After the runaway success of Expanded III, we present Dogmilk: Collection this Sunday.
Our second program for St Kilda Film Festival screens a collection of new works from Dogmilk filmmakers themselves, an eclectic mix of form, style and material. This screening is a sample of the exciting recent and upcoming work coming down the pike. Expect films with beauty, urgency, and ambition, showcasing the broad cinematic interests and talents of the collective.
Program:
'Above Water' by Alex Walton
'Speed and Movement' by John Hewison
'Dregs - Sofj' (MV) by Lola Hewison & Chris C.F.
'The Gardens' by Paddy Hay & Giles Fielke
'Ne' Minda' (a work in progress) by Chris C.F. & Wahyu Al Mardhani
'All We Have Is Time' by Fraser Pemberton
'Fugue' by Sofie McClure
PLUS! A special preview trailer for feature documentary 'A River in the Middle of the Sky' by Chris C.F. & Wahyu Al Mardhani
Where: Alex Theatre Studio - 1/135 Fitzroy St, St Kilda
When: 5.30pm, Sunday June 16th
Duration: 90 mins
We acknowledge that this event will be taking place on the unceded lands of the Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to their elders past, present and emerging, and acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded on these lands and seas.
After another eclectic season of fortnightly screenings at Miscellania, Dogmilk is invited by the St Kilda Film Festival, Victoria’s premiere short film festival, to program two screening programs for this year’s edition. First, on Sunday June 9th, an expanded cinema program presenting two live audio-visual performances reaching beyond the confines of the cinema screen.
The first performance reprises Sofie McClure’s ‘Tidelines’, a collaboration with sound artist Bridget Chappell (Hextape) and dancers Anika Deruyter & Maddy Bowman. Screens become dancing partners and the dancers extensions of the screen. Controlled by ropes, the mobile screens call upon the audience to trace their own path, through and behind the image. Rocks become cameras as ropes become limbs. ‘Tidelines’ exposes a world of animate forms, where encounters between human and non-human bodies invoke new forms of action and movement.
Then, bi-coastal filmmaking duo Garden Refle### will present ‘Tourists Kill’, a movie about camera babysitting. Meeting on a nude beach and dying on a highway, weaving in and out of their own deleted scenes we will talk about planning, pronoia and conception. A short workshop, film and discourse on how the camera can also be a baby.
Where: Alex Theatre Studio - 1/135 Fitzroy St, St Kilda
When: 6pm, Sunday June 9th
Duration: 60 mins
We acknowledge that this event will be taking place on Boon Wurrung Land. We pay our respects to their elders past, present and emerging. We acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded on these lands and seas.
Round 9 of Dogmilk Degustations Season 3, a fortnightly event that invites filmmakers and film lovers to curate an evening of film.
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Once again we find ourselves deep in the belly of the swelling cadaver of cinema. Pinocchio plunges into the cavernous stomach of Monstro the whale. We pull that trickster apart to make a fire, we warm ourselves, Albert Serra’s words float by, “cinema is dead. Now it’s just a bloated corpse, waiting to explode.” And with that we eject ourselves outward, caked in blubber, to present to you two Expanded Cinema performances.
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* Rocks become cameras as ropes become limbs. “Tidelines” exposes a world of animate forms, where encounters between human and non-human bodies call for new action and direction. Collaborating with sound artist Bridget Chappell (@hextape.wav ), dancers Anika Deruyter (@anikaderuyter ) and Eloise Wright (@e.l.o____ ), video artist Sofie McClure (@sofiemcclure ) presents a performance that examines the body and the video screen as both extendable and mutable.
* “Continuity Loop” is a collaborative audio visual performance by filmmaker Jordan James Kaye (@jordanjameskaye ) and musician Levi Lauw (@levi_liauw ). Jordan returns from a residency in Latvia with fresh inspiration for his sculptural film works. Levi is an exciting young wunderkind, his drums like an extension of his body. Completely unrehearsed, the performance will unfold like a first time meeting, reflecting the real life first meeting between the artists. Anticipate the unconventional, organised chaos, material meltdown, exploratory repetition; an encounter between two experimentalists on an immersive journey.
