Published quarterly, each issue of Wholphin
is lovingly encoded with unique and ponderable films designed to make
you feel the way the McSweeney's team felt when they learned that
dolphins and whales sometimes, you know, do it. The Wholphin is rare in these parts and to that end we're throwing an exclusive launch screening of Wholphin No.14, where we'll be putting all that cross-species weirdness up on the big screen in both Melbourne and Sydney! Tickets and more info here!
THE FIRST SPEAKEASY TALKIE: TITLE SEQUENCE
Presented in collaboration with State of Design and ACCA, Speakeasy invites designers, filmmakers and creative thinkers to consider how title design frames a film's mood. Showing some of the best and most talked about title designs, and many of their personal favourites, the speakers will explore which sequences have moved audiences and those that have made cinema history. Friday 22 July, 9-11pm at ACCA. More details right here!
What is a Speakeasy Talkie, you ask? Speakeasy Talkies is an irregular series of talks and screenings we think people-of-film will find interesting. Specially engineered for nerds, buffs, casual lovers and lazy thinkers, Talkies invite experts and amateurs to bond over their mutual love for the moving image.
Presented in collaboration with State of Design and ACCA, Speakeasy invites designers, filmmakers and creative thinkers to consider how title design frames a film's mood. Showing some of the best and most talked about title designs, and many of their personal favourites, the speakers will explore which sequences have moved audiences and those that have made cinema history. Friday 22 July, 9-11pm at ACCA. More details right here!
What is a Speakeasy Talkie, you ask? Speakeasy Talkies is an irregular series of talks and screenings we think people-of-film will find interesting. Specially engineered for nerds, buffs, casual lovers and lazy thinkers, Talkies invite experts and amateurs to bond over their mutual love for the moving image.
Non-digital dreamers Peter Tscherkassky and Eve Heller here: in the flesh
Last year we screened one of Peter Tscherkassky's dreamy, avant-garde films as part of RESCORE. If you liked what you saw or are looking for something textural to add to your MIFF calendar, you can catch an extensive collection of his handmade 16 and 35mm repertoire as part of the ACMI/MIFF program Dark Rooms & Dreamscapes. But wait, there's more! ACMI are bringing the renowned Austrian filmmaker to our very city along with fellow dreamscape subject, found footage filmmaker Eve Heller. See them and their films at one of these sessions, or thanks to ACMI, for your chance to win a double pass to this, this, this or this email [email protected] with the name of the session you'd like to see in the subject line. Only winners notified. Comp closes 9am 25/7/11.
Red Chapel Ticket Update
The Red Chapel has been getting lots of laughs this week at Long Play. Remaining screenings happen tonight, Wednesday 2nd and tomorrow, Thursday 3rd at 8pm, with an additional screening at 10pm on Thursday 3rd. We're sorry, but due to the limited capacity we are not doing pre-sales. Tickets go on sale at 7:30pm. Please email us with any questions!
The Red Chapel has been getting lots of laughs this week at Long Play. Remaining screenings happen tonight, Wednesday 2nd and tomorrow, Thursday 3rd at 8pm, with an additional screening at 10pm on Thursday 3rd. We're sorry, but due to the limited capacity we are not doing pre-sales. Tickets go on sale at 7:30pm. Please email us with any questions!
A subversive comedy tour through North Korea takes a turn for the absurd in this gonzo doco from Denmark.
And....we are super excited to be able to put dinner back on the Speakeasy menu! The brilliant folks from Tiny will be serving up home-cooked-style meals to tame those pre-movie hunger pangs. We're talking delicious, kimchi-inspired bowls of vegetarian yumminess for under $10. Wowsers.
Tickets and more info is right here ...
And....we are super excited to be able to put dinner back on the Speakeasy menu! The brilliant folks from Tiny will be serving up home-cooked-style meals to tame those pre-movie hunger pangs. We're talking delicious, kimchi-inspired bowls of vegetarian yumminess for under $10. Wowsers.
