Sydney Underground Film Festival

Reality Bites #1

Expired September 20, 2020 4:00 PM
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A program of engaging, real-life narratives in short bite-sized pieces, Reality Bites presents the year’s very best documentary shorts. From cinema verité, to essay films, animations and ob-docs, this package presents a hard-hitting dose of non-fiction shorts spanning the globe. At a time when truth is so often stranger than fiction, these films are not to be missed.

Abigail Goldman spends her work days as an investigator for a public defender’s office in Washington state, helping people who are seriously in trouble—which can mean hours of staring at grisly pictures of crime scenes, visiting morgues, even observing autopsies. By night, she dreams up gruesome events, which she then turns into tiny, precise dioramas. Rife with scenes of imminent death and brutal dismemberment, the fruits of Goldman’s painstaking labor would be adorable … if they weren’t so disturbing. In this new documentary short, we follow along as Goldman brings her miniature worlds of murder and mayhem to life with tweezers, paint, and resin, and meet the people who just can’t get enough of her twisted visions—where the final touch is always, in the artist’s words, “two or three brushstrokes of red paint.”

  • Year
    2019
  • Runtime
    10:17
  • Language
    English
  • Country
    USA
  • Premiere
    Australian Premiere
  • Rating
    18+
  • Director
    Kevin Staake