COMING SOON in 2025
Multiple Mothers: A Portrait of Two Women Burnt Out
Feature Documentary
Garden Reflexxx presents: Mutliple Mothers, a neo-intimate, chaos-infused road movie tracing the entangled lives of Evelyn Roth, a Canadian artist-turned-Maslin Beach icon, and Alison James, her whip-smart publican neighbour (and Jen’s mother). Evelyn’s tequila-fueled charisma meets Ali’s pragmatism on a spiraling journey through art, roadtrips, memory, and crumbling utopias. Think All The Beauty And The Bloodshed meets Kath and Kim with a hint of Grey Gardens.
From the prairies of Mundare, Evelyn’s birthplace crowned with the world’s largest kielbasa, to Hanapepe’s creative sanctuaries, Haida Gwaii’s historic potlatch, and Vancouver Art Gallery’s reverence for Evelyn’s groundbreaking archive, Multiple Mothers explores the fraught intersections of ambition and burnout, documenting the often hilarious give and take of a bantering intergenerational friendship.
A practice of impressionist portraiture and mistakes-curious storytelling, Multiple Mothers invites you into Evelyn’s flamboyant orbit and Ali’s fight for sanity. A super-natural figure from the Summer of Love whose oversized inflatables and woven recycled film stock sculptures have graced festivals and events for over forty years meets a foolhardy and chronically charismatic waitress traipsing across continents and archipeligos in search of a path into the future. Beneath the spectacle lies a tender, biting meditation on generational tensions and the communities we build to sustain creative lives.
Scripture for a Smokescreen Episode 2: Baby Baby You’re a Natural, with Amrita Hepi
2 Channel Video Installation
Generally, zoos are perceived as a place of entertainment, education and preservation, visited by a mass audience. However; there’s a slippery, camp and racist history of colonialism, spectacle and an ever changing ‘romantic’ cartography of the ‘natural/native’ that speaks to the gap between lived experience and its representation. Shot in two very different zoos, one on the rooftop of a mall in Bangkok containing Thailand’s only living gorilla Bua Noi, and the other an ‘open’ zoo containing worldwide superstar pygmy hippo Moo Deng, Amrita’s portraits consider the colonial project of captivity between what the eye can see and what the body can capture.
Coober Pedy’s Last Showgirl with Ruby Teys
Comedy Special
In 1991, Cherry Vinyl escaped her small gaping hole in Coober Pedy and hitchhiked her way along the Dingo Fence to the bright lights of the shantytown now known as Surfers Paradise.
From shy gold panty metre maid to headline act at the Roast Coast’s most exclusive gentlemen's club Legs, Legs, Legs, Lips, Lips, Lips!
One stormy tropical Wednesday night, a tall elusive figure in a velour tracksuit and dark glasses walked into the club. He walked up to Cherry’s feathery perch and whispered his Winfield Red into her ear, “hush your sweet lips tweedy bird... you’re coming with me...”
What begins as a true blue Australian love story starts to pong a bit fishy as something isn’t quite right…
Scripture for a Smokescreen Episode 3: The Invisible Hand, with Amrita Hepi
2 Channel Video Installation
Scripture for a smokescreen episode 3: The invisible hand, uses methods of sousveillance to entangle the viewer in a series of vignettes capturing the interplay between personal power and market dynamics.
