Compiled by Bill Mousoulis, at his discretion. email.
posted May 31, 2010
The launch of Artist Film Workshop, a venture by Richard Tuohy
Quarterly film open-screenings in Melbourne
Interested in experimental film? A new ventue is starting in Melbourne: the 'Artist Film Workshop'.
AFW will be quarterly film-only open-screenings of experimental film material (super 8, standard 8, 16mm).
As a 'workshop' the AFW is interested in screening not just finished films, but single rolls, works in progress, first rolls, as well as film sections from video works.
For this first screening, nanolab is offering processing for the screening of just $5 for any super 8, standard 8 (colour or black and white) or black and white 16mm film!
Read all about it at artistfilmworkshop.org
all enquiries to Richard Tuohy info@artistfilmworkshop.org or phone 0400 748 864
posted May 17, 2010
REMEMBERING NIGEL - Special Sneak preview - a film by Frank Howson
A group of people gather to remember a man they once knew named Nigel. Trouble is, everyone's opinion of this man is so dramatically different you soon realise that nobody knew him at all!
In this funny and sometimes sad movie Howson's underlying statement is "What does anybody really know about anyone?"
"Remembering Nigel" is the latest award winning film from writer/director Frank Howson and boasts an all-star cast of American and Australian stars including Oscar winners Martin Landau, Mark Rydell, and Oscar nominees Sally Kirkland and Michael J. Pollard heading a cast that includes John Savage, Thea Gill (star of Queer as Folk), Tyler Hilton ("Elvis" in Walk The Line), Steven Berkoff, Creed Bratton (from The Office), Eric Burdon, P.F. Sloan, Alex Scott, John Flaus, Rick Rosas, Bud Tingwell, Jack Tempchin, Ted Markland, John Wood, Rhonda Burchmore, Lucy Honigman, Ross Ditcham, Lucy Durack, Alan Fletcher, Ian Smith, Oliver Howson, Billy Miller, Keith Potger, Nicola Paull, Camilla Jackson, John-Michael Howson, Bernard Fowler, Alfonso Duran, Tanya Wenczel, Steve Kearny, Al Rama, Stacy Michelle, Verity Charlton, Sam Ram, Molly Meldrum, Don Bridges, Stephen Whittaker, Richard Wolstencroft, Tim Hughes, George Zach, Peter Donelly, Patrick Constantinou and many many more.
Soundtrack includes music by P.F. Sloan, Keith Potger, Steve Housden, Billy Miller, Jack Tempchin, Al Kooper, Emmylou Harris, Daniel Lanois, Little River Band, The Sirens of Venice, Illicit Eve, Becca Solodon, Elijah Allan-Blitz, & J. Marshall Craig.
Be the first to see this new film that has already won the Best Film and the Best Music Soundtrack Awards at the Paso Robles Film Festival in California. Tickets cost $12 and includes wine while supplies last! Book online at the Classic Cinema website under upcoming attractions.
FRIDAY MAY 28th. at 9pm.
The Classic Cinema in Gordon Street, Elsternwick.
To enure your tickets please book online at the Classic Cinema website.
posted May 17, 2010
At The BAck doOR
From A to B - the Journeys and Reflections of a Decade Past
A programme of experimental screen work that encompasses the last decade of sue.k.'s international practice.
Saturday, May 29th
Showing will be a selection of works by sue.k. that traces her practice of creating experimental film/video from an early stage of its introduction. At the time of discovering experimental film and vieo sue.k. had been practicing as an artist and had had a number of solo exhibitions and participated in countless group exhibitions. Trained initially as a sculptor her practice at that time in the late nineties had included not only the traditional mediums of sculpture, drawing, and painting but also performance in the form of contact improvisation dance, percussion, and singing. The discovery of moving image as a form of artistic expression, particularly in the experimental genre, brought all of these areas of discipline together. It is from those intiial beginnings of visual and performance art that sue.k. draws from in the making of her experimental screen work.
