FULL PRINTABLE PROGRAM 2006

Thursday 23 March 2006

7:00pm-8:30pm | The Cantrills' Salon - Opening Night | Project Gallery
welcome to The Cantrills' Salon. Peruse an array of posters, flyers, objects, and sample 'Cantrill's Filmnotes.' the world's longest running avant-garde film journal. Listen to incredible soundworks created by the Cantrills' as soundtracks to their films. An accompanying exhibition celebrating the vast body of work in filmmaking and film culture by special guests of the festival- Arthur and Corinne Cantrill, followed by a pipe cleaner/projection/lecture written by American filmmaker Hollis Frampton, delivered by Arthur Cantrill
(14mins).

complimentary drinks provided by little creatures brewing and inner circle rum.

FREE ENTRY

9:30pm-12:30am | Expanded Cinema Installations - Opening Party | Cube Galleria
OFF Galleria opening party space.

marvel at the performative installations, films. sounds and immersive environments of three of the most talented, original and unclassifiable Australian artists working today.

Velvet Pesu, Louise Curham and Natasha Anderson.  

Stuart Busby provides sonic accompaniment with his inspired explorations of  trumpet tone...

complimentary drinks provided by little creatures brewing and inner circle rum.

FREE ENTRY

Friday 24 March 2006

3:00pm-5:00pm | Acoustic Ecology - Workshop | Cube Galleria - 15 Tribune St. Southbank
Come along to this soundscape derive facilitated by environmental audio-explorers Anthony Magen and Lloyd Barrett. Walk, listen, find and lose your way, create sound maps, press the record button in your mind...

The workshop culminates in a collection of field recordings which will form the soundtrack to a new Super8 film, made by OFF participants, and to be screened on closing night.  Open to all phonographers to participate!

Acoustic Ecology Workshop and Soundwalk
Sonic Awareness: Listening made easy.  Rediscover this ancient skill through individual explorations of aural perception with help from your deep listening group leaders. Through graphical sonic mapping exercises you will achieve the most exciting opportunities life has to offer, a supersonic perception of the aural environment. The world will be at your ears as you soundwalk your way to new levels of awareness and self-satisfaction. Learn about inspired sonic explorers from other walks of life that have paved the way for us today.  Make brilliant noises and share latent knowledge with others in this seminal workshop as part of the audiovisual extravaganza that is the OtherFilm Festival.

Acoustic Ecology is now a worldwide phenomenon; the Australian Forum for acoustic ecology promotes the critical and perceptual engagement with and awareness of all aspects of the sonic environment.

This workshop involves participant participation, open minds, ears and walking shoes.

rsvp if possible to joel@otherfilm.org

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7:30pm-12:59am | The Aquaverse - installations and interactions | The Globe Theatre Foyer
Fish Video (an object tribute to Nam June Paik: 1932-2006)

Views From the Inside Part 1 – Love Dies x 3. Prose and pictures by Sarah-Jane Woulahan, artist, poet, filmmaker, other half of video music team Squareyed Films.

Stuttering Equivalence, or:  Why I never liked the young-drunk exquisite corpse: Experience the infinite permutations of a spatial word game involving involuntary intimacy and nonsensical control, in an interactive audio-visual installation by Tara Cook.

Lawrence English presents a new work exploring notions of the storm and turbulence.

plus random happenings, projections, and interventions...

ENTRY $6 FOR ALL THEN EVENINGS EVENTS

8:00pm-10:00pm | Arthur and Corinne Cantrill: selected films - Screening | The Globe Theatre Cinema Space
A screening of films from Arthur and Corinne Cantrill's unique and extensive oeuvre, selected by the filmmakers especially for Brisbane audiences.

ENTRY $6 FOR ALL THEN EVENINGS EVENTS

10:00pm-12:59am | Light and Sonic Expansion part 1 - performances and screenings | The Globe Theatre Cinema Space + Performance Room
The Globe Theatre Cinema Space - 9:00pm - Midnight
Lloyd Barrett premieres 'Mise en scene' his multilayered audio project exploring the nature of diegetic and non-diegetic narrative elements in film sound. Lloyd says "I'm writing tunes - which I'm then going to map to Foley collage and structure in the sonic space so the two elements merge and intertwine. So it will be like a set playing its own mood music."

Vanilla (Van Sowerwine and Camilla Hannan) combine the traditional art of Shadow puppetry with atmospheric dusty light beams and evocative live noise-scapes, to create a beguling and bizzare mix.

Abject Leader (Joel Stern and Sally Golding) expose the audience to their unhinged expanded cinema dreamscapes made for multiple 16mm projectors, handmade film, feedback systems, incongruous foley noise, sprockets and flicker, instruments, and cardboard boxes. Tonights performance features sonic contributions from very special guest from Kyogle's musicyourmindwillloveyou collective, Terracid.

Pride and Prejudice (Melbourne's Pia Borg and Mark Harwood) perform a 'traditional' narrative utilising voice, audio and unique projections with intent to evoke "the uncanny".

ENTRY $6 FOR ALL THEN EVENINGS EVENTS

Saturday 25 March 2006

11:00am-3:00pm | Film Re-Film - Workshop | QCA Photography Darkroom
Super 8 film Workshop by Sally Golding and Louise Curham.

Film Refilm
Positive and negative image development
Using Super 8 Tri X Reversal

Calling all aspiring, developing and experienced filmmakers...
Join experimental film mavericks Sally Golding and Louise Curham in discovering and exploring the technologies and processes of super 8 film, the experimental home-movie medium par-excellence. Be instructed in the basics of cinematography and provided with the means to shoot your own experimental film! Learn do-it-yourself home developing strategies, get to know a darkroom environment, and experiment with photographic chemicals on newly exposed film. Your experienced instructors will demonstrate projection techniques for you to view your film in all its flickering glory. Re-film your projection and develop to achieve a positive projection print, complete with handmade alterations and chemical malfunctions. Or simply enjoy the raw negative image and experiment with the possibilities!

