Come along to our weekly film screenings of independent, international and classic films.
Sunday free films | Freestyle films | Otherfilm | Film screenings in kuril dhagun
| July | |
| Sun 20 Jul | The Pillow Book |
| Sun 27 Jul | From Photomontage to Scratch Video |
| Sat 29 Jul | The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith |
| August | |
| Sun 17 Aug | Night Cries and Feeling Sexy |
| Sun 24 Aug | In this Life's Body |
| Sun 31 Aug | F for Fake |
| September | |
| Sun 7 Sept | Look Both Ways |
| Sun 14 Sept | Brief Encounter |
| Sun 28 Sept | One Way Passenge |
| Wed 16 Jul | Films by Phill Niblock |
| Wed 20 Aug | Plaything |
| Wed 24 Sept | Alchemical Meanderings |
* Print source: National Film and Sound Archives [new window http://www.nfsa.afc.gov.au/]
Sunday free films
Freestyle films
Much like an Artist’s book does for the book form, some films can challenge our perceptions of the medium. This series of films explores and experiments with the film form and introduces new means of expression, visual treatments and methods of production.
The Pillow Book (MA15+)
GB/Neth/ Fr. 1995 Di,sc: Peter Greenaway. Leads: Ewan McGregor, Vivian Wu, Ken Ogata, Yoshi Oida. Col. 125 mins. Subtitles.
The Pillow Book was a diary written by a court lady in 10th C Japan containing reports of lovers, aesthetic observations and lists of favoured objects or activities. Greenaway, a painter before he was a filmmaker, wanted to find a modern equivalent for the pillow book on film. He has devised a collage-like, multilayered mix of sensuality and melodrama around 28 years in the life of Nagiko who keeps a pillow book, develops a fetish for calligraphy and requires her lovers to paint hieroglyphs on her flesh.
When: slq Auditorium 2, level 2
Where: Sun 20 Jul, 2pm
Tickets: free, no bookings required
From photomontage to scratch video (U15)*
Melbourne based photomontagist and artist book author Peter Lyssiotis will present this program including filmworks The Occupant (Australia 1984 Di,sc: Lyssiotis, Ettore Siracusa, ph:Michael Karaglanidis, 22 mins) interweaving memories of his homeland, Cyprus, and his father with fantasies based on his photographs from everyday life and The Ifs of Language (Australia 2001 Di, sc: Lyssiotis and Michael Karis, 9 mins) which is a montage work on the theme of restoring meaning to language. Also included is Zygosis: John Heartfield and the Political Image (GB 1991 Di: Gavin Hodge 27 mins) a tribute to the anti-Nazi satirist and pioneer photomontagist and a selection of Scratch Video from Britain in the 1980s – a multi-layered rhythmic genre of video art - political satire or playful critique of the mass media.
The assistance of Griffith University is gratefully acknowledged.
When: slq Auditorium 2, level 2
Where: Sun 27 Jul, 2pm
Tickets: free, no bookings required
No screenings on 3 & 10 August
17 August
Night Cries (U15)
Australia 1990. Di,sc: Tracey Moffatt. Col. 16 mins.
Charles Chauvel’s film Jedda (1955) is the point of departure for a story of love-hate and loneliness also drawing on the filmmaker’s relationship with her foster mother.
Plus
Feeling Sexy (M)*
Australia 1999. Di, sc: Davida Allen. Leads: Susie Porter, Tamblyn Lord. Col. 48 mins.
This portrait of the early years of a marriage by Queensland based artist Davida Allen is a free blend of autobiography and fantasy. As an artist Davida has, in her own words, “worked from my own observations and fascination with relationships”. The film came from “my interest in the power of one’s imagination” and “the realisation that I could write stories”.
Davida Allen will personally introduce her film.
When: slq Auditorium 2, level 2
Where: Sun 17 Aug, 2pm
Tickets: free, no bookings required
[H6] The assistance of Griffith University is gratefully acknowledged.
