'Material Memories' / Dogmilk Films
Julia Flaster curates Material Memories, a program of experimental films and hybrid documentaries screening via Dogmilk Films tonight, Tuesday the 29th of March.
Get down to Tempo Rubato in Brunswick to watch films by Pia Borg, Yuyan Wang, Allison Chhorn and the Karrabing Film Collective. The program includes:
Silica (23’/2017/Australia, UK) by Pia Borg
The Plastic House (46’/ 2019 /Australia) by Allison Chhorn.
All Movements Should Kill the Wind (12’/2019/China) by Yuyan Wang
The Mermaids, Or Aiden in Wonderland (27'/2018/Australia) by the Karrabing Film Collective
Materials crack, leak, snap, split, collapse. They are difficult because they are unpredictable. Yet attention is not often given to the lives of materials and the experiences of those who manipulate them.
This program examines how humans relate to, transform, and are transformed by the wider material world. Exploring the boundaries between unmediated reality and fiction, each film offers us a glimpse into the connections people forge with materials through various scales of making: men covered in dust living among rocks waiting to be cut; a location scout journeys to an abandoned opal mining town; runner beans grow under a collapsing roof … a stranger returns to his ancestral land at the end of the world.
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Images taken as stills from the films that will be screening tonight.
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