EFFA presents: Mad Max 2 and an Evening of Speculative Futures
18:15, Thursday 7 November
Lido Cinemas
How tomorrow’s stories respond to today’s emergencies.
As tomorrow rushes on at an unstoppable speed, Environmental Film Festival Australia and Monash University present an evening of speculative future exploration at Lido Cinemas on Thursday 7 November.
Featuring four distinct visions of the future, with a retrospective screening of Australian classic Mad Max 2 (1981) and a selection of curated shorts, this special cinema event delves into how tomorrow’s stories respond to today’s emergencies.
The program begins with three shorts - 48 Gradi (2022), Mauvaise Graine (Bad Seed) (2022), and ABBA (2023) - traversing the very near to the very far future, with imagined possibilities that feel almost too real.
Then George Miller’s frenetic Mad Max II lands us in a post-ecocide wasteland, with civilisation collapsed. Culturally important and multi-award winning, this apocalyptic action movie shares a gritty yet breakneck view of the future, where the world is a junkyard and fuel is king.
Following the screening, we’ll be joined by Science Gallery’s Tilly Boleyn, author JR Burgmann and Australian Environments on Screen’s Melanie Ashe to discuss the collision of environmental stories and speculative fiction, what dystopian perspectives tell us about the present, and the legacy of Mad Max within Australian environmental filmmaking.
Join us afterwards for drinks and discussion in the Lido bar.
Tickets available via Lido Cinema
Presented by | Environmental Film Festival Australia, Australian Environments on Screen, Monash University and Lido Cinemas
Supported by | Carbon Positive Australia, Rock Posters and Art Disrupt
The program.
The event will include:
Brief introduction
Shorts package: 48 Gradi, Mauvaise Graine (Bad Seed), ABBA
Feature film: Mad Max 2
Speculative Futures panel discussion, with Tilly Boleyn, JR Burgmann and Melanie Ashe
Drinks and discussion (in the Lido Bar)
This is a single session screening, running from 18:15 - 21:00, followed by drinks until 22:00.
The Films.
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Mad Max 2
Max Rockatansky returns as the heroic loner who drives the dusty roads of a postapocalyptic Australian Outback in an unending search for gasoline. Arrayed against him and the other scraggly defendants of a fuel-depot encampment are the bizarre warriors commanded by the charismatic Lord Humungus, a violent leader whose scruples are as barren as the surrounding landscape.
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ABBA
A journey across the universe in search of water to survive. A journey in search of oneself. This Italian science fiction takes us far into the future as astronauts search for humanity’s most precious resource.
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Mauvaise Graine (Bad Seed)
In not-to-distant future France, seeds are only available through illicit sources and plants are hidden in secure places. How will Arthur react when he realises his girlfriend Sadia is breaking the law?
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48 Gradi
On a day when temperatures rise relentlessly, a woman finds herself stuck in her car. Her only salvation is the air conditioning, until the battery dies...
Venue.
Lido Cinemas
675 Glenferrie Rd, Hawthorn VIC 3122
Thanks.
Environmental Film Festival Australia is a 100% volunteer-run festival. Thank you to everyone who helped make this event happen.
EFFA Team | Alex Riches, Alice Wu, Anastasia Warmuth, Catherine Dunbar, Cathy Rodda, Chi Ngo, Ellie Hansford, Freyja Gillard, Georgia Brogan, Helen Mayers, Janine Fabienne Fritschi, Kim Senior, Loren Kampers, Matilda Brown, Matt Bray, Michal Krawczyk, Peti Waretini, Phuong Nguyen, Qiran Wang, Simon Troon, Tor Evans, Zac Roberts
Special thanks to | Belinda Smaill, Melanie Ashe, Hannah Chin
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