THREE DOUBLE BILLS / SIX FILMS

PROGRAM

Three comparative programmes move from the traces we keep, through unstable continuity, toward the possibility of reclaiming the self.

FRIDAY / TRACES

REMEMBER

Can we choose what remains after loss?

Shunji Iwai

Japan — 1995

Screening: FRIDAY · 6:00–7:57 pm (provisional)
Film runtime: 117 min (planning runtime)
Language / subtitles: JapaneseEnglish subtitles planned; exhibition copy to be confirmed.
Complete double bill: 5:50–10:30 pm · 4h 40m (provisional)
Content guidance: Bereavement and grief.
Australian classification: Festival exhibition copy: to be confirmed.

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Krzysztof Kieślowski

France / Poland / Switzerland — 1993

Screening: FRIDAY · 8:17–9:55 pm (provisional)
Film runtime: 98 min (planning runtime)
Language / subtitles: FrenchEnglish subtitles planned; exhibition copy to be confirmed.
Complete double bill: 5:50–10:30 pm · 4h 40m (provisional)
Content guidance: Bereavement, suicide attempt, sexual content and nudity.
Australian classification: Festival exhibition copy: to be confirmed.

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One film preserves traces of loss while the other attempts to erase them.

SATURDAY / FRAGMENTS

If memory can no longer verify the self, what can hold identity together?

Florian Zeller

United Kingdom / France — 2020

Screening: SATURDAY · 4:30–6:07 pm (provisional)
Film runtime: 97 min (planning runtime)
Language / subtitles: EnglishCaption availability to be confirmed.
Complete double bill: 4:20–9:00 pm · 4h 40m (provisional)
Content guidance: Dementia, emotional distress, brief violence and coarse language.
Australian classification: M — published Australian classification. Festival exhibition copy to be confirmed.

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Christopher Nolan

United States — 2000

Screening: SATURDAY · 6:30–8:23 pm (provisional)
Film runtime: 113 min (planning runtime)
Language / subtitles: EnglishCaption availability to be confirmed.
Complete double bill: 4:20–9:00 pm · 4h 40m (provisional)
Content guidance: Strong violence and language, sexual violence references and threat, drug use.
Australian classification: Festival exhibition copy: to be confirmed.

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One film reveals dependence on others for continuity while the other constructs an illusion of control through external records.

SUNDAY / THRESHOLDS

When a life is manufactured for spectators, is escape enough to reclaim the self?

Satoshi Kon

Japan — 1997

Screening: SUNDAY · 4:30–5:52 pm (provisional)
Film runtime: 82 min (planning runtime)Approximately 82 minutes; exhibition copy to be confirmed.
Language / subtitles: JapaneseOriginal-language version with English subtitles planned; copy to be confirmed.
Complete double bill: 4:20–8:35 pm · 4h 15m (provisional)
Content guidance: Sexual violence, strong violence, nudity, psychological distress and flashing/flickering images.
Australian classification: Festival exhibition copy: to be confirmed.

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Peter Weir

United States — 1998

Screening: SUNDAY · 6:15–7:58 pm (provisional)
Film runtime: 103 min (planning runtime)103-minute planning allowance. BFI lists 102 minutes; final runtime depends on the licensed exhibition copy.
Language / subtitles: EnglishCaption availability to be confirmed.
Complete double bill: 4:20–8:35 pm · 4h 15m (provisional)
Content guidance: Threat, peril at sea and mild language.
Australian classification: Festival exhibition copy: to be confirmed.

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One film reconstructs identity within the public gaze while the other imagines agency through leaving an externally authored world.