Posted by Audrey Lee on August 27, 2010
Last week we took a breather from the daily grind for a much-needed creative boost at the Museum of Contemporary Art Spring season preview, an annual spring event featuring talents from around the globe. This year, MCA will be hosting three eye-opening exhibitions. Here’s how the calendar is shaping up:
As we previously announced, Primavera makes its 19th comeback, ensuring the work of new young artists from across the country can be seen by an audience. Seven exciting talents have been taken under the wing of this year’s Guest Curator, Katie Dyer. Through a diverse and an inventive approach in the form of painting, sculpture, photography and performance, the works explore themes such as social relationship, natural environment and the re-interpretation of past precedents. Happening now to 21st November.
Levels 1 and 2 of the gallery feature series of works including Alasdair McLuckie’s The highest mountain peaks, right before dawn, Agatha Gothe-Snape’s Wrong Solo and Akira Akira’s Spillberg (black) No. 1.More...
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Posted by Penny Cropper on August 24, 2010
As part of the Melbourne Spring Fashion Festival, the Australian Centre for the Moving Image will be screening a controversial documentary on the life and work of Yves Saint Laurent, the last documentary to portray the couturier at work.
Director Olivier Meyrou’s film, Célébration, was banned in France because it was considered too biting, but will be showing at Melbourne’s Federation Square during August and September as part of the ACMI’s season of documentaries celebrating fashion from around the world, titled Fashion Icons on Film.
Made of a two-year period and following Sain Laurent’s working and private life, the film reveals the man behind the legend, digging deeper than the designs that made him an icon, to expose a tortured artist and a fragile man.
Check the ACMI’s website for more info and don’t miss this fascinating film delving into an extraordinary, mysterious man.
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Posted by Penny Cropper on August 10, 2010
Boy is both a heartbreaking and hilarious coming-of-age story about a dreamer called Boy (James Rolleston) who lives in rural New Zealand in 1984 and whose idol, besides Michael Jackson, is his long-absent father, who finally shows up in Boy’s life and turns out to be a bit of a disappointment, really. Rather than the close relative of MJ’s with rad moonwalking abilities Boy had hoped for, Alamein is in fact just returning from a seven-year stint in jail for robbery and is not even a deep sea diver or a war hero. But what follows is a beautifully told story of father-son bonding, of growing up, and of learning to get by with the hand you’ve been dealt.
To celebrate the release we have an in-season double pass to give away to five lucky new Kluster subscribers, so get subscribing.
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Posted by Audrey Lee on August 4, 2010
With winter drawing to a close, Object Gallery greets the new season with an exciting and vibrant line-up. The Spring Series, which kicked off last week, provides a 10-week forum that allows for individual exploration and innovative exchange in all forms.
You know the local design sphere has come to fruition when more of our homegrown studios are stepping into the field, and one of the event’s many highlights is Big, which features some of these independent studios responsible for Sydney’s ever-evolving artistic landscape. Also dropping in is Design Now 2009 winner, Anthony Hamilton-Smith, where he will be leading the nation’s fervent foodies and cyclists on an adventure with ride-on dinner. Kino Loves Object, part of a global filmmaking network, is an event dedicated to bring out the Spielberg in you, so get your creative
juices flowing and start sending in your films.
With so much going on this spring, one thing’s for sure, we know where we’ll be.
For a detailed layout of the program, log on to the Spring Series minisite and find out more.
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Posted by Audrey Lee on August 3, 2010
Presenting an impressive cross-section of filmmaking talents, the Sydney Underground Film Festival returns with a bold new program for this year’s line-up. Up on their big screen are 89 international premieres of cutting-edge titles that include a controversial documentary South of the Border, Australian film El Monstro Del Mar! and French film Enter the Void, directed by renowned filmmaker Gaspar Noé. Steering clear of the cookie-cutter serving of mainstream cinema, the festival is set to be a true testament to experimental talents and well… it looks to be pretty fun for all.
The Sydney Underground Film Festival takes place from September 9 to 11 at The Factory Theatre, Marrickville. Tickets are now available at http://www.suff.com.au. The festival is included in the prgram for The Sydney Fringe.
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Posted by Kristen D on July 27, 2010
Set in a bleak and unforgiving winter in the second century AD, Centurion makes you appreciate the fact that it’s the 21st century and you’re in a warm cinema cramming fistfuls of popcorn into your mouth. You wouldn’t be a Roman soldier for quids!
It's directed by Neil Marshall, who gave us The Descent, a terrifying and compelling horror flick a couple of years back, so we were pumped for his latest offering. Centurion is an epic action adventure, which is essentially a classic chase film. But instead of cars and guns, you have horses and swords.
Basically, the Romans are on a mission to wipe out the head of a tribe called the Picts, and therefore open themselves up to a bloody and vicious revenge attack. Their leader, General Virilus (The Wire’s Dominic West), is captured during the attack, but seven men manage to escape, and a relentless chase ensues.More...
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Posted by Penny Cropper on July 19, 2010
This month sees the launch of Winterland, the brand new winter festival currently on location at Carriageworks. Ice skating, mulled wine and market stalls are all on offer, but the free music nights are the real pick of the bunch. Here we speak to the man behind the music, Carriagworks Executive Producer Jamie Dawson about how it's all going.
