S8 28 S8
presented in conjunction with suek-artist and nanolab
8:00pm 28th March 2009
The BAck doOR @ suek-artist
entry off back lane
658 Plenty Road, Preston
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
catch the 86 tram to stop 52
Contrary to beliefs, Super-8 film never went away.
This programme brings back focus to the use of the Super-8 gauge in film practice with a presentation of a collection of Australian experimental Super-8 film, most of which have not been publicly screened before. Still preferred by many, Super-8 has been a favoured gauge internationally by such greats as Derek Jarman, as well as by well-known and significant makers of avant-garde and experimental film, such as Anthony McCall, Carolee Schneemann, and John Maybury. Australia itself has seen many of its productive artists using Super-8 and a number of Super-8 film groups come and go. Today Super-8 is still used by a number of practitioners.
Curated by Richard Tuohy.
Blister Steven Ball, 9 mins, 1990
Compilation Louise Curham, 10 mins, 2003-2008
Ferny Dianna Barrie, 5 mins, 2005
Creek Crack Dianna Barrie, 5 mins, 2008
Hôtel Dunkerque Virginia Hilyard, 4 mins, 2009
City Walk Moira Joseph, 3 mins, 1992
Paws Moira Joseph, 3 mins, 1993
By the Sea Moira Joseph, 3 mins, 2001
Family Faces Moira Joseph, 5 mins, 2007
Porsche Laressa Kosloff, 3 mins, 1999
Wave Pool Laressa Kosloff, 3 mins, 2002
Mallee Stretching Richard Tuohy, 13 mins, 2006-2008
Tawdry Sass Maeve Woods, 5 mins, 1996
Triad Tesseraic Maeve Woods, 9 minutes, 1992
Louise Curham
Compilation
10 mins, 2003-2008
This compilation by Louise Curham includes the following:
Merri Creek
Films for Liquid Architecture
Films for MSL
Abstract films for Alister Spence Conservatorium Grasses
Blue Mountains hand process
Earliest hand process
Japan hand process
The work of Louise Curham takes many forms: direct films, film installations, performed films and experimental films. She uses found and obsolete materials to re-work cinemas relationships to image, audience and space.
Moira Joseph
City Walk
3 mins, 1992
Paws
3 mins, 1993
By the Sea
3 mins, 2001
Family Faces
5 mins, 2007
Moira Joseph has a photographer's vision and many of her films can be compared to extended snapshots and illusions of time, often with an element of dreamlike fantasy.
Laressa Kosloff
Porsche
3 mins, 1999
Wave Pool
3 mins, 2002
Laressa Kosloff's films explore the subjective process of 'truth' in relation to time, space and memory. These films capture people interacting with the built world, undertaking work and leisure activities.
Richard Tuohy
Mallee Stretching
13 mins, 2006-/2008
One of Richard Tuohy's 8mm 'landscape dances', this time exploring the desiccated forms fo Victoria's dry country.
Maeve Woods
Tawdry Sass
5 mins, 1996
Triad Tesseraic
9 mins, 1992
In contrast to her painting works, which almost exclusively involve 'non-retinal' imagery, Maeve Woods films provide a pictorial context that concerns itself with an exploration of the spaceless.
