Guest curated by Kori Miles and Lucie Loy
Seventh Cinema
25
January 2024
25
Jan
2024
7
Mar 2024
Seventh Gallery Lawn
Seventh Cinema
Guest curated by Kori Miles and Lucie Loy
25
January 2024
25
January
2024
7
March 2024
Seventh Gallery Lawn
We are pleased to introduce Seventh Cinema, a free public cinema season spanning seven weeks. In collaboration with guest artist Kori Miles, we have curated a series of film programs on a temporary outdoor cinema on the gallery's adjacent lawn. In this inaugural season we have selected films that approach the intersections of neo/colonialism and global climate change, zooming in on global colonial expansion and its persistent effects on the environment, human rights, and cultural landscapes.
Join us for weekly film screenings where each session showcases a short film followed by a feature. Through the films that we have selected, we aim to spotlight the resilience ingrained in the struggles for self-determination within global First Nations and other hegemonised and racialised communities. Themes of storytelling, family, social justice activism, home, and transformation reoccur throughout our program, highlighting the powerful and enduring role of struggle and resistance.
Screenings are free to attend and all are welcome. Reserve a ticket through this link.
Program Schedule:
ϟ 25 January
Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy (1995), 19 minutes, directed by Tracy Moffatt.
A short experimental film shot totally in a studio, it is about the relationship between an Aboriginal daughter and her white mother. The daughter, now the sole carer of her dying mother, dreams of far away places. Tracey Moffatt continues to challenge the social construction of Aboriginality and how it is viewed nationally and internationally.
Ten Canoes (2006), 90 minutes, directed by Rolf de Heer
A parable of forbidden love from Australia’s mythical past, narrated by Australian icon David Gulpilil and starring his son Jamie as the covetous youth Dayindi, Ten Canoes is a ground-breaking glimpse into aboriginal life centuries before European settlement. Shot in and around the Arafura Wetlands of Central Arnhem Land, Rolf de Heer and the People of Ramingining have created a pioneering and timeless tale for all people and all cultures.
ϟ 1 February
Fordlandia Malaise (2019), 41 minutes, directed by Susana de Sousa Dias
Fordlandia Malaise is a film about the memory and present of Fordlandia, a company town founded by Henry Ford in the Amazon rainforest in 1928. Ford’s aim had been to break the British rubber monopoly and produce the material in Brazil for his car factories in the United States. Today, the remains of construction testify to the scale of the failure of this neocolonialist endeavor that lasted less than a decade.
The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi, and 27 Years without Images (2011), 66 minutes, directed by Eric Baudelaire
Mixing personal stories, political history, revolutionary propaganda and film theory, renowned artist Eric Baudelaire illuminates the idealism and radicalism of left-wing extremist movements in the 1970s by connecting the stories of two of its protagonists: May Shigenobu, daughter of the founder of the Japanese Red Army, and Masao Adachi, the legendary Japanese director who gave up cinema to take up arms with the Red Army and the Palestinian cause.
ϟ 8 February
Remembering District 6 (2017), 13 minutes, directed by Roberta Joy Rich
District Six, a once thriving community that bordered Cape Town's central business district in South Africa, was home to many diverse communities that lived together. Since the fall of Apartheid, many are still fighting for restitution.
Patu! (1983), 112 minutes, directed by Merata Mita
Merata Mita’s Patu! charts the protests that took place across New Zealand in the winter of 1981, before and during a South African rugby tour. Testament to the courage and faith of both the marchers and a large team of filmmakers, the feature documentary is seen as a landmark in New Zealand screen history. It staunchly contradicts claims by author Gordon McLauchlan of New Zealanders being "a passionless people". Conflicting views about the tour spread to the film itself, with some saying it shouldn't have got any state funding.
ϟ 15 February
With a special pre-screening performance by Fetle Wondimu Nega (AKA Nu), an Ethiopian-Australian sound artist, musician and co-design facilitator. Singing since she was a child, Fetle is a self-taught music producer. Informed by her background in Mathematics, Fetle has expanded her practice to include live coding using sound synthesiser Sonic Pi and visual synthesis tool Hydra.
Mermaids, or Aiden in Wonderland (2018), 27 minutes, directed by the Karrabing Film Collective
The Mermaids, or Aiden in Wonderland by Karrabing Film Collective is a surreal exploration of Western toxic contamination, capitalism, and human and non-human life.
