Ben Keller

Building Houses

27-year-old Alekh lives a nomadic life of half-unpacked suitcases and 12-month leases. News of the sale of his childhood home sparks memories of building houses, growing up, and his relationship with his family back in faraway America. He feels a world apart from his parents and the life they lived when they were his age – buying, renovating and selling houses, and raising three spirited boys. He writes a letter to his mum recounting his last journey home, recalling a simple car trip that propels him on a voyage through time.

The Blueprint

The Blueprint is a science-fiction thriller about Cody, a computer engineer who is infatuated with a work colleague he considers perfect for him but had been previously rejected by and as such he has created an artificially intelligent replicant of her. When Cody comes home from a promising date with another woman who he feels cannot compare to the feelings he has for his colleague, he decides to begin work on attempting to replicate her personality in his robot by combining footage he had secretly taken of her and machine learning. But when this doesn't work and the replicant never feels like the genuine, living, breathing person he's trying to force into his life and he destroys his lifeless creation in a fit of rage, Cody now must come to terms with the fact that this mindset is toxic to him and everyone around him in spite of the fact that his behaviour, which has been discovered by the woman he was dating that night, may have caused him to lose his chance of another connection.

Climbing the Summit

A short documentary that follows an Australian band through their journey from jamming at a backyard party to a national tour across the country.

The Chamber

When Dr. Jordan Patrick attempts to treat his four o’clock, he comes face to face with a horror beyond his imaging.