Keyword results: Film
Flatlands launch
What:
Flatlands launch
Where:
Gorker Gallery, Cnr Gore and Kerr Sts, Fitzroy
When:
Launch TONIGHT! Thurs Oct 9, 6-9pm
How much:
Free!
Description:
Flatlands: Rumination on Love and Romanticism in the Modern Age. When we can't fit the title of a show under the 'What' heading, we know it's going to be thorough. This is a rad interactive video installation by filmmaker Emma Freeman, whom you might know from such projects as Love My Way, Secret Life of Us and the freaky-but-cute 2002 Tropfest Best Film Lamb.
Event: Launch
Stimulus: Free booze & Food
Man On Wire
In 1974, French tightrope walker Philippe Petit strung up a cable between two corners of the World Trade Centre buildings in New York and went for an awe-inspiring stroll. Suddenly, the up-til-then ambivalent public response to the new constructions was converted into a fever of art-fuelled patriotism.
Chris Doyle's Ecstatic City
What:
Chris Doyle's Ecstatic City
Where:
Public filming event at Fed Square
Installation in the moat at NGV International, 180 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne
When:
Public filming event: Fri Sept 26, 9am-6pm
Installation: Oct 9-25, 11am-midnight
How much:
Free!
Description:
Do you remember the little moater that could? He dived into the shallows of the NGV moat and managed to pay for his dinner that night. It's wonderful when citizens make good use of our decorative water features. Chris Doyle thinks so, too. The Brooklyn-based artist projects video pieces against city walls to create moving sculptures of light.
Event: Exhibition
Stimulus: A
Beyond Our Ken
What:
Beyond Our Ken
When:
Very limited season starts today, Thurs Sept 18
Where:
Cinema Nova
Watch the trailer:
Here
Description:
When people are protesting your documentary, you must be doing something right. Beyond Our Ken is a self-funded, low-budget film that turns the microscope onto the controversial KENJA group and their promises of unleashing ‘human potential'. (Feel free to replace ‘group' with ‘cult' and ‘human potential' with ‘charges of sexual abuse'.
Event: Film
Stimulus: A
MIFF Random Play
With seventeen days of films on offer, some of your choices will come down to guesswork - even if you fine-tooth through the program with IMDB bookmarks and a magnifying glass. We roll the dice with some random, synopsis-selected, will-they-or-won't-they picks.
Why not embrace the proud ThreeThousand tradition of choosing a flick based solely on its title? This year it's debut feature with French New Wave tendencies The Pleasure of Being Robbed.
Stolichnaya presents Defenders of the Motherland
What:
Stolichnaya presents Defenders of the Motherland
Where:
Rooftop Cinema, Lvl 7, Curtin House, 252 Swanston St
When:
Sat Feb 23, screening starts at dusk, but come early
How much:
Free if you win the competition, otherwise $18 adults and $15 conc
Win:
We have 3 double passes to give away, to enter email win@threethousand.com.au with the subject line 'it will be redder when they find it'
Description:
You may not know that the very building in which ThreeThousand is produced has a long-standing history with matters of ‘defence' and ‘Russia'. That's because the members of The Australian Communist Party valiantly defended their Curtin House Headquarters against the Police just before WWII.
Event: Film
Stimulus: S
Focus on Gus Van Sant
Gus Vant Sant is synonymous with a particular brand of American arthouse, epitomised by films like Drugstore Cowboy and My Own Private Idaho. Since then, he's journeyed into the mainstream, sometimes subversively (To Die For) and sometimes for some commercial feelgoodery (Good Will Hunting).
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