Past Events

May 6, 2024 5:00 PM SWMF 2017 SHORTS PROGRAM @Hobart, Tasmania
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Peacock Theatre, Salamanca Arts Centre

A line-up of Australian and international shorts that reflect around the notion of ‘horror’. Some are what might be described as genre stories, others are not. All deal with horrific aspects of daily life.

Line-up includes:

DOLL
Australia | 2017 | 5 minutes | Dir: Jia He | World Premiere
A girl is trapped in a house where an evil nesting doll captures souls.

THE MAN WHO CAUGHT A MERMAID
Australia | 2016 | 16 minutes | Dir: Kaitlyn Tinker | Tasmanian Premiere
An old fisherman captures a mermaid in a world that tells him they don’t exist. A Swinburne University Production.

MOUSE
USA | 2016 | 11 minutes | Dir: Celine Held and Logan George | Australian Premiere
Vanessa and Danny are down on their luck, so when an unlikely can of Unica brand beans falls to their kitchen floor, they aim to squeeze out every penny. Debuted this year at SXSW.

WHAT HAPPENED TO HER
USA | 2016 | 15 minutes | Dir: Kristy Guevara-Flanagan | Tasmanian Premiere
A forensic exploration of our cultural obsession with images of the dead woman on screen.

PENDULUM
UK | 2017 | 19 minutes | Dir: Lauren Cooney | World Premiere
Two friends seek spiritual salvation in India away from their hedonistic and disconnected lives in advance of the impending collapse of the Cosmos.

GARDENING AT NIGHT
USA | 2016 | 12 minutes | Dir: Shayna Connelly | Australian Premiere
Samantha is powerless to help Anne, who on the eve of her death is angry and afraid. A personal relection on friendship and loss.

SLAPPER
Australia | 2016 | 15 minutes | Dir: Luci Schroder | Tasmanian Premiere
Taylah must scrape together money for the morning after pill before it’s too late.

HI STRANGER
USA | 2016 | 2 minutes | Dir: Kirsten Lepore | Tasmanian Premiere
A claymation figure has some important things to say. Made for the Late Night Work Club animated anthology.

Kaitlin Tinker (The Man Who Caught a Mermaid) will be present for a post-screening Q&A.

5pm, Saturday 6 May 2024 | Peacock Theatre, Hobart

Please note: the films in this program are Unclassified, and as such, no one under 16 may be admitted unless accompanied an adult.

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May 6, 2024 4:00 PM The Girlie Werewolf Hall of Fame + Blood Moon (exhibition opening) @Hobart, Tasmania
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Founders Room, Salamanca Arts Centre

Mary Shelley Symposium 2017:
THE GIRLIE WEREWOLF HALL OF FAME
Jazmina Cininas

In creating a portrait gallery of female werewolves Jazmina’s aim is to expand existing visual mythographies of the female werewolf, drawing attention to the generally overlooked literary and historical narratives of female lycanthropy and the role of the feminine in the evolution of werewolf lore. Her chief medium for this project is the inherently transformative reduction linocut, whereby the plate is progressively cut into and destroyed while the print correspondingly becomes more complete.

Jazmina undertook her PhD, The Girlie Werewolf Hall of Fame: Historical and Contemporary Figurations of the Female Werewolf, at RMIT University, where she also lectures in Printmaking.

Following the presentation (approximately 40 minutes) will be the opening of Jazmina’s exhibition Blood Moon in the Sidespace Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre.

4 pm Saturday 6 May, Founders Room, Salamanca Arts Centre

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Image Credit: Jazmina Cininas, Each full moon, Sandie craves a Bloody Mary (2011)
May 6, 2024 1:00 PM INNUENDO + Q&A @Hobart, Tasmania
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Peacock Theatre, Salamanca Arts Centre

INNUENDO | Australia & Finland | 2017 | 100 minutes | Dir: Saara Lamberg | Unclassified (no one under 16 admitted unless accompanied an adult) | Tasmanian premiere

When a mysterious woman starts a new life as an art model, will her demons leave her alone or finally reveal the naked truth? This debut feature is a bold and strange reflection on identity, sexuality and artistic life. Stars Saara Lamberg, Brendan Bacon and Andy Hazel

Director and star Saara Lamberg will be present for a post-screening Q&A, to talk about the film and the challenges of micro-budget independent filmmaking.

1 pm, 6 May 2024 | Peacock Theatre, Salamanca Arts Centre

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May 6, 2024 11:00 AM RIDING IN JAGS WITH GHOSTS: THE CINEMA OF GAYLENE PRESTON @Hobart, Tasmania
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The Founders Room, Salamanca Arts Centre

Mary Shelly Symposium 2017

RIDING IN JAGS WITH GHOSTS: THE CINEMA OF GAYLENE PRESTON

In 2001 Gaylene Preston was the first filmmaker to receive a Laureate Award from the NZ Arts Foundation. A prolific screenwriter, director and producer, her awards and achievements seem endless… but what about her trashier side?

