Program: JUNE 2011
Curated by Katie Mitchell
The future's not set. There is no fate but what we make for ourselves.
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
What parts of our lives do we assign to fate and how much do we attribute to the power of our own agency? Does fate travel out in front, trail-blazing a path which destiny has already designated to us or does it drift in and out as it pleases, sometimes allowing us to take the helm before it re-appears with all the magnetism of the inevitable?
This month’s Don’t You Have Docs? invites you to come along and consider your fate
Stray Dawg
In Sean Dunne’s Stray Dawg we hit the highway following the journey of Jonny Corndawg, an underground country-music legend. A born-and-bred Virginian, Jonny has played on five continents in as many years, and every state in the lower 48. Spending more time on the road than at home, we meet Jonny as he abandons the touring habit of big nights and hungover mornings in favor of taking valiant steps towards shaping his own future.
Diesel in the Blood
If the highways of this nation are its arteries and veins, then truck drivers are its lifeblood. James Arneman’s evocative Diesel In the Blood takes us into the transient existence of truckies on Australia's roads, where days fade into each other solitude is a way of life. Their fate is wrapped up in whatever the road delievers and relief only comes once the driving ends.
Kumale Blues
In Kumalae Blues, also by James Arneman, we follow the strange musical journey of Dean Denham. A punk rocker and experimental musician through his youth it was a twist of fate that led him down a different musical path to find his true calling, the Ukulele.
In the Same Boat
The question of how much of our character is already written and the power of prejudices that define us is sensitively handled in Emily Bissland’s In the Same Boat. This animated short documents the unexpected friendship of a young Iraqi refugee and a Vietnam war veteran, thrown together in the Post Traumatic Stress psychiatric ward of Brisbane hospital.
Neverland
Glendyn Ivin’s Neverland is a stark and intimate portrayal of two inner city bike couriers confronting the encroachment of adulthood. Whilst one is wrestling with repeating the mistakes of his father, the other is grappling with being a father himself and moving away from the punk lifestyle of his youth.
The full program is available on our Don't You Have Docs? Mubi Garage channel and will also screen at LOOP in Melbourne on the 20th of June, 7pm.