Monolith
Sat
1
Sat 1 Jul 11:00 AM
Waltzing Matilda Centre
General Admission
94 Mins
July
A striking science fiction thriller that uses the clever containment of a single location and only one on-screen character, to great effect. Disgraced journalist (rising star Lily Sullivan) turns to podcasting to salvage her career, before uncovering a strange artefact that she believes is evidence of an alien conspiracy. Hiding out at her folks’ home she is desperate for a hit show that will once again shower her in five-star ratings. The mystery she selects involves a maid named Floramae who claims she once received, and lost, a bizarre black brick. She can’t explain how she got it and she can’t explain what it did. But the block — or rather, the stealing of the block by her employers — upended her life. “I don’t want other people to twist your words,” she assures Floramae, only to immediately break out her editing software so she can twist them herself. Monolith is a cinematic magic trick that delivers a gorgeous piece of lo-fi sci-fi that will creep in through your ears and nestle itself in the folds of your brain.