Quality and Dogmilk Films present audiovisual installation work
Forward, Backward
Video artist Sofie McClure will be exhibiting her new multiscreen audiovisual installation Forward, Backward at Quality in Abbotsford over the weekend of the 23rd of March.
Sofie is interested in film not merely as a visual medium, but as an embodied, multi-sensory practice. Viewing the camera as a receptor to a world inaccessible to the human eye, her work operates at the level of bodily memory and sensory experience that exceeds our cognitive or visual capacities. Sofie’s a member of Naarm-based film collective Dogmilk, her work has been shown at ACCA, Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery, the St Kilda Film Festival and the Signal Building.
Compiling video and sound from various modes of transport and travel, Forward, Backward is a study of movement. Placed in the centre of the installation, the viewer is immersed in a perpetual state of transit, disoriented by the physical act of turning back and forward. Evoking the feeling of looking out of a window of a moving vehicle, the work is a blur until something catches your eye, coming into focus before slipping away. Intercutting the videos of transit are birds in flight, propelled forward by a path invisible to the human eye. Drawing into relief the complexities of human movement across land and water, Forward, Backward looks to the birds for direction.
Collaborating with sound artist Josh Peters, the work is a spatial sound experience, interweaving sound works made by Rebecca Bracewell, Andrew Wear, Felix Adsett and Xavier Wear Gardener.
Where: Quality, Upstairs,1b Marine Parade, Abbotsford
Opening event: 7pm, Saturday 23rd March
Visiting hours: Saturday 23rd 7-9pm, Sunday 24th of March 11am-6pm, Monday 25th - Wednesday 27th March 5-7pm
Cost: Free
Welcome back to Dogmilk Degustations season 2, a fortnightly event that invites filmmakers and film lovers to curate an evening of film.
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For our final Degustations of this second season we’ll have the chance to witness the spatial sound collective Starlings paired with three experimental filmmakers to serve up a steamin’ hot night of Expanded Cinema performances. Sumptuous ingredients are as follows:
- Josh Peters + John Hewison
- Lisa Rae Bartolomei + Jordan James Kaye
- Gillian Lever + Don Gray
- Five 16mm projections
- 1 steel sculpture
- 5 projections screens
- 1 LED screen
- One 24 channel mixer
- 10 speakers
- Hardware video synthesizers to taste
- 6 heads on a silver platter
We’ll leave you with this as one possible method, amongst others, as laid out by Isidore Isou:
The Voice of Daniel (speaking directly to the cinema audience)
"First and foremost, I believe that cinema is too rich. It's obese. It has reached its boundaries, its maximum. At the first attempt to expand itself the cinema will explode! This congested over-fattened pig will burst into a thousand pieces. I declare the destruction of cinema, the first apocalyptic sign of the disjunction and rupture of this bloated and bulging organism called film."
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DOORS @ 6pm
FILM @ 7pm
Tickets on door $10
Free entry for any Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander people. Nobody turned away.
90% of tickets sales go directly to the filmmakers and programmers.
We acknowledge that this event will be taking place on Wurundjeri Land. We pay our respects to their elders past, present and emerging. We acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded on these lands and seas
This week is a special one, a boiling hot cauldron steaming away in a Parisian basement attended to by Line Gigs and Charlie Hewison.
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Peau·x (Skin): that which covers entirely, hiding and protecting our insides from the outside world. But also that surface by which we present ourselves. Three French short films that explore the spaces between these two positions, mediating the multiple compromises that are made there.
Line Gigs is curator and Visual arts manager at la Station - Gare des Mines, experimental lab dedicated to margins in musics and arts, lead by collectif MU. Charlie Hewison is a Paris-based researcher and film studies teacher at Université Picardie Jules Verne. Together, Charlie and Line co-founded Détail, an association dedicated to sound and visual experimentation in all its forms.
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FILMS
“Herman@s. SiblingX (Herman@s. Les adelphes)”H·Alix Sanyas (Mourrier), 2021, 28 mins
“Mue(s)”Frédérique Menant, 2015, 10mins
“Silence of the Sirens (Le silence des sirènes)”Diana Vidrascu, 2019, 34mins
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DOOR @ 6pm
FILMS @ 7pm
Tickets on door $10
Free entry for any Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander people. Nobody turned away.
90% of tickets sales go directly to the filmmakers and programmers.
We acknowledge that this event will be taking place on Wurundjeri Land. We pay our respects to their elders past, present and emerging. We acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded on these lands and seas
Welcome back to Dogmilk Degustations season 2, a fortnightly event that invites filmmakers and film lovers to curate an evening of film.
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This week we have Aotearoa born filmmaker James Gorter leading us by the hand into the undergrowth, a truffle hunt gone wrong as he excavates the foundations of his precise aesthetic vision.
James will be presenting his 2019 graduate film 'And Behold!', a surreal dreamlike story about the events leading up to the disappearance of a young man named Leigh.
He will also be presenting New Zealand director Vincent Ward's 1980 film 'In Spring one Plants Alone'. A mid-length documentary about Puhi, an aged Māori woman looking after her fully grown but wholly dependant son Niki. 'In Spring one Plants Alone' is a mysterious, haunting and powerful portrayal of their life together.
After shooting the documentary, Vincent Ward discovered Puhi's ties to the Māori prophet Rua Kenana Hepetipa also known as The New Messiah and founder of the community New Jerusalem in the early 1900's. His research into Puhi, her life with Niki and her life in The New Jerusalem has been printed into a very limited pressing of 40 books. The book contains Puhi's fascinating history and photo portraits of Puhi and Niki taken by Vincent Ward and will be available for sale on the evening for $25.
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DOORS @ 6pm
FILM @ 7pm
Tickets on door $10
Free entry for any Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander people. Nobody turned away.
90% of tickets sales go directly to the filmmakers and programmers.
We acknowledge that this event will be taking place on Wurundjeri Land. We pay our respects to their elders past, present and emerging. We acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded on these lands and seas.
“When violence is the only life you know, will love save you or just unravel everything?”
Ahead of our invitational screening of Nitrate by renegade filipino filmmaker Khavn at the Fantastic Film Festival of Australia (link to tickets below), we’re over the moon to show the now-classic punk noir opera 'Ruined Heart: Another Love Story Between a Criminal and a Whore'. Shot by Christopher Doyle ('In the Mood for Love') and starring Tadanobu Asano ('Ichi the Killer') and Nathalia Acevedo ('Post Tenebras Lux'), Ruined Heart is a moody, musical, action-packed, fever-pitched, wild ride. Like in many of his films, Khavn’s sense of unbridled creativity and aesthetic disobedience is on full display, belying biting social satire and searing political outrage. You’ve never seen anything like this before…
Naarm-based filmmaker Matthew Victor Pastor will open proceedings with two of his celebrated shorts, both dealing with themes parallel to Ruined Heart. Dubbed “Australia’s most prolific filmmaker”, Matthew’s practice is directly inspired by Khavn's.
CONTENT WARNING:
All three films screened represent and deal with sexual assault and sexual violence. Though never gratuitous nor glamourising, certain images and situations may cause distress for viewers.
Screening order:
'Fun Times '(2020) by Matthew Victor Pastor, 7 mins
'I am JUPITER, I am the BIGGEST PLANET' (2016) by Matthew Victor Pastor, 15 mins
'Ruined Heart: Another Love Story Between a Criminal and a Whore' (2014) by Khavn, 73 mins
DOORS @ 6pm
FILMS @ 7pm
Tickets on door, only $10
Free entry for any Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander people. Nobody turned away.
Screening of 'Nitrate' by Khavn at FFFA: https://www.fantasticfilmfestival.com.au/.../nitrate-to...
90% of ticket sales go directly to the filmmakers and programmers.
We acknowledge that this event will be taking place on Wurundjeri Land. We pay our respects to their elders past, present and emerging. We acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded on these lands and seas.
Welcome back to Dogmilk Degustations, a fortnightly event that invites filmmakers and film lovers to curate an evening of film.