She’s the woman who made a ghost story about a girl and her Jaguar in Mr Wrong (1983). Her sensibility, as evidenced by the disturbing yet weirdly amusing Perfect Strangers (2003) is anything but conventional. So where exactly do they sit on the genre spectrum? Does it matter? Preston’s career is long and varied, moving between drama and documentary, but there are common threads. She portrays women as outsiders, yet strong and idiosyncratic.

Deb Verhoeven is Professor and Chair of Media and Communications at Deakin University. Amongst her many accolades she was named Australia’s Most innovative Academic in 2013.

11am, Saturday 6 May 2024 | The Founders Room, Salamanca Arts Centre

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May 5, 2024 8:00 PM MR. WRONG + Q&A @Hobart, Tasmania
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Peacock Theatre, Salamanca Arts Centre

MR. WRONG | New Zealand | 1984 | 88 minutes | Dir: Gaylene Preston | M

Mr Wrong is about Meg, a country girl who has just moved to the city and whose new car is making some strange and spooky noises…

The screenplay is based on a story by English writer Elizabeth Jane Howard. The film explores alternative reactions to fear and their consequences, as well as the unhappiness caused by the fantasy girls grow up with of ‘Mr Right’.

Mr Wrong has recently been championed by cult cinema connoisseur Quentin Tarantino, who remarked, “I loved the woman [Helen Bolton] who was the lead in it… she would never be the lead in the American version of that movie. And there was something so authentic about seeing her trapped into this supernatural story.”

A beautifully crafted film combining dark humour with a uniquely New Zealand naturalism and notes of the Victorian Gothic, Mr Wrong is a must-see on the big screen. Don’t miss the opportunity to rediscover this cult classic!

Gaylene Preston is Stranger With My Face’s featured retrospective filmmaker in 2017 and will appear in person for a Q&A after this screening, interviewed by Deb Verhoeven.

Deb Verhoven will give a talk on the cinema of Gaylene Preston as part of the Mary Shelley Symposium on Saturday 6 May at 11.00 am. Preston’s later film, Perfect Strangers (2003), starring Sam Neill and Rachael Blake, screens on 6 May at 10.00 pm.

8 pm, 5 May 2024 | Peacock Theatre, Salamanca Arts Centre

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May 4, 2024 8:00 PM XX + Q&A + OPENING PARTY @Hobart, Tasmania
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Peacock Theatre, Salamanca Arts Centre

XX | USA & Canada | 2017 | 80 minutes | Dir: Roxanne Benjamin, Karyn Kusama, Jovanka Vuckovic, Annie Clark, Sofia Carrillo | Unclassified (no one under 16 admitted unless accompanied an adult)

TASMANIAN PREMIERE

In this eagerly anticipated all-female anthology, Annie Clark (St. Vincent) makes her directorial debut with The Birthday Party; Karyn Kusama (The Invitation, Jennifer’s Body) directs Her Only Living Son; Roxanne Benjamin (Southbound) directs Don’t Fall; and Jovanka Vuckovic (The Captured Bird) directs The Box. Award-winning animator Sofia Carrillo (La Casa Triste) wraps together four suspenseful stories of terror featuring a cast including Natalie Brown, Melanie Lynskey, Breeda Wool and Christina Kirk.

XX represents the spirit of experimentation and ingenuity that is ushering in the new ‘golden age‘ of women-directed horror.

Producer/director/screenwriter Roxanne Benjamin will be present in person to talk about her many roles on this project and her influential championing of the anthology in general (she was producer of V/H/S, widely credited with sparking the current renaissance of the form).

The screening will commence with the World Premiere of Australian short film BLOOD SISTERS (2017) with filmmakers Caitlin Koller, Lachlan Smith (directors) and Hannah White (screenwriter) in attendance.

8.00 pm, 4 May 2024 | Peacock Theatre, Salamanca Arts Centre
Join us from 7.30 pm for red carpet drinks and for the opening night party afterwards. Your ticket includes a drink at the Festival Club bar.

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April 13, 2024 7:30 PM Tasploitation Challenge Screening & Awards 2017 @Hobart
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Stanley Burbury Theatre, University of Tasmania

The fourth 48-Hour Tasploitation Challenge will take place in Hobart from 7-9 April, presented by Stranger With My Face International Film Festival and Wide Angle Tasmania. Registration for teams is currently open and we’re expecting nearly 30 teams will race to complete a short genre film in time for the final screening on Thursday April 13!

The Screening and Awards Night on April 13 will be the debut of all films made, in front of a crowd including the filmmaking teams and the general public.

