A Grand Mockery is one of the most exciting examples of truly independent filmmaking to come out of Australia in recent memory.

Shot on soft, luminous Super 8 film, it follows Josie, a young man leading a life of passive mundanity in Brisbane. Slowly but surely, his psychic ills start to become more and more disturbing, so he sets out to roam the rainforest hinterlands of Queensland.

Winner of Best Feature Film at SXSW Sydney, A Grand Mockery stars co-director Sam Dixon and Kate Dillon (also known as Babyshakes Dillon of the Brisbane rock band Full Flower Moon Band). Structured as a diptych, the film is tonally playful, beginning as a work of morbid comic realism before it transforms alongside Josie himself. It’s simultaneously singular and a flashback to underground filmmaking before it became codified.

Rating

CTC

Duration

105 MINS