BIG TIME

In a not-too-distant future Australia, the eastern states have become the world's newest autocracy - a place where pop music is propaganda, science is the enemy and moral indecency is punishable by indefinite detention.

Julian Ferryman, bass player for the Acceptables, returns to Melbourne after a year overseas and reconnects with his bandmates to record their highly anticipated second album. On their whirlwind tour of the east coast, he gets hooked on a new designer drug, F, a powerful synthetic hallucinogen that gives users a glimpse of their own future. Rumour says, the more you take, the further you see . maybe even to the end of time. Big Time is an anti-fascist ode to the power of pop music, wrapped up in an unforgettable, psychedelic road trip. Jordan Prosser is a writer, filmmaker and performer from Victoria. He is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts, and his short films and screenplays have won multiple international accolades. His short story 'Eleuterio Cabrera's Beautiful Game' won the Peter Carey Short Story Award in 2022 and was published in Meanjin.