Entry by donation Doors open 8:00pm
entry off rear lane -- 658 Plenty Road, Preston 3072 (catch the 86 tram to stop no. 52)
+61 (0)3 9005 7054
posted May 6, 2010
"A Night of Indie Filmmakers" Facebook page
| Date: |
Thursday, May 13, 2010 |
| Time: |
8:00pm - 11:00pm |
| Location: |
loop Bar |
| Street: |
23 Meyers place |
Featuring the films
Wooden Heart by Jason Turley
Providence and Two of a kind by Jamie Wilson
Dangers No Stranger and Silent Whispers by Colin Paxman
Sarah's Jihad and Who is the Sonic Manipulator by Zev Howley (profile soon on MIF website)
posted April 25, 2010
2010 Australian International Experimental Film Festival
posted April 7, 2010
Kim Miles website launched
posted April 6, 2010
Dossier on Solrun Hoaas published by Senses of Cinema
posted April 5, 2010
doco 3000
The next doco 3000 session, organised by Genevieve Bailey, will be on Monday, April 12, 7:00 pm.
- doco3000 -
10 x 10 is a free project development workshop. They meet every month at Gertrudes Brown Couch, Gertrude St Fitzroy, Melbourne. Filmmakers can screen up to ten minutes of their non-fiction works-in-progress and receive ten minutes of directed feedback in a supportive environment. It's a great opportunity to see some fantastic work, and also to be a part of the Melbourne independent film community.
They present up to 4 projects per monthly screening. If you would like to screen please contact Benj and Gen at documentary3000@gmail.com
More info on their website -- http://www.doco3000.blogspot.com/
posted April 5, 2010
Premiere screening of Peter Tammer's Flausfilm
SCREENING - FLAUSFILM. Friday April 16. 6pm at RMIT University (MELBOURNE)
The AFI Research Collection cordially invites you to attend the Melbourne premiere screening of Peter Tammer's long anticipated documentary "Flausfilm" the story of renowned critic and industry luminary John Flaus.
20 years in the making Flausfilm is not an event to miss.
Description A portrait of actor, teacher of film and legendary cinephile John Flaus in a unique film mosaic structured with cryptic crossword clues suggesting the content of each of the fourteen chapters. Extracts from some of his many film and stage performances are intercut with a selection of scenes from chosen movies and a variety of scenes from the life of Flaus.
Deb Verhoeven will be the MC for the night. And there will be a panel discussion held after the screening.
Flausfilm * Australia, 99 minutes. Director: Peter Tammer.
When: Friday April 16. 5:45pm for a 6pm start.
Where: Radio Theatre, Bldg 9, Level 1, RMIT University City Campus.
Map of RMIT - http://mams.rmit.edu.au/ah5hshrpo0ky.pdf
Please RSVP your attendence to the AFI Research Collection by emailing afiresearch@rmit.edu.au or by phone 9925-2829
posted March 23, 2010
Premiere screening, debut feature by Andrew Merlino
On
Thursday
April
22nd
at
7:00PM NOW SOLD OUT, 2nd SCREENING IN MAY/JUNE
The doors of the Sun Theatre, Yarraville, will open. As you enter the cinema from Ballarat Street, a beautiful 1930's art-deco design will smile at you, and sit you down in front of a screen. At 7:20PM, a dedicated, die hard Director will stand between you and the screen and introduce a film. As he walks away, at 7:30PM, you'll experience something that was created with the guts, sweat and heart of more than 100 human beings.
A silent film, 'Imitating Charlie' redefines the meaning of viewing; creating an experience that haunts the soul and stretches our senses to bliss. 'Imitating Charlie' centres around young Julian Bartel, after he's lost the ability to hear, and follows his journey through a world turned upside down.
How can Julian learn to live without hearing in this world, when he's only ever listened with his ears?
With enough seats to sell out fast, it's time to book. Email imitatingcharlie@gmail.com with your Name, Number, and how many Tickets you'd like. Tickets are $8.
Got questions? Feel free to ask.
'Imitating Charlie: cinema in silence' will change everything.
posted March 18, 2010
MIF filmmakers featured in Greek Short Film Festival
Several short films by MIF filmmakers feature in this new event,
the Greek Short Film Festival, organised by Jim Koutsoukos and Ange Arabatzis.
See short films by
Jim Stamatakos
Christos Linou
Sotiris Dounoukos
Bill Mousoulis - world premiere of short film he made in Greece
in December 2009, called Ηλιοβολοσεμα (Volos Sunset)
as well as short films by
Jim Koutsoukos
Ange Arabatzis
Fotios Vrionis
Christina Heristanidis
Kostas Metaxas
Thursday, March 25, 7:00 pm
LOOP Bar, 23 Meyers Place, Melbourne
posted March 17, 2010
Support C31 as it implements a digital signal!
Melbourne’s local community television station C31 is making an urgent call to the community to
help raise money for the transition to digital.
