ALIENS.AU presents a survey of Australian image work: computer graphics, video and film; not just the dazzling new, but work which articulates fissures in the contemporary Australian fabric.
(Post)-colonial Australia is a migratory culture where everyone is to some degree an alien, including, at a social/economic and political level, the Australian indigenous people, our most disadvantaged citizens.
The video SEVEN SISTERS' DREAMING from Central Australia Aboriginal Media Association Productions, shows part of the dreaming story as danced, sung and told in Pitjantjatjara language (with English subtitles), while the film NO WAY TO FORGET by award-winning Aboriginal director Richard Frankland looks at the issue of Aboriginal deaths in custody. TIME OUT FOR SPORT by German-born Paul Winkler, pushes the boundaries of the optical in-camera effects offered by 16mm, while deconstructing a national obsession, sport. WHITE by da Rimini/Starrs and Alyson Bell's HERE I SIT interpret singular madnesses, while Ian Haig's computer animation ASTROTURF takes an amusing look at the madness of unharnessed technological development, or "de-evolution" - from the country with one of the highest take-up rates of new technologies in the world. aliens.au includes work from established artists as well as two student works.
Programme 76 mins approx, includes:
WHITE Francesca da Rimini/Josephine Starrs 1995
LUMP Patricia Piccinini 1996
HERE I SIT Alyson Bell 1996
WHITE-WASHING Caroline Davies/Shane Rowlands 1996
EXPOSES Tony Ayers 1996
500 ACRES Lucy Lehmann 1996
MYSTIC FORCES Elena Popal 1996
SISTER DREAMING (PART 1) Central Australia Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA) Productions in Associations with Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Media (P.Y. Media) 1997
Curated and Introduced by Linda Wallace, aliens . au is presented with the financial assistance of the Australian Film Commission.
With thanks to SIN (Sydney Intermedia Network) for their assistance.
[LESS]ALIENS.AU presents a survey of Australian image work: computer graphics, video and film; not just the dazzling new, but work which articulates fissures in the contemporary Australian fabric.
(Post)-colonial Australia is a migratory culture where everyone is to some degree an alien, including, at a social/economic and political level, the Australian indigenous people, our most disadvantaged citizens.
The video SEVEN SISTERS' DREAMING from Central Australia Aboriginal Media Association Productions, shows part of the dreaming story as danced, sung and told in Pitjantjatjara language (with English subtitles), while the film NO WAY TO FORGET by award-winning Aboriginal director Richard Frankland looks at the issue of Aboriginal deaths in custody. TIME OUT FOR SPORT by German-born Paul Winkler, pushes the boundaries of the optical in-camera effects offered by 16mm, while deconstructing a national obsession, sport. WHITE by da Rimini/Starrs and Alyson Bell's HERE I SIT interpret singular madnesses, while Ian Haig's computer animation ASTROTURF takes an amusing look at the madness of unharnessed technological development, or "de-evolution" - from the country with one of the highest take-up rates of new technologies in the world. aliens.au includes work from established artists as well as two student works.
Programme 76 mins approx, includes:
WHITE Francesca da Rimini/Josephine Starrs 1995
LUMP Patricia Piccinini 1996
HERE I SIT Alyson Bell 1996
WHITE-WASHING Caroline Davies/Shane Rowlands 1996
EXPOSES Tony Ayers 1996
500 ACRES Lucy Lehmann 1996
MYSTIC FORCES Elena Popal 1996
SISTER DREAMING (PART 1) Central Australia Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA) Productions in Associations with Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Media (P.Y. Media) 1997
Curated and Introduced by Linda Wallace, aliens . au is presented with the financial assistance of the Australian Film Commission.
With thanks to SIN (Sydney Intermedia Network) for their assistance.
