A GRAND MOCKERY
Dir. Adam C. Briggs & Sam Dixon, 2024
Australia. 105 min.
In English.
DIRECTOR ADAM C. BRIGGS IN PERSON DECEMBER 11th, 12th & 13th.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11 – 7:30 PM (Q&A w/ Director Adam C. Briggs)
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12 – 7:30 PM (Q&A w/ Director Adam C. Briggs)
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13 – 7:30 PM (Q&A w/ Director Adam C. Briggs)
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18 – 10 PM
Josie, a depressed cinema worker leads a mundane, dead-end life with his girlfriend Nelly in Brisbane. Faced with the daily drudgery and repetition of his job, his existence consists of little more than drowning his sorrows away with his friends and longing for escape. Slowly, Josie begins to lose grip on reality and embarks on a strange and surreal journey that takes him from the fluorescent hellscape of the city to the outer reaches of Queensland.
Shot on Super 8mm in true DIY fashion, A GRAND MOCKERY subverts the normal portrayal of Queensland as a laid-back, beach bum oasis and uses the disaffected reality of the lower class as a springboard into a world that is much harsher and more strange. Synthesizing familiar influences like Kubrick and Buñuel with the Australian Gothic tradition, A GRAND MOCKERY defies easy categorization by rooting its psychic nightmare fully in a landscape that feels fresh and untapped, creating one of the most exciting visions of a world slipping away in recent memory.
“Grand Mockery is a dream space, a living hangover bad party breakup nightmare. Intense and effecting. Relax and let it drag you through the mud and sediment of regret and the sweet shame of a 3 day bender. Technically a marvel of super 8 goodness.”
-Ben Wheatley
Special thanks to Yellow Veil Pictures
