THE (DIS)ORDER OF ANYTHING

8pm Friday 16 December
Cross St Music Hall, 16-22 Cross St, Brunswick East (behind the Brunswick Bowls Club, next to Fleming Park).

Join us as we celebrate the end of 2022 with a stylish selection of influential 20th century structural and experimental films. Exploring order, chaos, and single-frame film techniques, the program includes historical works by Kurt Kren, Martin Arnold, Paul Sharits, Norman McLaren, Takashi Ito, as well as brand new works by AFW members Jordan James Kaye and Richard Munro.

$10 on the door
16mm projection
Duration: 83 mins

Kurt Kren Compilation
Kurt Kren
20’
1960-78

A compilation of four structuralist films by Kurt Kren: 48 Kopfe, TV, Asyl, Tree Again.

Alone: Life Wastes Andy Hardy
Martin Arnold
15’
1998

Throwing down the gauntlet to Hollywood's space/time system Arnold tears under the film language of classic Hollywood cinema. By surgically sectioning single frames and reproducing them in multiplied and repeated sequences, repressed sexual dynamics are exposed.

T.O.U.C.H.I.N.G.
Paul Sharits
12’
1968

Into the rapid alternation of blank frames of colour which activates the space between the screen and the eye are introduced still images of a young man in positive and negative. He becomes a kind of icon of violence mixed with images of surgery and sexuality. The word 'destroy' is repeated in a loop on the soundtrack.

Pas de Deux
Norman McLaren
14’
1969

Illuminates the grace, beauty and movement of the classical ballet form through the use of strobe-like or multi-image patterns. Featuring ballet dancers Margaret Mercier and Vincent Warren.

Spacy
Takashi Ito
10’
1980

A film about space (a gym), time (the 10 minutes the film takes) and illusion (pictures of the gym and the reality of the actual space of the gym) rigorously combined in an endless series.

Recomposing Decomposition
Jordan James Kaye
6’
2022

Recomposing Decomposition is a process driven antagonised 16mm self portraiture experimental film of losing yourself via means unbeknown, nor mattered, to find yourself. Exposed on 70+ year old black and white film. When you know you’ve completely sunken into a decomposition of yourself…. What’s next? An unformed, un-met, mis-understood version of yourself, goo, dumb, cracking and falling from your feet? No. Repetition reaps and cyclicity spells life. Recomposing Decomposition is the protagonist to the compost heap. Ebb thus flow.

Goldfish Lightbulb
Richard Munro
6’
2022

A film focused on two unnamed characters, a boy, and a girl. It is unclear how they may or may not know each other. They go about their own lives each day, seemingly always crossing paths or seeing each other from a distance.

Presented by Jordan James Kaye.

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

For Indigenous Australians entry is free for all AFW screenings