Tickets and more info is right here ...
HERE YEA - TAKE NOTE - KOONS CHANGES VENUE - ROUND THE CORNER (LITERALLY) - SAME FILM - TWO SESSIONS
SUNDAY 28TH MARCH
THE SOUNDS OF SCIENCE The films of Jean Painlevé set to a soundtrack by Yo La Tengo
Before David Attenborough and Jacques Cousteau - there was Jean Painlevé (1902-89). Poetic pioneer of science films, Painlevé explored a twilight realm of vampire bats, seahorses, octopi, and liquid crystals. In collaboration with his life-partner, Genevieve Hamon, Painlevé made more than 200 science and nature films and was an early champion of the genre. He was also one of the first filmmakers to take his camera underwater. Surreal, otherworldly documents of marine life, these films transformed sea horses and mollusks into delicate dancers in their own floating ballets.
Possessing a remarkable eye for life's eerie curiosities, Painleve's art pivots on the premise that 'science is fiction'. He created a landscape of bug-eyed wonderment marked by a playful sense of nature's hidden poetry and scandalized the scientific world with a cinema designed to entertain as well as edify. In the process he won over the circle of Surrealists and avant-gardists and counted amongst his friends Antonin Artaud, Sergei Eisenstein, Jean Vigo, and Luis Bunuel. Painlev's astonishing documentaries witness a genuinely 'magic realism', which continues to enchant audiences around the world.
The Sounds of Science pairs eight of his films with an alternative soundtrack by US art-rock band Yo La Tengo. Yo La Tengo's place in rock history is unique - few bands in memory dare to experiment quite so widely with such casual audacity. From screeching art-rock and jangling pop songs to electronic soundscapes and hushed lullabies, their music explores the range of musical history without ever sounding less than modern. In 2001 the band was selected by the San Francisco International Film Festival committee to compose new music for the films of Jean Painlevé. Their alternately sombre and joyously moody music seemed like a natural fit for Painleve's dramatic underwater studies.
A selection from The Sounds of Science will screen before Last Hope on Sunday 28th March. Tickets here or at the door.
With BIG thanks to Jim Knox!
SUNDAY 28TH MARCH
SIXTEEN ORIGINAL SHORT FILMS INSPIRED BY THE SEA.
Set to music from the Spunk catalogue & a live score by The Windy Hills
Set to music from the Spunk catalogue & a live score by The Windy Hills
TUESDAY 2ND FEBRUARY
TUESDAY 22ND DECEMBER
VBS.TV find dirt, dry-zones and Slayer in...
HEAVY METAL GANGS OF WADEYE
VICE Magazine's television network, VBS.TV, travel north to investigate a remote Aboriginal township
with a heavy metal gang problem.
with a heavy metal gang problem.
LAUNCH SCREENING
SATURDAY 30TH OCTOBER / SATURDAY 6TH NOVEMBER
SATURDAY 30TH OCTOBER / SATURDAY 6TH NOVEMBER
‘The “beautiful losers” of this documentary film are self-described former nerds, freaks and outsiders
who turned to skate and graffiti-inspired art, and become … successes.’
~ The Moment / The New York Times blog.
A film by Aaron Rose (Alleged Gallery, NYC) & Thomas Campbell, Shepard Fairey, Jo Jackson,
Chris Johanson, Margaret Kilgallen, Harmony Korine, Geoff McFetridge, Barry McGee, Mike Mills,
Stephen Powers & Ed Templeton. With music by Money Mark.
who turned to skate and graffiti-inspired art, and become … successes.’
~ The Moment / The New York Times blog.
A film by Aaron Rose (Alleged Gallery, NYC) & Thomas Campbell, Shepard Fairey, Jo Jackson,
Chris Johanson, Margaret Kilgallen, Harmony Korine, Geoff McFetridge, Barry McGee, Mike Mills,
Stephen Powers & Ed Templeton. With music by Money Mark.