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Victorian PremierePremiering earlier this year at the Slamdance Film Festival with a bang and cutting a bloody swath through the festival circuit ever since, 19-year old Sydney filmmaker Jai Love’s debut feature is the heartfelt and often grim portrait of Edwin Borsheim, frontman for extreme metal band Kettle Cadaver. A notorious onstage mutilator and former backyard wrestler, Borsheim sequesters himself in a fortified desert compound making plans to end it all – and to possibly take some others with him. But beneath Borsheim’s nihilistic front is a traumatized and heartbroken artist that you will be pulling for by the end of the film. A confident and aesthetically striking debut for a young director we hope to see much more from in the future. (Kier-La Janisse) Plays with Short Film:WHAT HAPPENED TO HERKristy Guevara-Flanagan | USA 2016 | 15 mins | Australian PremiereIn this “postmortem pageant”, women’s bodies are mangled, dissected, decaying and drowned through a catalogue of film and TV images as actress Danyi Deats - who played the corpse of a character based on real-life murder victim Marcy Conrad in Tim Hunter’ RIVER’S EDGE - talks about the somewhat traumatizing experience of playing dead. (Kier-La Janisse)