The End of Maitland
A mid-Winter dystopia of Mondo Morbid Morose Macabre and Maniacal Art, Music, Movies & Miscellanea
6 locations along High Street 12th ~ 21st July
Friday 12 July
Raven Art Gallery
Raven Art Gallery will be hosting an EXHIBITION that showcases the darker side of art!! Come along and celebrate the opening of the Tenebrous Terrors exhibition. 12 to 27 July
5 PM – 8 PM
FREE
Outside on High St.
‘Carnie Sideshow’ Performances
Saturday 13 July
Aggravation Place
MUSIC: Misfits Only Coverbands. ‘Theoperations of a small time horror busuness’. (ALL AGES)
FEATURING:
D.S.S. (乾屎橛) – grindcore grindcore set
Jerry OnlyFans – hardcore punk set
MELVICCENTRE – acoustic set
3 PM – 6 PM
$ 5
Secret Movie:
It’s not morning in America and it’s not midnight in America. It’s … in America.
6 PM
$ 5
Thursday 18 July
Friday 19 July
Aggravation Place
FEATURE: 1960’s Japanese Cinema 101 with Ph.d candidate Brendan Dennerley and friends.
From Yazuka films, to Pink films, to the Japanese new Wave. How the economic and political climate in 1960’s Japan shifted the Japanese film industry.
Friday 19 July
1 PM – 2 PM
FREE / DONATIONS WELCOME
Sun Street studios
FEATURE: Haxan Silent Film (1922)
More commonly known as “Witchcraft Through the Ages”, this is definitely one of the most bizarre, visually arresting movies of all time, even more than 100 years later.
Friday 19 July
2:00 PM – 4 PM
FREE
Sun street studios
MUSIC: ‘A Cold Dark Noise Nite’ (ALL AGES)
Alzheimerblanks (dark ambientdrone/noise)
Collector (Novocastrian industrial electronics)
Defektro (explosive industrial rythmic machine noise)
Schkeuditzer Kruez (D-beat/raw synth punk industrial noise)
5 PM – 8 PM Friday 19 July
$ 20
Studio Amsterdam
Cinema: Wrinkles the Clown. True story docu about a clown from Florida who scares people for money. With an introduction of Ross Brown, a mask maker.
Friday 19 July
9 PM – 10:20 PM
$ 10
Saturday 20 July
Aggravation Place
PANEL: Ex-films VHS label Talk with Leon O’Regan. Running a VSH label of Cult & Exploitation.
Learn why someone would run a tape label and the ins-n-outs of the independent video business. Lots of interesting anecdotes.
3 PM – 4 PM
FREE/Donations welcome
Studio Amsterdam
CINEMA: Humanist Vampire seeking consenting suicidal person (2024)
Saturday 20 July
5 PM – 6:45 PM
$ 10
Sun street studios
MUSIC: Push Back and The End presents a night of punk and hardcore (ALL AGES)
Second idol UPDATE
Blake Williams UPDATE
Dessert Runner (alt-rock/punk rock)
Laura Panic (noise punk/no wave)
6 – 8 PM Saturday 20 July
$ 15
Cabin Collective
MUSIC: Heavy/Metal Night ‘Music to watch, corpes float by’ (ALL AGES)
* Sailors Grave (Celtric punkabilly)
* Klub Kongo & The Piranha Tamers (swampstop/junglebilly/rockabilly
* Maids of Horror (horror punk)
7 – 11 PM Saturday 20 July
$ 15 @ the door
Studio Amsterdam
CINEMA: The Killing of America Documentary with Leon O’Regan
Saturday 20 July
9 PM – 10:45 PM
$ 10
Sunday 21 July
Sun street studios
IN THE BACKLOT
‘Lord of Sales Auction House’ PERFORMANCE
Hide the children they could be auctioned off! Because the lord of sales is coming to Maitland!!!
From noon at the backlot The lord of Sales & Minions are making their presence felt in a rare appearance to auction off mystical items from the underworld! You better learn to haggle or be prepared to leave empty handed! Nothing over 10,000,000 dollars! Come for some non-stop yard sale auction! Don’t miss out!!!
12 -1 PM
$ 10,000,000!
Studio Amsterdam
PANEL: ‘Drive-ins and exploitation cinema in regional towns’.
Leon O’Regan has been documenting the history of the few remaining drive-in cinemas in the country. Is this the end for drive-ins?
Sunday 21 July
2 PM – 3 PM
DONATION
Aggravation Place
(ALL AGES)
STAND UP by: Kevin Jin
READINGS by: Rory Green & Kat Neto, Cher Tan.
BANDS:
Exit Mould (eggo synth-punk
Body melt (demented grindcore)
Sunday 21 July
2 PM – 5 PM
$ 5
Sun street studios
FEATURE: Virgin Beasts Screening with Toby Zoates (1992)
‘Virgin Beasts’ is a bizarre post-apocalyptic punk rock comedy musical full of colorfully deranged animated sequences. Also keep an eye out for some famous faces in cameos and bit parts.
This screening will include an introduction and Q&A session with filmmaker Toby Zoates.
Sunday 21 July
Rated by OFLC M15+
6 PM – 8 PM
$ 10
