Plain Pleasures
Emily longs for an expensive, exquisite silk dress. It’s silly to spend so much money on things, but what is life without plain ordinary pleasures?
Alena Lodkina
Director
Also Directed by Alena Lodkina
An insight into the lives of the miners who search for Australia’s famous black opals.
Milena travels to a remote opal mining community to see her estranged, ill father. Lost and alone, she falls into his bewildering world, where men escape society and share ideals of freedom. Soon, he doesn’t want her to leave. Stuck in time, father and daughter try to mend their fractured bond, but their connection is fragile, like the strange, colourful gems he digs up from the earth.
A film student and a performance artist whose lives become entwined when they move in together
Hannah walks through the city, observing people and objects, searching for something, looking at delicious pastries. She is on her way to an appointment with a tarot reader and inside and house space unfolds like the walls of a dream, only to reveal a pair of rummaging thieves. Alone, Hannah is entering a mystery and the clues are sparse and uncertain. She floats like a jellyfish, but perhaps there is no such thing.
Diving into dreams of transcendence, Argonautica, Jason and Medea, cruel love, big deity energy, mythical murderesses, possible worlds, open windows.
