Pleasure 2021

A mad scientist named Dr. Dreadful leads a terrorist organization called the Hand of Pleasure.

After spending a large part of 2020 in a Melbourne lockdown together, Anne & Lloyd have decided now is the time to go on a national tour. Come and witness these two comedians live. There’ll be jokes, stories, gossip and quite possibly the thrilling spectacle of the onstage breakdown of their relationship. Anne Edmonds is uncompromising, fearless and hilarious. She is a regular guest on Have You Been Paying Attention? and The Project while her alter-ego characters shine in Get Krack!n and At Home Alone Together. Her stand-up special released earlier this year on Amazon Prime has been making audiences cry with laughter. Lloyd Langford is a stand-up comedian, writer and actor from Wales, who is fast making his mark here in Australia. Since first coming to our shores in 2015 as part of the Melbourne Comedy Festival, Lloyd has toured the country extensively and become a fan favourite and regular on hit show Have You Been Paying Attention?

In the AI-generated "Belladonna II," the viewer is taken on a journey through female eroticism.

A psychiatrist is brutally raped and takes her revenge in a bizarre game of cat and mouse.

John Hofsess’s The Palace of Pleasure emerged from the psychedelic haze of 1960s postmodern art. It was a blistering work that combined arresting abstract imagery with the wounded expressions of a young couple, edited into a collage of mass culture imagery and album and book jackets, all of it framed as a therapeutic treatment. Addressed to a generation coming up in an era of protest and social change, where many found themselves increasingly burdened with hopelessness, paranoia, and neurosis, The Palace of Pleasure was offered as a cleansing ritual, a post-Freudian expelling of dammed-up energies that anticipated The Primal Scream. In this video, Stephen Broomer discusses Hofsess’s therapeutic ambitions, how the film was composed of Hofsess’s earlier films, and the sensual spell of the work, the way in which it commands us to enter into a universal fellowship of touch that circulates, from us to us, through us, to strain the boundaries between the self and the other.

Gabrielle (Helene Hallier), an ambitious but innocent would-be young chorine, trumps a music hall publicity stunt to become the new Parisian nightclub Cinderella. But this lighter-than-champagne-bubbles story is only a pretext for LA REVUE DES REVUES's white-hot, non-stop procession of outrageously and scantily attired exotic dancers, showgirls, and acrobats.

Billy Connolly invites us to his newly adopted home of the Florida Keys for an intimate look at the life he leads since deciding to step back from stand-up comedy.

There's the continent ruled by a repressive government and there's an island where political activists of the continent take refuge on running away from the continent's police. This island is their last stand – there they live in a way not possible in the continent – free love, no possessions, brotherhood… In the continent, a killer is sent to the island to kill the revolutionary leaders. The killer is a woman , Ana (Neide Ribeiro). She will go there as a journalist sent there to interview the leaders of the movement. On arriving to the island, she will find out that things were much different from what she expected. Will Ana be involved by the "island of forbidden pleasures." Will she fulfill her mission?

Victor is a killer. Witnessing the brutal death of his parents at the age of seven has turned Victor into a monster. No one is safe in his path of destruction... Except Maxi. Or is she? ...

The theme of morality is brought out with the life of Samdang, who is addicted to alcohol and indulges in the love and care of a good wife.

Muscles, screaming crowds and non-stop attention. Is it ego or alter-ego that defines the 'Pleasure Boys’ strip group? Exploring the motives and sacrifices of four male strippers, this documentary challenges masculinity as a construct in the modern world.

An experimental short commentary about the film Midsommar (2019) made by Ari Aster, uses of bright colours and effects to add onto the idea the director had for the story.

Two married women on vacation decide to see who the better seductress is. When the local authorities investigate the death of a local prostitute, their husbands do what they can to avoid trace of scandal and any implication that their wives are involved. Cracks in their relationships are revealed as is the hedonism and hypocrisy amongst the bourgeoise.

Pinball historian Richard Bueschel hosts an hour-long look at the arcade favorite's illustrious history, including interviews with flipper devotees Slash (from Guns & Roses), Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry, baseball great Frank Thomas, and others.

Emma is an unemployed housewife, whose children have grown up and moved out. When she finds out that her husband is looking for his sexual awaking, doing this by having an affair with another woman, Emma takes over a neon-lit sex-shop that she turns into an erotic boutique for women. This journey leads her into an adventure with a group of other women who are all looking for their own sexual awaking.

In the inner city of Columbia, SC, a group of friends find out why it’s not good to mix business with pleasure.

A young cyborg navigates between their biological and technological selves as they seek to feel pleasure and pain efficiently in the heavily controlled cyberspaces.

A public access feed broadcasting vaguely evangelical inspirational quotes is punctuated with hand-animated interludes that play out a narrative involving a lost young girl - a deified milk carton child who is drawn to a place called the Cosmic Womb.