To open this year's series of programs we have the irrepressible GARDEN REFLEXXX presenting a very special sneak peek preview screening of their debut feature film 'Grape Steak'. It can't be overstated how very special this screening will be. You'd be a fool to miss it.
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Vibrant colour invites us into a bat forest as someone waits, strips, for trade. A drummer is interviewed about a violent confrontations as he smashes his kit. A slim figure limps out of the darkness covered in blood to the sounds of New York's underground popstar Macy Rodman. A car bangs along an old dirt road and picks up stragglers, lost overnight who seem less affected than maybe they should be considering...
Grape Steak is a wishfully ambient portal, a love-poem of trauma and humiliation set in Sydney, a slow comedy for a come-down, made resourcefully and communally over five years.
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Garden Reflexxx (Jen Atherton & André Shannon) are artists and filmmakers based in Sydney/Eora. They create, facilitate, talk about and make space for resourceful cinema and independent, queer filmmakers who challenge and play with form and expectations.
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DOORS @ 6pm
FILM @ 7pm
Tickets on door only $10
Free entry for any Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander people. Nobody turned away.
90% of tickets sales go directly to the filmmakers and programmers.
We acknowledge that this event will be taking place on Wurundjeri Land. We pay our respects to their elders past, present and emerging. We acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded on these lands and seas.
'God's Eye', curated by Roslyn Orlando, will be the final Degustations screening for the year so come chow down with us!
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'God’s Eye' features artists working at the intersection of video and performance. Each artist in the program pushes the camera beyond an apparatus of simple documentation, and towards a medium through which to enhance performative ideas. Tensions between the ‘captured time’ of recorded video, and the intrinsically ephemeral nature of performance play out, disrupting normative structures of language, time, intimacy and identity.
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'Sugar France Memory Helix' 2022; Ivan Cheng
'Of A House Beseiged (preposition tweaked)' 2020; Brian Fuata
'The Miracle In Aisle 6' 2015; Nana Biluš Abaffy
Live performance of 'God's Eye'; Roslyn Orlando
'Fabulina' 2019; Jimmy Nuttall
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DOORS @ 6pm
FILMS @ 7pm
Tickets on door $10
Free entry for any Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander people.
Tickets sales go directly to the filmmakers and programmers.
We acknowledge that this event will be taking place on Wurundjeri Land. We pay our respects to their elders past, present and emerging. We acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded on these lands and seas.
Welcome back to Dogmilk Degustations, a fortnightly event that invites filmmakers and film lovers to curate an evening of short films. We’re super excited to announce our next program ‘POLYCORE’ curated by Matt Spisbah and Henry Lai-Pyne.
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Mat Spisbah and Henry Lai-Pyne pull together a series of new media works that cross the boundaries film, art, youtube and doomscrolling.
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Featuring works by:
DeForest Brown Jr & James Hoff
Trent Crawford and Stanton Cornish-Ward
Kingcon2k11
Harrison Hall & Luca Dante
Chill Chill
+ more surprises on the night
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CW:
- Some films contain stroboscopic effects and fast lighting
- Suicidal idetation warning
- Animated gorephics
DOORS @ 6pm
FILMS @ 7pm
Tickets on door $10
Free entry for any Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander people.
Tickets sales go directly to the filmmakers and programmers.
We acknowledge that this event will be taking place on Wurundjeri Land. We pay our respects to their elders past, present and emerging. We acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded on these lands and seas.
We're incredibly excited to announce our next programmers - Rick Charnoski and Coan "Buddy" Nichols of Six Stair Films.
After the underground success of their first film, the super 8mm skateboard classic Fruit of the Vine (1999), Coan "Buddy" Nichols and Rick Charnoski founded the independent production company Six Stair, which operates under the same DIY ethics of the subculture that raised them: skateboarding and punk rock. Since 1999 Nichols and Charnoski have charted an unorthodox path, making a broad range of films that consistently go beyond tired tropes to illuminate deeper truths.
After catching the eye of renowned cinematographer Christopher Doyle for their specialty in Super 8mm and 16mm filmmaking, he tapped Charnoski and Nichols to shoot the dream sequences for Gus Van Sant’s Paranoid Park (2007). They have since worked with a wide range of respected artists and filmmakers including Cameron Crowe, Richard Serra, Peter Beard, Julian Schnabel, and NeckFace and musicians as diverse as Lightning Bolt, Neil Young and Pearl Jam.
“They’re interesting examples of intellectual curiosity, talent and hard work co-existing with total fun-loving, skate trog crustiness” wrote friend and occasional collaborator Jocko Weyland.
We're lucky enough to have Rick all the way from LA, who will take us smoothly on the Six Stair journey. On that note - Rick's new film 'Warmblood' will be showing at MIFF, which we hugely recommend checking out! >>> https://miff.com.au/program/film/warm-blood
DOORS @ 6pm
FILMS @ 7pm
Tickets on door $10
Free entry for any Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander people.
Tickets sales go directly to the filmmakers and programmers.
We acknowledge that this event will be taking place on Wurundjeri Land. We pay our respects to their elders past, present and emerging. We acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded on these lands and seas.
Poster credit - Rick Charnoski
Welcome back to Dogmilk Degustations, a fortnightly event that invites filmmakers and film lovers to curate an evening of short films.
This week we have Flo Holmes and Jesse Vogelaar cooking on twin burners.
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A low-to-no budget buffet of rebellion - a showcase of good things that happen when a person snaps to stay sane creatively. Budgets be damned.
'Rinuwat Arawa'; Directed by Thuy Vy
'Display Suite'; Directed by Emmett Aldred
'The Rinse'; Directed by Jesse Vogelaar
'Lost Highway'; Directed by Underdog TV
'June Jones - Goblin Mindset'; Directed by Geoffrey O'Connor
'Objects of My Disaffection'; Directed by Sarah Jane Woulahan
'Minorfauna - Cooler Than Me'; Directed by Jesse Vogelaar
'Prasizzler Queen of the Dessert'; Directed by Emmett Aldred
+ bonus clips for extra special seasoning
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DOORS @ 6pm
FILMS @ 7pm
Tickets on door $10
Free entry for any Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander people.
Tickets sales go directly to the filmmakers and programmers.
We acknowledge that this event will be taking place on Wurundjeri Land. We pay our respects to their elders past, present and emerging. We acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded on these lands and seas.
(Poster Credit - Nathaniel Howells)
Young Filipino filmmaker Ligaya Villablanca will be presenting, for the first time in Australia, the freshly baked film initiative Moving Eyelands.
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“Universality in on at from Regionality”
A transregional selection of Philippine shorts by regional filmmakers originating from West (Panay Island), East (Leyte Province), South (Davao City), North, (Quezon City), and center (Cebu Province). These are the products of the archipelagic realities from different islands. These regional narratives speak both highly and subtly on the unjust system to the demons of the individual man.
This program does not only regard making films that portray the identity of a nation, rather it is also the process of initiating transnational intentions. To create films that portray a country is to represent a country on a worldwide stage, but how do we compose national cinema exactly? As filmmaker & film historian Nick Deocampo puts it, “to forge a national cinema, the role of the regions as centers of cinematic production becomes crucial in the development of film as a national culture.” May the spaces between ourselves be the link with each other.
'Laugh and Die' 2020; Directed by Jonathan Jose Zamora Olarte
'Ilaw Ikaw' 2022; Directed by Mary Anne Caharop
'Aksyon!' 2019; Directed by Frank Go
'Ako Sila' 2022; Directed by Nastasia Wildi
'Budots: The Craze' 2019; Directed by Jay Rosas & Mark Limbaga
'Ang Mga Damgo Para Lang Sa Wala Nagakatulog' 2020; Directed by Richard Olano
'Sige, Pero Dili Nako Guniton Imong Kamot' 2019; Directed by Ronnie Gamboa
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DOORS @ 6pm
FILMS @ 7pm
Tickets on door $10
Free entry for any Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander people.
Tickets sales go directly to the filmmakers and programmers.
We acknowledge that this event will be taking place on Wurundjeri Land. We pay our respects to their elders past, present and emerging. We acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded on these lands and seas.
