Tuesday 27 October at 7pm
New Farm Cinemas

Big Screen: Recent Experimental 3D Films, Various, 2014-26, 89m
Container X IMA
Tickets here but see below.

A showcase of recent experimental (and largely) 3D films by Johann Lurf, Victor Van Rossem, and Blake Williams that push against the concept of 3D realism seen in more narrative films, to instead explore the possiblity of spatiallity, contradictory vision, and histories of seeing. (We have to concede Lurg’s latest film Forever…Forever is two-dimensional, but we could not resist the chance to present his latest work on a cinema screen and in the context of his other recent works, and so erred on opportunism over rigor.)

Twelve Tales Told – Johann Lurf (2014, 4m)
Johann Lurf’s maximalist, 35mm barrage of Hollywood studio logos, transforms the iconic corporate prelude to the big production-to-come into a sustained, stuttering spectacle in which fractured and fantastical worlds collide into a bombastic anti-climax.

Forever…Forever – Johann Lurf (2025, 21m)
Over the course of twenty-two months, Johann Lurf fixed the gaze of a specially developed 65mm camera on a single fragment of the world: the Ottenstein Reservoir. What begins as a quiet observation of nature gradually transforms into a monumental image of cosmic motion. At first, the lake appears familiar – a place suspended between sky and water. But as the exposures grow longer, the dimensions themselves shift: stars begin to draw delicate lines, the sun inscribes bright arcs, the moon traces soft, almost calligraphic diagonals. The water surface becomes a perfect mirror that folds sky and landscape symmetrically into one another – above and below, light and shadow, becoming and fading.

Revolving Rounds – Christina Jauernik and Johann Lurf (2024, 11m)
Revolving Rounds is a cyclical film in both form and content. Shot at an agricultural field on the outskirts of Vienna, Johann Lurf and Christina Jauernik’s 3D short begins as it ends, tracking a planimetric path alongside three greenhouses as the early morning sun beams across the surrounding lands.

Cavalcade – Johann Lurf (2019, 5m)
Lurf designed and constructed a 150cm-diameter water-wheel, with one face divided into various patterned circles of varying shapes and colour. It was then fixed in place in a stream; we observe the wheel in rest, motion and rest again from a single vantage-point, as it is illuminated by strobe-lights synchronised with 35mm cameras. Clockwise and anti-clockwise movement disorientingly, magically interweave.

Toward a Fundamental Theory of Physics – Victor Van Rossem (2025, 13m)
Shot on 16mm film using a handcrafted Time-Slice camera with 293 lenses—a modern reinterpretation of the original device built by Tim Macmillan in the early 1980s—this experimental (3D) short offers a unique, tactile exploration of time and light as the raw materials and fundamental paradoxes of cinema. 

Laberint Sequences – Blake Williams (2023, 20m)
Shot in and around the Laberint d’Horta in Barcelona, the film charts several journeys into the garden in search of its centre, where a statue of Eros waits. As the film navigates the maze’s false pathways, its recursive structure begins to crack, and a mysterious underworld floods its gates.

Felt – Blake Williams (2025, 15m)
A man sees mountains and sets out to recreate them. During a traverse across the Western United States, we observe familiar sites in a new light, and the world gets lost in the fold.

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

With thanks to Johann Lurf, Victor Van Rossem, Blake Williams, and sixpackfilm.

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.