Barry Brown

Barry Brown
(b. Phillip Whitney)
b. 1962, Carlton, Melbourne, Australia.

BIOGRAPHY: Barry Brown grew up in the industrial coal-mining town of Morwell.

Largely self-taught, he eventually studied sound at RMIT University.

In 1996 he was admitted to the Austin hospital with a severe viral infection and ever since has experienced the progressive deterioration of aural and visual reception and cognitive function.

He is currently convalescing in the hills behind the small township of Tyers and is cared for by his partner, Irene Proebsting.

CRITICAL OVERVIEW: My sound films are more or less anti-idiomatic … absurdist ambient … hyper expressionist … free-form … minimalist … documentary abstractions … miniature systems pieces and improvisations concerned with misperception and disorientation of memory.

- Barry Brown 2009

FILMOGRAPHY:


	Industrial Vesper #4

Untitled 1 (for amplified Super 8 projector and effects) (1989, 6 mins)

pander dressings (1989, 3 mins, Super 8)

random rhythm pattern (1989, 3 mins, Super 8)

Jelly No. 3 (1989, 4 mins, Super 8)

noodle (1989, 3 mins, Super 8)

10.X.1990 (1990, 3 mins, Super 8)

Industrial Vesper #4 (1992, 2.5 mins, Super 8)


	Sibelius loops

28.X.1993 (1993, 2 mins, Super 8)

Blow Market (1993, 4 mins, digital)

Four Pitches for Saxophone (1994, 4 mins, Super 8)

Eleven chords for two guitars (1995, 5 mins, Super 8)

Poss (s) bathtub (1995, 6 mins, Super 8)

Holiday Movie (1996, 9 mins, Super 8)

Sibelius loops (1996, 5 mins, Super 8)

Untitled 2 (dum dum jazz) for Max Richter (2009, 10 mins, for Super 8 projector, two clarinets, two double basses and six guitars)

Eleven chords for two guitars

Made In Collaboration With Irene Proebsting:


	Industrial Vesper #11

The Last Metal Trades Junior (1992, 15 mins, Computer, Photocopies, 2 tape players)

Industrial Vesper #11 (1993, 18 mins, Computer & tape player)

Still Life without Oranges (1997, 7.5mins, Super 8)

Instruments for Chorus & Orchestra (1999, 12 mins, Super 8)

The Noojee Garden (1996-2001, 16 mins, Super 8)

Harmonic Ghosts (2009, 3 mins, Super 8)

(All films have cassette soundtracks)

SELECTED SCREENINGS:

1993, The Last Metal Trades Junior, Opening Night – Cowwarr Art Space. Installation

1994, New Minimalism, Experimenta, Grant St Theatre, Melbourne. Super 8 Film

1994, Giddy Radiance, Cinamateque, Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide, Sydney. Super 8 Film

1994, Kiosk 8, Domain Theatre, Art Gallery NSW. Super 8 Film

1995, Reel Art, Gorman House Arts Centre, ACT. Super 8 Film

1995, Virtualities, Industrial Vesper #11 with Irene Proebsting, Scienceworks, Melbourne. Computer Installation

1996, VIVA 8, London Filmakers Co-op, Super 8 Film

1997, SURPRISE International Short Film Festival, Taichung City, Taiwan. Super 8 Film

1999, Ultraprojections #2, Dancehouse, Melbourne, Super 8 Film

2001, Ultraprojections #3, La Mama Theatre, Melbourne, Super 8 Film

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY:

"Industrial Vesper #11", by B. Brown & I. Proebsting. Cantrills Filmnotes, No. 79-80, November 1995.

"(silent cinema) or the lazy fitter", by Barry Brown Melbourne Super Eight Group Newsletter, Special 100^th Issue, March 1995.

"Mon-Aural Projections", by Barry Brown, Sonic Eight, Newsletter of the Melbourne Super Eight Film Group, Issue 102, May 1995.

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