2008 SA Short Screen Awards Three screenings of the year’s best short films made in South Australia and an awards night and party with the who’s who of the SA filmmaking community.
4 In this new Australian produced film, in four corners of the globe, in the four seasons, four outstanding violinists guide us on an extraordinary journey through their four very different homelands.
Cantata Journey Follows the Ntaria Ladies’ Choir from Hermannsburg, central Australia, to the Sydney Opera House where they perform 'Journey to Horseshoe Bend Cantata' with the Sydney Symphony ,Gordon Williams and Andrew Schultz.
DV8: The Cost of Living Directed by Australian, Lloyd Newson, this award winning film centres on two street performers: the tough, confrontational Eddie, and David a legless dancer.
Festival on Film Complementing the Festival’s program of events, Festival on Film presents documentary and feature films created by or about artists and subjects represented in the 2008 program.
glass a portrait of Philip in twelve parts In 1984, at his son’s bidding, Scott Hicks saw a midnight screening of the cult film KOYAANISQATSI, and immediately became a fan of the film’s composer, Philip Glass.
I Could Be Me A series of 5 minute short films directed by artist David Bromley. “This film tells a story using a camera instead of paint & canvas… I think I’ve just filmed a few pages of a sketch book.”
Jila: Painted Waters of the Great Sandy Desert 70 Aboriginal artists in the Great Sandy Desert produce a painting that becomes the conduit for explaining the local people’s attachment to their country in the Ngururra title claim.
KOYAANISQATSI Extraordinarily prescient, this cult film is uniquely wordless and hypnotically scored by Philip Glass.
Kurtal: Snake Spirit A rare documentary of a journey undertaken by members of an Aboriginal community going back to country to perform an ancient ceremony. Celebrating the strong tradition and culture through the spirit of the next generation.
Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man Witness impassioned and thrilling performances from Sydney’s Leonard Cohen tribute concert and hear intimate interviews with the very private man himself.
Mr Strehlow’s Films The late TGH Strehlow was Australia’s most controversial anthropologist. This documentary examines Strehlow’s extraordinary legacy.
NAQOYQATSI A cinematic concert to experience the allurement, seduction and sanctioned terror of everyday living.
Off The Canvas A documentary profiling 9 maverick New York women art dealers.
Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land: US Media and the Israeli/ Palestinian Conflict An exposé of how US political elites – influence news reporting about the Middle East conflict and how their distortions have affected public opinion.
Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image An innovative commissioning and publishing project containing 11 new video and film art works by 11 contemporary international artists.
POWAQQATSI A visual celebration of traditional ways of living that are passing as technology threatens our humanity.
Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People A fascinating cinematic voyage through the distorted representation of Arab people in Hollywood films.
Sonic Mirror Dive into the world of rhythm in three different places, spaces and beats: from jazz drum legend, Bill Cobham, to sufferers of autism in Switzerland and the kids in a Brazilian favela.
The Death of Klinghoffer A cinematic realisation of the John Adams opera about the 1985 hijacking of the Achille Lauro by the Palestinian Liberation Front and the subsequent murder of a passenger, Leon Klinghoffer.
The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca A young Puerto Rican journalist risks everything to discover if the poet Federico Garcia Lorca “really” was assassinated by the Fascists for his passionate revolutionary poetry.
Who Gets to Call it Art? A look at the New York City art scene in the 1960s, through the eyes of Henry Geldzahler, who championed the careers of Andy Warhol and his contemporaries.
Who the Fuck Is Jackson Pollock? When a long haul truck driver bought a $5 painting at a thrift shop, she didn’t know that it would lift the veil on how art is bought and sold in America.
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