This hugely popular event is a fun time for film fans and genre geeks from all walks of life (as long as they’re over the age of 18).

Enjoy a range of weird, wild and wicked films, the like of which you’ve never seen as you discover for yourself the true meaning of Tasploitation!

WHERE: Stanley Burbury Theatre, University of Tasmania, Hobart

WHEN: April 13, 2024 at 7pm - 10pm

TICKETS: $22 / $16 / $10 (registered teams)

CONTACT: Abi Binning · info@wideangle.org.au · 0362 238 344
March 24, 2024 8:30 PM SUSPIRIA 40th Anniversary 4K Restoration @Hobart, Australia
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Village Cinemas, Hobart

Stranger With My Face International Film Festival presents a special screening for Hobart movie fans….

Dario Argento’s undisputed masterpiece is widely considered to be the most shocking and hallucinatory horror movie in history and is described by Argento as “an escalating experimental nightmare”, SUSPIRIA stars Jessica Harper as a young American ballet student who arrives at a prestigious European dance academy and is confronted by a series of bizarre deaths. Packed with ultra gory effects and dazzling cinematic set pieces, SUSPIRIA is a gothic masterpiece of the macabre. A freshly restored Director-approved 4K presentation will screen to celebrate the 40th anniversary of its original release.

This is the only Tasmanian screening of the remastered 4K SUSPIRIA…book now to ensure you don’t miss out!

TICKETS: $23 + bf (no concession). R18+
January 27, 2024 8:00 PM The Love Witch - Special Encore Screening @Hobart, Tasmania
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Peacock Theatre, Salamanca Arts Centre

The Love Witch

USA | 2016 | 120 minutes | Dir: Anna Biller | Unclassified, no under 16s unless with an adult

Elaine (Samantha Robinson) enchants men with her charms, consuming them by the net full. Yet this narcissistic witch reverses the traditional roles of the sexes. A feminist message in a fantastic 1960s setting.

With impressive attention to detail in set, costumes and music (including pieces by Ennio Morricone), Biller creates a decadent retro aesthetic. The Love Witch was shot on 35mm, with saturated colour used in a way that recalls Technicolor.

The filmmaker’s love of genre cinema is evident in every frame of this exuberant and decadent experience.

Stranger With My Face presented the Australian premiere of this film in April 2016. Since that time it has enjoyed a stellar run on the festival circuit and has garnered much interest for its US cinema release. So we’ve decided to screen it for Hobart audiences one more time! Don’t miss this stunning and highly original film on the big screen.

“Shot and designed with admirably compulsive attention to tone and composition.. a hothouse filled with deadly and seductive blooms…..The fear of female sexuality has been a staple of horror movies forever, but The Love Witch does more than simply subvert or parody the erotic underpinnings of the genre.” —AO Scott, The New York Times

“Not just an impressive visual and technical achievement. It’s also a nuanced statement on gender relations whose morals are as flexible as its formal qualities are rigid.” —Katie Rife, The AV Club

“The results are wildly over-the-top, in a Beyond the Valley of the Dolls-meets-Dark Shadows kind of way, but Biller’s commitment to her vision is weirdly endearing.” —The Salt Lake Tribune

8 PM, FRIDAY, 27 JANUARY

Doors open at 7.00 pm for pre-screening drinks.

PEACOCK THEATRE, SALAMANCA ARTS CENTRE

TICKETS $18/$16 + bf

Tickets will be available at the door (cash only) unless sold out.

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Concessions: ADG/MEAA/AWG/TaFA members, Healthcare Card, Seniors Card, full-time students
December 21, 2023 7:00 PM Hobart screening of The Autopsy of Jane Doe @Hobart
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Village Cinemas, Hobart

Can a film about two men conducting an autopsy on a woman have a feminist perspective? Well, strangely..yes! We think so anyway…. either way there’s plenty to discuss here.

This intriguing & original horror flick starring Brian Cox & Emile Hirsch makes its way to Hobart for an Umbrella Entertainment & Stranger With My Face International Film Festival event screening on 21 December presented by FanForce.

The Autopsy of Jane Doe stars the talented duo of Brian Cox and Emile Hirsch, playing a father/son coroner team dealing with a mysterious murder victim.

As they attempt to identify the beautiful young “Jane Doe,” they discover increasingly bizarre clues that hold the key to her terrifying secrets.

“A raucous crowd-pleaser at TIFF’s midnight premiere, this taut, yet often slyly funny scarefest should do well with genre fans.” —Variety

“André Øvredal’s Autopsy of Jane Doe is Smart, Clever, and Truly Terrifying.”—Slash Film

“Like The Babadook before it, Autopsy of Jane Doe takes a simple, straightforward horror premise and grafts onto it something very human, universal, and beautiful.”—Birth. Movies. Death