Over three days work from many different parts of the world the Australian International Experimental Film Festival will be screened at The BAck doOR @ suek-artist.

 

In the View of the Lens

8pm, Friday 29th April
The BAck doOR @ suek-artist

Apart Richard Martin

Movement #2 (UK)
Daniel Hopkins, 4 mins, DV, 2010

Harmonic Ghosts (Aus)
Irene Proebsting, 3 mins, Super-8, 2009

ELY (USA)
Andrea Dojmi & Lorenzo Bona, 14 mins, DV, 2010

Subway (USA)
Angela Ferraiolo, 8 mins, DV, 2011

Vakratunda Avikunthak (India)
Ashish Chadha, 22 mins, DV, 2009

The Men (USA)
Charles Fairbanks, 3 mins, DV, 2010

Wrestling with my Father(USA)
Charles Fairbanks, 5 mins, DV, 2010

724 14th St (Taiwan)
Ching Yi Tseng, 10 mins, DV, 2010

Apart (Canada)
Richard Martin, 8 mins, DV, 2010

Tickets $8/$6
Door opens 7:45pm

 

 

Borrowing from the Palette of Another

6pm, Saturday 30th April
The BAck doOR @ suek-artist

ZeitEYE Bob Cotton

Guess It's Over (UK)
Derek Hart, 5 mins, DV, 2006

camp (US)
Peter Freund, 7 mins, DV, 2010

Prelude (USA)
Roger Deutsch, 7:30 mins, DV, 2011

Personal Electronics (UK)
Steven Ball, 30:30 mins, DV, 2010

ZeitEYE (UK)
Bob Cotton, 11 mins, DV, 2010

Woman Nature Alone (UK)
Erica Scourti, 10:30 mins, DV, 2011

Monologue (Ireland)
Maximillian Le Cain, 2 mins, DV, 2010

Posthaste Perennial Pattern (USA)
Jodie Mack, 4 mins, 16mm, 2010

Phasing Waves (Ireland/USA)
Paul O Donoghue, 7 mins, DV, 2011

 

Tickets $8/$6
Door opens 7:45pm

 

 

Aging in Beauty

8pm Saturday 30th April
The BAck doOR @ suek-artist

Africa 1 Shinkian Tamaki

The Discovery of Dr. M (Aus)
Virginia Hilyard, 5 mins, DV, 2008

Africa 1 (Japan)
Shinkan Tamaki, 11:30 mins, 16mm, 2010

Cees (France)
Viola Groenhart, 10 mins, DV, 2010

Against Cinema (Spain)
Alberto Cabrera Bernal, 9 mins, DV, 2010

Earthrise (Canada)
David Baumflek, 6 mins, DV, 2011

Barbie (Chile)
Gianfranco Fosch, 5 mins, DV, 2009

Bosun's Chair (UK/Aus)
Mike Leggett, 7:30 mins, DV, 2010

Carte du Ciel (Canada)
David Baumflek, 12 mins, DV, 2011

 

Tickets $8/$6
Door opens 7:45pm

 

 

Colouring the Time Factor

8pm Sunday 1st May
The BAck doOR @ suek-artist

Floating with Sharks Deborah White

Arbitrary Object (UK)
AO, 10 mins, DV, 2010

Washes (USA)
Norbert Shieh, 8:30 mins, DV, 2010

Colour Glass and Chrome (Aus)
Tony Woods, 20 mins, Super-8, 2005

In the Depths (Aus)
Virginia Hilyard, 13:30 mins, DV, 2006

Floating with Sharks (Aus)
Deborah White, 6:30 mins, DV, 2011

A Whole New World (Aus)
Josephine Skinner, 3 mins, DV, 2011

Skin and Bones (Norway)
Stine Wexelsen Goksøyr, 5 mins, DV, 2010

aim (Italy)
Benna, 3 mins, DV, 2010

Vice Versa Et Cetera (UK)
Simon Payne, 10 mins, DV, 2010

 

Tickets $8/$6
Door opens 7:45pm

 

 

To read more by downloading the programme as a pdf file visit the A.I.E.F.F. website here.

A programme of screen works that delve into the political arena and bring into question theoretical, social and global politics.

History Lynn Loo	Acorus Calamus Peter Freund	Lecture to the Academy Malcolm Le Grice

As the world spins into turmoil it becomes more difficult to turn a blind eye to all that is happening. While the majority of experimental screen works challenge the passivity of viewing as well as cinema and moving image as a form of entertainment, more often the discourse remains with the material and aesthetics of the medium in use. Over the past years more and more artists are focussing on the politics of their surrounds, be it private or public, be it social or state.

