Container #8: Next Screening A Woman Escapes
Along with a giveaway for the inaugural New Farm Queer Film Festival
Hello. Thank you once again for joining us.
Next Screening:
A Woman Escapes | Sofia Bohdanowicz, Burak Çevik & Blake Williams | 7pm Tuesday 18 October at The Elizabeth | 3D
Audrey Benac lives alone in Paris after having moved there to tend to the home of her recently deceased friend, Juliane. Moving through the days without any clear motivation or sense of purpose, she tries to re-establish her footing in the world by beginning video correspondences with two filmmakers: Burak, who lives in Istanbul, and Blake, who lives in Toronto. This exchange of words and footage initiates a healing process, but the nature of the interaction is not what it seems.
Yet that Audrey is played by Deragh Campbell, a regular actor and collaborator with Sofia Bohdanowicz, while Burak and Blake provide versions of themselves begins to suggest where the film can take us. Each filmmaker—Sofia, Burak and Blake—is a distinct stylist, and as the film comes together as an epistolary of remediation, rehearsal and regret, we see how gestures of distancing become intimate. A singular work. Note that this is in 3D and we will provide the glasses. Unrated 15+
With thanks to Sofia Bohdanowicz, Burak Çevik, Blake Williams and Square Eyes Film
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:
18 October: Sofia Bohdanowicz, Burak Çevik & Blake Williams’ A Woman Escapes (3D)
1 November: Artavazd Peleshian’s Nature + 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 (pictured)
6 December: Albert Serra’s Pacifiction
13 December: Harmony Korine’s The Beach Bum
The inaugural New Farm Queer Film Festival announcement and competition:
NFQFF has announced its lineup and opens this weekend, and to celebrate we thought we’d single out some films we like (and do a giveaway.)
Will-o’-the-Wisp (João Pedro Rodrigues—look, we screened it, of course we love it. We’ve also arranged a few passes in collaboration, so if you missed our screening or have a friend you think would love it, let us know and we’ll sort you out.)
Sissy (Hannah Barlow & Kane Senes)
Please Baby Please! (Amanda Kramer, pictured)
The Most Beautiful Boy in the World (Kristina Lindström & Kristian Petri)
and the opening night movie The Divide (Catherine Corsini) which won the Queer Palm at Cannes 2021.
To celebrate, we have a couple of double passes to The Divide to giveaway. To celebrate, simply email us with your favourite queer film in the header, and we’ll email you if you’ve won. :)
We’d also like to give a shoutout to Shannon King and the departed Brisbane Queer Film Festival. We (as QFF) regularly collaborated with BQFF and we know how hard Shannon worked to balance art, community diversity and accessibility. Cultural funding for film is abysmal in Queensland and getting worse, other festivals are cherry picking the popular queer titles that subsidise harder titles, and Covid has made something already hard that much harder. So much love and respect to Shannon King for their work with BQFF and other festivals.
Thank you. We hope to catch you on tonight for our screening of A Woman Escapes, and our following email will contain more information on our 1 November double screening of Artavazd Peleshian’s Nature (pictured) and Drift (which is the beginning of our Helena Wittmann showcase). Don’t worry, Nature is only 60 minutes long and there will be a break.