This week we lost a VIP in the experimental cinema community. Peter Mudie was a teacher at University of Western Australia, where I studied fine arts in the mid-1990s. Shortly after he arrived in Perth (from Canada via London) he set up a Super-VHS editing suite, and began teaching the history and practice of experimental …
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Louise Curham on Otherfilm Festivals 2006-8
Reposting here an article featuring TLC’s Louise Curham speaking about her memories of the Otherfilm festivals in Brisbane, from the REMIX website. OtherFilm are a collective dedicated to experimental, avant-garde and expanded forms of art. Recollecting OtherFilm in Brisbane. The first event I went to was at Queensland College of the Arts in one of …
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AAANZ Conference Brisbane 2015 – Re-enactment discussions
We had a terrific time with our six presenters at the AAANZ conference in Brisbane this week. We’ve posted a document over here which outlines the theme of the discussions, as well as how we divided up the conversation, and the abstracts from our presenters. Thanks to presenters Sandy Gibbs, Steven Ball, Georgia Banks, Greer …
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Farewell Albie Thoms
Australia has lost a legend of cinema. Albie Thoms’ obituary appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald yesterday. And another one from ABC MovieTime. From the Herald piece by Philippe Mora: Never bowing to overtly conventional cinema, this modest, knowledgeable and catalytic artist absorbed the history of the avant garde in Europe and became a lifelong …
Australian International Experimental Film Festival launched
Excitement! Sue K & the Nanolab gang have announced their collaboration in presenting the Australian International Experimental Film Festival http://www.aieff.org. Put this one in your diaries! Festival dates Melbourne, 30th April, 1st-2nd May, 2010. Submissions mid Dec 2009 to 15th Febuary 2010.
“Now To the Future” by Andrew Frost
Conceptual Paradise: There Is a Place for Sophistication
The fabulously energetic Mark Williams at the NZ Film Archive is poised to screen the documentary essay Conceptual Paradise: There Is a Place for Sophistication. Unfortunately this screening is in Wellington, NZ, not much good to us at present but maybe someone in the community will be spurred to show it! Hope so! The film …
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Disappearing Video, Video Disappeared?
The above photo shows Louise Curham from the TLC making a cracking point at the plenary discussion session at the end of the Disappearing Video Conference. To her right are Lyndal Jones, Andrew Frost, Stephen Jones and Danni Zuvela. It was a really interesting day. Here’s my round-up of a few random thoughts: Stephen Jones …
Disappearing Video
[above image: Denis Beaubois “In the event of Amnesia the city will recall…” (still, detail) (Sydney) 1996-97 digital video, sound 9:12 minutes] It’s rare enough to see a serious exhibition of video art in an Aussie art museum. But accompanying the MCA’s Video Logic show, there is a super rare screening of historical Australian video …
Reel Rescues – Film in the Library
Our friend Sally Golding of Otherfilm is presenting this great programme up in Brisbane: Reel Rescues at the State Library of Queensland Reel Rescues is an exhibition of home movies, silent films and original newsreels, acting as a time capsule of Queensland life from the 1920s through to the 1970s in moving image form. The …