To enable greater workshop coverage, participants are encouraged to bring their own working super 8 camera if possible (though this is not necessary).

rsvp if possible to sally@otherfilm.org

FREE ENTRY

7:30pm-12:59am | The Aquaverse - installations and interactions | The Globe Theatre Foyer
part 2 of the aquaverse returns for saturday!

Fish Video (an object tribute to Nam June Paik: 1932-2006)

Views From the Inside Part 1 – Love Dies x 3. Prose and pictures by Sarah-Jane Woulahan, artist, poet, filmmaker, other half of video music team Squareyed Films.

Stuttering Equivalence, or:  Why I never liked the young-drunk exquisite corpse: Experience the infinite permutations of a spatial word game involving involuntary intimacy and nonsensical control, in an interactive audio-visual installation by Tara Cook.

Lawrence English presents a new work exploring notions of the storm and turbulence.

plus random happenings, projections, and interventions...

8:00pm-11:30pm | Arthur and Corinne Cantrill: Cantrills Expanded - Special Performance | The Globe Theatre Cinema Space
Re-stagings of the Cantrill's own expanded cinema films, performed by the filmmakers, including THE BOILING ELECTRIC JUG FILM, and other ultra-rare expanded cinema wonders.

These shows involve creative and unusual projection conditions, elements of performance and avant-garde poetry, abstract imagery with musique concrete, and experiments in projection onto highly original 'screens' – ranging from multiple screens, painted screens and sheets, and three-dimensional objects, to water and even steam .

The works expand the very idea of 'cinema': ideas of form and content, of projection and the apparatus, of the spectator and perception, and of the social experience of the moving image, and sheer visual beauty.

ENTRY $6 FOR ALL THEN EVENINGS EVENTS

9:30pm-12:59am | Light and Sonic Expansion part 2 - performances and screenings | The Globe Theatre Cinema Space + Performance Room
Botborg perform "a brutal audio-visual barrage, erratic as it is blinding and deafening. In effect it's something like a rainbow in a blender screaming television static."

Plus a special Brisbane premiere screening of the new 35mm film work by Melbourne artist Jim Knox, 'cortical landlord after compost', a counter-clockworld dissimulation of disfigured consumer imperatives: a garishly flavoured garbage sandwich for eye and ear alike. I don't know it seemed like a good idea at the time... (35mm, colour, mute with live accompaniment on home-made electroacoustic device, 4mins, 2005).

And a compiled selection of inspired abstract work by the Melbourne based experimental filmmaker Lindsay Martin.

The Rejuvenation Loops (Auckland's Eve Gordon and Sam Hamilton). This project is a mediation on and exploration of raw materials and the activation of them into growing scopes of life like moss growing in the reflection of a rippling puddle squeezed between slowly restored sounds and images from under murky curtains in droning cyclic scramblings seen through pinhole glimpses of glimpsing pinhole flares. Eve and Sam will be using 3 16mm projectors, utilising organic non-solid materials within handheld framing, through the intense light of the projector,create "living" fragile images of coagulating forms making for a unique sense of film at the moment of its conception. The film lasts as long as it takes for 2 film loops to run through a process of "rejuvenation" performed live on both loops creating a sense of evolution to the repetition of the looping. Film and performance by Eve Gordon & Sam Hamilton, original footage by Cambell Farquar.

And finally, a blast for the eyes and ears,  Dada-meinhof, Danni Zuvela and Tina Blakeney; Saccadic visuals gnawing at the edges of perception. A perfor-menace including fed-back ruminations on the military industrial complex, nature's fury visited on Bunjalung, and minimalist exploration of oil aesthetics.

ENTRY $6 FOR ALL THEN EVENINGS EVENTS

Sunday 26 March 2006

7:30pm-12:30am | Closing Night - Expanded Cinema - Closing party and screening | Cube Galleria
Closing rituals featuring expanded cinema re-enactments of classic avant-garde works and scavenged rip-offs, the world shattering OFF collaborative film and sound work produced by the previous days film re film and soundscape workshop participants, a hypnotic mind altering masterpiece by Paul Sharits, Brisbane's greatest band and greatest anomoly, and a Brisbane premiere of a new film by a great Australian avant-gardist. complimentary fine booze. One hell of a finale.

Paul Sharits. Razor Blades
USA, 1965-68, sound stereo, B&W & colour, 25 mins, 16mm.
Two 100' reels to be projected side by side onto one very large screen.
'In Razor Blades, Paul Sharits consciously challenges our eyes, ears and minds to withstand a barrage of high powered and often contradictory stimuli. In a careful juxtaposition and fusion of these elements on different parts of our being, usually occurring simultaneously, we feel at times hypnotised and re-educated by some potent and mysterious force.' - David Beinstock, Whitney Museum.

Brisbane's sprawling and unpredictable (but still somehow always groovy!) psych-heroes The Lost Domain perform a live soundtrack to a special 16mm film print premiere screening of the new work Memorium by legendary Melbourne avant-garde filmmaker Dirk de Bruyn.

Jamie Hume (Brisbane) emerges from Auchenflowers's cabinet Voltaire to perform his unclassifiable extra-musical nonsense poetics amidst the general chaos.

Audience joins in and enjoys until everyone goes home. OFF ends.

beer and spirits provided by little creatures brewing and inner circle rum.

FREE ENTRY