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Free the Framed Melbourne 8! |
A bit of some of the history of Melbourne film making:
Super 8 1982-2001
Co-ordinated by Shane Lyons for the Melbourne Super 8 Film Group.
Free the Framed Melbourne 8! is a 5 hour sketch over 3 programs covering the full variety
of Super 8 film production in Melbourne for the past 20 years. 44 films by 39 filmmakers
ranging from trash to transcendental, from abstract to transgressive. This will be the
first of an annual and expanding series on super 8 film for MUFF.
Monday 9th July, 7pm, Kaleide
EXPERIMENTAL AND NON-NARRATIVE.
Plenty of pixelation, time-lapse, hand-processing and strange humour.
Includes the earliest film in FREE THE FRAMED MELBOURNE 8!, Jayne Stevenson's Italian Boys, made in 1982 around
the time of the demise of multi-media collective tch-tch-tch. Plus the first public screening, since its production in 1986, of
Marcus Bergner's remarkable Stramm.
Darling of the City. 1995. 7m12s
Black Monday. 1993. 8m37s.
The Midnight Train to Kathmandu. 1986. 6m54s
Untitled. 1995. 4m50s. Silent.
Where Are You Going? Hurrying To Get Somewhere Else. 1983. 5m20s.
Colour My World. 1996 3m20s
Italian Boys. 1982. 20m
Demolition. 1999. 8m. Silent.
I, Awkwardly. 2000. 8m56s
Stramm. 1986-7. 15m53s
The Installation. 1996 3m45s
Monday 9th July, 9pm, Kaleide
NARRATIVE DRAMAS AND COMEDIES.
With a bit more experimental work thrown in (because there's a lot of it about in super 8 filmmaking).
Includes an early work by Super 8 Group co-founder Bill Mousoulis whose super 8 feature Ladykiller is also screening in
MUFF, as well as a major piece from one of Melbourne's most prolific filmmakers, Nick Ostrovskis.
Man in a Window. 1989. 8m. Silent.
Summer Slide. 1994. 5m26s
Jogger. 1992. 2m44s
Dreams Never End. 1983. 8m45s
Under a Liquidambar. 1994. 12m45s
A Private Swimming Pool. 1998. 13m10s
The Foxicle. 1986. 6m13s
Gerry Gee Junior. 1983. 7m36s
Fuego. 1999. 14m6s
A Dozen Shades of Green. 1990. 14m22s. Silent.
Pale Move. 2000. 4m45s
Corpus Tango. 1999. 4m7s
Super 8 Dies Hard. 1997. 4m25s
Do Fools Dream? 2001. 2m30s
Welcome. 1986. 13m
Tuesday 10th July, 9pm, Kaleide
THE DARK SIDE.
Progresses through gloom, psychosis and violence - with a bit of black humour added - to end with a splash (on
the walls, floor, ceiling…)
Includes Tony Woods' startling documentary on the impact of heroin on Fitzroy, a second film by I, Awkwardly director/performer Christos Linou, and Melbourne cultural identity Adrian Rawlings starring in The Writer.
The Jailer's Eye. 1986 5m54s
M for Murder. 1988. 6m
I Think I Just Killed Max. 1990. 6m26s
Dividing Link. 1998. 3m10s
Bang, Bang, My Baby's Dead: a Romantic Interlude. 1997. 3m15s
$mak Sux. 1999. 13m24s
Hamburger Stop #37. 1996. 4m43s
The Writer. 1997. 7m55s
Lucifer Gets Hammered (remains). 1996. 2m
Lust In Me. 1999/2001. 9m
Cult of Beauty. 1998. 10m
Raw Off-Cuts. 1994. 5m
The Savages. 1987. 7m40s
Snap Crackle Die! 1989. 8m
Assisted by Rad Rudd, Tony Woods and Bill Mousoulis
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Program 2
Program 3
Dog Film. 2000. 3m45s. Silent.
Nick Ostrovskis
Short canine caper. Various shots of the family dog, including one where the dog licks
the front of the super 8 camera lens clean. The clothesline and the lawnmower are thrown
in as a bonus so that nobody complains.
Hector Hazard
The film works best wen yer don't know it's…[deleted]…all tripping along nicely but at
the same time going nowhere.
Moira Joseph
A hand processed and colored kaleidoscopic view documenting political unrest as
protestors in their thousands take to the streets of Melbourne to demonstrate against
proposed government reforms in 1993.
Mehmet Raif
Train lines laid on the surface of the film lead us on a red filtered journey through
twilight.
Dirk De Bruyn
A contemplation of a private space over time and over winter.
Heinz Boeck
Stumbling through some oblique projections – Annette contemplates change!
Peter Lane
An experiment in the effect of colour on our perception of everyday urban surroundings.
