A regular series of curated screenings and discussions that spotlight and intersect with research being undertaken in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University.
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Don’t Deliver Us from Evil
1971 · Joël Séria · 102m · France
With an introduction by PhD candidate Sally Christie
Satan has been a mainstay in cinema since Georges Méliès released The Devil’s Castle in 1896. Films such as The Exorcist explicitly use demonic possession as an allegory to explore the changing bodies, desires, and attitudes female teenagers experience during the onset of puberty. However, Joël Séria’s 1971 film Don’t Deliver Us from Evil uses Satan as a symbol of rebellion. PhD candidate Sally Christie will discuss how Satan operates as a transgressive force in Don’t Deliver Us from Evil and how this relates to her wider research, suggesting that Satan is not simply a binary symbol of good vs. evil, but a catalyst of change and a feminist symbol in modern horror.
MON 28 OCTOBER 2024
Kaleide Theatre -
Things Will Be Different
2024 · Lucie McMahon · 65m · Australia
With an introduction by director and PhD candidate Lucie McMahon
Filmmaker and PhD candidate Lucie McMahon will introduce her film Things Will Be Different, which documents two neighbours’ experiences of displacement as they are forced to relocate from the Walker Street public housing estate in Northcote, Melbourne when it is sold for private redevelopment. The film explores the impact of losing one’s home and the important role public housing plays in our communities.
TUE 24 SEPTEMBER 2024
Kaleide Theatre -
The Lower Ground
2024 · Hamid Taheri · 105m · Iran
With an introduction by director and PhD candidate Hamid Taheri
Hamid Taheri is a filmmaker and PhD candidate in RMIT’s School of Media and Communication who relocated from Iran to Melbourne to begin his research into representations of women in Iranian cinema. Hamid will present his feature film, which he made in Iran before his move to Australia, in context of his filmmaking practice and research. The film captures the atmosphere of a couple’s life in the COVID lockdown in Iran. This is the film’s first screening outside Iran and marks the two year anniversary of Hamid’s arrival in Melbourne.
TUE 27 AUGUST 2024
Kaleide Theatre -
2551.02 - The Orgy of the Damned
2023 · Norbert Pfaffenbichler · 82m · Austria
With an introduction by Dr Alexia Kannas, Senior Lecturer Media & Cinema Studies
The second installment of Vienna-based experimental filmmaker Norbert Pfaffenbichler’s 2551 trilogy, The Orgy of the Damned twists the plot of Charlie Chaplin’s The Kid (1931) into a nightmare odyssey through an underworld of surreal grotesquery that is as sick as it is sublime. Dr Alexia Kannas will discuss the production and circulation of Pffafenbichler’s no-budget films as exemplars of the contemporary horrific avant-garde.
WED 29 MAY 2024
Kaleide Theatre -
True History of the Kelly Gang
2019 · Justin Kurzel · 124m · Australia
With an introduction by Maximillian Kenyon, PhD Candidate
Based on Peter Carey’s Booker Prize-winning novel, Justin Kurzel’s film challenges the validity of Australia’s constructed identity and history, questioning who such histories represent when truths are fashioned into myth. PhD candidate Maximillian Kenyon interrogates how Ned Kelly has come to be mythologised in postcolonial Australian culture through re-tellings and fabrications.
WED 24 APRIL 2024
Kaleide Theatre -
Stagecoach
1939 · John Ford · 96m · United States
With an introduction by Amy Taylor, PhD Candidate
This year marks the 85th anniversary of John Ford’s 1939 western Stagecoach, starring the iconic John Wayne. ‹SCREEN INQUISITION› is proud to host a screening and discussion presented by PhD candidate Amy Taylor, who will investigate what lessons and legacies the film, and the Western genre, leave us with in a post-Trump world.
WED 20 MARCH 2024
Kaleide Theatre -
The Apartment
1960 · Billy Wilder · 125m · United States
With an introduction by Dr Djoymi Baker, Lecturer Media & Cinema Studies
Billy Wilder’s sizzling satire of corporate ladder climbing and isolation remains a vibrant and vital commentary on American social mores. Join us for the first ‹SCREEN INQUISITION› of 2024, as Dr Djoymi Baker discusses the film in relation to changing attitudes toward the single woman and its contribution to the breakdown of the Production Code.
WED 28 FEBRUARY 2024
Kaleide Theatre -
0s & 1s
2011 · Eugene Kotlyarenko · 83m · United States
With an introduction by Samuel Harris, PhD Candidate
A desktop film before desktop films were even a thing, 0s & 1s recounts the frantic odyssey of LA twenty-something / slacker James Pongo (Morgan Krantz) as he searches for his stolen laptop. Told exclusively through multi-layered computer interfaces, director Eugene Kotlyarenko’s (Wobble Palace, Spree) under-seen 2011 opus cleverly articulates the blurred intersection of our physical and digital lives.
TUE 30 MAY 2023
Lower Cinema Theatre, RMIT -
The Armed — ULTRAPOP: Live at the Masonic
2021 · Tony Wolski · 50m · United States
With an introduction by Dr Ian Rogers, Lecturer B.A. (Music Industry)
American band The Armed are one of the most mysterious artists operating in popular music today. More of an art collective than a rock band, their Live at the Masonic film collapses traditional concepts of authenticity, the live concert film, and American hardcore punk into a vivid, chaotic mess.
TUE 2 MAY 2023
Lower Cinema Theatre, RMIT -
Paul T. Goldman
2022–2023 · Jason Woliner · 242m · United States
With an introduction by Bradley J. Dixon, PhD Candidate
Paul T. Goldman’s world is turned upside down when he learns his wife has been living a secret double life. His effort to uncover the truth thrusts him into a labyrinth of fraud, deception, and international sex trafficking… or does it? Director Jason Woliner (Nathan for You, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm) documents a true story far stranger than fiction, and the fascinating character at its centre, as Goldman writes and stars in parafictional reenactments of his own unbelievable life.
TUE 28 MARCH 2023
Lower Cinema Theatre, RMIT -
Bad Habits: A Journey Into Nunsploitation
With an introduction by Jonathon Barratt, PhD Candidate
Visions of Ecstasy
1989 · Nigel Wingrove · 18m · United Kingdom
Erotic and beautiful, witness the only film to be banned outright in the U.K.!
School of the Holy Beast
1974 · Norifumi Suzuki · 91m · Japan
A sordid Japanese tale of nuns, whips, revenge, and roses.
THU 27 OCTOBER 2022
Lower Cinema Theatre, RMIT