From one of Australia's most distinctive filmmakers, RANDOM 8 is an eerily compelling film with a futuristic "sci-fi" surface, and at heart a thought-provoking essay about some of the big questions of our post-war era. In groups we are told what to do, but do we always do so? Do groups give us courage to obey or do they inhibit us? How do protest and change emerge? A randomly selected group of eight people from all walks of life are brought together in a bare room, mobile phones are confiscated, and cameras record their reaction to a series of instructions that escalate in intensity and in degree of challenge. {from Ronin Films}—johnsalpina