Neptune Frost (2022), 110 minutes, directed by Saul Williams and Anisa Uzeyman
A group of escaped coltan miners forms an anti-colonialist computer hacker collective in the hilltops of Burundi. They soon attempt a takeover of the authoritarian regime that's exploiting the region's natural resources -- and its people.
ϟ 22 February
Golden Jubilee (2021), 19 minutes, directed by Suneil Sanzgiri
What is liberation when so much has already been taken? Who has come for more? "Golden Jubilee", the third film in a series of works about memory, diaspora and decoloniality, takes as its starting point scenes of the filmmaker’s father navigating a virtual rendering of their ancestral home in Goa, India, created using the same technologies of surveillance that mining companies use to map locations for iron ore in the region.
Missing Matoaka, (2022), 81 munutes, created by BBDO Canada and Muskrat Magazine
In this alternative audio track, Pocahontas - or to use her real name, Matoaka - is the narrator and setting the historical record straight. Her story that was originally told as a romantic adventure, is in reality the story of one of the first documented Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women - the first of many sisters. The entire movie was rewritten and re-recorded word for word by Indigenous writers and Indigenous voices, with music composed and performed by Indigenous artists.
ϟ 29 February
Perhaps She Comes From/ Too____ Alang (2021), 11 minutes, directed by Anchi Lin (Ciwis Tahos)
Perhaps She Comes From/To ____ Alang weaves together three narratives to re-examine queerness, gender, oral history, and the displacement from lost lands. The film draws inspiration from an oral narrative that explores the connection between bees and the land in the story of Temahahoi, as well as a story about brass pots gifted to tribal community members by colonisers, which touches on the resulting infertility issues among many Indigenous people.
Finlandia (2021), 97 minutes, directed by Horacio Alcalá
In a small town outside of Oaxaca lives a group of Muxes, transgender and non-binary people, who make a living sewing and looking after their elders. Parallel to this, fashion designers in Spain plot a plan to appropriate the traditional Zapotec dress that the Muxes create. Finlandia follows the highs and the lows of the Muxes, indulging in their intoxicating 'velas' and grieving their lost loves, all in the beautiful setting of rural Mexico.
ϟ 9 March
Muqaddimah Li-Nihayat Jidal / Introduction to the End of An Argument (1990), 45 minutes, directed by Jayce Salloum and Elia Suleiman
Made by the Lebanese-Canadian video artist Jayce Salloum and the Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman, Introduction to the End of An Argument deals with the distorted picture we have of Arab culture in general and of the Intifada – the Palestinian resistance to Israel’s occupation – in particular. Salloum and Suleiman have combined and confronted fragments of image and text taken from Hollywood, European and Israeli films, documentaries and news items with material Salloum personally recorded in Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip. (…) A process of displacement and deconstruction is enacted attempting to arrest the imagery and ideology, decolonizing and recontextualizing it to provide a space for a marginalized voice consistently denied expression in the media. (LIMA, Amsterdam)
Ouroboros (2017), 75 minutes, Basma Alsharif
An homage to the Gaza Strip, this film explores the subject of the eternal return. A journey following one man through five different landscapes marks the end as the beginning, forgetting as the way forward, and the failure of civilisation. Starting from Gaza, the film moves on to explore other seemingly unconnected landscapes in the United States, France and Italy with the intention of linking the plight of the Palestinians to other peoples’ suffering throughout modern history.
This project is supported through the City of Yarra's Annual Grants program.
Image Description: Still from the film 'Fordlandia Malaise', 2019.
We are pleased to introduce Seventh Cinema, a free public cinema season spanning seven weeks. In collaboration with guest artist Kori Miles, we have curated a series of film programs on a temporary outdoor cinema on the gallery's adjacent lawn. In this inaugural season we have selected films that approach the intersections of neo/colonialism and global climate change, zooming in on global colonial expansion and its persistent effects on the environment, human rights, and cultural landscapes.
Join us for weekly film screenings where each session showcases a short film followed by a feature. Through the films that we have selected, we aim to spotlight the resilience ingrained in the struggles for self-determination within global First Nations and other hegemonised and racialised communities. Themes of storytelling, family, social justice activism, home, and transformation reoccur throughout our program, highlighting the powerful and enduring role of struggle and resistance.
