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Calendar : Otherfilm Festival

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23 March 2006 6:00pm

Festival in Brisbane with Arthur and Corinne Cantrill, Natasha Anderson, Abject Leader, Louise Curham, Botborg, more.

OtherFilm Festival - 23-26 March - Brisbane  - http://www.otherfilm.org
Project Gallery, Queensland College of Art, Southbank.
Cube Galleria 15 Tribune St, Southbank.
Globe Cinema, 226 Brunswick St. Fortitude Valley

Otherfilm sees 'cinema' differently, as something that's open to re-imagining; crying out to be liberated from industrialised models, and predetermined structures and experiences. This year's festival features performances that expand traditional notions of 'cinema', installations that elaborate on the idea of 'the screen' and workshops that introduce participants to ideas of acoustic ecology, as well as shooting, processing, editing and projecting super8 film. Of course, we've also included fantastic screenings program featuring new film work and retrospective selections.

In celebration of Australia's contribution to expanded cinema's international history Otherfilm are delighted to welcome Arthur and Corinne Cantrill, pioneering film artists and authors of the long-running avant-garde film journal, Cantrills' Filmnotes. Arthur and Corinne will perform a selection of expanded cinema pieces involving voice and body movement, sculptural objects, specially crafted screens and avant-garde film. The Cantrills' have also curated a screening program of their own films, a retrospective tracing the development of their unique approach to filmmaking, spanning five decades.

Curators: Danni Zuvela, Joel Stern and Sally Golding
Contact - info@otherfilms.org
website - http://www.otherfilm.org

Thursday 23rd March

6:00pm-7:30pm at the Project Gallery
The Cantrills' Salon. Peruse posters, flyers, and 'Cantrills Filmnotes' in a visual display of celebration of two extraordinary, intertwined careers.

Featuring a special meditation on the nature of cinema, written by American filmmaker Hollis Frampton, delivered by Arthur Cantrill.

8pm-11pm at the Cube Galleria
Expanded Cinema Installations. Marvel at the performative installations, films and immersive environments of three of the most talented, original and unclassifiable Australian artists working today: Velvet Pesu, Louise Curham (Brisbane's Stuart Busby accompanies with inspired explorations of trumpet tone...) and Natasha Anderson.

Complimentary drinks provided by little creatures brewing and inner circle rum.

Friday 24th March

2:00pm-4:00pm at the Cube Galleria
ACOUSTIC ECOLOGY - WORKSHOP. Come along to this soundscape derive facilitated by environmental audio-explorers Anthony Magen and Lloyd Barrett. rsvp: joel@otherfilm.org

6:30pm-Midnight at the Globe Theatre
THE AQUAVERSE - INSTALLATIONS AND INTERACTIONS
Fish Video (an object tribute to Nam June Paik: 1932-2006)

Soundscape by Lawrence English

Stuttering Equivalence, or: Why I never liked the young-drunk exquisite corpse: by Tara Cook plus random happenings, projections, and interventions...

ARTHUR AND CORINNE CANTRILL: SELECTED FILMS
A screening of short films from Arthur and Corinne Cantrill's unique and extensive oeuvre, selected by the filmmakers especially for Brisbane audiences.  The program will provide a tour through their decades of filmmaking at the cutting edge of art; including landscape works, articulated images, experimental documentary, colour separation and much much more.

LIGHT AND SONIC EXPANSION PART 1
Lloyd Barrett premieres 'Mise en scene' for diegetic and non-diegetic filmsound, Vanilla (Van Sowerwine and Camilla Hannan) create a beguiling and bizarre mix of shadow puppetry and noise. Abject Leader (Joel Stern and Sally Golding) expose their unhinged expanded cinema dreamscapes featuring sonic contributions from Terracid. Pride and Prejudice (Melbourne's Pia Borg and Mark Harwood) evoke "the uncanny" through multiscreens, voice and unique projections.

Saturday 25th March
10:00am-2:00pm at QCA Photography Darkroom

FILM RE-FILM - WORKSHOP
Join experimental film mavericks Sally Golding and Louise Curham in discovering and exploring the technologies and processes of super 8 film, the experimental home-movie medium par-excellence. Participants encouraged to bring their own working super 8 camera if possible (though not absolutely necessary). rsvp: sally@otherfilm.org

6:30pm-Midnight at the Globe Theatre
CANTRILLS EXPANDED - SPECIAL PERFORMANCE
Re-stagings of the Cantrill's most renowned expanded cinema films, performed by the filmmakers, including THE BOILING ELECTRIC JUG FILM, and films designed for projection on other specially-made screens.

LIGHT AND SONIC EXPANSION PART 2
Botborg perform a "brutal audio-visual barrage, erratic as it is blinding and deafening. In effect something like a rainbow in a blender screaming television static." A new 35mm film by Jim Knox, 'cortical landlord after compost'.  The Rejuvenation Loops (Auckland's Eve Gordon and Sam Hamilton) meditate under murky curtains in droning cyclic scramblings seen through pinhole glimpses of glimpsing pinhole flares, and finally, a blast for the eyes and ears - dada-meinhof, Danni Zuvela and Tina Blakeney use projections and prepared homemade instruments to gnaw at the edges of perception with fed-back ruminations on the military industrial complex, nature's fury visited on Bunjalung, and a minimalist exploration of petroleum aesthetics.

Sunday 26th March
6:30pm-11:30pm - Cube Galleria
EXPANDED CINEMA - CLOSING PARTY AND SCREENING
Closing rituals featuring expanded cinema re-enactments of classic avant-garde works and scavenged rip-offs, the world-shattering OFF collaborative film and sound work produced by the previous day's film re-film and soundscape workshop participants. A screening of Paul Sharits' 25-minute Razor Blades (1966), which "consciously challenges our eyes, ears and minds to withstand a barrage of high powered and often contradictory stimuli". Brisbane's sprawling and unpredictable psych-heroes The Lost Domain perform a live soundtrack to a special 16mm film print premiere screening of the new work Memorium by legendary Melbourne avant-garde filmmaker Dirk de Bruyn., Jamie Hume emerges from Auchenflowers's cabinet Voltaire to perform his unclassifiable extra-musical nonsense poetics amidst the general chaos. Audience joins in and enjoys until everyone goes home. OFF ends.

Added by joel on 23 March 2006