Container #7 Next Screening: Il Buco
And notes on upcoming screenings and Brisbane International Film Festival
Hello. Thank you once again for joining us.
Next Screening:
Il Buco | Michelangelo Frammartino | 7pm Tuesday 4 October at The Elizabeth
In August 1961, speleologists arrive from Italy’s North to map the depths of the Bifurto Abyss in Calabria, one of the deepest discovered caves in the world. As they meticulously document their discoveries—their hand drawn map of the cave system is both indicative of their approach and one of the film’s analogue pleasures—life continues above ground, whether through the watchful gaze of an Italian peasant or the coming of television.
Michelangelo Frammartino (Le Quattro Volte) uses this minimalist story as a framework for meditating on the Calabrian landscape, contrasting the geological time suggested by the caves with the passage of life and weather. Il Buco is as attentive to the light shifts of clouds above as it is to the abyss and the flicker of torches below.
Unrated 15+ | With thanks to Coproduction Office
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:
4 October: Michelangelo Frammartino’s Il Buco
18 October: Sofia Bohdanowicz, Burak Çevik & Blake Williams’ A Woman Escapes (3D)
1 November: Artavazd Pelechian’s Nature (pictured) + Helena Wittmann’s Drift
15 November: Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel’s De Humani Corporis Fabrica
29 November: Helena Wittmann’s Human Flowers of Flesh
6 December: Albert Serra’s Pacifiction
13 December: Harmony Korine’s The Beach Bum
Brisbane International Film Festival lineup announcement:
This is the least interesting BIFF lineup in the festival’s history. The ‘name’ screenings are so close to their theatrical screenings that they feel pointless—Armageddon Time even appears in cinemas before BIFF—while the worthwhile festival-only screenings are so infrequent that their inclusion seems accidental.
The selection of BIFF chair Luke Wheatley’s Beyond the Reef, a kind-of expanded tourism ad, into the festival’s feature program while so many key Australian and international films have been left out is indicative of many things, including the festival’s shift of focus from art and culture to content management.
Our picks:
Neptune Frost (Saul Williams & Anisia Uzeyman)
The Novelist’s Film (Hong Sang-Soo)
The Passengers of the Night (Mikhaël Hers)
Because We Have Each Other (Sari Braithwaite)
Something in the Dirt (Aaron Moorehead & Justin Benson)
She Shoots Straight (Corey Yuen) * (pictured)
The Raid (Tsui Hark & Ching Siu-Tung) *
The Ghost Snatchers (Lam Ngai Kai) *
Eastern Condors (Sammo Hung) *
Vampyr (Carl Theodor Dreyer) **
* Part of The Flying Fists of Joyce Godenzi retrospective at GoMA’s Cinémathèque.
** With a live score by Corporate Vibes, also at GoMA’s Cinémathèque.
Thank you. We hope to catch you on Tuesday for our screening of Il Buco, and our following email will contain more information on our 18 October screening of Sofia Bohdanowicz, Burak Çevik & Blake Williams’ A Woman Escapes. An epistolary of remediation and regret, this unique 3D film needs to seen in the cinema for its distinctive optical effects to work.