This week the inimitable Amelia Childs, of Baby Gold Production Design and Merge Melbourne fame, will be serving up a particularly delicate selection of locally produced short films.
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‘Before Too Long’ is a collection of short films developed and produced in Naarm, that each tell significant and vibrant stories of history, culture, love, and the experience of life. As the title suggests, this curation dives deeply into deliberate snapshots of existence, in which characters are presented with key moments that may cause a profound effect on their future. These seemingly unrelated films are connected at their core by this ethos, and as such, together spin a tapestry that reflects the true human experience.
‘Backing Up Bilitis’ 2018; Directed by AP Pobjoy
‘Mother Tongue’ 2019; Directed by Jess Li
‘Shepherd’ 2017; Directed by Clay Waddell
‘Someone Else’ 2020; Directed by Luke McCarthy
‘Haze’ 2022; Directed by Meg Duncan
‘Bloom’ 2018; Directed by Isobelle Amie
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DOORS @ 6pm
FILMS @ 7pm
Tickets on door $10
Free entry for any Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander people.
Tickets sales go directly to the filmmakers and programmers.
We acknowledge that this event will be taking place on Wurundjeri Land. We pay our respects to their elders past, present and emerging. We acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded on these lands and seas.
We're back for our next installment of Dogmilk Degustations, a fortnightly event that invites filmmakers and film lovers to curate an evening of short films.
We’re excited to invite Marcus Salvagno to program the upcoming event, ‘Kampung Suwung Selects’. Kampung Suwung Selects is a collection of films made by members and friends of the anarchist farming project Kampung Suwung which is located in East Java, Indonesia. On the edge of a volcano, Kampung Suwung focuses on expanding permaculture and cinema culture which are strangled by the domination of monoculture both in aesthetics and literally the cheap chemical horticulture. This small selection of seemingly unrelated films represents the attempt at survival of the project, as well as housing films made by members of the cooperative and their friends.
FILMS SHOWING
CONTENT WARNING - THE FILMS JARANAN and AUSTRALIA PT1 BOTH SHOW CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
NUNGU TEKA (2016)
Directed by Mahesa Desaga
A mother waits and prepares for Eid, hoping for the return of her child. Her house is simple without a companion or relatives. Picked as part of MIFF’s Indonesian shorts section, Mahesa Desaga’s Nungu Teka is about alienation and isolation. It won jury selection at the 2017 Australia Indonesia Cinema Festival (FSAI).
BEGAL (2019)
Directed by A. Ashani Taqwim
A grindhouse car-motorbike chase movie. Limitless adventures people. An evil that comes from nowhere, that has no name or identity. A response to an economic problem. Begal means Motorbike bandit. In Madura they are known to hack their victims with machetes - often to steal cars, wallets, bags, whatever.
JARANAN (2017) - Excerpt (Work in Progress)
Directed by Silvia Indriyani and Marcus Salvagno
Part documentary, part abject confusion within a framework of cultural relativism and questions about imperialism, Jaranan follows Pak Agus who can communicate with the dead. Pak Agus is a pawang - Shaman is the closest word in English, and he can put the spirits of the dead into the body of the living and can control the rain. Shown as part of Multicultural Arts Victoria’s Mapping Melbourne festival, Jaranan is a work in progress halted by the pandemic. This version of Jaranan is a one off screening of the work in progress. You are the test audience. This film shows cruelty to animals.
AUSTRALIA PT 1 (2012)
Directed by Giovanni Lorusso
Brutally beautiful and disturbingly evocative of times past, Australia Pt1, is a collaboration between DoP/Director Giovanni Lorusso and First Nations kangaroo hunters from Yuendumu, Northern Territory. An official selection of the Sydney Underground Film Festival 2012. It was filmed around Yuendumu. This film shows cruelty to animals.
RARE EARTH (2021)
Directed by Robert Peter McDougall
Deep in a little-known part of China, under a washed-out sky, lies a poisonous dam boiling with global capital’s hunger for gadgets, devices and eco-consumerism.Part essay film, part artist’s documentary, McDougall’s video work looks at the imperatives of exploration and extraction in juxtaposition with pre-modern cultural values, which could lay the basis for more balanced ecological futures. For McDougall, industrial growth actually means degradation. He describes Baotou Steel and its Weikuang tailings dam, where toxic byproducts and waste is dumped, as a “vast industrial hellscape.” In this work, McDougall’s innovation is to upend the usual logic of progress and technology. Rare Earth reveals the violent lie of endless industry, as well as the false binary between modern development and tradition.
DOORS @ 6pm
FILMS @ 7pm
Tickets on door $10
Free entry for any Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander people
Tickets sales go directly to the filmmakers and programmers.
We acknowledge that this event will be taking place on Wurundjeri Land. We pay our respects to their elders past, present and emerging. We acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded on these lands and seas.
We are super excited to announce the next Degustations program by Melbourne based label Happy Tapes, ‘Memory Screen’.
Local music label Happy Tapes shares their video works project “Memory Screen” documenting and archiving local underground music and fringe artists/entities such as Brett Bancroft (Melbourne’s iconic puppeteer busker), as well as portions of their extensive collection of VHS tapes - digitized and similarly archived in an effort to capture and immortalize the ephemeral and decaying information stored within. Sourced from tip shops, hard rubbish, Eastern European clubhouses and everywhere in between, Happy Tapes aims to share and celebrate lost and forgotten memories.
DOORS @ 6pm
FILMS @ 7pm
Tickets on door $10
Free entry for any Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander people
Come down to Miscellania next Wednesday 1st of June, for a night of VHS indulgence
We acknowledge that this screening will be held on stolen indigenous land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to all elders, past and present and any Aboriginal and Torres Strait people who may attend this event.
'The Discomfort of Everything' is a program of 6 short films curated by Diego Ramirez and Taylor Mitchell, as a part of the fortnightly Dogmilk Degustations screenings. We invite you all to the first of an ongoing fortnightly Degustations screenings held at Miscellania. Dogmilk Degustations invites local and emerging filmmakers and film lovers to share a selection of films. Join us for a comfortable evening of thought provoking films accompanied by drinks at the bar.
Narcissus is enthralled by their darkened reflection in a pool of oil. Wellness influencers call this state of capitalism a red flag on TikTok. But that is such a pissy thing to say, so give Narcissus an igniting match and listen to the atonality of their manic laughter. You have 15 seconds to make a counter TikTok. The doom scroll begins with a snip-snap-whoosh from the banality of your Facebook-marketplace patio chair.
The Discomfort of Everything looks at how the moving image gazes at this state of contemporary uneasiness. From increasingly uninhabitable landscapes, to unrestrained body horrors and the toxicity of Reddit, these works turn the frame into a dark mirror. We gaze at its reflection to observe our shadow and contemplate the psychological pollution of the present. The only green flag here is the beam of the projector, everything else is red.
- Diego Ramirez
Works (in screening order)
A Century Plant in Bloom - Ross Meckfessel | 10:16
Hard As You Can - Tiyan Baker | 12:05
Vox - Philip Brophy | 6:16
White Walls - Alessandro Sedda and Annalisa Ciacco | 14:55
Trans-apariencia-estéreo-voodoo - Bruno Varela | 4:06
The Harvest (Pilot Episode) - Andrew Roberts and Mauricio Muñoz | 12:05
$10 tickets on door
Free tickets to any Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people
DOORS @ 6pm
SCREENING @ 7pm
@miscellania
We wish to acknowledge that this screening, amongst every other screening will take place on stolen land.
To the Traditional Custodians of the land, the Bunurong Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the Eastern Kulin Nation, we extend our respects to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples who may attend/are living and have lived in Naarm.
Dogmilk Degustations will be returning to Good Times this Sunday for another evening of short films in the courtyard! Dogmilk Degustations invites local and emerging filmmakers and film lovers to share a selection of films. The Good Times bar and kitchen will be open, offering a special Sunday menu of spaghetti jaffles.
For this Sunday’s Degustation, Lawrence Mccrabb has curated the program ‘Desert Dreaming’. Desert Dreaming presents films from Mparntwe, Ltyentye Apurte and Fitzroy crossing. Themed around the connection to these places and the creatives that inhabit them. These films seek to demonstrate the everlasting connection Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander people have to country and culture.
