Number one in world-class luxury, Perth hotels are an adventure in style and hospitality. Getting away from it all has never been easier, and never more rewarding. The landscape opens up like the city here, constantly unrolling, vast, and fascinating. Your stay will be made easier here, when the pleasure of the hideaway is equal to the pleasure of finding yourself among wonderful new friends.
One place to certainly meet like-minded, or high-minded individuals is at Perth’s internationally-acclaimed Revelation Film Festival. Now in its twelfth year, this film festival has always prided itself on favoring ideas over films. The sensibility is very marked in favoring the underground and the indie, and is indeed well on its way toward developing one of the most interesting film festivals in the world. With short films, documentaries, features, animation and experimental works, there is something for everyone here, even though the organizers insist that the festival is not trying to be all things to all people. With such a remarkably uncompromising vision, this is an extremely important cultural event. Nurturing local filmmakers as well as tapping into some of the more significant international trends, the emphasis here is on the art of film in practice. Discussions of film theory accompany the screenings, and there are also tangential events around the festival to showcase interesting experiments in visual arts and culture.
The Perth International Film Festival is also very keenly-geared toward youth culture and pop culture. Some of last year’s entries focused on underground figures like Hunter S. Thompson and William S. Burroughs. Underground in its origin as well, with the first festival taking place in a basement, the festival has grown incrementally each year, making it a rising success, and a force to be reckoned with in the film industry. This is a festival where alternative visions and voices can find a place to be seen, heard, and discussed by some of the most cutting-edge filmmakers and critics from around the globe, and securing Perth as a vital place in the world’s art-making marketplace.
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