Connection and solitude: Demure’s Em Simonne took a sneak peek at Olive Weeks’ world premiere A Play About Ivy, That is Really About June ahead of it Melbourne Fringe season.

Written by Sophie Teo (she/her) & Dominique Purdue (she/her). Misc. is a play about Bea and Jasmine, two half Asian, half white actors who keep meeting in different auditions, as they keep being put up for the same roles. They become fast friends, as they share experiences of the struggles and experiences about being from two different cultures in an industry that constantly tries to put them in a single box.

Demure chats to Claudia Bailey (they/them), an exceptional, award-winning non-binary filmmaker and writer. They speak about their inspirations (including the Twlight films!), connecting to their younger self through film, and the beauty of finding refuge in storytelling - like queer people have for generations.

Find Claudia in Issue #07

Directed by Siobhan Paterson (she/her), a 19-year-old aspiring filmmaker in Melbourne/Naarm. Apostasy is a gripping story about sexuality set in an Catholic all-girls school. The film is set to be premiered early this year at the Swinburne Advanced Diploma screenings at the Coburg Drive-In.

Find Apostasy in Issue #06

Written and directed by Gemma Rose Carfi. Produced by Rachel Chen. Ostrich is about Helena, a mother, whose eyes are opened to the entrenched sexism within her family when she discovers a horrible truth about her son.

Find Ostrich in Issue #05

By Maxine Zanoni. The film follows Mischa and her little sister Agnes, as they live alone during a near-future climate disaster.

Find House of Tomorrow in Issue #04

By Renee Kypriotis. A coming-of-age horror-comedy about a young girl who experiences her first heartbreak.

Find Cindy in Issue #02

By Eliza Macdonald. it explores how one's own bed can become a boundless, multidimensional space, a canvas of sorts where you express your most intimate and personal feelings.

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By Isabella Cini. A music video that aims to assist white Australians gain a better understanding of how the First Nations People were tormented through the Stolen Generation.

Demure chats to Alyssa Moller (she/they), a writer and director based in Naarm. A student of the Swinburne Bachelor of Film and Television, her new short film Lily is a super personal story about a mother daughter relationship, and the anxiety that Lily (the daughter) projects about her mum not loving her. The film, shot on 16mm film, uses beautiful floral motifs and images of disease to express such anxieties of teenagers.

'Body Irrelevant' is a combination of melodrama, film, poetry, performance art and sit-down conversations by two brilliant VCA Acting students and dear friends of Demure, Ez Kenworthy (they/them) and Jay Gold (they/them). The pair welcome audiences to their bedroom for a night, to observe them in their most vulnerable state. The show is a conversation between friends in their attempt to explain and uncover the aesthetic currency of queerness and how they themselves are subject to the ever-changing nature of gender, sex and love.