Covered: Sydney's newest live music venue, taking risks with live music, The Stiff Gins.
Penny Cropper: What was the idea behind the music program for Winterland? What did you want to achieve?
Jamie Dawson: We wanted to launch a program that showcased some of Sydney’s best emerging musicians and sparked the idea of CarriageWorks as a live music venue. In its first few years of programming I felt CarriageWorks has been under represented in its presentation of live local music. This festival is to help balance that programming and establish a model for regular gigs in the future.
PC: How are the live music nights going so far? Have you had much feedback yet and are you happy with the response so far?
JD:We are quite early in the program, but so far things have been fantastic. It has been a great response in terms of the music. I think people are most appreciative of having the chance to come and see free great live music in a fun and cheeky atmosphere.
PC: What are the best things about the live music nights? Why should people come for a look?
JD: In the space of a month you’ll see everything from Alt Country to Jazz, Disco to eccentric Gypsy and at each and every stage it’s a classy line up. All gigs are free so you can take a risk on a new band and try something you’ve never done before.More...
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Posted by KB on June 29, 2010
Joel Edgerton hardly needs an introduction. As a star of film, TV and theatre and one of Sydney’s best-loved exports, he has appeared in episodes 2 and 3 of the Star Wars trilogy, alongside Cate Blanchett on stage in A Streetcar Named Desire, in his AFI Award-nominated role in TV’s The Secret Life of Us, and recently, in the acclaimed Animal Kingdom, among other things. Here he talks to The Waiting City director Claire McCarthy about his latest film and what it was like shooting in India.
Covered: The beauty of India, drawing crowds of adoring fans, filming for 18 hours on a train, doing another prequel.
Claire McCarthy: What attracted you to being involved with The Waiting City?
Joel Edgerton: It’s always a script that attracts me to a project first. I loved your script and the story itself drew me right in. The icing on the cake was that the film was set and to be shot in India.
CM: Can you describe the character you played in the film and what it was like playing this role?
JE: Ben, the character I play is a husband and he is about to become a father. In his career he is someone who feels he has somewhat failed. Once upon a time he was in a band that did well and may have had massive success but he fell down the excess path with drugs, and blew his chances. More...
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Posted by kluster on June 1, 2010
Mother And Child is a film that explores motherhood from three very different perspectives. Karen (Annette Bening) gave up her child for adoption 35 years ago, Elizabeth (Naomi Watts) is her estranged daughter and Lucy (Kerry Washington) is trying to adopt a child of her own.
To celebrate the release we have 20 exclusive preview double passes to give away to Kluster subscribers. To enter, simply email info@kluster.com.au with the subject: Motherhood.
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Posted by kluster on May 26, 2010
Night Two of the Even Books Le First Ever Readers Festival was a books-on-film based affair, hosted in the welcoming space that is CuriousWorks.
As our fellow city-mates would be aware, Saturday night in Sydney was a miserable affair. Incessant rain and mid-winter temperatures combined resulted in the creation of a rather unwelcoming conurbation.
Not to be swayed by some blowing winds and a bit of sky water, a group of adventurous literarily-and-film-inclined individuals braved the night, nursing wounded heads as a result of the reportedly raucous activities experienced at the festival’s opening night party, The Library of Unwritten Books at Performance Space at CarriageWorks.
The tone of the event was, suitably, set to low-key. More...
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Posted by KB on May 20, 2010
Banksy’s debut feature film comes with a warning, “Everything you are about to see is true, especially the bit where we all lie”. Nonetheless, it is almost impossible not to be drawn into the sentimental tale of Frenchman Thierry Guetta, an entrepreneurial amateur filmmaker who is lured into the subversive world of street art and becomes obsessed with trying to capture Banksy through his lens.
Thierry’s 10-year journey documents the rise of street art from the streets of London, Paris and LA. He forms friendships with prolific street artists such as American Shepard Fairey (of Obama ‘Hope’ poster fame), a sharp social observer who reminds the viewer of an ever-present theme: the power of perception.
As with his art, Banksy’s film (brought to you by Paranoid Pictures) is dotted with irony and humour. There are truly funny moments, such as the boxfuls of ‘forged’ banknotes for an art installation that feature Princess Di’s head in place of the Queen’s. Thierry’s enthusiastic curiosity is comic at first, but is soon supplanted by a darker side as his hunger for success and recognition grows.More...
banksy, thierry guetta, documentary, street art
Posted by Danni Le Toullec on May 11, 2010
Oasis frontman, Liam Gallagher’s newly formed company In 1 Productions has acquired the cinematic rights to the book The Longest Cocktail Party, which tells the behind-the-scenes story of the Beatles' Apple Corps.
Tracking the highs and lows of the Beatles’ eminent record label, this feature film is sure to tap into the massive international fanbase of Oasis and The Beatles combined.
"This will be a film with humor and affection providing an insider's look at what it meant to be a young man caught up in the wild swirl of the music business, celebrities and the tail end of the swinging Sixties' in London," reads a statement from Gallagher's company.
No release date has been set for the feature as yet.
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