Underplayed Gems

Saturday Night

The 3D catalogue: film cases on wooden shelves, with the cat sitting at the counter next to its greeting.

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A low-budget Australian independent film that follows a man and a woman over the course of one Saturday night. Their interactions and the events of the evening unfold in a simple, direct way.

low-keyintimatenaturalisticquietly observantunderstatedearthyhuman-scale

What happens

Saturday Night is a 1999 Australian film written and directed by James Balian and starring Alison Whyte and Aaron Pedersen. It premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, played at Cinequest Film Festival on 3 March 2000 before being broadcast nationally on SBS later that year. The independent film was shot on a low budget with a super 16mm camera, shooting over two weeks late 1998. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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