Screenings are free to attend and all are welcome. Reserve a ticket through this link.
Program Schedule:
ϟ 25 January
Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy (1995), 19 minutes, directed by Tracy Moffatt.
A short experimental film shot totally in a studio, it is about the relationship between an Aboriginal daughter and her white mother. The daughter, now the sole carer of her dying mother, dreams of far away places. Tracey Moffatt continues to challenge the social construction of Aboriginality and how it is viewed nationally and internationally.
Ten Canoes (2006), 90 minutes, directed by Rolf de Heer
A parable of forbidden love from Australia’s mythical past, narrated by Australian icon David Gulpilil and starring his son Jamie as the covetous youth Dayindi, Ten Canoes is a ground-breaking glimpse into aboriginal life centuries before European settlement. Shot in and around the Arafura Wetlands of Central Arnhem Land, Rolf de Heer and the People of Ramingining have created a pioneering and timeless tale for all people and all cultures.
ϟ 1 February
Fordlandia Malaise (2019), 41 minutes, directed by Susana de Sousa Dias
Fordlandia Malaise is a film about the memory and present of Fordlandia, a company town founded by Henry Ford in the Amazon rainforest in 1928. Ford’s aim had been to break the British rubber monopoly and produce the material in Brazil for his car factories in the United States. Today, the remains of construction testify to the scale of the failure of this neocolonialist endeavor that lasted less than a decade.
The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi, and 27 Years without Images (2011), 66 minutes, directed by Eric Baudelaire
Mixing personal stories, political history, revolutionary propaganda and film theory, renowned artist Eric Baudelaire illuminates the idealism and radicalism of left-wing extremist movements in the 1970s by connecting the stories of two of its protagonists: May Shigenobu, daughter of the founder of the Japanese Red Army, and Masao Adachi, the legendary Japanese director who gave up cinema to take up arms with the Red Army and the Palestinian cause.
ϟ 8 February
Remembering District 6 (2017), 13 minutes, directed by Roberta Joy Rich
District Six, a once thriving community that bordered Cape Town's central business district in South Africa, was home to many diverse communities that lived together. Since the fall of Apartheid, many are still fighting for restitution.
Patu! (1983), 112 minutes, directed by Merata Mita
Merata Mita’s Patu! charts the protests that took place across New Zealand in the winter of 1981, before and during a South African rugby tour. Testament to the courage and faith of both the marchers and a large team of filmmakers, the feature documentary is seen as a landmark in New Zealand screen history. It staunchly contradicts claims by author Gordon McLauchlan of New Zealanders being "a passionless people". Conflicting views about the tour spread to the film itself, with some saying it shouldn't have got any state funding.
ϟ 15 February
With a special pre-screening performance by Fetle Wondimu Nega (AKA Nu), an Ethiopian-Australian sound artist, musician and co-design facilitator. Singing since she was a child, Fetle is a self-taught music producer. Informed by her background in Mathematics, Fetle has expanded her practice to include live coding using sound synthesiser Sonic Pi and visual synthesis tool Hydra.
Mermaids, or Aiden in Wonderland (2018), 27 minutes, directed by the Karrabing Film Collective
The Mermaids, or Aiden in Wonderland by Karrabing Film Collective is a surreal exploration of Western toxic contamination, capitalism, and human and non-human life.
Neptune Frost (2022), 110 minutes, directed by Saul Williams and Anisa Uzeyman
A group of escaped coltan miners forms an anti-colonialist computer hacker collective in the hilltops of Burundi. They soon attempt a takeover of the authoritarian regime that's exploiting the region's natural resources -- and its people.
ϟ 22 February
Golden Jubilee (2021), 19 minutes, directed by Suneil Sanzgiri
What is liberation when so much has already been taken? Who has come for more? "Golden Jubilee", the third film in a series of works about memory, diaspora and decoloniality, takes as its starting point scenes of the filmmaker’s father navigating a virtual rendering of their ancestral home in Goa, India, created using the same technologies of surveillance that mining companies use to map locations for iron ore in the region.
Missing Matoaka, (2022), 81 munutes, created by BBDO Canada and Muskrat Magazine
In this alternative audio track, Pocahontas - or to use her real name, Matoaka - is the narrator and setting the historical record straight. Her story that was originally told as a romantic adventure, is in reality the story of one of the first documented Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women - the first of many sisters. The entire movie was rewritten and re-recorded word for word by Indigenous writers and Indigenous voices, with music composed and performed by Indigenous artists.