In This Life’s Body (U15)*
Australia 1984. A film by Corinne Cantrill. B&w 147 mins.
Corinne and her husband Arthur Cantrill have deployed the camera in their many filmworks more like a palette than an instrument for telling stories. In This Life’s Body nevertheless has a strong story to tell and Corinne tells it in an engaging way through photographs, reflection and introspection as both a highly personal and cultural autobiography spanning six decades. “One story of my life… My friends found this project of value to themselves, in thinking about their lives” (Corinne Cantrill).
When: slq Auditorium 2, level 2
Where: Sun 24 Aug, 2pm
Tickets: free, no bookings required
F for Fake (PG)
France/Iran/W.Germany.1973. Di,sc: Orson Welles. Leads: Orson Welles, Oja Kodar. Col. 85 mins.
Welles uses found footage from a film about the art forger Elmyr de Hory with other footage, both found and filmed, in a kind of homage to forgery and illusionism linking lies and creativity. This is a Welles’ filmwork that reflects his love of the sleight of hand in which he implicates the likes of Clifford Irving, Howard Hughes and Pablo Picasso along with old associates Joseph Cotten, Richard Wilson and Paul Stewart.
When: slq Auditorium 2, level 2
Where: Sun 31 Aug, 2pm
Tickets: free, no bookings required
Look Both Ways (M)*
Australia 2006. Di,sc; Sarah Watt. Leads: William McInnes, Justine Clarke, Anthony Hayes. Col. 100 mins.
Sarah Watt moved through art school and film school to animation and feature filmmaking while maintaining a personal, autobiographical focus in both animation and live action. In Look Both Ways several lives are woven together as encounters with death, or intimations of death, in an affirmation of life.
When: slq Auditorium 2, level 2
Where: Sun 7 Sep, 2pm
Tickets: free, no bookings required
Brief Encounter (M)*
GB 1945. Di: David Lean. Sc: Noel Coward, Ronald Neame, David Lean, Anthony Havelock-Allan from the play Still Life by Noel Coward. Leads: Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway. B&w. 86 mins.
A middle class housewife relives her brief encounter with a married doctor, an unfulfilled chance to escape from the emotional impoverishment of her life. What most endures in this emotionally charged film are the memorable performances of Johnson and Howard as the capitulating lovers.
When: slq Auditorium 2, level 2
Where: Sun 14 Sep, 2pm
Tickets: free, no bookings required
One Way Passage (U15)
USA 1932. Di: Tay Garnett. Sc: Wilson Mitzner, Joseph Jackson from a story by Robert Lord. Leads: William Powell, Kay Francis. 69 mins.
A romantic tragi-comedy in which two people meet in Hong Kong where they break the stems of their champagne glasses together in a submission to chance later rewarded when they find themselves together on a liner. Neither is aware that the other is doomed. Plus a selection of shorts and excerpts in a sampling of surrealism’s filmic accomplices.
When: slq Auditorium 2, level 2
Where: Sun 28 Sep, 2pm
Tickets: free, no bookings required
OtherFilm
Wed 6.30pm, slq Auditorium 2, level 2, free admission
Resuming the free monthly screenings curated and presented by OtherFilm, a Brisbane-based collective dedicated to increasing awareness and appreciation of the ways film can be creatively deployed for other than conventional storytelling. Each Program is introduced by the curator and backed up by program notes. More information on the films being screened will be available closer to the screening dates at www.otherfilm.org
These screenings are sponsored by the State Library of Queensland.
Films by Phill Niblock (U15)
Six early films (1966-69) by the New York based intermedia pioneer. Morning (17 mins) made with the Open Theater Group; The Magic Sun (17 mins) with the Sun Ra Artkestra; the reading of a found text in Dog Track (9 mins); Annie (8 mins) portrait of dancer Ann Danoff using sound collage; Max a collage portrait of Max Neuhas; Raoul (20 mins) a portrait of painter Raoul Middlemen making extensive use of time-lapse photography.
