Saturday, April 21st - 9:30p.m. St. Anthony Main : Tuesday, April 24th - 9:15p.m. Oak Street Cinema : Director: Ana Kokkinos   On the afternoon of the Melbourne premiere of their new show, modern dancer Daniel (Tom Long), disappears while running an errand for his co-star and girlfriend Bridget (Anna Torv).  After 12 days, he resurfaces, shaken, inarticulate and with sexually suggestive claw marks on his back.

Unable to divulge his experience, Daniel renounces both his dancing career and titular scrapbook of choreography ideas to live under an assumed name in a working class pub.  An extended flashback reveals Daniel was drugged and abducted by three cowled women who sexually degraded him before forcing him to dance for their pleasure.  Back in the present, Daniel's only clues to his captor's identities are assorted birthmarks, tattoos, and generic red nail polish.  On the rebound from his humiliation he thus begins his obsessive quest to find and confront these women, while his mentor and choreographer (Greta Scacchi) sends her ex-hubby cop (Colin Friels) to retrieve her prize pupil so that she might convince him to resume his career in dance.  From a novel by British writer Rupert Thomson, an audacious (some male frontal nudity) film on dark fantasy and human need, by award-winning Aussie layer-turned-filmmaker Ana Kokkinos.

Cast: Tom Long, Colin Friels, Greta Scacchi, Anna Torv, Deborah Mailman

Australia, 119 minutes, 2006, 35mm

Presented by: University of Minnesota Institute for Global Studies