'A perfect mixture of black humour and horror!' (Maggie Ball). MISERY AND OTHER CHOICES, a @PhysicalTV and @breathlessfilm production, directed by Samuel Lucas Allen, screening at St Kilda Film Festival, Melbourne, this Sunday June 7 at 4.30pm. Tix: www.stkildafilmfestival.com.au/2026-films/m...

Sydney! We are so back. This Friday, May 29, you can see MISERY AND OTHER CHOICES again at Palace Cinemas Central as part of Sydney World Film Festival. Tix: www.sydneyfilmfest.com/friday We had so much fun at our previous screening, and we are so excited to bring this eco-thriller back to you!

If you missed the stunning and packed Australian Premiere of MISERY AND OTHER CHOICES at the Fantastic Film Festival Australia, you can catch it at the Sydney World Film Festival, on its Shorts 4 program, Friday May 29, 2026, at 8pm, Palace Central (Cinema 7)! Tix here: www.sydneyfilmfest.com/friday

POSTER REVEAL! How to express rage, despair, power + powerlessness? Katherine Paterson’s design for Samuel Lucas Allen’s new eco-thriller MISERY AND OTHER CHOICES, Monday May 4, 7.15pm, '26, at Randwick Ritz Cinemas, Sydney Shorts, Fantastic Film Festival Australia. Tix: tinyurl.com/FFFA-SydShorts

What do you do when the world is on fire? Please join director Samuel Lucas Allen & the extraordinary team behind MISERY AND OTHER CHOICES for the AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE, Mon May 4, 2026, 7.15pm Randwick Ritz, on Fantastic Film Festival Australia. Will sell out! Book now tinyurl.com/FFFA-SydShorts

Love this trailer for the Eco-Horror Shorts, which includes some tantalising glimpses of our film MISERY AND OTHER CHOICES! One night only - get along and tell your DC friends. When: Thur, March 26, 9:30 PM EDT Where: Angelika Pop-Up at Union Market Tix: dceff.eventive.org/films/6990a7...

What do you do when the world is on fire? US Premiere of MISERY AND OTHER CHOICES, a @physicaltv.bsky.social Production directed by Samuel Lucas Allen @dceff.bsky.social! Shorts: Eco-Horror program Thurs, March 26, 9:30 PM EDT Angelika Pop-Up at Union Market dceff.eventive.org/films/6990a7...

REVIEW BREAKING PLATES: tinyurl.com/BPDTDE "Blending documentary, comedy, dance, & inquiry, Pearlman playfully challenges our self-image...subversive....unusual ...experimental...goad us into action." NY Premiere Sun March 15 7.25pm Cinema Village TIX: www.ratedsrfilms.org/tickets-srff...

REVIEW BREAKING PLATES: tinyurl.com/BPDTDE "Blending documentary, comedy, dance, & inquiry, Pearlman playfully challenges our self-image...subversive....unusual ...experimental...goad us into action." NY Premiere Sun March 15 7.25pm Cinema Village TIX: www.ratedsrfilms.org/tickets-srff...

BREAKING PLATES, Physical TV's rollicking collaboration with @nastysilents.bsky.social, directed by @karenpearlman.bsky.social, produced by @richardjamesallen.bsky.social, has its New York Premiere Sun March 15, 7.25pm, Cinema Village. Tickets $15 (scroll down): www.ratedsrfilms.org/tickets-srff...

Your vote could make BREAKING PLATES an AACTA Short Film Finalist! Short Film: Round 1 - closes 11:59pm AEDT TODAY 06 Oct 2025! AACTA members, please view + vote : tv.aacta.org/film/breakin... "The most innovative and thought-provoking films in cinema today," Magdalena Ball, Compulsive Reader.

*** NEW YORK SCREENING THIS SUNDAY!! *** @karenpearlman.bsky.social + @richardjamesallen.bsky.social in NYC for the screening of @physicaltv.bsky.social films this Sun Sept 21, 5.30pm, @columbiasoa.bsky.social, Dodge Hall 511, 2960 Broadway, New York, NY 10027, USA. Free, but contact for QR entry.

Loyalty and friendship and art. Michelle Hiscock and Jonathan Nix. Opening Night: Thurs Sept 4, 2025, 6-8pm Australian Galleries, 15 Roylston Street , Paddington. This sensitive exhibition continues through September 27: australiangalleries.com.au/exhibitions/...

Excited to share that @karenpearlman.bsky.social’s BREAKING PLATES, a collaboration with nastysilents.bsky.social, is a contender for Best Short Film in the 2026 Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards! AACTAs member: please vote! Viewing link: tv.aacta.org/film/breakin...

Excited to share that Karen Pearlman’s BREAKING PLATES, a collaboration with @nastysilents.bsky.social, is a contender for Best Short Film in the 2026 Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards! If you are an AACTA member, please vote! Viewing link: tv.aacta.org/film/breakin...

Richard James Allen says, 'This is one of the most fun interviews I have ever had! Please have a listen! Big thanks to Belinda and @2ser.' Find out the truth with Richard about his latest release ‘More Lies’, 2SER:FM: 2ser.com/find-out-the...

