Man number 4

Unclassified 18+

Dir. Miranda Pennell / 2024 / 9 mins / UK / English / Documentary, Experimental / Australian Premiere

Gaza, December 2023. A confrontation with a disturbing photo on social media triggers questions about what it means to be an onlooker.

In this bracing work of image deconstruction, filmmaker Miranda Pennell (Human Radio, MIFF 2002; Night Work, MIFF 1999) takes a pixelated photo she found on social media and analyses it piece by piece, revealing the cruelty obscured in the composition – and the ways in which the viewer is implicated in its violence.

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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