Aftermatter: Films by Matthew Berka, Giles Fielke, Paddy Hay  

Long Play cinema, 318 St Georges Rd, Fitzroy North
Friday December 30th, 2022, 8pm 

One last screening for 2022 presented by former AFW lab member and visiting artist Matthew Berka (London, UK)!

Three filmmakers variously explore the (im)material presence and absence of lost and recoverable things. Working in the ontologically blurry mode of the digital-analog hybrid - where the digital is a container for (un)recoverable things. A community garden is under threat of oblivion, a nameless, absent person is eulogised, the movement of light as it passes through a tunnel is suffused with an atmosphere that exceeds its surface, the displaced peoples of Paraguayan-Australia, unable to to return to a distant and now imaginary homeland are beset by a mental illness of a peculiar nature, a solarised text describes objects beyond the frame. 

“Full presence is doomed, absence can be recovered” - Quentin S. Crisp (personal inscription written for the novella Hamster Dam, 2021) 

Program:  

True Colours by Matthew Berka (8mm, video, stereo, 6’)  
Internal and External Objects by Giles Fielke (16mm, 7’)  
Tiangong-1 by Paddy Hay and Louis Marlo (Super 8 to 16mm, stereo, 7’55’’)  
Landscape with sick child by Matthew Berka (16mm, stereo, 10’58’’)  
The Gardens by Giles Fielke and Paddy Hay. with Ingrid Palmer, Greg Spark, Lyndale Cooper (16mm black and white and colour, sound, 7’)  
Under the palms by Matthew Berka (16mm, 8mm, video, stereo, 9’)


Digital projection. FREE admission. First in best dressed.  
Poster design: Anna Higgins.

We respectfully acknowledge that the land on which AFW holds its screenings was never ceded by the Kulin Nation.