 

Hawker: Slippers
Keith Deverell, 15 mins, Aus/Cambodia, 2010

History
Lynn Loo 4 mins, UK/Singapore, 2004

Lecture to the Academy
Malcolm Le Grice, 7 mins, UK

Die Mother F_cker Die
sue.k. 9 mins, Aus, 2011

Acorus Calamus
Peter Fruend, 10 mins, USA, 2010

Hawker: Intersection of Vulnerability
Keith Deverell, 6 mins, Aus/Cambodia 2010

History Lesson
Peter Fruend, 7 mins, USA, 2010

 

Doors open 8pm

 

For further programme details visit cogcollective

A programme of screen work produced by Derek Hart during his Australia Council Residency with Hydro Tasmania.

Lake Levels (Lake Mackintosh)

 

Technologies and processes of controlling and monitoring environmental flow provide the point of departure for a new body of work by Derek Hart. Shot on the West Coast and in the Central Highlands of Tasmania, landscape is captured through a process-led interaction of technology and the environment. Based on the operations of an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler, used to collect hydrology data, a RED ONE digital camera was situated at water level alongside the ADCP unit using a specifically designed and fabricated mounting system. Influences such as Chris Welsby and David Hall emerge in this programme exploring flooded waterways and formal concerns of the moving image.

 

Meadowbank Drawn Down
17 mins, digital video, silent, 2010

Dam Wall Drawn Across
8 mins, digital video, silent, 2010

Lake Levels (Lake M ackintosh)
28 mins, digital video, silent, 2010

Bouyant
7 mins, digital video, silent, 2011

Margin (Murchison Gorge)
30 mins, digital video, silent, 2010

 

For further programme details visit cogcollective

Doors open 8:30pmn

 

(Please note due to technical problems with mail-outs earlier in the year, this is a repeat screening of the programme presented in May 2010)

A programme of experimental screen work that encompasses the last decade of sue.k.'s international practice.

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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 video 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 initial beginnings of visual and performance art that sue.k. draws from in the making of her experimental screen work.

Over the last decade the screen work of sue.k. has gained respect and admiration from many internationally renowned filmmakers and historians/theoreticians. Her award winning work has been screened from San Francisco, New York and Chicago, to London, Paris, Amiens, Strassbourg and Seoul.

 

"1/500..., bild A pos..., 21 12 , are all terrific, and of course liverpool 223355 as well. The videos are concentrated, and they are bold yet have subtleties. Very satisfying. Oh, if only there were another 30 or so filmmakers making films of this calibre in Melbourne. Alas! " (Mark La Rosa, 31st May, 2010)

 

 

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12 mins, digital video, 2009 (Aus)


A sphere. A sphere that sits central to the frame of the screen. A sphere that travels at unfathomable speed in distant skies yet remains almost still to the human eye. And here in the limits of photography, a sphere that sits central in all 1,092 frames of the short source footage. To create movement and texture within the frame, which will allow a moment of interest to settle fleetingly on the remnants of making entailed for each of the 1,092, required dedication to each individual frame that will flicker before the eye.

slivers for Ghee off
4 mins, digital video, 2010 (Aus)


'Lying here in bed watching slivers of light dance and prance as they roll across the wall.' The evocative nature of reflected light that can be found upon the wall of sue.k.'s private living space and the wish to share it with someone special is the initiative for this work. Not a love poem but a heart poem.

 

dance [underscore] jigsaw
3 mins, digital video, 2008 (Aus)


Old ground is revisited by working with an old collaborative partner, Jonathan Sinatra, to make dance[underscore]jigsaw. The movement, devised/choreographed and performed by Sinatra, becomes fragmented by the process of capturing moving image with a still-shot camera.

 

karenintheround014
5 mins, digital video, 2002 (Aus/UK)


A fascination with round-faced buildings and the spatial division created by their architecture was the inspiration for karenintheround014. Commonly found in London, a visit to the city in the autumn of 2001 provided the ideal location for the shooting of the work. The human figure is used as a tool to define the boundaries of the frame and to provide a path of direction through geographical space.

 

1/500 OP+9blackfriars
15 mins, digital video, 2007-2008 (Aus/UK)


Just as the earlier work of liverpool223355 and steps---89 does, 1/500OP+9blackfriars reflects the grime and decay of an overpopulated city. Shot on the platform at Blackfriar's Bridge tube station, the camera records at 1/500 shutter speed the departure and arrival of two trains.

21
12
21 mins, digital video, 2009 (Aus)


Have you ever sat amazed at the subtleties of light play upon the wall created by the streaming sunrays that filter through the crack in the curtains? It's the seduction of such a thing that 2112 attempts to capture by bringing into play juxtapositions between the mechanisms of the camera optics and the shifting light, and its subtle variations as the sun moves across the sky.

 

daz07/02/012038
5mins, digital video shot on analogue SVHS, 2001 (Aus)


The watershed work that was to set the scene of practice for the following decade. Intent on collapsing the illusion of screen space, causing it to collide at a point that unveiled its elements of construct, a single frame editing system that incorporated different events of time was developed. The work includes a clockwise pan, an anti-clockwise pan and a still camera recording of the same landscape location.

liverpool223355
28 mins, digital video, 2006-2007 (UK)


Shot at the height of Summer in 2002, liverpool223355 captures the brilliance of light on an almost deserted nighttime platform at Liverpool Street Station, London.

