Umbrella-Palooza: Digital Nightmares Triple Feature

FFFA is thrilled to partner with kindred spirits at Umbrella Entertainment for an epic triple feature delving into the horrors borne from technology featuring Cypher (2002), Hardware (1990), and Pulse (2001). Join us for a day of screenings, talks, and giveaways as we uncover the ghosts in the machine and explore the dark side of the digital age.  

Melbourne Program 
Sat 10th May
Lido Cinemas, Hawthorn

4:00pm: Cypher
After Cypher, we'll be joined by two expert genre film researchers from Swinburne University, Andrew Lynch and César Albarrán-Torres, for a discussion on the cross section of cinema, technology, and our modern world.

6:30pm: Hardware (4K restoration) 
After Hardware, we invite Melbourne leading expert in paranormal investigation and director of the Australian Paranormal Society William Tabone to discuss his experiences with the supernatural.

9:00pm: Pulse (4K restoration) 

Sydney Program
Saturday 10th May 
Ritz Cinemas, Randwick

4:00pm: Cypher 
After Cypher, Dark Nights Film Fest director and underground cinema expert Bryn Tilly joins us as a guides through a night of technological terror.

6:30pm: Hardware (4K restoration) 
After Hardware, Sydney's leading expert in paranormal investigation Jason King joins us to discuss his experiences with the supernatural. Jason is featured in Ghosthunter, an Australian documentary about his experience with the paranormal.

9:00pm: Pulse (4K restoration) 

Film Information

Cypher
This cerebral sci-fi espionage thriller from the director of Cube (1997) and Splice (2009), starring Jeremy Northam and Lucy Liu, is criminally underseen compared to some of its millennial counterparts like The Matrix and Minority Report.   

Hardware (4K restoration)
The stylish directorial debut of Richard Stanley (Color Out of Space), Hardware melds hard rock, industrial horror and cyberpunk dystopia in this gory cult classic about a cyborg that reassembles itself and goes on a violent rampage. 

Pulse (4K restoration)
From director Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Cure), Pulse is an unnerving, sinister techno-thriller about a group of friends in Tokyo grappling with an unsettling presence emerging from their computers. A chilling, ahead-of-its-time vision of disconnection in a digital world. 

Adult $33 / Member & concession $30. Includes entry to all three films.