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The Next Time You Feel Important
2026, Gabriel Bath, 87 mins
Synopsis
The Sailor washes up on the shore and is hit with violent and libellous accusations of gang affiliations. The Sailors drink hearty ales and enter a pop music competition. The Kid pines for suburb exploration.
An elliptical odyssey of free-form digital experimentation, chronicling a shipwrecked Sailor's journey to clear his name, and his attempts to escape into conjured-up visions of a recent past.
“The final effect of The Next Time You Feel Important is an invigorating refusal to live any other way than playfully, wildly and imaginatively... Bath has reworked the images obsessively in the editing, putting an enormous amount of energy into distorting and animating over them.” - Mike Walsh, Pure Shit Australian Cinema
“Gabe Bath is making movies from 100 years in the future” - Kai Perrignon, Brunswick Underground Film Festival
Screenings
January 31st 2026 - World Premiere at Semaphore Summer Film Festival 2026
May 17th 2026 - Brunswick Underground Film Festival 2026
July 5th 2026 - “Just Trust Me Man” Screening Series
Director Biography
Gabriel Bath is a filmmaker and occasional actor. A recent graduate of the Bachelor of Creative Arts at Flinders University (Honours), Bath has already completed two features and three shorts. Bath is a member of moviejuice, an Adelaide based film collective that specialises in the screening and distribution of alternative and experimental cinema. His films have played in Adelaide, Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. His films centre around conspiracy, collage, community, history, association and improvisation. They have been featured on Pure Shit Australian Cinema’s best of the year lists in 2023 and 2025, as well as garnering an honourable mention on The Curb’s best Australian films of 2023. Malls, in which Bath co-starred and co-wrote, was listed as the 21st best Australian film of 2025 on The Curb.
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