AFW at Loo’s (Sydney)

 7pm 28th November
Loo’s Community Space 
188 McElhone St, Woolloomooloo
16mm Projection. Donation on door

Artist Film Workshop is excited to be bringing films from a handful of its members to Sydney/Eora. Join us at Loo’s Community Space for an evening showcasing some of the newest work by the Melbourne/Naarm based Film Collective.

FILMS:

Nude Descending (2025) by Dianna Barrie and Richard Tuohy 9:00mins 16mm
A performer descends the stairs.  Direct film mattes frame glimpses of the motion.  Phase-looping duplicates the glimpses into a cascade of humanity.  A game played with colour separations, motion following hand scratched and painted mattes and a perpetual descending figure.

Cradle and Step (2026) by Max Schoeman 2:46mins 16mm
Two friends discuss and improvise repeated movements for the camera

Under the Sign of Saturn (2026) by Lucinda Eva-May 3:44mins 16mm
A brief film built of fragments contemplating the melancholic, spheres, thresholds and portals.

Debil Debil, Baldwin Spencer (2025) by Jordan James Kaye 8:09mins 16mm
Debil Debil Baldwin Spencer is inspired by Jason Tamiru, a proud Yorta Yorta man and the Melbourne School of Design’s Indigenous Cultural Advisor, and his profound experience upon first entering the Walter Baldwin Spencer Lecture Theatre, located on the University of Melbourne’s grounds. Drawing on Spencer’s controversial legacy as an evolutionary biologist whose work influenced the Stolen Generation policy, the film seeks to decolonize the space and reimagine its significance.

Head or Tails (2026) by Rowena Crowe 3mins 16mm
Australian coins provide a set of instructions that question how to live in a capitalist colonial society in the time of climate uncertainty. Head or Tails was shot on a hand wound Bolex following self-imposed instructions over a single roll of film. Setting the focus to close range, I let the flip of a coin decide which direction the camera “walked”. The camera, fixed to a mono-pod, strides through the landscape till the film wind or path runs out.

Heimþrá eða Nostalgía (2026) by Melody Woodnutt 7mins 16mm
“Like the doctors before them, poets and philosophers failed to find a precise location for nostalgia...a metaphorical journey seemed like a homeopathic treatment for human longing…”

Upfield (2025) by Paddy Hay 6mins 16mm
Chronicling a walk to the end of the line on Super 8 film — from the heart of the inner city to the outer suburban station of Upfield in Melbourne’s North.

El Jamon es un Sol (2026) by Armando Soto 7:58mins 16mm
A state of conscious and permanent visibility of all we do assures the [now automatic] function of power. The power is both visible and unverifiable.