At a time when cinema seems on a road to nowhere, with endless franchises, familiar tropes and predictable genres, the third annual Dead End Film Festival arrives as a proud celebration of wrongness.
This program of short films, screening for one night only at Coburg Drive-In, revels in the alternative methods of expression that characterise 'resourceful' cinema. Resourceful cinema involves the rejection of high production values and conventional narrative. Aesthetic expectations of film are challenged in favour of a spontaneous approach.
Indigenous filmmakers Karrabing Film Collective, as well as Emmett Aldred, Garden Reflexx and Rebecca Mccauley, are some of the local filmmakers represented alongside work from Syria, Argentina, Thailand and the Philippines. Live performances will bookend the screenings.
Arrival by car is not essential as there is conventional seating provided.