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Wednesday, May 29th @miscellania_
DOORS @ 7pm
PERFORMANCES @ 8pm
Tickets on door $25
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
Round 8 of Dogmilk Degustations Season 3, a fortnightly event that invites filmmakers and film lovers to curate an evening of film.
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We are jubilant, writhing around in ecstasy, to present Haydn Keenan’s (@smartstreetfilms ) recently restored Sydney classic Going Down. Described by Adrian Martin as “one of the finest and most memorable films made in Australia”, it was one of the first Australian films to ever show at Sundance Film Festival where it was Nicholas Cage’s favourite film (who, we imagine, was also writhing around in ecstasy).
The girls night out to end them all. Four friends roar out of Newtown into the pool rooms, drag shows and bars of the Cross before crash landing in Bondi. It’s the night before Karli goes to New York and the lives of this tight knit group will change forever.
But first, and with absolute delight, we’ll be screening Frazer Bull-Clark’s (@frazerbullclark ) 2022 short film Set Times, another Sydney-sider.
Kat gets an unexpected call from her ex, saying he’s coming to her band’s gig that night. With this on her mind, she sets out for the evening ahead.
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* Set Times (2022 - 13”)
* Going Down (1982 - 92”)
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Wednesday, May 15th @miscellania_
DOORS @ 6.30pm
FILM @ 7.30pm
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.
Tomorrow night @ Miscellania
Doors at 6pm.
Films at 7.30pm.
Yogyakarta based artist, Wimo Ambala Bayang presents a selection of his Mini DV works shot throughout Java and in China over 20 years. Expect eccentric, infectious, DIY explorations that capture the mundane in hilarious fashion!
★ 🎱𝑺𝑶𝑭𝑱 𝒃𝒚 𝑫𝒓𝒆𝒈𝒔🎱 ★
𝑫𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒅𝒖𝒄𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚:
𝑪𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒔 𝑪.𝑭. 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑳𝒐𝒍𝒂 𝑯𝒆𝒘𝒊𝒔𝒐𝒏 @𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒔_𝒄_𝒇 @𝒍𝒐𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒓𝒐𝒍𝒂
𝑫𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒐𝒓 𝒐𝒇 𝑷𝒉𝒐𝒕𝒐𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒑𝒉𝒚: 𝑳𝒂𝒘𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝑴𝒄𝒄𝒓𝒂𝒃𝒃 @𝒍𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒓𝒓𝒓𝒓𝒓𝒓𝒓𝒓𝒓𝒓𝒓𝒓𝒓𝒓𝒓𝒚
𝑬𝒅𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚: 𝑪𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒔 𝑪.𝑭.
𝑪𝒐𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒎𝒆 𝑫𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒈𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑴𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒖𝒑: 𝑹𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝑩𝒂𝒊𝒓𝒅 @𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒕___𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒊𝒅
𝑮𝒂𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒓: 𝑻𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒚 𝑳𝒆 @𝒕𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒚𝒍𝒆𝒈𝒖𝒏
𝑺𝑭𝑿: 𝑪𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒖𝒎 𝑲𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒉𝒂𝒏 @𝒔𝒄𝒖𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒈𝒄𝒂𝒍
𝑨𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝑫𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒐𝒓: 𝑺𝒐𝒇𝒊𝒆 𝑴𝒄𝑪𝒍𝒖𝒓𝒆 @𝒔𝒐𝒇𝒊𝒆𝒎𝒄𝒄𝒍𝒖𝒓𝒆
𝑹𝒖𝒏𝒏𝒆𝒓: 𝑴𝒊𝒏𝒏𝒊𝒆 𝑵𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒐𝒘 @𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒗𝒂.𝒏𝒂
𝑪𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈: 𝑴𝒂𝒙𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝑯𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒔𝒎𝒂𝒏
𝑳𝒐𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔: 𝑫𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒆𝒏 𝑲𝒂𝒏𝒆
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✈️𝑪𝒂𝒔𝒕:
𝑪𝒍𝒂𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒂 𝑺𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒊 @𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒔𝒂𝒚_
𝑫𝒚𝒍𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒏𝒛𝒊𝒆 @𝒅𝒓𝒐𝒑_𝒅𝒚𝒍𝒂𝒏
𝑱𝒐𝒉𝒏 𝑩𝒂𝒊𝒓𝒅
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🏍𝑺𝒕𝒖𝒏𝒕 𝑫𝒐𝒖𝒃𝒍𝒆: 𝑲𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒂 𝑲𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒚
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🎰𝑬𝒙𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒔:
𝑰𝒔𝒂𝒃𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒆 𝑴𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒐𝒕-𝑯𝒆𝒘𝒊𝒔𝒐
Recently awarded the Best Experimental Short at Sydney World Film Festival, we’re excited to announce that Sofie McClure's short film ‘Phosphenes' will be screening at St Kilda Film Festival on the 4th of June!
