A drunken odyssey of absurdist despair, this boldly uncompromising new film by up-and-coming Brisbane filmmakers Sam Dixon and Adam C. Briggs traces the adventures of frustrated cinema worker and habitual cemetery haunter Josie.

Beginning amidst the suffocation of mundane displeasures and soul-sucking casual labour, the film warps and transforms along with its increasingly unstable protagonist in manners equal parts exhilarating and terrifying. Shot on grain-ridden Super 8, A Grand Mockery carves its own singular path against national cinematic convention whilst joining a growing canon of contemporary Australian independent work that grapples with the gaping void at the heart of Australia’s colonial project.