Me & Mazzy Melancholy

Unclassified 18+

Dir. David Tse / 2023 / 13 mins / Australia / English, Mandarin, Japanese / Drama / World Premiere

Loneliness and longing collide in this haunted nocturnal vision of a desolate Melbourne.

A Japanese man lovingly tends to a house full of plants. A Chinese immigrant wears a penguin costume at work due to social anxiety. And a kidnapper bonds with the hostage she keeps locked up in a suitcase. Melbourne has never looked so mysterious as in this 16mm-shot, vaporwave/shoegaze-scored shrine to solitude steeped in classic Wong Kar-wai, early Tsai Ming-liang and Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Millennium Mambo (MIFF 2002 & 2023).

14 Aug 3:45pm ACMI 1

Accelerator Shorts 1 (87 m)

Lea Tupu'anga / Mother Tongue (17 m)

Punctum (10 m)

Me & Mazzy Melancholy (13 m)

Kar (11 m)

The Meaningless Daydreams of Augie & Celeste (7 m)

Clown (10 m)

Honey Kaha (19 m)

Accelerator Shorts 1 (87 m)

Lea Tupu'anga / Mother Tongue (17 m)

Punctum (10 m)

Me & Mazzy Melancholy (13 m)

Kar (11 m)

The Meaningless Daydreams of Augie & Celeste (7 m)

Clown (10 m)

Honey Kaha (19 m)

ACMI 1

24 Aug 10:45am ACMI 1

Accelerator Shorts 1 (87 m)

Lea Tupu'anga / Mother Tongue (17 m)

Punctum (10 m)

Me & Mazzy Melancholy (13 m)

Kar (11 m)

The Meaningless Daydreams of Augie & Celeste (7 m)

Clown (10 m)

Honey Kaha (19 m)

Accelerator Shorts 1 (87 m)

Lea Tupu'anga / Mother Tongue (17 m)

Punctum (10 m)

Me & Mazzy Melancholy (13 m)

Kar (11 m)

The Meaningless Daydreams of Augie & Celeste (7 m)

Clown (10 m)

Honey Kaha (19 m)

ACMI 1

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