Alternative Views: International Experimental Filmmaking in South East Queensland

Alternative Views: International Experimental Filmmaking in South East Queensland, Various, 2015-2024, 76m
Container X IMA
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A counter history of filmmaking in Australia. Whether tracked by funding bodies or word of mouth, there is a clear trail connecting films made by local production companies or filmmakers to Australia and its filmmaking history. However, there are filmmakers who touch the ground more lightly—whether with Jodie Mack refracting Palm Beach’s glistening water while touring her breakthrough Let Your Light Shine program or Malena Szlam’s multi-year research program which also culminated in a three-channel work.This screening reflects on this alternative history and its distinct engagement with our environment by bringing together key recent works.

Something Between Us – Jodie Mack (2015, 10m)
A choreographed motion study for twinkling trinkets, beaming baubles, and glaring glimmers. A bow ballet ablaze (for bedazzled buoyant bijoux brought up to boil). Costume jewellery and natural wonders join forces to perform plastic pirouettes, dancing a luminous lament until the tide comes in.

Go Between – Chris Kennedy (2023, 6m)
Elegant and rigorous, while surprisingly playful, Chris Kennedy’s Go Between observes the Brisbane River, passing boats, and cars on the William Jolly Bridge through an intoxicating play of masking and superimpositions.

For Dan – Luke Fowler (2021, 12m)
For Dan explores an intense period of correspondence between the artist’s late father and his closest friend, radical University of Queensland lecturer Dan O’Neill. Filmed across UQ and an eco-community in the Sunshine Coast hinterlands, the film impressionistically documents both the friendship between these two young men and sketches a partial political history of Australia in the early 1960s.

Archipelago of Earth Bones: To Bunya – Malena Szlam (2024, 20m)
Part of an ongoing film series tracing volcanic landscapes— new and ancient, barren and verdant—from Chile, across the Pacific, and to Australia. Archipelago of Earthen Bones – To Bunya creates both new possible environments and evokes the layered histories of Glasshouse and Bunya mountains through a dazzling suite of in-camera multiple exposures and rhythmic editing. Soundtrack by Lawrence English.

Double Phase – Takashi Makino (2020, 25m)
Filmed in Australia—across Mount Tamborine, Tingalpa and rural Victoria—Double Phase considers how the complexity of ’natural world’ continues to be reductively framed within contemporary society through a process of colliding image after image into a cascade of almost-cosmic pulsating complexity.

Brisbane River – Chris Kennedy (2023, 3m)
A timelapse of the Brisbane River.

Unrated 15+ and presented in partnership with the Institute of Modern Art.

With thanks to Luke Fowler, Chris Kennedy, Jodie Mack, Makino Takashi, Malena Szlam, and LUX.

This is a ticketed screening with an option for free attendance. Paid tickets are available through New Farm Cinema’s counter or website here. Free concession entry is also available on the night—simply request that option and we will arrange it.
Concession is based on self-identified requirement—whether a student, pensioner or low income—and needs no proof of concession entitlement or identity.