Jen Atherton

Number Ones perceives all-the-time-friends, sometimes enemies, Stelly G and Kiki Oner, battling in the first sneaker category in Eora at March’s West Ball. Inspired by Akerman’s One Day Pina Asked…, the film collects shots and edited impressions of the day. Time isn’t linear, the past lives here alongside the future, and Stelly calls on both in the present. I think she knew she would lose the category, and I loved watching her humility, her perseverance, the process, throughout the day, and watching Kiki step even further into her power with the support that comes with the generative competition of a best friend who tells the truth. At one point, off camera, during make-up, Stelly gets her period and runs out to the car to find tampons. Ruffling through her overnight bag she asks: ‘Yes please, yes please, yes please, yes please’.

Struck by lightning in the middle of preparing an oven-roast chicken, a woman (Anna Dooley) goes through a period of displacement in the city with a hint of iPhone-induced mental disturbance. Ringing sound triggers her so much she unintentionally uses oranges as noise-canceling headphones. Having moved somewhere quieter and separated her body from technology, she picks said citric fruit and assures her tranquility. - Innas Tsuroiya

Sydney-based movement-focused artist Kilia Tipa brings glam and allure into one assemblage; from the seemingly disorderly yet fancy preparation in the dressing room, footage from past dance practice, to realtime stage performance at Carriageworks. Beautifully drenched in Tipa's own cultural upbringing and queer belonging, the now premiering short film made in collaboration with Garden Reflexxx's Jen is to honor the performer Sylvester.

Mood Ring is a feature film by performance artist Sereima Adimate/Stelly G, Kiki Oner and Garden Reflexxx. The group examines female friendships, the idea of love letters, the challenge of unpacking heritage and the meaning of going home. In the ineffable shadow of taboo, Mood Ring is a radical sign of deliverance. In 2021 the group started a writer's room brainstorming ideas of 'First Times'. It led them to Mood Ring, a community funded project based in/on Fiji. The footage features moments from the location reconnaissance Sereima went on in early 2022. In a tangled visual poem that blends journal entries with travelogue, Kiki Oner and best friend Stelly G return to their island home Viti Lev. During this - their first trip together as adults - they make contact with a past that is unfamiliar to them yet shrouded in memories. What follows is a deeply felt trip that forces them to confront lives almost lived. There will be scenes of confronting pasts, and catastrophic futures.

In a city for the first time Ben wakes up in the middle of the night to find his bed empty. The Red Man watches him from a storm drain as he rollerblades through an unfamiliar nightscape searching.