318 St. Georges Rd, Nth. Fitzroy

Long Play is a boutique Cinema & Bar
in Melbourne that has a bar up the front,
and a small dedicated cinema at the back.



Before Unknown Pleasures officially began in 2019 with both Chris Luscri and Bill Mousoulis curating and presenting it, Bill Mousoulis staged a number of screenings (6 in total) in 2018 at the Long Play venue, screenings that were clearly a precursor to the screenings of 2019 and beyond.

Archive - 2018 screenings

13 screenings occurred in 2018
(including 7 "Australian New Wave" ones, in Adelaide and Melbourne)





Tuesday, October 9, 2018, 7:30 pm

free entry, but please RSVP to bill@innersense.com.au
as seats are limited

Short films of the '70s

New HD digital transfers by Memory Lab

Presented by Bill Mousoulis, with intro by Nigel Buesst
filmmakers Greg Dee, John Ruane and
Brian Kavanagh will be in attendance

George & Needles (1972, 12 mins)
Directed by Greg Dee
DOP: Don Featherstone / Sound: John Walton / Edit: Ivan Hexter

The Hot Centre of the World (1971, 12 mins)
Directed by Tim Burstall
DOP: Robin Copping / Sound: Nigel Buesst

Death of a Princess - Part Two (1980, 5 mins)
Co-made by Buesst / Hewitson / Wennrich / Dobson / Robinson

Putting on the Ritz (1974, 4 mins)
Directed by Antoinette Starkiewicz

Portrait of a Paperboy (1976, 10 mins)
Directed by Rod Corry
DOPs: John Ruane & C. Oliver

Vincent Report: Where are You? (1966, 3 mins)
Directed by Brian Kavanagh & Peter White
DOP: Bruce McNaughton / Script: Peter White /
Edit: Brian Kavanagh


Monday, September 17, 2018, 7:30 pm

free entry

5 films by James Howard

Presented by Bill Mousoulis, with intro and Q&A by James Howard

5 short films by indie filmmaker James Howard, who is a veteran playwright and theatre actor, who started making films in 2004, in his 60s.

Read Howard's profile.

Eden (2012, 28 mins)

Boats (2014, 6 mins)

Michael (2006, 33 mins)

Gerty (2015, 5 mins)

Canterbury (2015, 25 mins)


Tuesday, July 24, 2018, 7:00 pm, free entry.

Short films by Kim Miles

"Punk films you won't see at M.I.F.F."

6 surreal/funny/freaky films from Kim Miles -->

Everyone else has had more sex than me (2004, 4 mins)
video for TISM song

The Colour is Blue (2004, 4 mins)
boy+girl+lost baby

Tiger and Dog, Episode 2 (2013, 6 mins)
crime boss and family, down and out in caravan park

Terra Australis (2004, 5 mins)
white Australia versus black

An afternoon of death, dying and lethal behaviour (2003, 10 mins)
costume party for cancer patient

[[SURPRISE NEW FILM]] (2018, 21 mins)
love triangle with dementia



 
Stanley's Mouth

Monday, July 23, 2018, 7:00 pm, free entry.

STANLEY'S MOUTH by Mike Retter.
Retter's 9:16 feature from 2015, made in Adelaide.

Melbourne Premiere screening.

Starring: Stanley Browning Patch Oliver

Directed by Mike Retter, Produced by Allison Chhorn

​A portrait of Stanley, who encounters new experiences unhindered by his Christianity. As his childhood memories yearn the nostalgic connection with his father, his relationship with another boy, Patch, becomes increasingly consuming.

Through the vertical frame of textured and experimental imagery, his emotional turmoil becomes wrapped up in visceral intensities and nostalgic melancholy.

"An extraordinary, haunting, poignant, bold and brave film. Stanley has a face to make the angels weep."
- Peter Goers, ABC Radio


Tuesday, July 17, 2018, 7:00 pm, free entry.

To guarantee yourself a seat, please register here.

Experimental Film Evening with Nedelkopoulos & Dutt

 
Left: Nicholas Nedelkopoulos
Right: Probir Geoffrey Dutt

An evening of abstract experimental films by Nicholas Nedelkopoulos
that have the music composed, performed and recorded by Probir Geoffrey Dutt.

Nedelkopoulos asked Dutt to choose the films, from just over 55 films that have Dutt’s music on, for this night's screening.

Drinks from 6:30pm

Screening Start 7pm

  1. Anxiety (2018) 11:18
  2. Nimbin Dreaming (2018) 9:14
  3. Forgotten Night  (2018) 6:45
  4. Browning's Collection (2018) 6:16
  5. Ski (2018) 6:05
 
Anxiety

INTERMISSION @ 7:40 for 15 minutes

Re-start 7:55pm

  1. With Guston In Mind (2015) 15:51
  2. Bluey (2018) 5:04
  3. The Church (2018) 4:26 
  4. Go! (2018) 4:08
  5. Expansion (2018) 2:47 

END 8:28pm

Post screening drinks & conversation …

Nimbin Dreaming
Forgotten Night
Browning's Collection
I
Ski
With Guston In Mind
Bluey
I
The Church
Go!
Expansion



 
EXIT

Monday, June 18, 2018, 7:00 pm, free entry.

EXIT with Friends

films by Melbourne independent filmmakers

Presented by David King, with most of the filmmakers in attendance.


EXIT (27 min) by David King


 
To Master A Long Good Night

International award-winning experimental sci fi film - a spellbinding odyssey into the meaning of life, love, and the question of reality. Is anything real?

To Master A Long Good Night (9 min) by Kim Miles

Surreal short film. A man is teased, tantalised and abused by a succession of women while eating an entree in a restaurant. Former girlfriends, wives? Fantasy/Reality?

Orphanage (5 min) by Marie Craven

 
I Am Jupiter

Secret Matters (21 min) VCA award-winning documentary by Janos Zoltan

The Experimenting Angel (7 min) experimental film by Bill Mousoulis

I Am Jupiter (14.30 min) by Matthew Victor Pastor

Silence in the red light district of Manila. VCA award-winning short film.




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