 

 

Doors open 8:30pm

Doors open 8:30pmn

 

 

A year has passed and it is again time to throw the wonders of dance and experimental film into the one space of performance. At what point does the boundary between the performance space and projection space delineate and part, and at which does it converge? If both dance and film co-exist within the one space neither can be considered as anything other than performance and so therefore inhabit that space in equilibrium. The tactile experience of the projected image has become sterile amongst the technology of the digital age and this thus misleads about the depth at which its physical presence resides within a performative arena. Equilibrium of the Tactile is the fourth in a series of exploration into the combination of Contact Improvisation Dance performance and experimental film and video. Sitting at neither end of dance as pure performance or that of expanded cinema, these events proffer up moments of exhilaration in their unexpected points of synchronization, syncopation and beauty.   Performers: Amanda Betlehem, Jonathan Sinatra, Brendan O'Connor, sue.k.   Expanded Cinema: Richard Tuohy, Dianna Barrie   Sound: sue.k.     Doors open 8pm Entry by donation.   For further programme details visit cogcollective

 

 

 

Bringing together works from across the globe this programme of experimental screen work explores the structural intricacies of systems of communication. (Programme curated by sue.k.)

Direct Language Steven Ball	Top Light and The Haunted Man Sagi Groner	Rhythmus 99 Sam Landels

Ever since neolithic man scratched markings in the walls of caves, the need to leave evidence of one's existence by way of communicating through a shared language has persisted. The works in this programme dig into a variety of ways in which the moving image explores methods of communication, from the literal scratching into plastered surface of a wall set to repeat in loop without time fracture, to the architectural drawings of interfacial systems of electronics. As a compilation and as individual works, all discuss, at a deep level, humanity in its social coexistence.

 

Direct Language
Steven Ball (UK)

.airE
Maia Gusberti (Austria)

Top Light and The Haunted Man
Sagi Groner (Israel/Netherlands)

Das Kapital Version 07
Marcello Mercado (Argentina)

Hey cut it out
Derek Hart (UK)

Rhythmus 99
Sam Landels (Aus)

 

Doors open 8pm

Entry by donation.

 

For further programme details visit cogcollective

 

 

A programme of experimental screen work that encompasses the last decade of sue.k.'s international practice.

1/500 OP+9blackfriars sue.k.

 

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 video 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 initial beginnings of visual and performance art that sue.k. draws from in the making of her experimental screen work.

 

"1/500..., bild A pos..., 21 12 , are all terrific, and of course liverpool 223355 as well. The videos are concentrated, and they are bold yet have subtleties. Very satisfying. Oh, if only there were another 30 or so filmmakers making films of this calibre in Melbourne. Alas! " (Mark La Rosa, 31st May, 2010)

 

bild A pos, bild B pos, bild A neg, bild B neg
12 mins, digital video, 2009 (Aus)


A sphere. A sphere that sits central to the frame of the screen. A sphere that travels at unfathomable speed in distant skies yet remains almost still to the human eye. And here in the limits of photography, a sphere that sits central in all 1,092 frames of the short source footage. To create movement and texture within the frame, which will allow a moment of interest to settle fleetingly on the remnants of making entailed for each of the 1,092, required dedication to each individual frame that will flicker before the eye.

slivers for Ghee off
4 mins, digital video, work in progress (Aus)


'Lying here in bed watching slivers of light dance and prance as they roll across the wall.' The evocative nature of reflected light that can be found upon the wall of sue.k.'s private living space and the wish to share it with someone special is the initiative for this work. Not a love poem but a heart poem.

dance [underscore] jigsaw
3 mins, digital video, 2008 (Aus)


Old ground is revisited by working with an old collaborative partner, Jonathan Sinatra, to make dance[underscore]jigsaw. The movement, devised/choreographed and performed by Sinatra, becomes fragmented by the process of capturing moving image with a still-shot camera.

karenintheround014
5 mins, digital video, 2002 (Aus/UK)


A fascination with round-faced buildings and the spatial division created by their architecture was the inspiration for karenintheround014. Commonly found in London, a visit to the city in the autumn of 2001 provided the ideal location for the shooting of the work. The human figure is used as a tool to define the boundaries of the frame and to provide a path of direction through geographical space.

1/500 OP+9blackfriars
15 mins, digital video, 2007-2008 (Aus/UK)


Just as the earlier work of liverpool223355 and steps---89 does, 1/500OP+9blackfriars reflects the grime and decay of an overpopulated city. Shot on the platform at Blackfriar's Bridge tube station, the camera records at 1/500 shutter speed the departure and arrival of two trains.


