Accelerator Shorts: MIFF 68½
Animation Shorts
Are You Still Watching?
Zoe Terakes voices a sex-crazed twentysomething in this lurid fever dream of queerness in lockdown.
As One
In the woods, a young woman and man scuffle as they fight for life.
Australian Shorts
The Beloved
Commune or cult? This epic documentary illuminates the Rajneesh sannyasin movement in 1980s Fremantle, as told by those who lived through it.
Bodies in Motion
Bonanza!
Commissioned by Chunky Move, this playfully experimental work traverses ritual, body modification and algorithms.
Censor
At the height of the ‘video nasty’ era, a tightly wound film censor begins to unravel in this clever and subversive ode to the genre.
Don't Forget to Go Home
Two Fijian-Indian sisters escape their cousin’s wedding to get high on disobedience and drugs.
Each Other
An absurdist study of the human body as a limitless instrument for self-discovery.
earthearthearth
IFFR Tiger Award winner Daïchi Saïto presents an absorbing, otherworldly study of our planet.
The Echo
In a nondescript place, seemingly forgotten by time, a teenager tries to outrun his loneliness.
Experimental Shorts
Gravedad
In a world with extremes of gravity, Rosa must navigate what it means to feel emotional ups and downs.
International Shorts 2
Lamb
Noomi Rapace stars in this Un Certain Regard prize-winning supernatural drama about a couple who raise a very special child.
Lizard
In the 2021 Sundance Short Film Grand Jury Prize winner, a young girl stumbles upon secrets at her local church in Lagos.
Nestor
Routine is the only thing keeping Nestor afloat.
Oldboy's Apples
Join a demon, a puppy and a rat in this stop-motion headtrip about a mysterious, magically summoned apple tree.
One Thousand and One Attempts to Be an Ocean
In the age of information overload, the challenge is to avoid drowning.
Poise
Stuck in a holding pattern, two men attempt to break the cycle.
Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time
Love and reality go under the scalpel in this story of obsession on the streets of Budapest.
Prom Night
A Lynchian depiction of self-transformation in the social media age.
Sisters With Transistors
Laurie Anderson narrates the untold history of the women who blazed a trail through electronic music.
Thorax
Siegfried A. Fruhauf returns with a dazzlingly abstracted Rorschach-like lightshow.
Valpi (Tectonics)
Dianna Barrie and Richard Tuohy present a lo-fi 3D film captured in the crushing shadow of volcanoes.