'Watch Me Wednesdays' at the Australian Centre for Photography

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As part of this year's Art & About festival the Australian Centre for Photography will be screening three captivating films over two Wednesdays in October.
 


Wednesday 9 October 2013 5p.m. to 8p.m.



Echoing the Centre’s current exhibition – Rowan Conroy ‘The Woodhouse Rephotography Project’ –  the first film programmed brings the Carnival of Rio de Janeiro to you, in a unique retelling of the Greek myth, Orpheus and Eurydice. 

 

BLACK ORPHEUS (ORFEU NEGRO), 1959 
Directed by Marcel Camus (107 Mins). 

Winner of both the Academy Award for best foreign-language film and the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or, Marcel Camus’ Black Orpheus brings the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice to the 20th-century madness of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. With its eye-popping photography and ravishing, epochal soundtrack, Black Orpheus was an international cultural event, and it kicked off the bossa nova craze that set hi-fis across America spinning.
 
Rating: PG

 

Wednesday 16 October 2013  5p.m. to 8p.m.

Exploring the themes of the Centre’s current exhibition – Emmanuel Angelicas, Buka – the final two films highlight Bali's unique culture and experimentation within art practice.

TRANCE AND DANCE IN BALI, 1936-1939
. Directed by Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson (22 mins)

. A vision of extreme otherness, this documentary film was shot between 1936 and1939 in the town of Pagoetan, on the island of Bali. In 1999, the film was deemed ‘culturally significant’ by the United States Library of Congress.

 Also showing is GOTOT PRAKOSA COMPILATION, 1974–1989: 
experimental avant-garde films by Gotot Prakosa(102 mins)

, Indonesia’s leading experimental short filmmaker. The works range from animations produced by drawing directly on film, by photographing drawings or objects such as fruit and eggs, to more regular kinds of ‘documentary’ to profound and subtle ‘cinematizations’ of performance art. Playing along a spectrum that embraces a sharp sense of Indonesian cultural specificity, most of these works have a quality of youthful, irreverent experimentation, sometimes abstract and minimalist and startlingly brief.
 
Rating: PG
 

Spring season continues

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If you didn't get a chance to see Rowan Conroy talk about his current exhibition, 
’The Woodhouse Rephotography Project at the Open Day last weekend, you still have time to visit this extraordinary collection of work. This unique exhibition reexamines context, history and photography through the stunning archaeological landscapes of Modern Greece.

Both Emmanual Angelicas, Buka and Robert Besanko, Contemplations are also on exhibition till the 17 November, offering a new perspective on both Balinese culture and digital photography.

Australian Centre for Photography
257 Oxford St Paddington NSW
Sydney, NSW, 2021
Australia