is in love with SADIYA a neighbour who lives in the same slum as her. They are out celebrating RENUKA's birthday but unknown to them, MANGESH, her son, is around. The film is the story of these two relationships colliding.
Annah la Javanaise
Fatimah Tobing Rony / Indonesia / 2020 / 6 min / Narrative
In 1893, a 13-year-old girl came to work for French painter Paul Gauguin as his maid and model. They called her Annah la Javanaise. This is a reimagining of her story.
Live music and visuals by nomadicstatic
Stay for drinks, music and visuals with DJ nomadicstatic.
nomadicstatic is a projection artist and DJ based in Naarm / Melbourne with a penchant for blending palettes, patterns and textures to create hypnotising hybrids that stimulate the senses. On the decks she plays everything from jazz and hiphop classics to uk funky, brokenbeat or gqom dancefloor heaters. Expect to break a sweat at one of her sets.