The later half of the program will showcase films from Spinifex Skateboards and the Central Australian Skateboarding scene. Spinifex Skateboards was created by Nicky Hayes. Nicky is an Arrernte man and traditional owner from Ltyentye Apurte. As Australia’s first indigenous skateboarding company, Spinifex helps provide kids in the remote community of Ltyentye Apurte with access to skateboard programs. Providing a chance for young people to try new things and engage on other levels and expose them to a world and community outside their own. These films demonstrate skateboarding as an all inclusive platform where you can find solidity while building comradery and companionship.
The program includes:
“Desert Metal Dreaming” (2021) by Pirate 18mins
“A Zombie Stole my Dingo” (2020) by Brigid Sarah 8mins
“Two Men” (2009) by Dominic Allen 4mins
“Post Humous Echoes” (2020) by Fiona Walsh 7mins 30secs
“Songline Skateboarding” (2021) by Greg Barnes/Spinifex Skateboarding 12mins 30 secs
“Spinifex Vol1” (2020) by Spinifex Skateboarding 4mins
“See yas Afta” (2021) by GM Rocks 12mins
Tickets will be sold on the door and sales will go directly to the filmmakers and programmers.
We acknowledge that this event will be taking place on Wurundjeri Land. We pay our respects to their elders past, present and emerging. We acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded on these lands and seas.
Join us for the first Sunday evening of Dogmilk Degustations at Good Times! Dogmilk Degustations invites local and emerging filmmakers and film lovers to share a selection of films. We’re excited to announce we will be using the Good Times courtyard for outdoor screenings. The Good Times bar and kitchen will be open, offering some special Sunday treat of spaghetti jaffles and mimosas.
For the first half of the evening (7-8pm), Sofie McClure will present Five Frames, a selection of experimental films that each explore one of the five senses - touch, vision, smell, taste and hearing. By watching these five films alongside one another, Five Frames seeks to evoke an experience of synaesthesia; where you smell what you hear and taste what you see.
For the second half of the evening (8.30-9.30pm) Anna Georgia Mackay will present Granada Selections, showcasing two documentary films from the Granada Centre Visual Anthropology.
To read more about both programs click on the posts below.
5-7pm: Dj Ballpoint Pen Theif & Hypnik Jerk
Tickets will be sold on the door and sales will go directly to the filmmakers and programmers.
We acknowledge that this event will be taking place on Wurundjeri Land. We pay our respects to their elders past, present and emerging. We acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded on these lands and seas.
Five Frames:
'Obvious' by Xavier Wear Gardener (2022)
'Mouthing' by Uma Christensen (2022)
'Super Flat' by Hugo (2022)
'No Puedo' by Claudia Saballa Hobbs (2022)
'Phosphenes' by Sofie McClure (2021)
Granada Selections:
'About Love in a Small Island' (Iran, 2018) by Elehah Habibi (b. 1985, Tehran)
'Above 592 Metres' (Spain, 2017) by Maddi Barber (b. 1988, Pamplona)
Date: Sunday 10th of April
Time: Doors at 5pm, Screenings at 7pm
Venue: Good Times, 214 St Georges Rd, Fitzroy North VIC 3068
Tickets: $10
Poster by Sofie McClure and Xavier Wear Gardener
Dogmilk Films invites Julia Flaster to curate a program of short and mid length films for their ‘Degustations’ screening series, running at Tempo Rubato on Tuesday 29th of March. Running since 2018, Dogmilk Degustations invites local and emerging filmmakers and practitioners to select films that have inspired and influenced their own practice.
Julia Flaster is an arts worker and film producer of both short films and documentaries, working between France and Australia. She is the founder of Debris, a story-driven print publication. Julia is currently working as a production assistant in Paris on a number of documentaries. Julia has curated a program of experimental films and hybrid documentaries named Material Memories:
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.
Material Memories features 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.
Date: Tuesday 29th of March
Time: Doors @ 7pm, screening @ 8pm
Venue: Tempo Rubato, 34 Breese St, Brunswick 3056
Tickets: $16.5
It is with great pleasure that Dogmilk and Jugend Ohne Film join forces to present a screening of C.W. Winters and Anders Edström’s The Works and Days. The film will have it's southern hemisphere debut screening at Tempo Rubato on the 26th of January across 8 hours/5 seasons, with 3 intermissions.
“The first rule in farming is that you are never to hope for an easy way. The land demands your effort.” The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin), the second feature from directors C.W. Winter & Anders Edström, is an eight-hour fiction film shot for a total of twenty seven weeks, over a period of fourteen months, in a village population forty-seven in the mountains of Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. It is a geographic description of the work and non-work of a farmer. A portrait, over five seasons, of a family, of a terrain, of a sound space, and of duration itself. It is a film that takes the time to spend time and hear people out. A film-as-adaptive landscape. A georgic in five
books. Featuring a performance by Tayoko Shiojiri that binds fiction and actual bereavement into a heartbreaking indeterminability.
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“Whenever somebody asks me what this film is about, I say: the surfaces of windows and the sound of crickets. It’s not more inaccurate than anything else. It’s a film about coexistence. Fiction exists between trees, memories only appear because the moon is shining, wind also brings the music we like to listen to.” - Patrick Holzapfel, jugend ohne film
“A day spent in darkness, a 480-minute wager that the long take is not the only path to duration. A sustained look at a family and the land it works, at once intimate and expansive. More than a film to watch, The Works and Days is an experience that engulfs.” – Erika Balsom, Artforum
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Jugend ohne film is a Vienna-based film journal founded by Patrick Holzapfel. They published an editorial for the film in June of 2021 in collaboration with the filmmakers. James Waters is one of the journal’s contributors and the Melbourne representative on behalf of the journal for this screening.
Docmilk is back for its first edition of 2022, and it's a pearler: The Sprawl (Propaganda About Propaganda) by research and design studio Metahaven. A series of free screenings curated by Dogmilk, Docmilk explores the limits of the documentary form and method, and testing the boundaries between reality and fiction.
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The Sprawl (Propaganda About Propaganda)
2015
70’
“The Sprawl (Propaganda About Propaganda) is a fiction-documentary tracing several uncanny and seemingly unconnected events occurring in 2014, including the Ukrainian revolution, the Russian annexing of Crimea, the widespread Western media coverage of Russian troll farms, the downing of a Malaysian Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lampur, and the Ebola outbreak, among others. The Sprawl embodies the conditions it seeks to document, taking on jarring shifts in tone, content and genre. […] The societal conditions that Metahaven seeks to address include the simultaneous democracy of authorship afforded by the internet and supposed danger to truth that it poses, the subsequent proliferation of propaganda campaigns online, the subtraction of vast complexity into simple, actionable points, known to Metahaven as ‘the interface.’ The wide-ranging nature of the content this work touches upon is reflected in its original episodic structure.”
— Karen Archey, “Cloudy Weather,” in: Metahaven and Karen Archey (eds.), PSYOP: An Anthology, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, ICA London, London: Koenig Books, 2018
written and directed by Metahaven
featuring—Benjamin H. Bratton, Maryam Monalisa Gharavi, and Peter Pomerantsev
music—Kuedo
cast—Gwen Pol, Georgina Dávid, Annabel Reid
director of photography—Remko Schnorr
additional photography—Metahaven, Solveig Suess
camera & lighting assistant—Elisa Grasso
editing—Metahaven
sound design—Kuedo
production manager—Anna Spierings, Lucy Chinen
web design—Metahaven
web programming—Jonas Lund
research assistan—Lucy Chinen
design assistant—Kees de Klein
3D animation—Benedikt “Mad Max” Wöppel
Russian script consultant—Anastasia Kubrak
sound mix—Ranko Paukovic
featuring excerps from
—Leo Tolstoy
“What is Art?,” 1897
translation by Aylmer Maude
—Anna Akhmatova
“Requiem,” 1935—1940
translation by Nancy K. Anderson
—Nikolai Berdyaev
“Dream and Reality; An Essay in Autobiography,” 1951
—Qur’ân, Sûrat Taha
Chapter 20, verse 132
translation N.J. Dawood
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We acknowledge the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation as the custodians of the land on which this event takes place, and we recognise that sovereignty was never ceded. We pay our respect to elders past and present. Always was, always will be Aboriginal Land.
