Straight outta the underground of urban Perth, indie punk thriller Skeleton Girls. A Kidnapped Society has dropped the first taste of what to expect ahead of its Premiere at Revelation Perth International Film Festival, Australia’s leading festival for the discovery of independent and transgressive cinema.
Described by Revelation as “bold and wildly original” the film follows Anna Kaiser on the run after a fatal incident and pursued by a 24-hour TV news cycle. As events unfold Anna finds herself drawn into the dark underbelly of a world populated by girl gangs and louts, but then there’s the Rats Nest…
Written & directed by Richard Eames, co-produced by Eames and Helena Tay, and shot by cinematographer Meredith Lindsay, the film boasts an all-WA cast starring Alla Malakhitova, Alex Arco, Cara McCarthy, Ashleigh Zinko, underground performance poet Splodge and many more.
The film’s pulsating modern score is by multi-disciplinary artist and musician Steven Alyian with the soundtrack also featuring a host of Perth’s finest punk & post-punk bands – Nerve Quakes, Last Quokka, Doublethink Prism, Baba! Yaga!, The Sperts and Injured Ninja.
Skeleton Girls. A Kidnapped Society is a wild ride through contemporary Australia with a bold colour palette, mixed-media aesthetics and agitprop animations.
The film premieres 10th July (with Q&A) and 12th July at Revelation Perth International Film Festival. Tickets are selling fast.
TICKETS: www.revelationfilmfest.org/films/2025-features/skeleton-girls-a-kidnapped-society
OFFICIAL FILM WEBSITE: www.skeletongirls.com