AFW in Castlemaine
Against the Grain: handmade films by Artist Film Workshop
A program of films by Melbourne film collective Artist Film Workshop. Artist Film Workshop (AFW) is a membership based film lab, with a focus on working with 16mm and 8mm celluloid film. These films represent a cross-section of the work being produced at AFW, which has been the centre of experimental analogue filmmaking in Melbourne for the last decade. Several of the filmmakers live in Central Victoria, and will be presenting their films in person. All films screening on 16mm.
Location: Northern Arts Hotel, 359 Barker St, Castlemaine VIC 3450
Time: 2.30pm start
Gold coin donation
Films Screening:
Like a Lighthouse
by Richard Tuohy and Dianna Barrie
12 mins, 2023
A blinding beam of light. The piercing sound of ships. Everything—the land, plants, the sky—shouts for attention. Perceptions assail us with their demands to be noticed.
Ahora y en La Hora de Nuestra Muerte
by Sebastian Vaccaris
4 mins, 2024
Observing all the world in a flower; an ecstatic study of colour, a hum of petals opening, a cacophony of bells and saintly icons. ‘Ahora y en la hora de nuestra muerte’ is a hymn to the universal found in the minutiae of nature
Landing
by Sabina Maselli
7 mins, 2019
A ritual in film that performs the return of the celestial body to the terrestrial body, through the act of spinning, mirroring and altering time. Hand processed colour reversal film, accompanied by a soundtrack composed of a single fragment of a woman’s voice that is replicated and modulated, circling around the image at different speeds.
Galaxies [a love letter]
by Melody Woodnutt
3 mins, 2020
An ode to the cosmos, for the lovers.
Lutruwita Waters
by Lisa Theiler
3 mins, 2024
Ursula's house sits on the Huon river. The sunlight on the river illuminates her house. Ursula is a filmmaker. Her house also makes films.
Inside Outside
by Hanna Chetwin
8 mins, 2023
A self-portrait during pregnancy, documenting physical changes while imagining the world outside as seen in utero.
Is anybody coming over to dinner?
by Audrey Lam
9 mins, 2021
The adventures of Yokitom around the home and across the seasons, with a supporting cast of family and friends.
Analysis Paralysis
by Jordan James Kaye
12 mins, 2023
Seeks to construct and subsequently deconstruct the connection and juxtaposition between human perceptions and the relationship it holds to individual moments
Last Train
by Dianna Barrie and Richard Tuohy
12 mins, 2016
Found in the (now possibly lost) film archive at Lab Laba Laba in Jakarta, footage from a trailer of the 1981 Indonesian propaganda film Kereta Api Terakhir (The Last Train) melts into a soup of chemigrammed perforations. A film about the silence that follows the unspeakable; about blurred visions, untold histories and inaccessible archives.