An image of a woman is distorted by pixelated square shapes ranging in colours from purple to beige, with a black background conveying computer coding.

AU.X Screenworks

Art that breaks, expands and reimagines the Australian screen

Escape the expected and enter AU.X Screenworks: four days of experimental screen-based media from some of Australia’s most compelling and unconventional creative voices.  

AU.X champions radical artistic vision, creating a vital space for artists to rebel against the mainstream. You’ll find work fresh off the festival circuit from Hyun Lee’s French Girls to Adam C. Briggs’ Philip Philadelphia. Discover bold new expanded cinema works that spill beyond the screen through installation, live performance and projection with Matt Cornell’s BIO:MASS and Junior Major’s Decipher. Plus, groundbreaking films from Frame Shift, where artists with disability fracture and reimagine the medium.

Come for the chance to experience new voices and enter unfamiliar worlds.

Explore the program

Phillip Philadelphia

30 Nov 2026

  • Cinema
  • Experimental
Two characters from Phillip Philadelphia sit in a grassy field with pixelated squares decorated throughout the image.

Sydney Underground Film Festival

30 Nov 2026

  • Cinema
  • Experimental
A graphic illustration of a ghoulish person with their hands in the sky. The moon behind them is an eyeball.

French Girls

1 Dec 2026

  • Cinema
  • Experimental
A woman glaring upwards wearing a dangling earrings.

BIO:MASS

1 & 2 Dec 2026

  • Dance
  • Cinema
  • Experimental
Three men look over a lit up screen in a dark room with pixelated cubes throughout the image that are green and orange.

Decipher

2 & 3 Dec 2026

  • Theatre
  • Cinema
  • Experimental
  • Poetry
A woman wearing glasses. A glitch manipulation effect is distorting the image.

Frame Shift 2026

3 Dec 2026

  • Cinema
A man dressed in a multi-coloured and multi-patterned suit with a hat and sunglasses on, arms out to the sides and standing in front of green screen.