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 70 mins approx, includes:
THESE ARE THE DAYS John Tonkin 1994
TIME OUT FOR SPORT Paul Winkler 1996
PROGRAMME Ian Andrews 1995
ASTROTURF Ian Haig 1996
Follow ME Emily Chan 1996
FAKING AN ORGASM Sam Littlemore 1996
MAN ASCENDING John Tonkin 1997
NO WAY TO FORGET Richard Frankland 1996
PLANE TORQUE Merilyn Fairskye 1995
AIR, WATER (PART 2) John Tonkin 1994
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 70 mins approx, includes:
THESE ARE THE DAYS John Tonkin 1994
TIME OUT FOR SPORT Paul Winkler 1996
PROGRAMME Ian Andrews 1995
ASTROTURF Ian Haig 1996
Follow ME Emily Chan 1996
FAKING AN ORGASM Sam Littlemore 1996
MAN ASCENDING John Tonkin 1997
NO WAY TO FORGET Richard Frankland 1996
PLANE TORQUE Merilyn Fairskye 1995
AIR, WATER (PART 2) John Tonkin 1994
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.
