Hello Dankness
Straight from sell-out screenings in Berlin and New York, Australia’s preeminent pirate archivists Soda Jerk (Terror Nullius, SFF 2018) return for a hometown premiere of their latest political parable.
Comprising hundreds of bootlegged samples, Hello Dankness is a bent suburban musical that bears witness to the right-wing populist spectacle of Trumpian politics. The film follows a local neighbourhood in the bizarro years of 2016 to 2021 as consensus reality discombobulates into online conspiracies and other social contagions. What unfolds is a rogue retelling of recent history in which hotdogs debate the culture wars, trashcans preach QAnon, political debate is meme-ified, and real events are refashioned as Broadway bangers from Cats, Les Misérables, Annie, and The Phantom of the Opera. Begun in 2019 and laboured on throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Hello Dankness never loses sight of the way that apparent unreality is tethered to real material inequalities and deep cultural fissures.Wheelchair spaces
Some sessions to this film are sold out but wheelchair spaces may still be available. Please call our Box Office on 1300 733 733 or email tickets@sff.org.au to check if you can book a wheelchair space.
Special Guest
Soda Jerk
Director
Soda Jerk is an artist duo who make sample-based films with a rogue documentary impulse. They are fundamentally interested in the politics of images; how they circulate, whom they benefit and how they can be undone. Their new feature Hello Dankness follows their controversial political revenge fable Terror Nullius (SFF 2018).
- Program Strand
- FLUX
- Year
- 2022
- Classification
- Unclassified 15+
- Country
- Australia
- Language
- In English
- Director
- Soda Jerk
- Producer
- Soda Jerk
- Screenwriter
- Soda Jerk
- Editor
- Soda Jerk
- Premiere
- NSW Premiere
- Genre
- Cinephile, Off-Beat, Politics & Economics, Experimental, Australian Films, Comedies, Gender & Sexuality
- Company Credits
- Festival Contact: Soda_Jerk
- Official Website
- Visit →