La Mama's Cinematica partners with Dogmilk to present this selection of short films and video works that appearred on the VODmilk online platform in 2020/21
During lockdown in 2020, the Dogmilk film collective found a way to continue engaging with collaborators in Indonesia and allow emerging film practitioners and video artists to exhibit work without the capacity to assemble and screen live. VODmilk was the solution; an online platform for thought-provoking films, video art, and everything in between, offering a new program, from a different programmer, every fortnight. Each work would be translated into both Indonesian and English to be accessible to both audiences. This selection represents a diverse cross-section of some of the works that appeared on VODmilk.
Program 1
Huma Amas – Muhammad Al Fayed (2020) 21:22
H.M.V.S. – Matthew Berka (2017) 7:03
Swimming Yesterday – Damian Kane (2020) 12:46
Listen to Mama – Angie Pai (2019) 19:26
Runtime: 60:37
Program 2
Jupurrurla Man of Media – Josef Egger (2019) 27:57
Sorry I Was Late Again – Elizabeth Lim (2020) 4:01
The Turks are Coming – Baris Ulusoy & Orson Dijle (2020) 12:51
Mestiza – Ranima Montes (2018) 6:00
Suster Apung (Floating Nurse) – Arfan Sabran (2006) 15:10
Runtime: 65:19
Much of the work for these pieces was carried out on the unceded lands of the Arrernte people and those of the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation. We would like to extend our respect and gratitude to elders past and present of these peoples, as well as to First Nations people everywhere.
The content of this moving image work concerns the lives, culture, history and lands of Toraja in South Sulawesi. The artists would like to express their deepest respect and gratitude to Torajan communities around the world.
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Duration: 91 mins
Screening sessions: Saturday 11th @ 5pm & 8pm; Sunday 12th @ 2.30pm, 5pm & 8pm
Ticket prices: $15 full price, $10 concession
Dogmilk is very excited to announce 5 screenings of 4-channel immersive film 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐜𝐢𝐫𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐨𝐧 & 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐧 on Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th of December, in the North Magdalen Laundry of the Abbotsford Convent.
𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐜𝐢𝐫𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐨𝐧 & 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐧 is an expanded audio-visual work produced by Dogmilk’s new cross-cultural exchange project, Sipakatuo (Glorify One Another), connecting screen and sound practitioners between Indonesia and Australia.
DSTV (Delta Sangalla’ TV) have been documenting the social and ceremonial life of the highland region of Toraja in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, since 2006. Toraja is known for its distinctive funeral ceremonies that galvanize entire communities, but DSTVs footage captures events both private and public that reveal a life in Toraja rarely shown. In 2011 DSTV launched a cable television network in their district, Sangalla’, then set up a YouTube account in 2017, now with over 300,000 followers. Broadcast out of the DSTV headquarters, their images can be seen playing in homes, warungs and palm wine bars across the district and around the world.
4 video channels on 4 screens, each a different perspective and temporality of the same event, of adjacent action, each contributing to the construction of a shared collective memory, and each produced by a cameraperson in the DSTV crew. In a collision of form and substance, all circles the moon and dirt shines in the sun proposes an emotional topography of DSTV’s work over the last 15 years, a living and growing archive of Torajan life, individual and communal.
𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐜𝐢𝐫𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐨𝐧 & 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐧 is made up of over 4000 separate clips from the DSTV video archive. Re-arranged and constructed by Wahyu Al Mardhani and Chris Cochrane-Friedrich, the archival video material is accompanied by text from interviews conducted with the founder of DSTV, Victor Konda, over the last four years and sound recordings collected by sound artist Josh Peters in Toraja.
The title of the work is one English interpretation of the ancient name for the Torajan territories; tondok lepongan bulan, tana matari’ allo. High Torajan language, used mainly for ceremony, is a pluralist language, in that each word contains multiple meanings. The title attempts to access the poetry of the High Torajan language while translating some of its original meaning.
𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐜𝐢𝐫𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐨𝐧 & 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐧 is the culmination of two years of creative partnership and shared research by what has become the Sipakatuo (Glorify One Another) project. The work is accompanied by an online interview series conducted by the contributors to the project with relevant and significant artists and researchers, each with expertise and experience pertaining to the methods and processes undertaken during the creation of this installation. This research has in turn nourished and informed the creative process and shaped their approach to collaboration and co-creation.
The contributors would like to thank each and every interviewee for their time, knowledge and generosity. This project is presented and supported by Asialink Arts with generous funding assistance from the Victorian government through Creative Victoria, we gratefully acknowledge additional event support from Project Eleven.
Disclaimer:
This work includes images of a person who has passed away and their body’s preparation for a funeral ceremony. Some viewers may find this footage distressing.
DSTV:
Victor Konda
Egy Tonapa
Paul Tandiayu
Edwar Kevin Ada
Arnolbi Tappe
Contributors:
Wahyu Al-Mardhani
Chris Cochrane-Friedrich
Josh Peters
Afifah Tasya
Sam Hewison
Irfan Ashar Pratama
Alif Imam Dzaki
Image design by Cosmo Feltham and Chris Cochrane-Friedrich
Where: CAAMA Shed, 101 Todd St, The Gap (access via side gate at the front of the building)
When: Saturday Oct 2nd - Friday Oct 22nd
Opening hours:
Wed - Thurs: 3-8pm
Fri - Sat: 5-10pm
Sun - 3 - 8pm
DSTV (Delta Sangalla' TV) have been documenting Torajan social and ceremonial life since 2006, when it was founded by Victor Konda. In 2011 DSTV launched a cable television network in their district, Sangalla', then set up a Youtube account in 2017, now with over 300,000 followers. DSTV's work is in documenting both the personal and the communal, a monumental archive of touching and captivating footage.
all circles the moon and dirt shines in the sun is made up of over 4000 seperate clips, all recorded by a DSTV crew member, and either broadcast on local television through their network or published on Youtube, arranged and constructed by Wahyu Al Mardhani and Chris Cochrane-Friedrich. The video material is accompanied by text from interviews conducted with Victor over the last four years and sound recordings collected by sound artist Josh Peters in Toraja.
Each space contained within the installation reconstructs a space in Toraja in which these images are consumed, edited and broadcast. Four video channels on four screens in each space, each a different perspective and temporality of the same event and each captured by a cameraperson in the DSTV crew. all circles the moon and dirt shines in the sun proposes an emotional topography of DSTV’s work over the last 15 years, a living and growing archive of Torajan life.
The title of the work is an exploration of pluralism in language, a mistranslation of the original name of Toraja (Tondok Lepongan Bulan, Tana Matari' Allo). It was a collaborative effort to translate the poetry of the old Torajan language while retaining at least some of the original meaning.
This work is the culmination of two years of creative partnership and shared research by what has become the Sipakatuo (To Glorify One Another) collective. 'all circles the moon and dirt shines in the sun' is accompanied by an interview series conducted by the members of the collective with relevant and significant cultural agents, each with expertise and experience pertaining to the methods and processes undertaken during the creation of this installation work. This research has in turn nourished and informed the creative process, and shaped our approach to collaboration and co-creation. This interview series will be launched alongside the Sipakatuo website in November.
Disclaimer:
The video content of this work includes images of a person who has passed away and their body’s preparation for a funeral ceremony. Some viewers may find this footage distressing.
ABOUT SIPAKATUO
Sipakatuo (To Glorify One Another) is a collective initiative aiming to connect screen and sound practitioners and researchers between Makassar, Mparntwe (Alice Springs) and Naarm/Birrarung Ga (Melbourne), to make collaborative work, and build a sustainable creative bridge between Sulawesi and Australia.
Born from a shared love and curiosity for the moving image and audio visual encounters, Sipakatuo is an exchange programme that proposes a space for cross-cultural dialogue and creative collaboration. To learn from each other, teach one another, change and grow together.