21
12
21 mins, digital video, 2009 (Aus)


Have you ever sat amazed at the subtleties of light play upon the wall created by the streaming sunrays that filter through the crack in the curtains? It's the seduction of such a thing that 2112 attempts to capture by bringing into play juxtapositions between the mechanisms of the camera optics and the shifting light, and its subtle variations as the sun moves across the sky.

daz07/02/012038
5mins, digital video shot on analogue SVHS, 2001 (Aus)


The watershed work that was to set the scene of practice for the following decade. Intent on collapsing the illusion of screen space, causing it to collide at a point that unveiled its elements of construct, a single frame editing system that incorporated different events of time was developed. The work includes a clockwise pan, an anti-clockwise pan and a still camera recording of the same landscape location.


liverpool223355
28 mins, digital video, 2006-2007 (UK)


Shot at the height of Summer in 2002, liverpool223355 captures the brilliance of light on an almost deserted nighttime platform at Liverpool Street Station, London.

Doors open 8:30pm

Entry by donation

 

Collie-o-scope Naren Wilkes	here and there Roger Deutsch	Post Card Bernie Roddy

 

 

 

Meccano: Super Constructions

8pm, Friday 30th April
The BAck doOR @ suek-artist

Heartthrob (Aus)
Derek Hart, 15 mins, DV, 2009

Collide-o-scope (UK)
Naren Wilkes, 3:30 mins, DV, 2010  

Dance 0-19 (UK)
Stuart Pound, 3:30 mins, DV, 2009  

Point Line Plane [for PP] (UK)
Simon Payne, 8 mins, DV, 2010  

Time Ball (Aus)
Marcia Jane, 4:30 mins, DV, 2007  

Patterns/Gestures (Aus)
Amelia Johannes, 4 mins, DV, 2008  

The Other Image (UK)
Richard O'Sullivan, 5:30 mins, DV, 2009  

One Two Three. Five (Sweden)
Tomoyuki Yago, 8 mins, DV, 2009  

Lazy8's (Aus)
Andrew D K Forsyth, 7 mins, DV, 2010  

Axiom (USA)
Sally Grizzell Larson, 1 min, DV, 2010  

Dromosphere (Germany)
Thorsten Fleisch, 10 mins, DV, 2010

 

Tickets $7/$5
Online Presale Tickets Available
Door opens 7:45pm

For programme details and to purchase tickets visit AIEFF

 

 

 

Private Space, Public Space and the Line In-Between

6pm, Saturday 1st May
Red Room @ suek-artist (Plenty Rd entry)

here and there (USA)
Roger Deutsch, 15:30 mins, DV, 2008  

Movement #1 (UK)
Daniel Hopkins, 4 mins, DV, 2009  

PESA#1 (Estonia/Portugal)
Manuela Barile, 17 mins, DV, 2008  

Scape (UK)
James Snazell, 7 mins, DV, 2009  

Behind My Mouth, Beneath My Lips, On My Eyes (USA/Aus)
Shona Masarin, 5 mins, DV, 2010  

Screen Tears (UK)
Erica Scourti, 3 mins, DV, 2008  

Wassertrager [domestique] (Germany)
Tilman Kuntzel, 6 mins, DV, 2007  

Vision of Compression - Part 1 Synfonia (South Korea)
Junho Oh, 13 mins, DV, 2007

Olympic Changes: an inadequate document of life. (UK)
Sam Nightingale, 10:30 mins, DV, 2009 

   

Tickets $7/$5 (limited seats)
Online Presale Tickets Available
Door opens 5:45pm

For programme details and to purchase tickets visit AIEFF

 

 

Clockwork Melodrama (UK)

6:30pm - 8:30pm, Saturday 1st May, free gallery entry
The Hanging Space @ suek-artist (Plenty Rd entry)

 

Steve Hawley, projected installation, 2010

screening each night of the festival for sidewalk view

6:30pm til late

 

The Reflexive Lens

8pm Saturday 1st May
The BAck doOR @ suek-artist

 

For programme details and to purchase tickets visit AIEFF

 

 

 

Documenting the World, Life and Death

8pm Sunday 2nd May
The BAck doOR @ suek-artist

For programme details and to purchase tickets visit AIEFF

 

 

Curated by Steven Ball

Elephant Riccardo Iacono	Complex Financial Instruments Claire Hope	Burrow Me/Pig Laure Prouvost

 

A programme of artists' moving image from the UK.

This collection of recent works by London-based artists describes the complexity and contingency of contemporary cultural infrastructure and urban life. Charting a course from systems of the micro-subjective, through mediated experience and fabulous storytelling, to an elaboration of the evolution of life and its artificial structures, they mobilise the languages of business, the media, science and philosophy, and experiment with forms of performance through action, transcription, narration and song.

