SAE FlickerUp 2018
The finalists short films in our National Schools competition for Primary & Secondary School students or Filmmakers under Eighteen Years of age.
Screening: Sat 20 Jan, 2pm | Duration: 104 min | Classification: Open all ages
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Connected
Is a person really connected when using their mobile phone?
- Runtime: 2min
- Year: 2017
- Country: Australia
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The Mute Button
A student receives a remote control that allows her to make everyone she meets disappear.
- Runtime: 3min
- Year: 2017
- Country: Australia
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Older Times Different Ways
A year four class looks at the traditional lifestyle of Australia’s First People.
- Runtime: 3min
- Year: 2017
- Country: Australia
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For Isabelle
Isabelle has waved to the man upstairs everyday since she was little. She collects the little wooden animals he makes for her, even after he dies.
- Runtime: 3min
- Year: 2017
- Country: Australia
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In The Dark
Nothing goes to plan as a man tries to steal his victim’s handbag, as they walk the city streets in the dark.
- Runtime: 2min
- Year: 2017
- Country: Australia
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Kindergangster
A short comedy film that takes the crime-thriller genre and turns it on its head.
- Runtime: 5min
- Year: 2017
- Country: Australia
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Rewind
A young man signs up for a trial drug test, a drug that allows you to go back in time.
- Runtime: 6min
- Year: 2017
- Country: Australia
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The Shackles You Cannot See
A social comment about our modern society, and how, as people living in this new technological era, we are forever being controlled by the media, trapped in a supervisory society not unlike famous philosopher Jeremy Bentham’s panopticon.
- Runtime: 5min
- Year: 2016
- Country: Australia
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Monday
A robot chases his work to the end of the earth in an attempt to hand it in on time.
- Runtime: 5min
- Year: 2017
- Country: Australia
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King Jack
A man with Alzheimer’s refers to himself as King Jack.
- Runtime: 5min
- Year: 2017
- Country: Australia
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Cycle
A boy rides up to the shops on his bike, but along the way, tragedy strikes. Armed with a second chance, can he make things right?
- Runtime: 6min
- Year: 2017
- Country: Australia
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Sina And The Eel
‘Sina And The Eel’ is a paper cut animated film which explains the origins of the first coconut tree in Samoan mythology.
- Runtime: 3min
- Year: 2017
- Country: Australia
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Pupils
A troubled boy goes to school, surrounded by the blinded, and must decide whether to be a victim or a hero.
- Runtime: 4min
- Year: 2017
- Country: Australia
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School But With A Ghoul
A dark, surrealistic, non-linear animation with a humorous undertone.
- Runtime: 3min
- Year: 2017
- Country: Australia
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Instafly
A short film about an average guy gaining the ability to fly, through a new app, in hopes of getting to work faster and winning a bet with his work colleague.
- Runtime: 5min
- Year: 2017
- Country: Australia
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A Gun Overload
A Gun Overload outlines the complexity of the gun issue around the world.
- Runtime: 4min
- Year: 2016
- Country: Australia
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The Medicine Of Salt
A filmmaker/surfer’s connection to the Aboriginal community of Wreck Bay.
- Runtime: 6min
- Year: 2017
- Country: Australia
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Prologue
A writer struggles to pin down his narrative and so his fledgling characters struggle to cross the threshold between imagination and the solid world of the story.
- Runtime: 6min
- Year: 2016
- Country: Australia
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Showtime
When two street magicians turn up to perform at the same park, they must use their magical abilities to win over the audience.
- Runtime: 10min
- Year: 2017
- Country: Australia
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Lost
Is Angelica lost or is her mother?, or her mother’s phone?
- Runtime: 7min
- Year: 2017
- Country: Australia
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iRony
A film that explores the relationship between man and technology…told from the perspective of a phone.
- Runtime: 8min
- Year : 2017
- Country: Australia