The exchange comprises knowledge-sharing and capacity-building workshops, interviews with artists, filmmakers and cultural agents across Australia and Indonesia and in-depth research related to the works produced.
The contributors would like to thank each and every interviewee for their time, knowledge and generosity. This work was made possible thanks to support from Arts NT, Asialink Arts and the Alice Springs Town Council.
Contributors:
Wahyu Al-Mardhani
Chris Cochrane-Friedrich
Josh Peters
Norbert Jakamarra Williams
Afifah Tasya
Sam Hewison
Irfan Ashar Pratama
DSTV:
Victor Konda
Egy Tonapa
Paul Tandiayu
Edwar Kevin Ada
Arnolbi Tappi
Image design by Cosmo Feltham
Docmilk marches on... A series of free screenings curated by Dogmilk, Docmilk explores the limits of the documentary form and method, and testing the boundaries between reality and fiction.
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Island of the Hungry Ghosts (2018) by Gabrielle Brady uses the pretext of the spectacular seasonal crab migration of Christmas Island to bring attention to the islands other inhabitants: asylum seekers held indefinitely in a high-security detention centre hidden in the island’s core. Part nature documentary part social justice poetry, the result is a hypnotic and often tragic reflection on the hidden forces that shape the world around us. The captivating beauty of the cinematography reinforces the very real injustices of human suffering endured by asylum seekers and elevates the grandeur of natural cycles. Selected at several major film festivals across the world (including Tribeca, IDFA and Visions Du Réel), Island of the Hungry Ghosts is criminally underseen in Australia, arguably where it needs to be seen most. The screening comes a few weeks out from Refugee Week in Australia, in which we encourage you to get involved and donate: https://www.refugeeweek.org.au/
Doors 7:30
Screening: 8pm
Duration: 98 mins
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We acknowledge the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation as the custodians of the land on which this event takes place, and we recognise that sovereignty was never ceded. We pay our respect to elders past and present. Always was, always will be Aboriginal Land.
After 13 months Docmilk is finally back in action! A series of free screenings curated by Dogmilk, Docmilk explores the limits of the documentary form and method, and testing the boundaries between reality and fiction.
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For our 11th edition we will be screening Rithy Panhs seminal S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (2003). The documentary follows two survivors of the infamously brutal Khmer Rouge Security Prison 21, revisiting the prison with their former captors. The filmmaker and audience are both confronted with the complexities of trauma and justice in this deeply personal film (Rithy Panh is a survivor of the Khmer Rouge himself), as persecution is re-enacted by the perpetrators themselves. Uncomfortably foregrounding the relationship between the subject and the camera, the film implicitly questions the performative effect the presence of a camera has on the behaviour of the person being filmed.
Whilst at times a harrowing watch, S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine is ultimately both a cathartic and ambivalent experience. We therefore advise viewer discretion, as some audience members may find the images and themes distressing.
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We acknowledge the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation as the custodians of the land on which this event takes place, and we recognise that sovereignty was never ceded. We pay our respect to elders past and present. Always was, always will be Aboriginal Land.
“Our vision is for refugee voices to be respected and amplified, and for all Australians to be welcoming and supportive of people seeking asylum. We would like to see people with lived experience of seeking asylum leading all campaigns concerning refugee rights and we'll work to ensure this happens.”
Ahmad Hakim, Founder & Director of Refugee Voices
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We acknowledge the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation as the custodians of the land on which this event takes place, and we recognise that sovereignty was never ceded. We pay our respect to elders past, present and emerging. Always was, always will be Aboriginal Land.
Refugee Voices and Dogmilk are proud to facilitate the Australian premiere screening of PURPLE SEA by Amel Alzakout and Khaled Abdulwahed. PURPLE SEA is a poem-documentary recounting the filmmakers experience of being stranded in a capsized refugee boat in the mediterranean.
I lie on my back, under the surface of the water. The sea is purple. I feel the warmth with every pore of my body. I’m not afraid anymore.
Before the screening there will be a pay as you want dinner from 7pm, followed by speeches and poetry by members of Refugee Voices, and short animation FREEDOM IS MINE by Mahmoud Salameh.
A live streamed Q&A with PURPLE SEA director Amel Alzakout will proceed the screening.
Live musical performances by:
Evelyn Ida Morris & Komang
All proceeds from this event will go to Refugee Voices currently working with the recently released Medevac refugees to settle into the community safely and securely.
Newly released people have received $400 from the Australian government, and only 6 weeks of accommodation. They are on unstable six-month bridging visas, which do not allow them to access welfare or higher education.
In lieu of government support, we have created this community fundraiser event and all of these funds will go directly to the men and women. If you are unable to attend but would still like to support Refugee Voices, you can do so here: https://www.refugeevoices.org.au/donate
DISCLAIMER:
Purple Sea is a subjective account of deeply traumatising experiences, that may be distressing or triggering for some viewers. The organisers aim to create a safe environment for all, and provide space and support to all in attendance during and following the event. Please respect each other, the space and the neighbors.
Refugee Voices & Dogmilk would like to thank Lightdox for generously allowing us to screen Purple Sea.
The Eye Of The Day (2001) is the first instalment in a trilogy documenting the life of the Sjamsuddin family in the slums of Jakarta, Indonesia. Set against the backdrop of the historic fall of the Suharto government, and the election period thereafter, we're introduced to 3 generations of the Sjamsuddin family, and their respective struggles. During the shooting of this first film, Helmrich perfects his signature "single shot cinema" method of filming, which allows the uncanny access he has to the family's personal life to become an exploration of the multiplicity of perspective of a situation. Helmrich personally developed a device, the "steadywing" that gives the camera total fluidity and freedom of movement. Applied to the documentary process, this movement becomes part of the storytelling itself, as emotional, intellectual and spatial intuition dictate the filmmakers position in a given situation. This style makes for not only a more spontaneous and intimate snapshot into the family's lives, but also for a rich and innovative cinematic experience.
After two weeks of Nusantaran madness with HuRU-hARa at Asia TOPA 2020, and the arrival of our Indonesian filmmaking comrade Wahyu Al Mardhani, The Eye of The Day seems an appropriate choice for this 10th edition of Docmilk.
Hope to see you there!
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We acknowledge the Wurundjeri, Boonwurrung, Taungurong, Dja Dja Wurrung and the Wathaurung people of the Kulin Nation as the custodians of the land on which this event takes place, and we recognise that sovereignty was never ceded. We pay our respects to their Elders, past, present and emerging.
Let's all rally around each other and raise some $$$ for those directly affected by the rampaging bushfires that have ravaged our country.
We programmed a night with two distinct films that reflect on our relationship to the land.
7:00pm - 'The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith' by Fred Schepisi (1978)
"Jimmie Blacksmith, the son of an Aboriginal mother and a white father, falls victim to much racist abuse after marrying a white woman, and goes on a killing spree and finds himself on the run in the aftermath."
9:00pm - 'We Don't Need a Map' by Warwick Thornton (2017)
"WE DON'T NEED A MAP asks questions about where the Southern Cross sits in the Australian psyche. Imbued with Warwick's cavalier spirit, this is a fun and thought-provoking ride through Australia's cultural and political landscape."
100% of the proceeds will be going to the Fire Relief Fund for First Nations Communities.
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/dogmilk-bushfire-appeal-double-feature-tickets-94728143427
We acknowledge that this event takes place on stolen land. We pay our respect to the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation as the traditional owners of the land. Sovereignty has never been ceded.
Docmilk is a series of free screenings, curated by Dogmilk Films, that explores the limits of the documentary form and its method, and testing the boundaries between reality and fiction.
Leviathan (2012), from Verena Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor, is, as the title suggests, a dark, haunting monster of a documentary. Set on board (and overboard) an industrial fishing trawler, the film is a sensorial assault as animal, human and mechanical worlds collide in a symphony of brutality and survival. Shot exclusively using GoPro cameras, the audience is given an unprecedented and entirely immersive experience. It's a documentary that needs to be seen and felt to be understood. An important introduction to the work of the Sensory Ethnography Lab out of Harvard, who attempt to redefine the cinematic language of experience; Leviathan is a landmark of contemporary cinema.