For two weeks spanning March 15 to March 28, C31 is asking residents in Melbourne and
Geelong to dig deep in support of their only community television broadcaster.
The community will also have the chance to speak directly to their favourite C31 hosts if they
subscribe during a two hour LIVE broadcast being held on March 28 from 7.30pm to 9.30pm.
C31’s digital upgrade project demands more than $1.3 million, a sum the Station is currently $350,000
away from reaching.
A one-off Federal Government grant and a one-off State Government grant have not been able to make up
the shortfall.
If C31 does not reach its funding target, the Station’s facilities cannot be completely upgraded for digital
and some internal operations may be put on hold, said C31 General Manager Richard McLelland.
“We are looking to Victorians to dig deep and contribute to their community television station. This Station
could not exist without the support of the community, and it’s not often that we ask for financial help from
our viewers – but we need it now,” said McLelland.
The Federal Government granted C31 a Digital License in November 2009 after six years of campaigning
and community pressure.
To subscribe to C31 and help Switch On Digital, head to www.c31.org.au now or call (03) 9660
3131.
posted March 17, 2010
Script reading, directed by Angelo Salamanca.
a rehearsed reading of feature screenplay “Jean Lee”
– the last woman hanged in Australia.
Thursday April 1
7 pm for 7.30
Venue (for rehearsal and presentation):
Kelvin Club
Melbourne Place (off Russell St. nr corner of Russell
and Little Collins St)
Admission: Free
posted March 17, 2010
"Complex Infrastructure" at The BAck doOR - Organised by sue.k., this program curated by Steven Ball.
The BAck doOR’s next screening is happening a week from this Saturday, 28th March (see opposite). Entitled Complex Infrastructure, the programme has been curated and brought to Australia from London by Steven Ball. It includes works by a number of significant London based film/video artists such as Laure Prouvost and Hilary Koob-Sassen, to name a couple, and promises to present an evening of work different to what has been seen in Australia in the recent past.
Steven Ball, researcher with the British Artists’ Film and Video Study Collection and an international film/video artist himself, brings with him a wealth of knowledge and will be at The BAck doOR to present the evening’s programme.
Entry by donation Doors open 8:30pm
entry off rear lane -- 658 Plenty Road, Preston 3072 (catch the 86 tram to stop no. 52)
+61 (0)3 9005 7054
posted February 23, 2010
MIF filmmakers featured in Australian Film Festival
Several feature films by MIF filmmakers feature in this years Australian Film Festival, in Sydney, Feb 24 - Mar 7.
Actor and director Nathan Hill gives the lead performance in How to be a SexStar; MUFF director and general Melbourne film provocateur Richard Wolstencroft will personally present his F. Scott Fitzgerald modernisation The Beautiful and Damned; and the omnibus feature Little Deaths gets a screening, with an episode by Genevieve Bailey and Jarrah Gurrie.
posted February 22, 2010
Cinema Voltaire is launched! A NEW HOME FOR UNDERGROUND FILMS
Lovers of underground, avant garde, and experimental cinema will have a new venue from Saturday 27th February when Cinema Voltaire holds its first screening at the Australian Centre Of Performing Arts (ACOPA) in North Melbourne’s Raglan Street.
Cinema Voltaire is the brainchild of Lindsay Saddington, director of ACOPA, who said there was an obvious dearth of venues where underground, avant garde and experimental films could be seen.
Set in a cabaret lounge environment, Cinema Voltaire aims to show cutting edge shorts and features from all over Australia and the world, sometimes teamed with live performances. The aim is to have one curated program every second month from February.
The first film will be David King’s underground quasi-sci fi feature film, PURGE, praised by Dutch film critic Ton van Rooij as “unconventional”, “confronting”, and “visually arresting”. The film is unclassified so only those over 18 can attend.
Tickets will be $12 or $8 concession with all proceeds being used to set up and run future screening programs. A fully-licensed bar also operates at the venue.
Cinema Voltaire is seeking quality underground, avant garde, and experimental films for future screenings. Filmmakers and those wanting more information about screenings can contact Lindsay Saddington on 9326 9094 or via admin@acopa.com.au
The first screening will be on Saturday 27 February at 8pm. Address is 14 Raglan Street, North Melbourne.
posted February 22, 2010
Steven Ball to appear in Melbourne for film events
UK artist Steven Ball (who spent 10 years in Melbourne from the late '80s at the forefront of the Super 8 movement) will make a special appearance in Melbourne in late March for several film events --
27th March 2010, at The BAck doOR -
Complex Infrastructure Video works by London-based artists. Curated by Steven Ball.
