Container #3 Next Screening: Ste. Anne
As well as a dossier on Lucile Hadžihalilović and a very interesting upcoming screening by friends of Container.
Hello. Thank you again for joining us.
Next Screening
Ste. Anne | Rhayne Vermette | 7pm Tuesday 9 August at The Elizabeth
A lyrical debut from the Indigenous Métis filmmaker & artist Rhayne Vermette, which revitalises the drama of family reunion through a tactile blurring of subjectivity and landscape.
As a party wanders its way through the night, word arrives that Renée (played by the director Rhayne Vermette in a particularly personal performance) has emerged from obscurity. Renée has been missing for years and her presence unsettles the family, particularly her younger brother Modeste, and her daughter Athene. As Renée dreams fragments of her past, ominous premonitions begin to disrupt the land.
Shot on hushed 16mm over the course of two years, seemingly mostly amidst the crepuscular light of twilight and night, Ste. Anne traces an allegorical reclamation of land through personal, symbolic and historical sites all across Treaty 1 Territory, heartland of the Métis Nation.
With thanks to Rhayne Vermette. Unrated 15+
Free to all members with membership available online or at The Elizabeth box office.
Once you’re a member, you can attend these screenings for free, and we’ve done our best to keep prices as low as possible with joining fees ranging from $30 (six months concession) to $100 (annual regular)
Upcoming Screenings
9 August: Rhayne Vermette’s Ste. Anne
23 August: Lucile Hadžihalilović’s Earwig
6 September: João Pedro Rodrigues’ Will-o’- the-Wisp
20 September: Gasper Noé’s Lux Æterna (presented in partnership with Static Vision)
4 October: Michelangelo Frammartino’s Il Buco
Lucile Hadžihalilović Dossier
To celebrate our upcoming screening of Lucile Hadžihalilović’s Earwig on 23 August (and maybe also for MIFF’s retrospective of her work) Container director John Edmond and film scholar Alison Taylor have co-edited a collection of writing around her films for Senses of Cinema, including an interview with her regular screenwriter Geoff Cox and Hadžihalilović herself.
Interesting Local Screening (that has nothing to do with us.)
GoMA’s Cinémathèque and Static Vision are presenting a screening of Charlie Shackleton’s The Afterlife on the 18th of August with Charlie up in person, hopping up from MIFF.
The Afterlife exists as a single 35mm print that deteriorates further at each screening until it will one day cease to exist. Composed of fragments drawn from hundreds of films, it is a hypnotic collage of actors now dead, but who live on in a shared celluloid realm. With each screening its own unique moment in the life of the film, The Afterlight is one-of-a-kind cinema event.
This is likely the only time the film will screen in Brisbane.
Thank you. We hope to catch you tomorrow night for Ste. Anne and the following email will contain more news on our 23 August screening of Lucile Hadžihalilović’s Earwig, A mesmerising fable of long-repressed secrets and awakening memories from the mysterious and oneiric world inhabited by a young girl and her guardian.