A 16mm film program that samples a small selection of shorts from Australian filmmakers working in the experimental form and using hand processed techniques. Film is ritual suggests the very hands on approach to making films (layering, masking, repetition) seeps into the film itself, leaving a personal and physical mark on each of them. An alchemical solution - a merging of chemicals and spirit.

All the filmmakers are also members of the Melbourne based film lab Artist Film Workshop (AFW)

Sabina Maselli is a filmmaker and artist who makes visual works that are presented as films, installations and live performances. Grounded in the language and techniques of cinema, Sabina uses both analog and digital processing, through a very physical engagement with her materials. She sees her works as sites for transformation between body, memory and technology, and how they manifest in the physical, material, mystical, and mythological realms. She also directs music videos and collaborates regularly with musicians and performance arts companies in audio-visual shows and expanded cinema works.

Erkki Veltheim (b. 1976 Finland) is an Australian composer, improviser and performer with an interest in music as both a cultural construct and a sonic phenomenon. His practice spans noise, improv, audiovisual installation, notated music, multidisciplinary performance and electroacoustic composition. His works have dealt with connections between music and ritual, music as a failing semiotic system for cultural critique, and sound as a conduit for contact with the supernatural.