Program 1: Signs in the debris

Stilted and banal, the consumed rituals of a cruel world
Fri 1 Aug, 9.30pm–11.30 pm

Synaethetic, 10 min
Vijay Thillaimuthu

Synaethetic creates a situation whereby anarchic and defunct technologies democratically combines analogue debris and signal feedback. The result is an extreme environment of heavy voltage sensory stimulation.

http://www.xenosine.com

Conversation #2, 15 min.
SONE: Corey Sands, Keith Deverell

A stilted conversation between two people that dwells on the unforgettable and the banal. Using three laptops SONE gradually manipulate both sound and image to explore fractured narratives, and the language of the unsaid.

Inside the Outside, 30 min.
Artist: Dirk de Bruyn

Inside the Outside is a three screen, gesture and sound poetry performance. It extends the concerns of Traum A Dream (Australia 2003) into the immediacy of the performance situation. Traum A Dream has been described as "A representation of traumatised space, depicting a person who is consumed by a body of pain" and enlists the strategies of Direct Cinema, punk and Artaud's 'cruel' performance.

http://www.innersense.com.au/mif/debruyn_films.html


The American War (#10), 20 min.
Ben Russell
In association with: OtherFilm

Description:
Using a short segment of the popular 1970s American television show M*A*S*H as its foundation, this double-projection performance employs a variety of 16mm film loops, hand-built electronics, prismatic lenses, and analog components to create an audiovisual feedback loop that edges steadily towards the phenomenological. With echoes of Tony Conrad's The Flicker and William Basinski's Disintegration Loops and derived in part from a collaborative performance between Russell and avant-musician Joe Grimm, THE AMERICAN WAR (#10) seeks to interogate the inexplicably human impulse towards violence via the abstracted field of bodily experience.

http://dimeshow.com

Program 2: The sleight of hand

Illusionist constructions, light, and distorting lenses
Saturday 2nd August 4.30 pm

3 Photo-Chemical Hallucinations, 20min
Abject Leader: Joel Stern, Sally Golding
In association with OtherFilm

Description
Handmade 16mm projector extrapolation / exploration; chaotic distortions of optical mechanical and photochemical processes. Unhinged and impressionistic Foley, sound effects and cracked electro-acoustics.
Not Still Life, 8 mins. Live three colour-separation experiments, antique portraiture filmed and projected through green, red and blue filters, the footage converging on a single portrait-format screen Face of an Other, 5 mins. Obsessions with horror manifest as phantasmagoric projections onto the filmmakers own body Bloodless Landscape / Johnny’s Ghost, 8 mins. From a pile of blank, discarded 16mm film leader, photographic images begin to haunt an otherwise desolate film space.

http://www.abjectleader.org/


The ongoing works of Guy Sherwin, 1972–2008
Guy Sherwin with Lynn Loo
In association with OtherFilm

An opportunity to witness the ongoing works of Guy Sherwin, one of the worlds leading practitioners of expanded/performed cinema. The program features illusionist constructions and multi-screen works. His performances are characterised by an enduring concern with light and time as the fundamentals of cinema.

Vowels & Consonants 2005-8, for six 16mm projectors, optical sound and voice. 15 min Cycles #3 1972/2003, for two 16mm projectors and optical sound. 9 min Railings 1977 (for vertical 16mm projection) 8 min (or) Soundtrack 1977 |(2008) 16mm anamorphic. 8min Bay Bridge From Embarcadero 2002/07, for three 16mm projectors, silent. 10 min Man with Mirror 1976/2008, for super 8 projector and mirrored screen. 8 min

http://www.luxonline.org.uk/artists/guy_sherwin/index.html

Program 3: And, is she here?

Codes and intrusions—tensions of public place and personal space
Saturday, August 2nd, 9.30 pm

The Feast, 12 min.
Jon Pak, Danelle Lee, Andrew Gray, Dean Keep
Choreographed by Danelle Lee
Produced by Bee Amuludun
Production support by someones.com

The Feast is a sonification of an awkward situation in which two people eat dinner and discuss a problem. As the waiter conducts his service, their discomfort is heightened through his nervousness, and the soundscape composed from the audio reactive dinner setting. This stark, sterile scene is observed through Jon Pak’s contemporary programming techniques, resulting in an image that intensifies the bodily movements of the diners. The Feast places contemporary movement and generative sound aesthetics in one harmonious render of screen and scene.

Personal Electronics, 20-30 min.
Steven Ball

Are negative comments being made about you? Do you worry about being observed or followed? Do you think that someone has it in for you? Do you worry that there is a conspiracy to harm you? Are there coded messages about you in the media? Do you think that others might control your actions and thoughts? Psychological research shows that in recent years a significant number of people report that they have experiences and thoughts that might be described as ‘paranoid’. In this performance Steven Ball will excavate and articulate reported fears, anxieties, and the often all-too-real experiences.

If you would like to contribute your fears, anxieties and experiences please visit:

http://www.steven-ball.net/personalelectronics

All contributors remain anonymous.

Botborg, 20min
Botborg

Botborg is a practical demonstration of the theories of Dr Arkady Botborger (1923-81), founder of the 'occult' science of Photosonicneurokineasthography—translated as "writing the movement of nerves through use of sound and light". Botborg’s ‘instrument’ is the Photosonicneurokineasthograph - a complex feedback machine incorporating an entangled mix of new and old technologies, which is then altered and customized to the unique features of every venue. Although the human operators of Botborg are skilled manipulators of the system, it is equally unpredictable and uncontrollable, allowing Botborg to look and sound vastly different on every occasion. All demonstrations are completely improvised and no source material is used outside the Photosonicneurokineasthograph.

http://www.botborg.com/