Claire Hope
Complex Financial Instruments
8 mins, 2008

Riccardo Iacono
Elephant
7:30 mins, 2007

Claire Hope
Complex Financial Instruments (Part 2)
7 mins, 2008

Erica Scourti
Sound Wars
4 mins, 2009

Laure Prouvost
Burrow Me/Pig
13 mins, 2009

Erica Scourti
Reality Life
8:30 mins, 2009

Rastko Novakovic
Between Clock and Bed
20 mins, 2007

Philip Sanderson
Product Recall
3:12 mins, 2008

Hilary Koob-Sassen/The Errorists
Faith in Infrastructure
30 mins, 2009

 

Doors open 8:30pm

Entry by donation.

 

For further programme details visit cogcollective

 

 

 

 

Curated by Kerry Baldry

 

 

One Minute Volume 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.

 

Artists include:

Marty St.James, Louisa Minkin, Martin Pickles, Eva Rudlinger, Emily Richardson, Gordon Dawson, Nick Jordan, Richard Tuohy, Alex Pearl, Hollington & Kyprianou, Kayla Parker and Stuart Moore, Katherine Meynell, Gary Peploe, Rose Butler, Leister/Harris, Kerry Baldry, Stuart Pound, Samantha Clark, Tansy Spinks, Tony Hill, Steven Ball, Virginia Hilyard, Dave Griffiths, Mark Wigan, Daniela Butsch, Nynke Deinema, Claire Morales, Nicolas Herbert, Matthew Rowe and Tina Keane.

 

Door opens 8.30pm

Entry by donation.

 

For further programme details visit cogcollective

 

 

 

 

A programme of experimental film curated by Richard Tuohy.

 

Hautnah/Skinflick Thorsten Fleisch

 

It's the flesh, the touching physicality and tiny inconsistencies in approximation and decay that give the analogue its vitality. The films in this selection, sourced from around the globe, all demonstrate a fascination with the analogue physicality of cine film, with its fragility and its presence, with the vitality of its fleshiness.

 

(All works in the programme have at some stage used film as a source material in its production.)

 

Dissolve
Aaron Valdez (USA)

Matar a Hitchcock (To Kill Hitchcock)
Alberto Cabrera Bernal (Spain)

Firebird Loop
Ben Popp (USA)

Hautnah/Skinflick
Thorsten Fleisch (Germany)

Touchez Pas
Ben Popp (USA)

Tiny Inconsistencies
Raymond Salvatore Harmon (USA)

Two Cities
Lea Becker (USA)

 

 

Doors open 8:30pm

Entry by donation.

 

For further programme details visit cogcollective

 

 

 

suek-artist invites all to participate in

This Orphans' Christmas

by bringing along your experimental film/video work, musical instruments, and performing bodies to create an evening of film and improvised dance/performance.

 

The BAck doOR is having an open screening and dance night and would like to invite all those old faces that have supported it over the last year, and any new ones as well, orphans or not, who are looking for some friendly faces and warm company with which to share a meal on this one day when all is closed.

There is no entry fee but a contribution to the shared meal would be most appreciated.

It would be great to see you all so put this one in your diary.

 

Doors will open at 7:30pm

 

Eastside (excerpt) sue.k. 16mm, 2009

 

Marcia Jane Untitled 16mm, 2009

A screening of films that are set to shake the tank over the last weeks. The BAck doOR will be screening the film work of the participants of the Film Shooting for Artists Workshop conducted in the venue during the month of November. Each participant, an established artist in their own right, has undergone an extensive and intensive workshop that has been conducted in The BAck doOR during this last month. Evidencing strong artistic practices they brought with them an sensibility towards the beauty that is found in images, light and movement. During the course of the workshop all have attained skills that have allowed them to unlock some of the mhysteries of light, film emulsions, film stock, developing, printing etc. Showing will be film work from: Meg Hale, Marcia Jane, Larisa Kosloff, Keith Deverell Also included will be film work specifically made for this screening programme by the organisers of the workshop. They are as follow: Richard Tuohy, Diana Barrie, sue.k.   Doors open 8:30pm Entry by donation.

 

 

 

suek-artist and nanolab will be conducting a four-day film shooting workshop. This workshop will be instructed by Richard Tuohy of nanolab. Each day the participants will be given the opportunity to shoot film using either a Standard 8 camera or a 16mm film camera which will then be processed for editing. The four day workshop will culminate in a screening of the work produced. This will take place in The BAck doOR on the 28th November.

 

FSFA is not a filmmaking course!  Rather, it's aimed at giving practicing artists working in other media the capacity to take their sensibilities into the realm of cine film.  This is a practical course.  Through a series of practical exercises we'll get you beyond the technical and technological challenges of working with film.  Starting from the basics of photography and the cine camera, we'll move through film handling, splicing and using projection equipment, we'll explore the range of cine film types you can get your hands and we'll get you processing, printing and digitising film.  We'll also go through various advanced techniques like back-winding, multiple exposing, using mattes, using filters, re-photographing and macro filming.

Each session will involve shooting film as a group, then each day the participants will be given a roll of film to shoot on their own, either with their own equipment or with equipment supplied.   The emphasis will be on affordable techniques and processes, including improvised film processing and various improvised printing techniques, D.I.Y. telecine and the use of alternative inexpensive stocks, etc. 

