The Marrickville Drinking Cinematic Universe Short Film Festival enters its second year. How special it is to witness everyone’s incredible ideas, talents and imagination.
This year, the rules (although apparently there are no rules in this game) were as simple as last year. Make sure your film incorporates the following:
- Location: Metro
- Theme: Serendipity
- Object: Cone
It’s time for curtain call.
We open with the Judge’s film.
coneversation
By: Freyja Benjamin, Alice Adlide, Nina Oyama & John Fisher
On a young traffic cone’s first day on the job, they get paired up with an older traffic cone who has truly seen it all.
I Dream of Devonshire Tunnel
By: Issy Phillips, Mia Mont, Pat Wiecks
Issy is confronted when her plan to switch off for the day sends her into a tailspin.
WIZRAD
By: Josiah Atkins, Kathleen Fingleton, Julia Moiso & Joel Ludemann
A lonely wizard finds himself on a journey with two creatures from a foreign land.
The Future Doesn’t Just Suck, It Blows
By Nikola Jokanovic, Kit Jenkins, Nic Huntington and Colin Hill
Gaia and Jeff, a polyamorous couple from Sydney’s Inner West, discover something extraordinary while rummaging through a local data centre’s bin…
FELIX CULPA REDUX
By: Joshy Green, Siena McGuire, Chloé Oszustowicz and Samuel Pfister
From the brilliant and terrifying mind of Joshy Green, FELIX CULPA REDUX is a Parisian heat wave dreamscape. The grass at the Bois de Vincennes burnt early in the summer. This is kind of delirium is takes place under stifling heat in a yellowed field with a bit of serendipity.
Irreversible Transgression
By: Dalex D., Jmoe, Briony Ruth Calleia, Vector
After the success of Planet Lime (2025), double award-winning duo Dalex and Jmoe are joined by Briony Calleia for their darkest film yet: Irreversible Transgression, an unapologetically transgressive piece of underground cinema concerned with those enduring preoccupations: sex, death, and the serendipity of love.
Content warning: flashing lights and adult themes.
Funnel vision
By: Bernie Fingleton, Jack Woodward, Max Cullen, Gemma Gillette
A man’s quest for love takes him in an unexpected direction, as he learns that the thing he’d been searching for was highly visible all along.
Meth &
By: Angus Burton, Lily Boisvert, Melissa Brownlow and Catherine Young
Melissa, an aspiring actor, arrives home from work to find her sister changed. Her apartment too. Pretty serendipitous, isn’t it?
Bowerbirds
By Millie Powell and Amanda Kay
Bowerbirds is a reflection on consumerism and the innate desire to find and collect, to lose and replace. All paths collide at The Bower Refuse and Repair Centre, displaying the curious symbiosis of loving an object and letting it go… to be loved again.
Summer & Al’s unofficial beginner’s guide to Bahasa Indonesia
By Summer Lamont and Alex Stevenson
Traveling to Indonesia on your bucket list? Then this is your must-do crash course in bahasa Indonesia! Learn how to get around (relatively) safely, eat *really* well, and chilllllll with new friends; all while having experiences that make you 🥹. And if Indonesia wasn’t on your bucket list… it will be after watching this.
End of the Line
By: Amanda Kay, Jack Dawes, Liam Olsson and Nick Allen
A normal girl in a topsy turvy world finds herself lost on the Sydney Metro. Falling further down the rabbit hole, she loses hope of making it to the surprise party, but no one knows determination like a best friend with a birthday cake.
DIAMONDSPILL
By: Bernie Bolger, Sean Conlon, Charlie Walden, Hugh Raper
THE DANISH ROYAL-NAVAL FAMILY have spilt a cargo shipment of diamonds in Sydney Harbour. When a recreational fisher happens upon the treasure one night, his luck comes and goes like the tide, and he is forced to try and outwit the circling rivals that are leveraging the diamond spill to ill ends.
