Break No.1 & Break No.2

休息一下

Unclassified 18+

Dir. Lei Lei / 2024 / 18 mins / China / Mandarin / Experimental / Australian Premiere

A thrillingly bold montage of still images and video work that pays tribute to memory and time.

An exploration of the fragility of memory and the moving image, this two-part film is a consistently inventive work of imagination. In the first episode, a silent narrator contemplates his friend’s suicide over dreamy, rainbow-coloured archival images, while the second finds him floating through a hall of videos, haunted by the spectre of government censorship. A fascinating blend of love, loss, cinema and materiality.

14 Aug 8:45pm ACMI 2

Experimental Shorts (108 m)

The Land at Night (14 m)

It follows It passes on (5 m)

Break No.1 & Break No.2 (18 m)

Light, Noise, Smoke, and Light, Noise, Smoke (6 m)

Grandmamauntsistercat (23 m)

Slow Shift (9 m)

Man number 4 (9 m)

Single File (10 m)

Experimental Shorts (108 m)

The Land at Night (14 m)

It follows It passes on (5 m)

Break No.1 & Break No.2 (18 m)

Light, Noise, Smoke, and Light, Noise, Smoke (6 m)

Grandmamauntsistercat (23 m)

Slow Shift (9 m)

Man number 4 (9 m)

Single File (10 m)

ACMI 2

18 Aug 11:15am ACMI 2

Experimental Shorts (103 m)

The Land at Night (14 m)

It follows It passes on (5 m)

Break No.1 & Break No.2 (18 m)

Light, Noise, Smoke, and Light, Noise, Smoke (6 m)

Grandmamauntsistercat (23 m)

Slow Shift (9 m)

Man number 4 (9 m)

Single File (10 m)

Experimental Shorts (103 m)

The Land at Night (14 m)

It follows It passes on (5 m)

Break No.1 & Break No.2 (18 m)

Light, Noise, Smoke, and Light, Noise, Smoke (6 m)

Grandmamauntsistercat (23 m)

Slow Shift (9 m)

Man number 4 (9 m)

Single File (10 m)

ACMI 2

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