We acknowledge the Wurundjeri, Boonwurrung, Taungurong, Dja Dja Wurrung and the Wathaurung people of the Kulin Nation as the custodians of the land on which this event takes place, and we recognise that sovereignty was never ceded. We pay our respects to their Elders, past, present and emerging.
Docmilk is a series of free screenings, curated by Dogmilk Films, that explores the limits of the documentary form and its method, and testing the boundaries between reality and fiction.
Werner Herzog's first feature documentary, Fata Morgana (1971) is a cosmogonical voyage through the Sahara desert, that sets the existential precedent for his proceeding filmography. Sweeping landscapes that trick and tease the eye set to the music of Leonard Cohen make for a mirage-like trip, taking the documentary form out of the real and into the surreal.
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We acknowledge the Wurundjeri, Boonwurrung, Taungurong, Dja Dja Wurrung and the Wathaurung people of the Kulin Nation as the custodians of the land on which this event takes place, and we recognise that sovereignty was never ceded. We pay our respects to their Elders, past, present and emerging.
Docmilk is a series of free screenings, curated by Dogmilk Films, that explores the limits of the documentary form and its method, and testing the boundaries between reality and fiction.
Face Value (1991) by Johan van der Keuken (A Dogmilk favourite) has been selected for the first screening of the new decade for its structural and political propositions. A kaleidescopic portrait of Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Face Value asserts the complexities of a "shared identity" predominantly through the collage-like montage of faces. Voices overlap with faces and situations, territory and identity are confused and imagination overtakes linearity. Choose your own adventure!
We acknowledge the Wurundjeri, Boonwurrung, Taungurong, Dja Dja Wurrung and the Wathaurung people of the Kulin Nation as the custodians of the land in which this event takes place, and we recognise that sovereignty was never ceded. We pay our respects to their Elders, past, present and emerging.
Docmilk is a series of free screenings, curated by Dogmilk Films, that explores the limits of the documentary form and its method, and testing the boundaries between reality and fiction.
We've chosen to screen Cunnamulla (1999) by Dennis O'Rourke to finish the 2019 Docmilk season. As the Dogmilk crew become acquainted with the ethics and requirements of a production of their own documentary, the polarising discussion surrounding O'Rourkes Cunnamulla seems all the more necessary. The film follows various "marginal" inhabitants of Cunnamulla, a town at the end of the train line, literally and metaphorically. The closer we get to the townspeople, the deeper we understand the pervasive racial, cultural and gender divisions that effect the town. The film and divisive ensuing legal debate bring attention to the tenuous relationship between subject and filmmaker, and the fundamental responsibility of documentary storytellers. We've chosen to screen this film to engage an audience in the divisive discussion, encouraging open debate.
We acknowledge the Wurundjeri, Boonwurrung, Taungurong, Dja Dja Wurrung and the Wathaurung people of the Kulin Nation as the custodians of the land in which this event takes place, and we recognise that sovereignty was never ceded. We pay our respects to their Elders, past, present and emerging.
After a necessary hiatus we're back for the 5th edition of Dogmilk Degustations!
We're amping up the operation and this time round we have two programmers presenting distinct menus of delights.
Hmoogo is a filmmaker/artist/activist exploring many mediums and modes of creative output. Their programme consists of a series of short films, which, similar to the nature of exploration itself, is constantly evolving and thus has more details to be announced!
7.00pm:
1. Stillwater - Sam Carson (7 minutes)
2. Simulacrum Visage - Veronica Charmont (8 min)
3. A Single Frame Per Second - Veronica Charmont (3 min)
4. Even If You're Never Awake - Rory King (2 min)
5. a crack up at the race riots; based on the novel by harmony korine - chloe n yuval (~15 min)
6. oblast! - Hmoogo (13 min)
Claudia Nankervis is a Producer and local Sensation who has worked across film, television, radio and podcasts in Melbourne and New York. She has most recently worked for award winning television production company Gristmill, as well as producing at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. She currently co-hosts a podcast and is in development for a web series.
9.00pm:
1. Mwah
Directed by Nina Buxton
2. Speak Easy, B
Directed by Becca Park
3. San MIguel
Directed by Cris Gris
4. We Keep On Dancing
Directed by Jessica Barclay Lawton
$5 Entry
Cheap drinks by donation. No BYO
We acknowledge the Wurundjeri, Boonwurrung, Taungurong, Dja Dja Wurrung and the Wathaurung people of the Kulin Nation as the custodians of the land in which this event takes place, and we recognise that sovereignty was never ceded. We pay our respects to their Elders, past, present and emerging.
Dogmilk Films FEAT. Film Club presents: Docmilk #5
Docmilk is s series of free screenings, curated by Dogmilk Films, exploring the limits of documentary filmmaking and testing the boundaries between reality and fiction.
While most of the Dogmilk Crew is in Indonesia producing their own documentary, the free Docmilk screenings continue with the help of the indefatigable Film Club.
For our fifth edition of Docmilk, we're screening Tony Gatliff's sweeping Romani epic Latcho Drom (1993). A transcontinental musical journey, the film follows the centuries old journey of the Romani people from India to Spain. Virtually without dialogue, the films emotional and social potency comes from the music, the dancing and the itinerancy of this incredibly diverse and rich culture.
We acknowledge the Wurundjeri, Boonwurrung, Taungurong, Dja Dja Wurrung and the Wathaurung people of the Kulin Nation as the custodians of the land in which this event takes place, and we recognise that sovereignty was never ceded. We pay our respects to their Elders, past, present and emerging.
Dogmilk Films FEAT. Film Club presents: Docmilk #4
Docmilk is s series of free screenings, curated by Dogmilk Films, exploring the limits of documentary filmmaking and testing the boundaries between reality and fiction.
While most of the Dogmilk Crew is in Indonesia producing their own documentary, the free Docmilk screenings continue with the help of the indefatigable Film Club.
This month we'll be showing F for Fake (1973) by Orson Welles, which recounts the "true" story of the greatest art counterfeiter ever known. The film is narrated by Welles in classic Wellesian fashion, as he delights in the hoax and deception of it all. F for Fake is a fun meditation on truth, illusion and movie trickery that has to be seen to be (dis)believed.
We acknowledge the Wurundjeri, Boonwurrung, Taungurong, Dja Dja Wurrung and the Wathaurung people of the Kulin Nation as the custodians of the land in which this event takes place, and we recognise that sovereignty was never ceded. We pay our respects to their Elders, past, present and emerging.
Come along to a special edition of Dogmilk Degustations, as we invite ReelOzInd director Jemma Purdey to showcase a beautiful and broad range of emerging Australian and Indonesian cinema.
In the lead up to the Dogmilk crews documentary trip to Indonesia, we'd like to spotlight the amazing work and collaboration that already exists between the two countries. If you aren't familiar with Indonesian film, here's a chance to make an amazing cinematic discovery!
http://reelozind.com/en/home/
"Nearest neighbours should be friends not mysteries!
Short films are a great way to share stories and build understanding."
1. iRony (Animation) - Australia
Directed by Radheya Jegatheva
2. The String - Indonesia
Directed by Sani Yudha Febriani
3. Fire Longing in the Mist/ Barakabut - Indonesia
Directed by Roufy Nasution
4. Starting from Scratch - Australia
Directed by Jared Nicholson
5. Life of Death (Animation) - Indonesia
Directed by Jason Kiantoro & Bryan Arfiandy
6. Nameless Boy - Indonesia
Directed by Diego Batara Mahameru
7. Deep Condolences/ Turut Berdukacita - Indonesia
Directed by Winner Wijaya
8. Daily Bread - Australia
Directed by Ruby Challenger
$5 entry
Doors at 6pm
First screening at 6.30pm
Second screening at 9pm
Cheap drinks by donation. No BYO
We acknowledge the Wurundjeri, Boonwurrung, Taungurong, Dja Dja Wurrung and the Wathaurung people of the Kulin Nation as the custodians of the land in which this event takes place, and we recognise that sovereignty was never ceded. We pay our respects to their Elders, past, present and emerging.
