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Connection Of The Sticks

Directed by Kuba Dorabialski
2021
Australia
82 minutes
All Ages
Theatrical premiere of one of the most visually arresting works of local artists’ cinema in recent years, evoking life in the former Soviet Union.
Shot as a series of stunning vignettes across three countries, Polish-Australian artist Kuba Dorabialski’s extraordinary film conjures the mystique and mysticism of the former Soviet Union. A champion ski jumper collides with ball lightning. Witches conduct wartime sabotage. Ecstatic dance resurrects a revolutionary leader. While party apparatchiks promoted socialism as a technologically advanced, ‘scientific’ project, Dorabialski uncovers a world in thrall to everyday magic and miracles. Narrated in a fictional pan-Slavic language with absurdist flair, Connections of the Sticks transports us to the Eastern Bloc as it lives on in retro-futurist fantasies, diasporic nostalgia and half-remembered family legends.

Special Guest

Kuba Dorabialski
Director
Kuba Dorabialski is an artist, writer and educator originally from Wrocław, Poland. He's interested in mysticism, political history and the personal poetic. In 2017, he won the John Fries Award with the video installation Floor Dance of Lenin's Resurrection. In 2019, his work Glasses on My Nosetip won the Open category in the Fisher's Ghost Art Award.

Tickets

Tue 13 Jun
8:05pm
Palace Central Cinemas - Cinema 1
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Assisted Listening
Wheelchair
Subtitled
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Sat 17 Jun
2:15pm
Palace Central Cinemas - Cinema 1
Sold Out
Assisted Listening
Wheelchair
Subtitled
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Program Strand
FLUX
Year
2021
Classification
All Ages
Country
Australia
Language
In an Invented language, Polish and Russian with English subtitles
Director
Kuba Dorabialski
Producer
Kuba Dorabialski
Cast
Kuba Dorabialski, Bruno Dorabialski, Roland Dorabialski
Screenwriter
Kuba Dorabialski
Cinematographer
Kuba Dorabialski
Editor
Kuba Dorabialski
Premiere
World Premiere
Genre
Cinephile, Off-Beat, Human Rights, Experimental, Australian Films, World Premieres
Company Credits
Festival Contact: Kuba Dorabialski
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