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Mon 17 Feb 2025
Join Melbourne’s Artist Film Workshop for a screening of their recent 16mm short films that celebrate the art and joy of working with celluloid.
The films created at the artist collective and not-for-profit organisation Artist Film Workshop (AFW) are varied and unique. This screening showcases the material subtleties and warm beauty of 16mm. From formal experimentation to personal documentaries, these films explore the handmade and the visionary.
About Art+Film
ACMI's ART+FILM program showcases short and feature-length films by leading Australian and international artists. With a focus on single-channel works that harness the unique conventions of cinema, the program comprises internationally significant works from the ever-expanding field of artist films.
Films
Upfield
Chronicling a walk to the end of the line on Super 8 film — from the heart of the inner city to the outer suburban station of Upfield in Melbourne’s North.
Paddy Hay, with sound by Josh Peters, Super 8, 6 mins, 2025.
Seagull Dog Child
A seagull, a dog, a child, a call to prayer;
Looking through a window, the corridor of a train, the wall of a medina;
Everyday life is momentarily paused through the eyes of a stranger in an unknown land.
Sebastian Vaccaris, 16mm, 8 mins, 2025.
Seven Dawns
Seven Dawns explores the restlessness inherited from the artist’s estranged Romani ancestry in South West England. The seven dawns symbolise fleeting opportunities for escape, framed within the duality of home as both sanctuary and confinement. Captured on a Super 8mm cartridge, using a hand made lens and developed by hand, the film’s fragmented, spectral imagery evokes the fractured nature of history, memory, longing and place.
Jenna Dawkins, Super 8mm, 2mins, 2024.
Debil Debil Baldwin Spencer
Debil Debil is a film inspired by Jason Tamiru, the Melbourne School of Design’s Indigenous Cultural Advisor, and his profound experience upon first entering the Walter Baldwin Spencer Lecture Theatre, located on the University of Melbourne’s grounds. Drawing on Spencer’s controversial legacy as an evolutionary biologist whose work influenced the Stolen Generation policy, the film seeks to decolonize the building and reimagine its significance. Grounded in Tamiru’s perspective, it serves as a powerful reflection on confronting painful histories and fostering transformative dialogue.
Jordan James Kaye, 16mm, 8 mins, 2025.
Tooborac
Granite tors scattered over 20 square kilometers around Tooborac in central Victoria dance in energetic celebration of their own endurance.
Richard Touhy, 16mm, 9 mins, 2025.
Relâche
Relâche is an evocative experimental film inspired by René Clair’s 1924 iconic silent film Entr'acte. Starring William Webster and Michael Fortescue, the work was created in collaboration with Second Echo Ensemble (SEE), A Bug's Tale Productions and filmmaker, Ursula Woods. SEE’s artistic mission is to create radical equity through exceptional performance.
Ursula Woods, 16mm, 18 mins, 2025.
Lair
An experimental real estate horror film in which an unnamed couple navigates the nightmarish labyrinth of the rental market.
Tim Sharp, 16mm, 5 mins, 2025.
Nude Descending
A performer descends the stairs. Direct film mattes frame glimpses of the motion. Phase-looping duplicates the glimpses into a cascade of humanity. A game played with colour separations, motion following hand scratched and painted mattes and a perpetual descending figure.
Dianna Barrie, 16mm, 9 mins, 2025.