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Puffio.
With a sense of dismay and dawning horror Puffio realises that
this week the weather is... almost summer. What will become
of our pallid and whitened flesh, our spindly shanks and untanned
cheeks? What of our apparel on these uncommon 30 degree days?
Dare we break out the summer lightweights, the cotton shirts
or even (gasp) the cargo shorts? Or in the case of Editor Alex
Wheaton, the colourful tight lycra? Fear not, if you go to many
of the sessions on offer over the two weeks of the Adelaide
Film Festival you'll be able to avoid the ravages of this summer
by sitting in a cooled and darkened room watching other people
getting on with their lives.
To whit: your attention is drawn to the Fake Film Festival,
sporting a potpourri of faked cinemagraphic excess: documentaries,
videos, adverts - all faked for your loving enjoyment, and on
offer at the Greater Union Complex on Hindley St on Sat 26 Feb
from 6.30pm. It's all the brain child of two local film makers
Richard Coburn and Armin Mayer, and promises to be very entertaining
indeed.
Of course, there was a lot of ''fake' on offer at the opening night screening and gala guzzling party at the Adelaide Town Hall last Friday. Fake kisses ("Darling, so goooood to see you"), fake appraisals ("I looooved it!") and fake bonhomie ("No the speeches weren't too long - juuuust right"). And a good time was had by all, even CEO of ArtsSA Greg Mackie, one of the many waiting in line at the "I don't know where your ticket is, did you RSVP" line, although he is the head of the Adelaide Film Festival's major funding body. He wasn't the only one to be issued a special 'blue slip' ticket.
Garry Stewart is Artistic Director of the
Australian Dance Theatre, and David Evans is Creative Director
of Digital Monkey; the two having collaborated on a unique fusion
of choreography and 3D animation called 'Transcriptions'. It
looks great, but as anyone who has ever grappled with programme
notes knows, it's a bugger to describe. Apparently the following
means something - in English. "Transcriptions is a semiotic
space exploring identity where choreographed dancers from Restless
Dance Company and ADT are wrapped in and substituted by animated
text. Drawing on the pop culture superhero genre, Transcriptions
is an iteration of the notion that language is the frame through
which subjectivity and lived experiences are processed and perceived.
Four separate screens show contradicting suspended moments with
hyper kinetic cartoonish mayhem as the action shifts from one
screen to the next in a seemingly random order." Quite. And
it all happens at the Greenaway Art Gallery from now until Tues
1 March as part of the Art & The Moving Image program in the
Adelaide Film Festival.
For those seeking arts of a more earthy kind, your attention is drawn to the exhibited works of TafeSA students Jason Milanovic, Glenn Norman, Tanja Curlija, Tania Passmore, and John England in 'Eclectica', showing from Fri 4 March at Hindley St's Avalon Gallery. Their work covers sculpture, ceramics, drawing, painting, jewellery and photography, and is loosely based around the exploration of the four elements: earth, air, fire and water. Plato would be pleased to see his dictums of science so closely observed.
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