Jayne Stevenson
Italian boys recline and recite some favourite cliches about Italian boys.
(Screened on umatic video - original film too fragile)
Bill Elliot
Over a four month period the 12 storey Housing Commission flats next door are demolished.
Shot on location in Kensington.
Christos Linou
The abstract images are a personal collection of self-portraits assembled to create a
collision of movements using real-time, stop-frame, scratched and drawn-on-film
techniques.
Marcus Bergner
An oblique, sometimes scratched & bleached, tribute to the poet August Stramm.
James Thompson
"What is a filmmaker? What is an experimental film?"
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Program 3
Striate. 1994 2m7s
Peter Lane
Streaks of light in a time lapsed world. A bit of fun with appropriated formalist
techniques.
Nick Ostrovskis
A Demolition worker takes on a window. Yellow tractors pass. The man is dressed in
overalls. The work is hard. Sometimes the man has a break. Linesmen and bricklayers also
star. So do cranes and tugboats.
Mark La Rosa
Home shot footage, snatches of a Hollywood B-movie, film leader, scratching, colouring,
manipulated sound which slides into the haze of a long summer afternoon.
Laki Sideris
Cruel ingenuity and machine-like precision. A short tale of modern horror.
Bill Mousoulis
A look at the life of a sixteen year old girl, focusing on the person she loves, what
happens to him and how it affects her.
Michael Kelleher
How much do the elements of fate, dependence and control affect the 'truth' of a
relationship?
Gary O'Keefe
A personal meditation on growth, beauty, decay and ugliness.
Chris Windmill
A right royal farce on the shores of Monte Carlo.
Matthew Rees
A ventriloquist's doll searches for his lost father.
Perry Laird
Environmental detective Joe Public is back from the dead in this absurdist romp.
Partially filmed in Darwin and Jabiluka.
Darron Davies
Impressionistic tale of the countryside inspiring creation of life and art in both their
beauty and stark reality.
Travis Dean
An intimacy emerges among heavy grey lines hanging vertically from dull, engineered
reinforcements. Toned shadows spill quietly while over-exposure will happen.
Fiona Symington
Inspired by the music of Astor Piazolla, this black and white landscape plays with ideas
of cultural memory, corporeality and space as it explores the relationship between bodily
movement and the city.
Natascha Stellmach
A rapid-fire spree through the USA. Cruising through New York, Stellmach hits paydirt,
'shooting' the king of gun culture films, Bruce Willis, as he buys a Canon 1014 XLS (the
same camera that made this film). Even Hollywood stars use Super 8.
Minh Ly
Marks an emerging martial arts/action scene in Melbourne. Not unlike any Jackie Chan
film, the plot is purely an excuse to show some cool fight scenes.
Chris Knowles
Grabs of nicely irrelevant mid-eighties TV do battle with a sound spectacular that keeps
screaming "Welcome!"
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Program 3
Decadence. 1996. 3m15s
Hector Hazard
"Ad rather people ad freedom for make ther own mind up." – H.H.
Mehmet Raif
A man wanders in a video world of saturated colours.
Robert Jankov
The director's one and only film. A rejigging of the slasher genre according to art
cinema poetics with a result reminiscent of Bresson's L'Argent, which also features an
axe murderer.
Laki Sideris
A woman talks to no-one in particular.
Christos Linou
Pixilated choreography along various locations during construction of the Melbourne City
Link project. Inanimate and animate forms unite.
Mikael Brain
A surrealist critique of relationship breakdown.
Tony Woods
Art is a natural result of society. The film is in the projector behind you, not on the
screen.
Victoria Armytage
A hamburger shop robbery goes wrong…and right.
(screening on video)
Trevor Rooney
A circular narrative follows an alienated, artistic anti-hero who, guided by mystical
symbols, is directed toward a mysterious fate.
(screening on video – original film lost)
Daniel Kotsanis
A man wields a steel bar with which he methodically destroys a television set. He shows a
friend.
Shane Lyons
Both a parody of Richard Kern and Nick Zedd's Thrust in Me and a prequel to Hitchcock's
Rear Window. Sort of. An experimental filmmaker wanders the mean streets while his
girlfriend languishes at home in dole-induced lethargy.
Dean Francis
A dark, gothic world. Absolute gender segregation. A noir-sonnet for the dispossessed.
Jeff Norris
A woman commits an unspeakable act after losing her battle against inner demons.
Richard Wolstencroft
Mark and Colin try to kill each other. A super 8 version of The Most Dangerous Game.
Ian Haig & Maria Kozic
Man wakes up. Eats cereal. Swallows alien. Blood and guts and gore galore. Man doesn't
feel too good.
(screening on umatic video)
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