Film Format: Digital File

  • Cha ni chinu chi’in ñu’un / Construida de tierra / Built of Earth

    Cha ni chinu chi’in ñu’un / Construida de tierra / Built of Earth is an experimental documentary project consisting of a short film, a publication, and a collaborative installation that explores the immense and ancient family home at the centre of Jamiltepec, Oaxaca, Mexico. The cavernous adobe house is in the process of being restored after a devastating earthquake that saw a portion of its roof collapse in February 2018. The short film follows the restoration process, with its focus on traditional building materials and techniques, creative reuse, and local artisanal production. In doing so, it explores the origins of…

  • Abgad Hawaz

    Robin Riad’s short hand-drawn analogue film ostensibly teaches the pronunciation of the Arabic Alphabet in 28 easy steps. In actuality, the hand-drawn letters were printed using a laser jet printer onto the optical soundtrack of 16mm film, and what you hear in the film is the projector reading the letters, and interpreting them into sound. Riad uses humour to play with and sit with her mother tongue, offering a ‘false’ lesson in pronunciation. A response to a digital form of anti-Arab hate that Riad witnessed online coming out of the genocide in Gaza, Abgad Hawaz is a way for her…

  • Facing the Music

    FACING THE MUSIC:ABOUT A MAN WHO ESCAPED STALIN AND HITLER—AND PUTIN’S RESURRECTION OF BOTH STALIN AND HITLER IN UKRAINE. Wolodymyr joined the Ukrainian partisans in 1939. They were hiding cultural lead- ers who would otherwise be persecuted or murdered by Stalin. After Hitler invaded in 1941, Wolodymyr was abducted to Germany, surviving forced labour and incar- ceration in a concentration camp. Extrapolating from Wolodymyr’s story, the film shows how the atrocities he experi- enced via Stalin and Hitler have been the ‘blueprint’ for Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Putin’s Wagner Group mercenaries were named after Hitler’s favourite composer: Richard Wagner. The…

  • Brisbane River

    A timelapse of the Brisbane River. Made in residency at Container, Brisbane and nanolab, Daylesford.

  • Fusion

    Investigating the interplay and love affair between sound and image. An abstract experimental animation experience produced by drawing both sounds and pictures directly onto 35mm film.

  • Go Between

    Looking down at the Brisbane River–a play of masking and superimpositions. Sound by Samuel La France. Made in residency at Container, Brisbane and nanolab, Daylesford.

  • Missing Associates Redux

    In 1972, visual artist/filmmaker Peter Dudar and dancer/choreographer Lily Eng formed a multimedia partnership named MISSING ASSOCIATES. INVENT A NEW VOCABULARY. START FROM ZERO. OBSERVE AND INCORPORATE INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT. MISSING ASSOCIATES [NOTES 1972] MISSING ASSOCIATES started the first wave of performance art and experimental dance in Toronto art galleries “MISSING ASSOCIATES ARE ON THE CUTTING EDGE OF EXPERIMENTAL PERFORMANCE.” ESPERIENZA A CONFRONTO IL DIARIO DI NAPOLI, 1980 Next, MISSING ASSOCIATES performed and screened throughout the Americas and both Western and Eastern Europe. “PETER DUDAR AND LILY ENG ARE REVELATORY.” YORK UNIVERSITY RETROSPECTIVE IS TORONTO BURNING C MAGAZINE, 2014

  • Marrow of my Bones

    Marrow of my Bones is a short experimental film that has been created through a mixture of digital special effects, compositing, frame by frame animation, and 16mm hand processed film. Through material-based exploration, this film plays with the concept of post-humanism via the return to nature and the body in a tactile and gritty manner. The score is an electroacoustic soundscape, a playful mixture of voice, analog synthesizers, and field recordings of foraged sounds such as insects, wind, and fire. These sounds were then processed through hardware effects such as low-pass filters, reverb & delay. The soundscape is a mixture…

  • Der Untermensch

    Dedicated to the memory of the Second World War’s homosexual victims. This short contemporary dance film abstractly depicts the persecution of homosexuals at the hands of the Third Reich by establishing a parallel between incarceration in the camps and the physical confinement felt when freedom is suppressed.

  • Saint-Rémi

    Abandoned in the debris of a mine, a dancer is revived by the celestial energy pulsating within him. Filmed in Quebec’s former asbestos mine of Saint-Rémi-de-Tingwick, this short film features the artist’s ‘Tetrahedron’ iron sculpture in which he dances. Serving as both a prison and a pedestal, this sculpture symbolises humanity’s detrimental creations that both elevate and destroy. This duality is also echoed in the magnificent yet barren lunar landscape of the mine, which has remained sterile since its closure in 1968. Despite the desolation, ‘Saint-Rémi’ is an ode to revegetation, a hope that flora, like the dancer, will resurface…