When: slq Auditorium 2, level 2
Where: Wed 16 Jul, 6.30pm
Tickets: free, no bookings required
Plaything (U15)*
An avant-garde playground of dreamlike visitations, interplanetary voyages and science ‘friction’ featuring three short films by early cinema pioneer Georges Melies plus Joseph Cornell’s Children’s Party (1947, 9 mins), Jan Lenica’s Les Astronautes (1960, 3 mins), Jordan Belson’s Cosmos (1970, 6 mins) and Jeff Keen’s White Lite (1960, 3 mins).
When: slq Auditorium 2, level 2
Where: Wed 20 Aug, 6.30pm
Tickets: free, no bookings required
24 September
Alchemical Meanderings (U15)*
Minds manifested in the decomposition and recomposition of the magical substance of film; in Early’s Awakening (1910, 7 mins) a silent morality tale assumes unusual effects through the decomposing colour tinted nitrate film. In To Lavoisier, Who Died in the Reign of Terror (1991, 58 mins), a homage to the father of modern chemistry Antoine Lavoisier (1743-94), Michael Snow collaborated with Carl Brown, manipulating the chemicals on the surface of film stock, creating a tension between the external reality represented on the film and ‘cinematic’ decomposition. Single frame collage by Bruce Conner to the Beatles’ ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’ builds colourful multiple exposures in Looking for Mushrooms (1961, 3 mins).
When: slq Auditorium 2, level 2
Where: Wed 24 Sep, 6.30pm
Tickets: free, no bookings required
Film screenings in kuril dhagun
Learn more about Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders, their histories and cultures through film.
The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith (M15+)
114 mins; Producer: Fred Schepisi; Director: Fred Schepisi; Released: 1994
The story of Jimmie, a young Aboriginal, his marriage to a white girl and the racism and hypocrisy of a small Australian country town.
When: Loris Williams Room, level 1
When: Sat 26 Jul, 1pm
Entry: free, no bookings required
When: slq Auditorium 2, level 2
Where: Wed 20 Aug, 6.30pm
Tickets: free, no bookings required
The Coming of man
60 mins, Released: 1980’s
The aboriginal man is now known to have come to Australia at least 40,000 years ago. Leading anthropologists explain their recent finds including a 30,000 year old skull of a cremated woman at Lake Mungo.
Venue: Loris Williams Room, level 1
Date: Sat 12 Jul, 1pm
Entry: free, no bookings required
Talking Broken (PG)
76 mins; Producer: Lindsey Merrison and Frances Calvert; Director: France Calert; Released: 1990
The Torres Strait Islanders describe their culture and the problems they face from their exposure to Western culture including the impact of tourism, AIDS, adoption, sorcery, dependence on welfare from the mainland and the loss of identity through exposure to Western media.
Venue: Loris Williams Room, level 1
Date: Sat 19 Jul, 1pm
Entry: free, no bookings required
First Born – Jack Davis (PG)
49 mins; Producer: Australian Film Industry Distributions; Released: 1987
Documentary portrait of Aboriginal story writer and playwright.
Venue: Loris Williams Room, level 1
Date: Sat 5 Jul, 1pm
Entry: free, no bookings required
Presented by State Library of Queensland Film Australia (FA) and Australian Film commission (AFC)
*Prints courtesy of the National Film & Sound Archive, Canberra. Other prints from the State Library of Queensland
Ratings |
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| G | General exhibition |
| PG | Parental guidance recommended |
| M | 15+ Recommended for mature audiences |
| U15 | Unrestricted entry |
| Both MA 15+ and 15+ entry restricted to persons 15 years and over unless accompanied by an adult | |
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Both R 18+ and 18+ entry restricted to adults 18 years and over |
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More information
- Email: publicprograms@slq.qld.gov.au
- Phone: +61 7 3840 7768
Last updated: 11th July 2008
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