SYDNEY UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL: SAMPLE SESSION

In 2011, the Sydney Underground Film Festival blows out five candles over three days, 21 features, and around 100 shorts. That’s a stack of digits we don’t need to prove things do get better with age. Our money this year is on the sample-based films session that work to much the same sentiment, re-working recycled images into new and shiny celluloid gold. Shorts by Tony Lawrence, Shawn Hennessy, Tara Nelson and more are all scheduled to precede Sydney artists Soda_Jerk’s Pixel Pirate 2: The Director’s Cut, in which a host of intergalactic video pirates battle against Moses and his Copyright Commandments. The subtext is not-so-subtle but the source-work (55 minutes drawn from over 300 sources) and scalpel-neat editing work will be – so be sure to see it. (AB)

Sep 10, 6pm,The Factory Theatre, Marrickville, $12, suff.com.au