A series of free screenings exploring the limits of documentary filmmaking, testing the boundaries between reality and fiction.
God's Country (1985) by Louis Malle selected by Paddy Hay, whose film Cuckoo Roller will be screening in the MIFF Accelerator program on Sunday 11th and 18th of August.
http://miff.com.au/program/film/cuckoo-roller
Original footage of the prosperous farming community of Glencoe Minnesota, 60 miles west of Minneapolis, was filmed in 1979 for a PBS documentary. But for the next six years Malle was too busy with other projects to finish this work. He returned in 1985 for a follow-up and found the community reacting to the mid eighties crisis of overproduction in farm country. with weekly foreclosures on family farms, and many families moving to the south, Malle documented a sense of frustration and apprehension from the same participants he had befriended in better times half a decade earlier.
Doors: 7pm
Screening: 8pm
Duration: 1h35
Come early and join us for a drink, or stay after the screening to discuss the film, all are welcome.
We acknowledge the Wurundjeri, Boonwurrung, Taungurong, Dja Dja Wurrung and the Wathaurung people of the Kulin Nation as the custodians of the land in which this event takes place, and we recognise that sovereignty was never ceded. We pay our respects to their Elders, past, present and emerging.
Dogmilk Films is stepping out!!
To help raise funds for their upcoming shooting trip to Toraja, for their debut feature Doco ALUK, Dogmilk has invited local artists to perform and exhibit their work at a (Secret) location in Collingwood (message for address).
$15 on the door. Proceedings kick off at 4pm and finish late.
There will be a silent auction for all the pieces on show, and music all afternoon, and in to the night.
Performances provided by:
Morning Morning
Craig Dermody (SACW)
Gregor (DJ set)
Plastic Dreams (Lou George)
Fletcher
Danny Hotep
DJ Sarah
Josh Peters & John Hewison (Live AV)
Daniel R Marks
Artists:
Shaye Gregan
Steph Griffin
Guy Grabowsky
Martin George
Lola Hewison
Xander Linger
Jeck
James Woodhart
Brodie Kokkinos
Cosmo Feltham
Josh Woodhart
Soul McKenzie
Manja Petrovska
Fletcher
All works will be up for silent auction on the day, proceeds will go to films budget. WE APPRECIATE YOUR HELP!!!!
If you can't make the event, but would to contribute anyway, follow this link to our crowdfunding page --->https://igg.me/at/ALUK/x/22020961#/
We acknowledge the Wurundjeri, Boonwurrung, Taungurong, Dja Dja Wurrung and the Wathaurung people of the Kulin Nation as the custodians of the land in which this event takes place, and we recognise that sovereignty was never ceded. We pay our respects to their Elders, past, present and emerging.
A series of free screenings exploring the limits of documentary filmmaking, testing the boundaries between reality and fiction.
Step Across The Border (1990) by Nicolas Humbert and Werner Penzel is a "90 minute celluloid improvisation". We follow british experimental musician Fred Frith playing music, on tour, meeting friends, living life. The style of the filmmaking reflects Friths own style of music: improvised, free, erratic, open. The film features musicians and collaborators Arto Lindsay, John Zorn, René Lussier, Iva Bittová as well as an appearance from the father of "diary filmmaking" (another boundary pushing docomentary form) Jonas Mekas. Uplifting, formally challenging and truly surprising, Step Across the Border is not to be missed if you're a doco-fanatic.
Doors: 7pm
Screening: 8pm
Duration: 1h30
Come early and join us for a drink, or stay after the screening to discuss the film, all are welcome.
We acknowledge the Wurundjeri, Boonwurrung, Taungurong, Dja Dja Wurrung and the Wathaurung people of the Kulin Nation as the custodians of the land in which this event takes place, and we recognise that sovereignty was never ceded. We pay our respects to their Elders, past, present and emerging.
Welcome to the third instalment of Dogmilk Degustations!
Flowers Cinema will host a monthly short film night dedicated to showcasing the work of Melbourne based filmmakers.
Each month we’ll invite someone to program a selection of short films that highlight the eclectic output of Melbourne’s filmmaking community.
This round, Gianna Mazzeo has delved into her cookie jar of film treats and put together a tasty cinematic buffet. Gianna is an up-and-coming local filmmaker with an eye for the absurd, eccentric and oneiric. Working as a writer, director and cinematographer, Gianna's work uses dark and confronting humour to criticise and reevaluate genre conventions.
Program (66 mins.):
1. Under The Table
Directed by Max Walter
2. -everyman
Directed by John Stewart
3. Lunchbox
Directed by Shelly Lauman
4. Back To Earth
Directed by Thomas Wilson White
5. Peel
Directed by Jane Campion
6. Hot Property
Directed by Gianna Mazzeo
7. Bird
Directed by Arundati Thandur
8. Your Time
Directed by Phebe Schmidt
$5 entry
Doors at 6pm
First screening at 6.30pm
Second screening at 9pm
Cheap drinks by donation. No BYO
We acknowledge the Wurundjeri, Boonwurrung, Taungurong, Dja Dja Wurrung and the Wathaurung people of the Kulin Nation as the custodians of the land in which this event takes place, and we recognise that sovereignty was never ceded. We pay our respects to their Elders, past, present and emerging.
Dogmilk Films presents: Docmilk
A series of screenings exploring the limits of documentary filmmaking, testing the boundaries between reality and fiction.
First in the series is Kirsten Johnson's moving memoir 'Cameraperson' (2016). Made up of footage shot over decades working as a documentary cinematographer, the film depicts the moments and images that made a real impression during her career. Inviting the audience to observe the film making process, Johnson explores what it means to document real life and the ethics of representation. The film is an intimate and formally radical collage that reworks conventional notions of narrative and interrogates what documentary can be. Haunting and honest, 'Cameraperson' will leave a searing and lasting impression.
Doors: 7.30pm
Screening: 8pm
Duration: 1h42
Come early and join us for a drink, or stay after the screening to discuss the film, all are welcome.
We acknowledge the Wurundjeri, Boonwurrung, Taungurong, Dja Dja Wurrung and the Wathaurung people of the Kulin Nation as the custodians of the land in which this event takes place, and we recognise that sovereignty was never ceded. We pay our respects to their Elders, past, present and emerging.
Welcome to the second of many Dogmilk Degustations!
Flowers Cinema will host a monthly short film night dedicated to showcasing the work of Melbourne based filmmakers.
Each month we’ll invite someone to program a selection of short films that highlight the eclectic output of Melbourne’s filmmaking community.
This Sunday we have Jordan Giusti! An up-and-coming Director and Producer, you may have seen him in suburbs such as Caulfield and West Melbourne, strutting his stuff and working with the Flood Projects crew.
Program (55 mins):
1. Wild Will
Directed by Alan King
2. Skates
Directed by Maddelin McKenna
3. Tape
Directed by Jordan Giusti
4. TUB
Directed by Lucien Perry
5. Perisher
Directed by Gabriel Hutchings
$5 entry which goes to the filmmakers and programmers
Cheap drinks by donation. No BYO
Welcome to the first of many Dogmilk Degustations!
Flowers Cinema will host a monthly short film night dedicated to showcasing the work of Melbourne based filmmakers.
Each month we’ll invite someone to program a selection of short films that highlight the eclectic output of Melbourne’s filmmaking community.
We’re very pleased to have Poppy Templeton start us off! Having worked as a short/feature film panelist at MIFF (Melbourne International Film Festival) and as the short film program co-ordinator at HRAFF (Human Rights Arts & Film Festival), she’s put together a very special night for us.
Program (59 mins):
Boytime (Melbourne Premiere)
John Angus Stewart
This is Yarra
Lydia Rui
Last Man Standing (Melbourne Premiere)
WAM Bleakley and Lucy Knox
An Act of Love
Lucy Knox
Salt in Wounds
Alison Adriano
A Life Together
Simon Direen
There'll be two sessions:
8pm-9pm
9pm-10pm
$5 entry which goes to the filmmakers and programmers
Cheap drinks by donation. No BYO
