CINEXPERIMENT 2 (IN THE FUSEBOX)

SUNDAY 13 SEP @ 6.30PM - 8.00PM

Price: $12 + bf Adult / $10 + bf Conc
Bookings: (02) 9550 3666
Tickets: On sale now @ Factory Theatre; Buy tickets online

An innovative and experimental selection of short films for art cinema connoisseurs and film adventurers alike. These films are hallucinatory, textural, sensual, and engaging. In this session each film’s material is just as important as the story it evokes. This is where cinema begins and ends.

Trips the Light Fantastic Dir. Michael Higgins / IRE / 2009 / 9:00 Lenny is an ill and orphaned child. He spends his waking life engrossed in a mean hard-boiled novel, where the contents have a profound impact on Lenny’s reality.

From Water Dir. Tony Lawrence / AUS / 2009 / 3:50 Found footage of a damaged piece of 8mm film constitutes this extraordinary journey into life and light.

LoopLoop Dir. Patrick Bergeron / CAN / 2009 / 5:00 Using animation, sounds warping and time shifts, this video runs forwards and backwards looking for forgotten details, mimicking the way memories are replayed in the mind.

Blue Tide, Black Water Dir. Eve Gordon & Sam Hamilton / NZ / 2009 / 9:20 Amid an ocean of wax one might chance upon a garden of flowering chemicals, where the filmmakers circumnavigate microscopic reactions, creating an epic in miniature.

Aqua/rainbow Dir. Merilyn Fairskye / AUS / 2009 / 3:15 Surfers congregate out past the breakers. A rainbow arches across an overcast sky.

Dissimilation Dir. Ryshard Dabek / AUS / 2009 / 4:15 A writer imagines the last moments of the life of W.G.Sebald as a super 8 movie screened in an abandoned cinema for an audience of one, traversing the uncanny memory spaces of a trashed shopping mall.

Puppetry Dir. Jeremy Schiffler / AUS / 2008 / 3:29 This is a film about torture. Set within a clinical cell constructed for use by the CIA, MK ULTRA does its job – mind control…thousands of civilians were tortured by this operation.

Lay Claim To An Island Dir. Chris Kennedy / CAN & USA / 2008 / 12:00 Texts from the 1969 American Indian Occupation of Alcatraz and letters from supporters propel an exploration of political yearning, emancipatory architecture and failed utopias. What does it mean to claim land that has more value as a symbol than as a potential home?

Eulogy Dir. Ben Claremont / AUS / 2009 / 6:51 This is a film about life, death… and pigeons.

The Sleeper Dir. Kate Taylor / AUS / 2008 / 5:30 The sleeper gently leads the viewer over the quaking ridges of hallucination & consciousness.

Collide-A-Scope Dir. Gregory Godhard / AUS / 2009 / 3:00 Using the most powerful ‘atom-smasher’ ever built, physicists in Switzerland hoped to find the theoretical Higgs-Boson Particle, the so-called ‘God Particle’. Within days it was reportedly shut down due to faults in its ‘superconducting magnets’. This was a lie. This film contains secret footage of those results.

Botched Eyeball Operation Dir. Clint Enns / CAN / 2007 / 1:00 A voyeuristic gaze at a common operation gone awry, this is the video documentation of someone losing their sight.

Psycho Cicada Circus Circa ’73 Dir. James Blannin-Ferguson / AUS / 2009 / 0:23 A myriadical whirlwind of colour crazy ballistic blitzkrieg. Arm yourself with red cordial and fizz whiz and hold onto your hats.

The Perfect Negative Dir. Rene Chandler / AUS / 2008 / 4:14 A young couple at the end of a tired relationship express their jealousy. A older couple in the honeymoon period of love express their wisdom yet ironically are just about to show their honesty.

Perceptual Subjectivity Dir. Philippe Léonard / CAN / 2009 / 5:30 A short essay exploring the structural formation of thoughts.

Ascolta! Dir. Stephen Dwoskin / ITAL & UK / 2008 / 6:00 Liu, crying, sings “Signore, ascolta!” Liu can bear it no more. She sinks to the ground, exhausted and sobbing. Puccini makes tears of joy and of sadness.

From The Ground Up In Order, Embrace Dir. Nick Briz / USA / 2007 / 1:39 This film explores the digital medium’s natural aesthetics through the binary code, which is a system of ones and zeroes and at the core of everything digital.