Hyperlinks: 0s & 1s // Jobe'z World (Double Feature)

A digital slacker double feature straight from America's underground - a DIY proto-desktop film and the lo-fi/no budget answer to Good Time.

0s & 1s

A slacker’s life is thrown into disarray when he loses his laptop, in this proto-desktop film from the director of Spree and Wobble Palace.

James Pongo has a cushy job, a busy social life and an alluring love interest, all the click of a mouse away. But when he wakes up after a night of reckless partying to discover that his computer is missing, James' hyper-connected reality takes a humiliating nosedive. Pre-empting the rise of desktop cinema, incorporating animated elements into its contemporaries’ more formally pure aesthetic, Kotlyarenko’s debut feature is a unique, prescient and above-all hilarious look at the ways in which technology has irrevocably trans/disfigured our lives.

“Kotlyarenko sees the ubiquity of the computer screen as a chance to redefine the language of cinema.” - Dylan Schenker, Vice

Directed by Eugene Kotlyarenko | 83 minutes | 15+ | International Premiere

Country: United States of America

Year: 2011

Language: English

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Jobe'z World

A rollerblading drug dealer discovers the power of viral video in this throwback to VHS-era trash cinema.

Jobe (Jason Grisell), a mysterious middle-aged rollerblader, spends his days selling drugs to an eclectic mix of downtown weirdos. When he gets the call to make a special delivery to his favorite actor (Theodore Bouloukos) he’s completely starstruck. What starts off as an exciting encounter with an A-list celebrity quickly devolves into a nightmarishly comedic trainwreck.

“Jobe’z World was obviously made on a shoestring; nonetheless, it features an independent-cinema all-star team of performers and crew members who’ve worked on a large and loosely linked series of films over the past decade…” - Richard Brody, The New Yorker

Directed by Michael M. Bilandic | 67 minutes | 15+ | Australian Premiere

Country: United States of America

Year: 2018

Language: English