Stranger with My Face Film Festival

Date: February 17th, 2012

Hosts: Flash Factory

Details: Stranger With My Face is run by Australian filmmakers Briony Kidd and Rebecca Thomson and takes place in Tasmania.

Deriving its name from the cult novel by Lois Duncan, the festival explores themes of the the shadow self, tapping into archetypes like the evil twin and the mad woman in the attic. Mainstream film continues to present its female monsters as exotic, the 'other' (the 'monstrous-feminine' as Barbara Creed would have it), failing to recognise that this doesn't reflect the perspective of at least half of the audience.

And yet female novelists have been delving into the darker side of their own natures for hundreds of years, going back to Mary Shelley and the Brontes StrangerWith My Face looks to literary as well as cinematic traditions, understanding that one enriches the other.

Viscera Lineup:

The Ghost and Us by Emily Carmichael

Doll Parts by Karen Lam

I was a Tranny Werewolf by Lola Rock n' Rolla

Barbee Butcher by Sophie Lagues

The Party's Over by Gigi Romero

Beautiful as You Are by Doug Mallette and MK Sisco

The Room at the Top of the Stairs by Briony Kidd

When Sally Met Frank by Victoria Waghorn

Wretched by Heidi Honeycutt and Leslie Delano