Phosphenes are the colours you see when you close your eyes tightly or press them with your fingers. Inviting the viewer to close their eye at any point throughout the film ‘Phosphenes’ explores how we come to ‘see’ our body through the eyes and touch of others.
The film will be screening at the Astor under the program 'Shifting the Gaze: Women in Film’. Head over to the St Kilda Film Festival website to grab a ticket.
@sofiemcclure
All We Have Is Time premieres on MIFF Play
You can now watch Fraser Fitzy Pemberton's latest smash 'All We Have Is Time' via the MIFF Play VCA Showcase from 27/9/21 – 11/10/21.
Link in comments
‘After surviving a malfunction in the depths of space, Williams and his crew begin to experience memories that aren’t their own. Haunted by the inaction of his past, Williams attempts to hold onto his disappearing memories while coming to terms with a temporal anomaly that will force them to question mankind’s very understanding of time. With the past, present and future no longer separate, Williams will risk everything in order to rewrite what was written in the past.’
Cast:
Aaron James Campbell
Seb Carr
Lorcan Yardley
Eleanor Webster
Grace O’Sullivan
Ellie Stewart
Seton Pollock
Joanne Nguyen
Main Crew:
Director of Photography – Wilson Huang
Costume Designer – Rose Baird
Editor - Shannon Michaelas
Production Designer - Wei Guo
Composer – Eugene Brockmuller
Casting - Genya Mik
Visual Effects Artist – Johnson Nguyen
Producer - Phoebe Graham
Writer & Director - Fraser Pemberton
Thank you all so much for attending on Saturday, and contributing your time, attention and money to a worthy film and cause.
All together, we raised $3420 for Refugee Voices
We'd like to share a quote from one of our friends who's currently detained at the Park Prison at 701 Swanston St, Carlton:
"We are so grateful that 135 of our brothers have been released. But 120 onshore medivac refugees still remain in detention. Those of us in this Prison Hotel are just the same as our free brothers. There are 11 of us here, what are we still here for? We came here under the same medivac law. We are also refugees. Where are my human rights? Where is my justice? Where is my freedom. Everyone deserves to live in freedom."
- Ah Don Khan Aukmt (28/3/21)
If you've been reflecting on the film and the circumstances of its creation, and you've been wondering how you can support refugees and asylum seekers here in Australia, here are a few ways you can:
Donate to Refugee Voices (https://www.refugeevoices.org.au/donate), who are supporting the Medevac refugees recently released in to the community with little to no state help. A newly founded refugee-led community organisation, with expertise across community mobilisation, refugee policy and campaigning. They are committed to ensuring that when it comes to the policies, campaigns and decisions that affect them, their voices are heard loud and clear.
Join daily protests at the Park Prison (701 Swanston St, Carlton), with the Fight Together for Justice group, a "community organisation fighting in solidarity with our refugee friends". If you're unsure or uneasy about attending a protest or rally, or you don't have capacity to attend in person, please follow @fighttogetherforjustice on socials and reach out to find out how to get involved in other ways.
An enormous thank you to Amel Alzakout for sharing her film and time with us, Mahmoud Salameh for his animation Freedom is Mine, and Evelyn Ida Morris and Komang Music for their wonde
