Container #38 Alternative Views: International Experimental Filmmaking in South East Queensland Screening

Our next screening is a collaboration between Container and IMA (though held at New Farm Cinemas...)

Hello. Thank you once again for joining us.

Alternative Views: International Experimental Filmmaking in South East Queensland
Various, 2015-2024, 76m
7pm, 19 May at New Farm Cinemas
Container X IMA
Tickets here but see below.

A counter history of filmmaking in Australia. Whether tracked by funding bodies or word of mouth, there is a clear trail connecting films made by local production companies or filmmakers to Australia and its filmmaking history. However, there are filmmakers who touch the ground more lightly—whether with Jodie Mack refracting Palm Beach’s glistening water while touring her breakthrough Let Your Light Shine program or Malena Szlam’s multi-year research program (pictured above) which also culminated in a three-channel work. This screening reflects on this alternative history and its distinct engagement with our environment by bringing together key recent works.

Something Between Us – Jodie Mack (2015, 10m)
A choreographed motion study for twinkling trinkets, beaming baubles, and glaring glimmers. A bow ballet ablaze (for bedazzled buoyant bijoux brought up to boil). Costume jewellery and natural wonders join forces to perform plastic pirouettes, dancing a luminous lament until the tide comes in.

Go Between – Chris Kennedy (2023, 6m)
Elegant and rigorous, while surprisingly playful, Chis Kennedy’s Go Between observes the Brisbane River, passing boats, and cars on the William Jolly Bridge through an intoxicating play of masking and superimpositions.

For Dan – Luke Fowler (2021, 12m)
For Dan explores an intense period of correspondence between the artist’s late father and his closest friend, radical University of Queensland lecturer Dan O’Neill. Filmed across UQ and an eco-community in the Sunshine Coast hinterlands, the film impressionistically documents both the friendship between these two young men and sketches a partial political history of Australia in the early 1960s.

Archipelago of Earth Bones: To Bunya – Malena Szlam (2024, 20m)
Part of an ongoing film series tracing volcanic landscapes— new and ancient, barren and verdant—from Chile, across the Pacific, and to Australia. Archipelago of Earthen Bones – To Bunya creates both new possible environments and evokes the layered histories of Glasshouse and Bunya mountains through a dazzling suite of in-camera multiple exposures and rhythmic editing. Soundtrack by Lawrence English.

Double Phase – Takeshi Makino (2020, 25m)
Filmed in Australia—across Mount Tamborine, Tingalpa and rural Victoria—Double Phase considers how the complexity of ’natural world’ continues to be reductively framed within contemporary society through a process of colliding image after image into a cascade of almost-cosmic pulsating complexity.

Brisbane River – Chris Kennedy (2023, 3m)
A timelapse of the Brisbane River.

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

With thanks to Luke Fowler, Chris Kennedy, Jodie Mack, Makino Takeshi, Malena Szlam, and LUX.

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 email madeline@ima.org.au or ask in-person on the night.
Concession is based on self-identified requirement—whether a student, pensioner or low income—and needs no proof of concession entitlement or identity.

Additional Reading (for those who have the time and curiosity):
On the MIFF premiere of Malena Szlam’s film, Senses of Cinema held an extended converstation with the filmmaker on the research, planning and wider context of Archipelago of Earthen Bones (pictued above) and it can be found here.

Thank you. We look forward to catching you in a fortnight’s time for Alternate Views and our following screening Simmer at the IMA on 30 June (including Tomonari Nishikawa’s Light, Noise, Smoke, and Light, Noise, Smoke picuted above.)