Lachlan Anderson

XYZZY REDUX invites you to untether from reality and transport into a pure digital hallucination. Created by artist Jess Johnson and video director Simon Ward, this hypnotic sensory odyssey teeters on the edge of dreamscape and nightmare. Johnson’s hand-drawn compositions are translated into a kaleidoscopic landscape of animated flesh mandalas, self-replicating architecture, undulating worms, and messianic alien deities. Constantly repeating, morphing, transforming in a meditative geometry.

This neverending wormhole is heavily charged by a 90s-inspired electronic synthesiser score from musicians Andrew Clarke, Luke Rowell, Stef Animal, and Lachlan Anderson.

When Frankie Jones (Shervey) burns her sister’s house down via a drink-and-fry, she’s given an ultimatum: jail, or four weeks at the flashy rehabilitation clinic The Laast Resort. Located in the tiny town of Laast, deep in rural New Zealand, and advertised as “a sanctuary of wellness and restoration”, The Laast Resort doesn’t sound half bad, especially with her sister Emma paying for the treatment. But upon arriving, Frankie discovers the clinic is, in fact, nothing more than a run-down halfway-house in the arse end of nowhere, filled with a bunch of people she does not want to associate with. But it’s too late to bail out now.

Shot on 16mm film, AD takes the form of a road trip to Dartmoor, England. The footage is accompanied by a text written by Spong in collaboration with AI large language models that extends Lord Byron’s final and unfinished poem Don Juan (1818–1824), written toward the end of the Industrial Revolution.

A specially gifted grief counsellor faces a moral dilemma when putting his peculiar talent at the service of a mysterious murder investigation. The more he ‘bites down’ into the case, the more he gets devoured by his own existential crisis.

An Inheritance is a gift, created by the children of today for children one hundred years in the future. Consisting of 11 precious objects, 840 pieces of knowledge and a video message written and delivered by the children themselves, it offers a snapshot of how young people today envisage the future and what they think children in one hundred years’ time will need to survive and flourish.

When a brilliant but disfigured student is shunned by her fellow classmates at a prestigious university, she achieves the popularity she needs by putting her studies to a terrifying new use.

Journalist and filmmaker David Farrier (Tickled, Dark Tourist) unwittingly stumbles into a game of cat and mouse with a mystery man creating havoc in his neighbourhood, wheel-clamping cars at a local antique store. That clamper was Michael Organ, and little did Farrier know that delving deeper into who Organ really is would be a thrilling and tension-filled three-year-long investigation — unearthing a trail of multiple court cases, inflated claims of royal bloodlines, ruined lives, and at least one stolen boat.