TLC exhibition at Sydenham International gallery

TLC’s exhibition at Sydenham International gallery (in Sydney, Australia) is up and running! BASIC INFO you need to know: “On Following and Breaking Instruction: The DNA of Ephemeral Art” Teaching and Learning Cinema (Louise Curham and Lucas Ihlein) Exhibition Dates: 31 Oct to 22 Nov @ Sydenham International Gallery, 81 Sydenham Rd, Marrickville, Gadigal. Gallery …

ON FOLLOWING AND BREAKING INSTRUCTION

ON FOLLOWING AND BREAKING INSTRUCTION by Aditya H. Martodiharjo Date: Fri, 23 October 2026 Time: 9 – 10.30PM Location: SAM, Level 1, The Engine Room Admission: SGD $10 (Ticketed) The presentation of expanded cinema performances often depends heavily on the presence of the artist themselves. In situations where the artist is unable to accompany the …

Line Describing a Cone – Zine for Drill Hall – TLC’s manifesto

At the Cone and Bulb event at Drill Hall in September 2025, we created a new zine about Line Describing a Cone, which we distributed to audience-participants. Here is a scan of the zine. Among lots of other goodies, the zine contains the TLC’s manifesto. While we have talked around this for more than 20 …

Line Describing A Cone – some reflections from events at the Drill Hall Gallery and the University of Wollongong

What follows is a report back on the event on Sat 20 Sep at the Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra and today in the theatre in room G04 in building 29 at University of Wollongong. To my mind, both of these events have been a success but in different ways. The black room at UOW was …

CONE & BULB – event info

When: Saturday 20 September, 6.30-8pm Venue: Drill Hall Gallery, ANU Canberra Attendance is free, bookings required: Register here [Anthony McCall’s Line Describing a Cone (1973) presented at CEMENTA Festival in Kandos, 2015. Photo by Alex Wisser] CONE + BULB – an evening of landmark Expanded Cinema is a presentation by Australian artist group Teaching and …

Artists Film Workshop comes to Canberra’s Antics Hair Microcinema Friday 17 Feb 730pm

Join us for an evening of recent and brand new work by the Artists Film Workshop, all on 16mm. Lab members Sebastian Vaccaris and Paddy Hay have programmed a stellar line-up, it’s a first for Canberra to see works from  AFW, Australia’s most prolific contemporary artist-run film lab. The line-up includes Anybody Coming to Dinner …

Antics Hair Microcinema

The old Antics Hair Salon in Canberra will come to life again in January and February 2023 as Canberra’s newest microcinema. What: film screening/film performance event Where: 8 Petrie Plaza, Civic, Canberra When: 8-930pm Sat 14 Jan Tickets: $10 donation Over the past couple of years a group of Canberra artists interested in projection, reflection …

Horror Film 1 – Re-enactment in Progress at CCAS, Canberra

Oliver Thomas practicing Horror Film 1 at CCAS Between 23-28 June, the Teaching and Learning Cinema (Louise Curham and Lucas Ihlein) is in residence at Canberra Contemporary Artspace. We’re continuing on with the research we began last year in the UK, towards a re-enactment of Malcolm Le Grice’s Horror Film 1 (1971). We’re not sure …

Canberra screening 5 October 2013

‘Photochemical Games’ is a film screening of works by Australian film artists at Belconnen Arts Centre on Saturday 5 October, 6-730pm. Film is dead! This pronouncement rears its head so frequently that for those who still like making images from chemicals reacting to light, it’s nothing to be alarmed by. Like the claims about one …