No prior film experience is necessary.   Nor do you need your own equipment (though you might have to wait your turn to use the supplied gear).  If you do have your own equipment (8mm, super 8 or 16mm), so much the better.  If you want to buy some equipment before the course, contact Richard Tuohy (0400 748 864) to discuss what might be suitable for your needs.  A light meter might be a useful initial equipment purchase. 

 

Time: 10am - 5pm

Dates: Sat 7th - Sun 8th, Sat 14th & 21st November

Cost: $280 unwaged; $320 waged
(cost includes material = one roll of film per day per participant plus processing. Extra rolls of film will be available at cost for those who wish to shoot extra film material)

 

If interested in participating in further workshops similar to the above, click on the email address towards the top of this page to be added to the email list and The BAck doOR will keep you up-to-date with all of its activities including further filmmaking workshops.

 

 

At what moment do two or more points in space and time create texture through synchronicity, syncopation, or an atonal clash? By positioning two temporal practices within the one performance space, experimental video and Contact Improvised dance, these moments, both dramatic and subtle, will be explored.

This programme continues the inquiries of the visual in projection and performance space, started last November at The BAck doOR, as it digs deep to find the perfect moments of stillness, of evocative texture and of explosive movement.

 

Performers:

Kara Fouhy

Having danced all over the world it was in San Francisco that Kara Fouhy first trained in Contact Improvisation Dance and from there that she set about honing her newly acquired skills. And it was while in London that Fouhy further developed her dance skills through the 5 Rythms technique. Upon her arrival in Melbourne in early 2006 she set about establishing The Play Space, a dance studio in Brunswick, with Kurt Prasse where she conducted classes in Contact Improvisation. Currently Fouhy is working to develop and extend her knowledge and skills in dance through practice and performance.

Stefanie Robinson

An experienced improvisition performer Robinson trained in physical theatre with John Bolton Theatre School. She discovered the joy of improvisation with Al Wonder and has rolled around with many fabulous teachers in Contact Improvisation. Robinson first performed with fire at dance parties and dressed in various costumes roving the streets at festivals around the world. Currently she divides her time between exploring physical story telling through dance, voice, imagery and working with community creating celebrations, parades and installations. It would be apt to describe her performance work as painting in space.


sue.k.

Trained as a visual artist in Perth, sue.k. first performed in 1992 in the production Quiet a collaborative work with Nigel Kellaway of the Sydney Front performance theatre group. The training embarked upon for this work was further extended upon in 1995 with the return of Kellaway to Perth. Living in Melbourne in 1996, sue.k. took up training in Contact Improvisation Dance with State of Flux. Returning to Perth the following year she continued in Contact Improvisation starting a weekly Contact Jam session, this was to continue for a number of years. sue.k. continues to train and to put into practice her skills and experience in body/movement work in Contact Improvisation Dance.

Shaun Plumtree

Shaun Plumtree is a highly versatile performer having trained in circus, physical theatre, and dance. His experience and knowledge include Comedia Del Arte, Ballet and Ballroom dancing, which set to compliment the circus skills he has acquired. A recent graduate from Australia's National Institute of Circus Arts, where he specialized in meteors and aerial hoop, Plumtree brings his dance experience and circus skills together in a unique combination that is set to thrill. Most recently he, with Ivan Smith, a co-graduate from NICA, and Alice Robinson have established the experimental performance company Red Button.

 

 

 

Music by: Glenn D'Cruz

 

Experimental video and sound by: sue.k.

Door will open at 8.00pm sharp with the event commencing immediately so don't be late.

 

Entry by donation.

 

 

Cine Abstracts is a showcase of recent film works by local experimental filmmaker Richard Tuohy. These films exhibit a fascination with both nature-scapes and the power of the cine camera. Exploring largely in-camera photographic techniques such as matting, multiple exposing, pixilation, re-photography and colour separation etc., Tuohy seeks to find a nexus between his subject and his spring wound camera, aspiring to take us inside the landscapes – both human and natura – his films explore.

Doors open 8pm

Entry by donation.

 

For further programme details visit cogcollective

 

A programme of film and video work specifically using found-footage. In our day and age of reusing, recycling, anything and everything in an attempt to keep the earth's demise at bay it seems apt to revisit an approach of making film work that has been with us for eons. Bruce Conner was the master at it in the 1950s using film of any gauge, and many followed in his footsteps, yet today a multitude of possibilities in the genre is presented by a variety of technology.

This programme adds a new twist to found footage film work. Each participating artist has supplied the original source footage of a work that has already enjoyed public screenings. The source footage is then passed onto another to be used as source footage for a new work. In true Dadaist style, selection of footage for each artist was randomly conducted using a numerical calculation thus taking away any choice for all involved. There lies the challenge.