ϟ 29 February
Perhaps She Comes From/ Too____ Alang (2021), 11 minutes, directed by Anchi Lin (Ciwis Tahos)
Perhaps She Comes From/To ____ Alang weaves together three narratives to re-examine queerness, gender, oral history, and the displacement from lost lands. The film draws inspiration from an oral narrative that explores the connection between bees and the land in the story of Temahahoi, as well as a story about brass pots gifted to tribal community members by colonisers, which touches on the resulting infertility issues among many Indigenous people.
Finlandia (2021), 97 minutes, directed by Horacio Alcalá
In a small town outside of Oaxaca lives a group of Muxes, transgender and non-binary people, who make a living sewing and looking after their elders. Parallel to this, fashion designers in Spain plot a plan to appropriate the traditional Zapotec dress that the Muxes create. Finlandia follows the highs and the lows of the Muxes, indulging in their intoxicating 'velas' and grieving their lost loves, all in the beautiful setting of rural Mexico.
ϟ 9 March
Muqaddimah Li-Nihayat Jidal / Introduction to the End of An Argument (1990), 45 minutes, directed by Jayce Salloum and Elia Suleiman
Made by the Lebanese-Canadian video artist Jayce Salloum and the Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman, Introduction to the End of An Argument deals with the distorted picture we have of Arab culture in general and of the Intifada – the Palestinian resistance to Israel’s occupation – in particular. Salloum and Suleiman have combined and confronted fragments of image and text taken from Hollywood, European and Israeli films, documentaries and news items with material Salloum personally recorded in Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip. (…) A process of displacement and deconstruction is enacted attempting to arrest the imagery and ideology, decolonizing and recontextualizing it to provide a space for a marginalized voice consistently denied expression in the media. (LIMA, Amsterdam)
Ouroboros (2017), 75 minutes, Basma Alsharif
An homage to the Gaza Strip, this film explores the subject of the eternal return. A journey following one man through five different landscapes marks the end as the beginning, forgetting as the way forward, and the failure of civilisation. Starting from Gaza, the film moves on to explore other seemingly unconnected landscapes in the United States, France and Italy with the intention of linking the plight of the Palestinians to other peoples’ suffering throughout modern history.
This project is supported through the City of Yarra's Annual Grants program.
Kori Miles
Kori is an interdisciplinary and process-based takataapui artist, currently working and living on sacred Wurundjeri land in Naarm/Melbourne. They are of Maaori (Ngaati Raukawa, Ngaati Ahuru, Tainui/Waikato), Italian, Scottish & Anglo-Celtic descent, but born and raised in so-called Australia. They predominantly utilise performance, installation, sculpture, photography, video and poetry as mediums to explore/articulate ideas, knowledge and stories.
Kori’s practice is guided by the stories of Maaui—the trickster demigod of Maaori mythology—and how Maaui’s clever wit combined with the powers of shape-shifting and interdimensional travel are used to undermine structural authority and cause a paradigm shift in power distribution - a social and systemic change that benefits those with less privilege and access. Kori’s practice manifests visions that confront the ongoing damage of colonial and heteronormative social structures, whilst concurrently fostering a space for contemplation on transgression, eroticism, liberation, humour, healing, regeneration and resilience.
Lucie Loy
Lucie Loy is a multi-disciplinary artist, curator and writer (currently) based in Northern NSW and Naarm (Melbourne). Alongside her independent practice which spans visual art, publishing, writing and curating she has committed much of her professional capacity to platforming independent, artist-led and experimental practice. Through her work with artist-run projects locally and internationally, Lucie has explored notions of the ‘artist-led’, platforming the importance of art and artists critically and creatively addressing global and social struggles. Working with the aesthetics of hope, resistance and imagination, as well as through policy advocacy, activism and frustrating bureaucratic frameworks, Lucie’s practice and work seeks to explore the intersection of art, political ecology, social and environmental justice and postcolonial globalisation. Lucie is interested in collaboration, ideas of the commons and critical, transdisciplinary projects. Her recent research explores biopolitics, notions of power and the philosophies and contexts of post-truth.