MUSIC VIDEO
NOMINEES
EVERYTHING’S GONE
FROZEN
HEART
Hypnotized
An exploration of different forms of longing, and how we fill the void of what it is we’re yearning for. Traversing the intersection of isolated intimacy and trauma, the film was created as part of ‘Deep End;’ an ongoing visual series and collaboration between filmmaker and composer Emily Dynes and choreographer Sian Kelly utilising movement and original music. Each of the twelve vignettes highlights a unique response and coping mechanism to our collective feeling of loss during this time; whether we’re glued to the news, pouring our energies into caring for another, drinking heavily, overexercising, relying on routine or numbing ourselves of anything at all.
Love, Tears, Glitter and Frozen Drag Queen in a new Moya Michelle music video “Frozen Heart.”
Gerda (artist Tanya Tkachuk) accidentally finds out that her beloved one Kai (actor Maxim Matveev) lives a secret life. He is a Drag Queen.
To understand him better, she throws herself into a reckless experiment and tries on a man’s look. After turning the tables, lovers go out for a walk in Moscow city where they face severe reality.
“Frozen Heart” is a dance-pop song. It is a cover version of a huge hit of 2000s that was performed by the band Guests from the Future. Dance cover made by Moya Michelle is dedicated to all the fans of disco
Hypnotized' by Tune-yards is a soulful plea to stay awake and present in this time of pandemic and oligarchy, its companion video, directed by Tee Ken Ng posits the viewer on a never-ending looping train track.
Tee Ken Ng
Nina Guseva
EMILY DYNES
Consensual
I am Poison - L’Effetto
Mayali
Guru Déë Pród offers an incredible opportunity to come take a ride in his magical van.
Jeff Hilliard, Joey Danger
L’Effetto is the rush of adrenaline and dopamine flooding the bloodstream, clouding your judgment and leaving you at the mercy of your deepest desires.
Let the Kakadu Collective take you to their homeland of Jabiru, Northern Territory. Featuring an ensemble of students and elders from the Jabiru Area, and Victor Rostron of the Wildfire Munwurrk band, this reggae-infused hip-hop bounce touches on their role as caretakers of cultural knowledge, and celebrates their region with some truly stunning visuals.
Robert Sherwood, Toby Finlayson, Victor Rostron
zee Marla Osh
Por Una Mascara
Nathan Short
A young man uses Grindr for the first time. He’s bewildered by a relentless flurry of desire, desperation and disparity. Amidst the masked chaos, he finds a man that catches his eye. 'Por Una Mascara' offers a cheeky commentary on boys who like boys.
This segment originally featured in the feature documentary 'I'm Not Gay' (2021), which explores power and masculinity in modern day Australia through the eyes of a gay man. However, it was decided to release this and another music video segment - 'Capitalista' - separately given their cultural and entertainment value.
PRAY
Keep It Up
The video is based on the underlying principle of fractals, which explains Ginta ” reflect the world, from mini to macro scale in patterns. Everything repeats on different levels, by highlighting the idea of oneness
Aleksandras Brokas
A young boy hopes to groove his way into the heart of the girl next door. Instead, he finds himself enamoured by his own love of dance.
Chloe de Brito
TOMORROW
Shaun Parker
Filmed in a classroom, TOMORROW is the new music video by JamarzOnMarz, and depicts a rebellious uprising of diverse students led by JamarzOnMarz fighting for inclusivity. Dovetailing this is a wholesome narrative of his character’s first queer romance. Facing the Principal’s clippers for having ‘extreme’ Afro-styled hair, JamarzOnMarz is dragged by the hair into the Principal’s office to have his hair shaved, however, his friends rise to the occasional and twerk and krump the mean Principal into a dazed stupor! With lavender-tinged uniforms, alluding to the colours historical queer use, the students revolt with satisfying consequences!
XOPA
William J. Striblingr
The Latinx rock band Making Movies have let fame go to their head. But they are cosmically punished for their hubris while traveling by private plane to their next gig. The airplane goes down and crashes in the desert. But instead of burning with the wreckage, they rise from the ashes and live to tell the tale.
LEAVING LA
Tee Ken Ng
Zoetrope animated film for Tim Minchin’s ‘Leaving LA’.
Tim Minchin wrote ‘Leaving LA’ after his animated film was cancelled after four years in production; transforming his feelings into an angry-funny meditation on the city of Los Angeles. At turns melancholic and anthemic, the song and Ng’s animation stages a quest for freedom from superficiality and limits on our creative spirits.