 

Steven Ball
"You have decided to accept the invitation to make the video..." (second person: past, present, future)
19 mins, video, UK, 2009

Paul Rodgers
Martin Arnold Meets Edweard Muybridge
8 mins, video, Aus, 2009

sue.k.
bild A pos, bild B pos, bild A neg, bild B neg
12 mins, video, Aus, 2009

Richard Tuohy
Landscape: Rippled and Rifted
9 mins, 16mm, Aus, 2009

Steven Ball
Pools Between Land
10 mins, Aus, 1991

Paul Rogers
Eclipses of the Sun
12 mins, 16mm, expanded cinema, Aus

sue.k.
card 4
8 mins, video, Aus, 2002

Richard Tuohy
bootfall
7 mins, video (shot on Super-8), Aus, 2008

 

Doors open 8pm

Entry by donation.

 

For further programme details visit cogcollective

 

The second in the series of artists' moving image curated by Kerry Baldry, One Minute Vol. 2 is 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 one minute.

 

Artists include:

Gordon Dawson, Laure Prouvost, Martin Pickles, Marty St James, Eva Rudlinger, Steven Ball, Guy Sherwin, Luisa Minkin, Steve Hawley, Gary Peploe, Lynn Loo, Riccardo Iacono, Hilary Jack, Nicolas Herbert, Claire Morales, Catherine Elwes, Tina Keane, Kate Meynell, Kerry Baldry, Phillip Warnell, Nick Jordan, Margie Schnibbe, Stuart Pound, Esther Johnson, Mark Wigan, Andy Fear, Philip Sanderson, erica Scourti, Unconscious Films, Deklan Kilfeather

 

Door opens 8.00pm

Entry by donation.

 

For further details visit cogcollective

 

 

 

This projection event returns to the exploration begun with Flickers of Movement. Enquiries into the relationship and exchanges of dialogue that occur when dance/movement and the projected image are brought/thrown together within the performance/projection space will be made in an attempt to collapse both spaces into one unified whole.

 

Performers:

Brendan O'Connor

New to Australia, O'Connor brings with him a distinctive European style of dance that is much sought after. Trained at the Fontys Dans Academie in the Nederlands, O'Connor has been dancing for the last nine years and has had success performing professionally with a well-known touring dance company from the UK. Success for O'Connor has also been gained with his choreography of sharp crisp movement that explore a multi-dimension of edges other choreographers of his age miss.

Jonathan Sinatra

Sinatra originally trained in the mid '90s in physical theatre at Melbourne Uni while at the same time acquiring circus skills with Circus Oz. After discovering Contact Improvisation Dance and training with State of Flux in 1996-97 he went on to do an honours year at WAAPA focussing on dance. After graduating there Sinatra relocated to Sydney where he took up work and training with Russell Dumas' dance company. With Dumas, Sinatra has travelled and taught Dumas' dance techniques throughout the world and has had success developing his own choreographed works.

sue.k.

Trained as a visual artist in Perth, sue.k. first performed in 1992 in the production Quiet a collaborative work with Nigel Kellaway of the Sydney Front performance theatre group. The training embarked upon for this work was further extended upon in 1995 with the return of Kellaway to Perth. Living in Melbourne in 1996, sue.k. took up training in Contact Improvisation Dance with State of Flux. Returning to Perth the following year she continued in Contact Improv starting a weekly Contact Jam session, this was to continue for a number of years. sue.k. continues to train and to put into practice her skills and experience in body/movement work in Contact Improvisation Dance.

Stefanie Robinson

An experienced improvisition performer Robinson trained in physical theatre with John Bolton Theatre School. She discovered the joy of improvisation with Al Wonder and has rolled around with many fabulous teachers in Contact Improvisation. Robinson first performed with fire at dance parties and dressed in various costumes roving the streets at festivals around the world. Currently she divides her time between exploring physical story telling through dance, voice, imagery and working with community creating celebrations, parades and installations. It would be apt to describe her performance work as painting in space.

 

Music by: Glenn D'Cruz

 

Film, Video and sound by: sue.k.

Door will open at 8.00pm sharp with the event commencing immediately so don't be late.

 

Entry by donation.

 

 

 

 

 

a programme of experimental screen work from Australia. A mix of film and video the programme brings together contemporary work from both established makers and newcomers to the experimental scene.   Curated by sue.k.



Richard Tuohy
Mallee Stretching
13 mins, original format Super-8, 2006


sue.k.
1/500OP+9blackfriars
15 mins, video, 2007


Dirk de Bruyn
Byron Bay Hysteria #03/09
4 mins, video, 2009


Dirk de Bruyn
Byron Bay #04/09
6 mins, video, 2009


Tobias Dundas
thirtythreeandathird
7 mins, video, 2008


sue.k.
film_1234
1:30 mins, video, 2007


David Brian Short
Fake Film
3 mins, video, 2008


sue.k.
2112
21 mins, video, 2009


Madeline Quirk
6 Miles to 1 Inch
3 mins, video, Australia, 2007


Richard Tuohy
Multitude Studies
18 mins, 16mm, multi-projection, 2009

6:30pm Wednesday 22nd April 2009
Innovation Centre Conference Room
Central St Martins
Southampton Row, London

entry is at the rear of the building and opposite to Red Lion Square

For further details visit cogcollective

Contrary to beliefs, Super-8 film never went away.