More details can found at http://www.cogcollective.co.uk/complexinfrastructure
31st March and 7th April 2010, at The Melbourne Cinémathèque -
Figuring Landscapes UK and Australian works. Devised & curated by Catherine Elwes & Steven Ball.
More details can found at http://www.melbournecinematheque.org/landscapes.html
posted February 22, 2010
"One Minute Vol. 3" at The BAck doOR - Organised by sue.k., this program curated by Kerry Baldry.
Saturday 27th February 2010
"One Minute Vol. 3" follows on from One Minute Volumes 1 and 2 and features over 30 artists at varying stages of their careers. An eclectic range of moving image and includes works whose original formats include 16mm film, Super 8 film and video using approaches such as stopframe animation, superimposition etc. Yet all the works have one thing in common, they are constrained by a time limit of sixty seconds.
Entry by donation Doors open 8:30pm
entry off rear lane -- 658 Plenty Road, Preston 3072 (catch the 86 tram to stop no. 52)
+61 (0)3 9005 7054
posted February 20, 2010
Our best wishes to Paul Cox as he recovers from his liver transplant (for the cancer he has had the past 12 months).
posted January 23, 2010
"Cheap Thrills" TV series, indie features - Broadcast on C31 in Melbourne over the coming weeks is this great series, an initiative of Leo Berkeley's: the broadcast of a number of low-budget features which don't have official distribution. Several MIF filmmakers feature - Leo Berkeley himself, my good self, and Gregory Pakis.
The schedule of broadcasts, every Saturday night, at 10:00 p.m.
Saturday 23rd Jan The Garth Method (Gregory Pakis)
Saturday 30th Jan How to Change the World (Leo Berkeley)
Saturday 6th Feb Tri Cycling Africa
Saturday 13th Feb Re-Living Off The Land
Saturday 20th Feb Spring Rhapsody (Bill Mousoulis)
Saturday 27th Feb Kely
Saturday 6th March The Course
posted January 23, 2010
First screening for the year at The BAck doOR - Organised by sue.k., the first screening for 2010 is now coming up.
Saturday 30th January 2010
suek-artist and cogcollective presents
Delicate Matter: experiments with flesh and the analogue
A programme of experimental film curated by Richard Tuohy.
It’s the flesh, the touching physicality and tiny inconsistencies in approximation and decay that give the analogue physicality of cine film, with its fragility and its presence, with the vitality of its fleshiness.
(All works in this programme have at some stage used film as a source material in its production.)
Entry by donation Doors open 8:30pm
posted January 4, 2010
Solrun Hoaas tribute page Peter Tammer has written a beautiful, personal little tribute to the filmmaker Solrun Hoaas, who died unexpectedly on December 11, 2009. Read Peter's tribute here - Dear Solrun ...
posted December 19, 2009
iTunes watch out! Remo Camerota has recently directed a short film / ad for the company DoubleTwist, see it here, which is a parody of an ad Ridley Scott did back in 1984 for Apple Macs, see it here. DoubleTwist is software designed to be an alternative to Apple's iTunes, so it is obviously causing a little controversy, read about it here.
posted December 17, 2009
Final screening for the year at The BAck doOR - This great screening enterprise by sue.k., which has had monthly screenings all year, of mainly experimental work, is having its final screening of the year on ... Xmas Day! Well, in the evening, starting from 7:30 pm, it's "This Orphans' Christmas", BYO film, musical instrument, dance steps, etc. It's when I myself first met sue & co. last year, Xmas night. Highly recommended.
posted December 17, 2009
Vale Solrun Hoaas - Unexpected, tragic news has filtered through that this talented, intelligent filmmaker, who was based in Melbourne in recent years, has died of a heart attack suffered in hospital as she was about to undergo surgery for cancer. At 66 she was active and planning projects, so this is a great loss. Condolences to family and friends. Tributes from close friends can be found here.
posted December 17, 2009
Legendary "Flausfilm" completed! Peter Tammer has finally completed his legendary film (begun 20 years ago, then stalled) of legendary critic/actor John Flaus. This will truly be an invaluable document in years to come. There are no plans for a commercial release, with Peter happy for the moment to give out free copies of the film on DVD (free apart from postage/production costs) - email Peter for more details.
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