It's time for the annual Revelation Perth International Film Festival and, as usual, there are some enticing films scheduled. It's running over 5 days this year, shorter than previous fests but with just as many films packed in. Screenings start on Wed July 12th and finish on Sun July 16th, mostly at Luna Leederville, but some are at Luna SX in Freo, and events and other screenings are to be held at The Backlot Perth and WA Museum Boola Bardip.
Titles that piqued my curiosity include:
- Citizen Sleuth, a true-crime podcast documentary;
- Holy Shit!, a German toilet-based thriller (I think);
- Dùthchas, a doco about life on the Outer Hebrides;
- Frank + Frank, a WA-made film that looks to be about mid-life male bonding;
- Devil's Peak, a noirish southern US crime drama, directed by local Perth lad, Ben Young;
- a trippy looking French hospital doco called De Humani Corporis Fabrica;
- and a 40th anniversary screening of the Nagisa Ôshima gem, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence.
Rev always throws in a few music docos and this year's no different. Little Richard: I am Everything; What You Could Not Visualise: Rema Rema; and Lee Fields: Faithful Man all look promising.
There are also a few films about filmmakers (and I'm annoyed I can't get to any of them). Show Me the Magic, about legendary cinematographer, Don McAlpine; Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer; Nam June Paik: Moon is the Oldest TV, about the influential video artist; and Fragments of Paradise, about indy film champion, Jonas Mekas.
Those last two blokes I know nothing about, so it would have been nice to have a couple of clones to get to all the screenings. Choose carefully, people, there's a smorgasbord as usual, but with fewer days to see them in. Happy viewing.
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