KOVENT: A Saidin Salkic Film

KONVENT
A SAIDIN SALKIC FILM

Town Premier @ The Birmingham Hotel
333 Smith Street - Fitzroy

The film will start at 8pm and runs for 60minutes
The Birmingham Hotel will be open 4pm

What a strange film. I wish more films were this strange. This doesn't feel like an Australian film. Yet all we see is the quintessential outer suburban homes and landscapes that dominate Australian urban life. But this suburbia is more barren than usual.

What a strange film. We see a young European man, it's the filmmaker. We see no-one else. An alien in an alien land. Praying in the convent. Ready, willing, looking at the light, shaving in the mirror, gazing at the camera. It's an existential film, an experimental film. A film of reflection, of yearning.

The colours are strange. The music is strange. And yet everything is beautiful. But you have to listen, you have to feel it. Look into the man's eyes, and don't be afraid if he looks straight at you. He is not afraid, to give his soul to you. And you too must give, must give a little of your heart to this strange, beautiful yearning that you see.

This is cinema, in a few easy steps.

-- Bill Mousoulis, Melbourne filmmaker and critic, founding editor of Senses of Cinema film journal.