Acetone Reality

Acetone Reality

Unclassified 18+

Dir. Michael Bell-Smith, Sara Magenheimer / 2025 / 12 mins / USA / English / Experimental / Australian Premiere

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Viewer Advice: Contains stroboscopic imagery

Animation, found images and video recordings collide against a mind-bending dialogue between two computer-generated voices.

Reality wobbles and warps in Sara Magenheimer and Michael Bell-Smith’s cryptic collision of jagged pixels and smeared colours, a visual kaleidoscope that unfurls against an unhinged discussion between a pair of disembodied voices on the nature of meaning. A loopy reflection on existence in the age of artificial intelligence.

Metro sessions

Mon 10 Aug 3:45pm ACMI 2

Past Session

Experimental Shorts (110 m)

Lost in the Water (12 m)

Land of Barbar (11 m)

Body, remember… (16 m)

Swing Swish Sway (7 m)

By the Faith of José Gerónimo (11 m)

Time Life Volume 9. Life Model (10 m)

Rojo Žalia Blau (10 m)

As Told by a Corpse (5 m)

Daria’s Night Flowers (16 m)

Acetone Reality (12 m)

Experimental Shorts (110 m)

Lost in the Water (12 m)

Land of Barbar (11 m)

Body, remember… (16 m)

Swing Swish Sway (7 m)

By the Faith of José Gerónimo (11 m)

Time Life Volume 9. Life Model (10 m)

Rojo Žalia Blau (10 m)

As Told by a Corpse (5 m)

Daria’s Night Flowers (16 m)

Acetone Reality (12 m)

Past Session

ACMI 2

Past Session

Tue 18 Aug 9:15pm ACMI 2

Experimental Shorts (110 m)

Lost in the Water (12 m)

Land of Barbar (11 m)

Body, remember… (16 m)

Swing Swish Sway (7 m)

By the Faith of José Gerónimo (11 m)

Time Life Volume 9. Life Model (10 m)

Rojo Žalia Blau (10 m)

As Told by a Corpse (5 m)

Daria’s Night Flowers (16 m)

Acetone Reality (12 m)

Experimental Shorts (110 m)

Lost in the Water (12 m)

Land of Barbar (11 m)

Body, remember… (16 m)

Swing Swish Sway (7 m)

By the Faith of José Gerónimo (11 m)

Time Life Volume 9. Life Model (10 m)

Rojo Žalia Blau (10 m)

As Told by a Corpse (5 m)

Daria’s Night Flowers (16 m)

Acetone Reality (12 m)

ACMI 2

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