A clearing at ACMI
ACMI presents ART+FILM: Artist Film Workshop. Screening + in conversation.
“Join members of Melbourne’s Artist Film Workshop as they introduce and screen their recent short films. All shot on 16mm film, these films celebrate the pleasures of working with celluloid.”
A clearing is the latest multi-modal collaboration between Speak’s Kaylie Melville and Tilman Robinson with Sabina Maselli of the Artist Film Workshop. During a residency at Testing Grounds in early 2021, they created new sounds for a clearing by sketching directly on 16mm filmstrips – drawing inspiration from the history of optical sound and graphical sound experiments in film. Join us for the premiere showing this March at ACMI.
ART+FILM: Artist Film Workshop
Films
a clearing
Feautring live music by Kaylie Melville and Tilman Robinson (Speak Percussion)
Sabina Maselli | 16mm | colour | 11’45” | 2022
Is Anybody Coming Over To Dinner?
The adventures of Yokitom around the home and across the seasons, with a supporting cast of family and friends.
Audrey Lam | 16mm | colour | 9 min | 2022
Self Portrait With Bag
A camera-less portrait of the artist. Super 8 cartridges placed inside a black cotton bag, the film advanced via a hand crank. The tiny gaps in the fabric weave make for dozens (hundreds? thousands?) of tiny pinholes.
Dianna Barrie | 16mm | 6 min | 2020
Galaxies [a love letter]
An ode to the cosmos, for the lovers.
Melody Woodnutt | 16mm | colour | 3’40” | 2020
![Galaxies [a love letter] (still)](https://acmi-website-media-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/static/images/GalaxiesFolio2.width-552.jpg)
Mesmo Rio – Same River
A short film using the Pulfrich effect.
Richard Tuohy | 16mm | colour | 13 min | 2019
Cottonwood Ranges: right of reply
Tuffy Morwitzer | 16mm | colour | 4’15” | 2022
WINDOW
Window was made in response to the first Australia-wide COVID-19 related lockdown in 2020. Taking inspiration from Hitchcock’s Rear Window, each filmmaker contributed one roll of black and white celluloid film shot through a window of their house, documenting the visual aspects particular to their confinement. Together, these films form a portrait of domestic isolation, collectively examining the cinematic potential of the contemporary social order.
Artist Film Workshop | 16mm | 20 min | 2021
