This is Experimental: Australian Film Art

A three-day festival featuring the leading lights of Australian Experimental Film - Sally Golding, Joel Stern and Dirk de Bruyn - made possible with the support of the Australian High Commission.

Experimental film fans, lovers of analogue and those who just enjoy seeing something a little different will be in for a treat at the New Zealand Film Archive from 11-13 June.

THURSDAY 11 June - Isolationist Eye Openers: Historic Australian Film Art 1962-1998
(70 mintues, Exempt)
A collection of Australian experimental classics from 1962-1998 that explore the nature of film, alienation, the poetics of perception, and the Australian landscape.

FRIDAY 12 JUNE - Retinex Reflux - a performance by Dirk de Bruyn
(60 minutes, Exempt)
Over the last 30 years Melbourne-based film-maker, writer and academic Dirk de Bruyn has made numerous experimental, documentary and animation films and videos. In his first visit to Wellington he presents Retinex Reflux; a live film performance that uses multiple 16mm film projectors in an explosion of light, colour and sound.

SATURDAY 13 JUNE - Light Piercing the Nerve – a performance by Abject Leader
(60 minutes, Exempt)
Abject Leader is an ever–evolving film and music project between Sally Golding (film, projectors) and Joel Stern (concrete sound).
Based in Brisbane, Abject Leader perform ‘expanded cinema’ pieces with multiple 16mm projectors. They describe the key ingredients of their performances as handmade and hand processed film, feedback systems, incongruous foley noise, sprockets and flicker, trumpets and strings, specially prepared screens and alienated narration.

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