This programme brings back focus to the use of the Super-8 gauge in film practice with a presentation of a collection of Australian experimental Super-8 film, most of which have not been publicly screened before. Still preferred by many, Super-8 has been a favoured gauge internationally by such greats as Derek Jarman, as well as by well-known and significant makers of avant-garde and experimental film, such as Anthony McCall, Carolee Schneemann, and John Maybury. Australia itself has seen many of its productive artists using Super-8 and a number of Super-8 film groups come and go. Today Super-8 is still used by a number of practitioners.

Curated by Richard Tuohy.

Following on from the day's Super-8 Pinhole Workshop the programme will present the work filmed that day, hot from the processing tub, prior to the official screening of the S8 28 S8 programme.

Steven Ball
Blister (1990)
9 minutes

Louise Curham
Compilation (2003-2008)
10 minutes

Dianna Barrie
Ferny (2005)
5 minutes

Dianna Barrie
Creek (2008)
5 minutes

Virginia Hilyard
Hôtel Dunkerque (2009)
silent, 4 minutes

Moira Joseph
City Walk (1992)
3 minutes

Moira Joseph
Paws (1993)
3 minutes

Moira Joseph
By the Sea (2001)
3 minutes

Moira Joseph
Family Faces (2007)
5 minutes

Laressa Kosloff
Porsche (1999)
3 minutes

Laressa Kosloff
Wave Pool (2002)
3 minutes

Richard Tuohy
Mallee Stretching (2006-2008)
13 minutes

Maeve Woods
Tawdry Sass (1996)
5 minutes

Maeve Woods
Triad Tesseraic (1992)
9 minutes

Door opens at 8.00pm. Entry by donation.


For further details visit cogcollective

 

For pics from the day's event visit here.

 

Starting at 10am in the morning and culminating in an evening of Super-8 screening.

cost $60 waged, $50 unwaged (includes materials)

This one day workshop run by Richard Tuohy of nanolab will take the participants on a journey of discovery into the wonders of pinhole camera using the super-8 film medium. A simple but effective process of capturing image on film the pinhole camera provides the ideal mechanical device for exploring the multiple layers of beauty found in the film image.

Richard Tuohy has worked with super-8 and 16mm film since the 1980s and is a well-known and respected filmmaker. He, with his partner Diana, runs the film processing laboratory nanolab providing one of the few places left that processes super-8 film.

Richard will take the workshop partcipants through the steps of shooting super-8 film with the pinhole camera. The footage shot will be processed during the course of the workshop with a screening of the particpant's work occurring later that night.

Bookings close 22nd March 2009

Be Quick, Book Now!!!

or phone +61 (0)3 9005 7054

(please note a deposit may be requested)

 

This programme pulls together work from the four distant geographical points of Australia, United Kingdom, Singapore and the United States.

Door opens at 8.30pm. Entry by donation.

sue.k.
liverpool223355 (2006)
video, 28 mins, UK

Steven Ball
Cryptic Burgess Dub (2006)
video, 12 mins, UK

Lynn Loo
Floating (2005)
video, 3 mins, Singapore/USA

Steven Ball
The Defenestrascope (2003)
video, 5 mins, UK

Paul Martin
The Thames from Charing Cross Bridge - A Study (1993)
super 8, 6 mins, silent, UK

David Brian Short
Fake Film (2008)
video, 2 mins, Aus

Tobias Dundas
thirtythreeandathird (2008)
video, 7 mins, Aus

sue.k.
steps---89 (2003)
video, 17 mins, UK/Aus

For further details visit cogcollective

 

Following on from the success of the first event in The BAck doOR, suek-artist and cogcollective presents a night of single and multi-projected works. A night of seduction that only film can create. Come and experience the beguiling nature of film passing through the projector gate and the flicker of light that emanates from within the projector beam. This programme brings together works from three of Australia's best experimental filmmakers, Dirk de Bruyn, Richard Tuohy and Nick Ostrovskis.

Door opens at 8.30pm. Entry by donation.

Dirk de Bruyn
Running (1976)
16mm, 35 mins

Nick Ostrovskis
Williamstown (1988)
Super-8, 7 mins

Nick Ostrovskis
The White Tree (1987)
Super-8, 4 mins

Nick Ostrovskis
Rough Geometry (1993)
Super-8, 4 mins

Richard Tuohy
Multitude Studies (2009)
multi-projection
16mm, 18 mins

For further details visit cogcollective

 

 

All of the above photos were taken on the night by Laki Sideris