Big thanks to @karenpearlman.bsky.social & Tug Dumbly for launching @richardjamesallen.bsky.social's MORE LIES! An experimental hybrid of fiction, poetry & monologue available in paperback, eBook or audiobook ipoz.biz/product/more... Or Spotify tinyurl.com/MoreLiesSpot... Photo: Yannis Dramitinos

Big thanks to @karenpearlman.bsky.social and Tug Dumbly for launching MORE LIES! This offbeat experimental novel - a hybrid of fiction, poetry & monologue - is available in paperback, eBook or audiobook: ipoz.biz/product/more... Or on Spotify: tinyurl.com/MoreLiesSpot... Photo: Yannis Dramitinos

Which actor who turned up to play a character from MORE LIES at Richard James Allen's book and audiobook launch? The wonderful Liliya May! MORE LIES is available in paperback, eBook or audiobook ipoz.biz/product/more... Or on Spotify: tinyurl.com/MoreLiesSpot... Photo by Yannis Dramitinos.

It's TODAY!! Sat Aug 9! See you at 3pm at Better Read Than Dead for the MORE LIES Launch and then on to Kelly's on King to celebrate! Details: tinyurl.com/MoreLiesLaunch Too far away? Order paperback, eBook or audiobook: ipoz.biz/product/more... Or listen on Spotify: tinyurl.com/MoreLiesSpot...

Thrilled to announce the World Premiere of the MORE LIES Audiobook as a Podcast at the Flickers Rhode Island International Film Festival (Aug 6-10, 2025): prog.tsharp.xyz/en/riiff/43/... If you are in Sydney, join us for the book launch on Saturday August 9, 3-4.30pm: tinyurl.com/MoreLiesLaunch

Join @richardjamesallen.bsky.social for a performative launch of his first novel, MORE LIES, at Better Read Than Dead in Sydney on Sat Aug 9, 3pm. "A rollercoaster romp," Emma Lee's Blog. Register here: www.betterreadevents.com/events/more-... Order your copy now: ipoz.biz/product/more...

@physicaltv.bsky.social @nastysilents.bsky.social's BREAKING PLATES screening at Il Cinema Ritrovato this Sun, June 22, 4.30pm. Tix: www.google.com/url?q=https:... Join @karenpearlman.bsky.social @hennefem.bsky.social Elif Kaynakci, Kate Saccone & @richardjamesallen.bsky.social for the panel/Q&A!

Multi-award-winning @karenpearlman.bsky.social @nastysilents.bsky.social celebration of feminist mayhem, BREAKING PLATES, has screenings coming up in Melbourne, Paris, Amsterdam, Bologna, Perth & across USA! Spread the word! If not screening near you, ask local festivals, cinematheques, & archives.

Cinema Reborn presents World Premiere 4K restoration of WHAT I HAVE WRITTEN (1996), Australian arthouse film directed by John Hughes, based on John A. Scott’s verse novel, tonight, Mon May 5, 6pm, Randwick Ritz (Syd); next Mon 12, 6pm Lido Cinemas (Melb). Tix: www.ritzcinemas.com.au/movies/what-...

@richardjamesallen.bsky.social to introduce Andrei Tarkovsky's last film, THE SACRIFICE, on the Cinema Reborn Festival, tonight, Thurs May 1, 2025, 7pm at Ritz Cinemas in Randwick, Sydney: www.ritzcinemas.com.au/movies/the-s... #question could a film like this be made today?

World Premiere in London: BREAKING PLATES & SMASHING THE PATRIARCHY @karenpearlman.bsky.social @nastysilents.bsky.social @kinolorber.com 4pm Sat April 5 2025 8th Kennington Bioscope Silent Film Weekend, The Cinema Museum www.cinemamuseum.org.uk/2025/8th-ken... "Amazing, Bravo!" (Alan Berliner)

@karenpearlman.bsky.social's SHIRLEY CLARKE, THINKING THROUGH MOVEMENT is the first film philosophy book on extraordinary iconic ferocious dancer-turned-film editor-turned-director Shirley Clarke. Order @edinburghup.bsky.social edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-shirley... 30% discount code: NEW30

@karenpearlman.bsky.social's SHIRLEY CLARKE, THINKING THROUGH MOVEMENT is the first film philosophy book on extraordinary iconic ferocious dancer-turned-film editor-turned-director Shirley Clarke. Order @edinburghup.bsky.social edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-shirley... 30% discount code: NEW30

An insightful review of karenpearlman.bsky.social's BREAKING PLATES, a physicaltv.bsky.social collaboration with nastysilents.bsky.social, by the Indigenous dance artist Vicki Van Hout, kindly published by Form Dance Projects: www.form.org.au/breaking-pla... Photo: @blandinevives.bsky.social

Another stunning and insightful review of @karenpearlman.bsky.social's BREAKING PLATES, a @physicaltv.bsky.social collaboration with @nastysilents.bsky.social, this time by the wonderful Indigenous dance artist Vicki Van Hout, kindly published by Form Dance Projects: www.form.org.au/breaking-pla...

Thrilled to announce that BREAKING PLATES, a @physicaltv.bsky.social production in collaboration with @nastysilents.bsky.social, directed by @karenpearlman.bsky.social and produced by @richardjamesallen.bsky.social, has won The Best Australian Short Award at the Antenna Documentary Film Festival.

FREE screening of AN EDITOR'S ANTHOLOGY tonight in Perth with @karenpearlman.bsky.social. If you can't make it, please support our ongoing investigations into the history & potential of cinema by ordering your own copy from Ronin Films or @kanopyofficial.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/EditorsAntho...