Murray Fredericks is not your ordinary photographer.
Instead of seeking out beautiful subjects or breath-taking structures, Fredericks prefers to photograph emptiness..
Audiences were invited to view how Fredericks works in the award-winning 2009 documentary Salt, which saw filmmaker Michael Angus follow Fredericks on his journey to Lake Eyre..
Now the pair have done it again, making numerous trips to Greenland for Fredericks' latest body of work.The result is captured in Nothing on Earth, a 58-minute documentary that opened at the Sydney Film Festival on July 9 to sell-out crowds..
It has taken Fredericks six trips to collect enough quality material to form an exhibition, but the photographer maintains it was worth it..
.For me it.s the visual quality of the landscape,. Fredericks says. .My work for the last 10 or 15 years has been concerned with landscapes devoid of features. After my work with the salt plains of Lake Eyre, I thought there was more to do,...
Instead of seeking out beautiful subjects or breath-taking structures, Fredericks prefers to photograph emptiness..
Audiences were invited to view how Fredericks works in the award-winning 2009 documentary Salt, which saw filmmaker Michael Angus follow Fredericks on his journey to Lake Eyre..
Now the pair have done it again, making numerous trips to Greenland for Fredericks' latest body of work.The result is captured in Nothing on Earth, a 58-minute documentary that opened at the Sydney Film Festival on July 9 to sell-out crowds..
It has taken Fredericks six trips to collect enough quality material to form an exhibition, but the photographer maintains it was worth it..
.For me it.s the visual quality of the landscape,. Fredericks says. .My work for the last 10 or 15 years has been concerned with landscapes devoid of features. After my work with the salt plains of Lake Eyre, I thought there was more to do,...
- 6/21/2013
- by Emily Blatchford
- IF.com.au
Screen Australia has invested $2.4m across seven documentaries to create what it says will be $6.5m worth of production.
Cordell Jigsaw will return with a second series of Sbs’s successful Go Back to Where You Came From to test six Australians about their preconcieved notions of asylum seekers by visiting refugees from regions not previously covered.
Producer Tristram Miall and writer/director Robin Hughes will create a six-part series called Creative Minds, exploring the lives of six Australia artists who have significantly contributed to the nation’s cultural landscape.
Using the ‘new science of happiness’ principles, experts will see if science can help couples save their relationships in Making Couples Happy, a four-part ABC series.
Photographer Murray Fredericks captures the Greenland Icecap in Nothing on Earth, produced, directed and written by the team behind award winning documentary, Salt.
Coming out of the National Documentary Program, Raising the Curtain traces...
Cordell Jigsaw will return with a second series of Sbs’s successful Go Back to Where You Came From to test six Australians about their preconcieved notions of asylum seekers by visiting refugees from regions not previously covered.
Producer Tristram Miall and writer/director Robin Hughes will create a six-part series called Creative Minds, exploring the lives of six Australia artists who have significantly contributed to the nation’s cultural landscape.
Using the ‘new science of happiness’ principles, experts will see if science can help couples save their relationships in Making Couples Happy, a four-part ABC series.
Photographer Murray Fredericks captures the Greenland Icecap in Nothing on Earth, produced, directed and written by the team behind award winning documentary, Salt.
Coming out of the National Documentary Program, Raising the Curtain traces...
- 10/12/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
The weekend’s here. You’ve just been paid, and it’s burning a hole in your pocket. What’s a pop culture geek to do? In hopes of steering you in the right direction to blow some of that hard-earned cash, it’s time for the Fred Weekend Shopping Guide - your spotlight on the things you didn’t even know you wanted…
(Please support Fred by using the links below to make any impulse purchases - it helps to keep us going…)
It’s a terribly bleak meditation on aging and not terribly suitable for kids who aren’t in the middle of an existential crisis, which may be an odd assessment to some considering I’m talking about Toy Story 3 (Walt Disney, Rated G, Blu-Ray-$45.99 Srp), but I stand by my statement. It really is bleak… almost Bergman-esque. Thankfully, the Blu-Ray set returns to the good...
(Please support Fred by using the links below to make any impulse purchases - it helps to keep us going…)
It’s a terribly bleak meditation on aging and not terribly suitable for kids who aren’t in the middle of an existential crisis, which may be an odd assessment to some considering I’m talking about Toy Story 3 (Walt Disney, Rated G, Blu-Ray-$45.99 Srp), but I stand by my statement. It really is bleak… almost Bergman-esque. Thankfully, the Blu-Ray set returns to the good...
- 11/5/2010
- by UncaScroogeMcD
The stark remote salt flats in Australia are explored on PBS in a new documentary August 17 on Pov. The film "Salt" will be a Pov (Point of View) documentary series on PBS on Tuesday, Aug. 17 at 10 p.m. (check local listings). Lake Eyre, Australia, as seen in Salt -Credit: Murray Fredericks, courtesy of PBS From PBS In his search for .somewhere I could point my camera into pure space,. award-winning photographer Murray Fredericks began making annual solo camping trips to remote Lake Eyre and its salt flats in South Australia. These trips have yielded remarkable photos of a boundless, desolate yet beautiful environment where sky, water and land merge. Made in collaboration with documentary filmmaker...
- 8/12/2010
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
The 48th annual Ann Arbor Film Festival is another exciting celebration of underground film past and present, featuring two retrospectives of two master filmmakers and dozens of short films and features from some of the most gifted talents working today.
For the retrospectives, first, Kenneth Anger will be in attendance at the festival for two programs of his classic work, including Fireworks and Scorpio Rising. Plus, for the first Anger screening, the filmmaker will be joined on-stage by film critic Dennis Lim for a discussion of his work and career. The second retrospective is of the work of the late Chick Strand, who sadly passed away in 2009. Strand’s Angel Blue Sweet Wings (1966) will actually open the entire festival, then there will be two retrospective screenings of her work, the first of which will be presented by film scholar Irina Leimbacher.
The rest of the Aaff lineup reads like a...
For the retrospectives, first, Kenneth Anger will be in attendance at the festival for two programs of his classic work, including Fireworks and Scorpio Rising. Plus, for the first Anger screening, the filmmaker will be joined on-stage by film critic Dennis Lim for a discussion of his work and career. The second retrospective is of the work of the late Chick Strand, who sadly passed away in 2009. Strand’s Angel Blue Sweet Wings (1966) will actually open the entire festival, then there will be two retrospective screenings of her work, the first of which will be presented by film scholar Irina Leimbacher.
The rest of the Aaff lineup reads like a...
- 3/8/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
The seventh annual Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, which ran on Feb. 12-21 in Missoula, Montana, has given out awards to a dozen films. There are four main awards: Best Feature, the Big Sky Award, Best Short Film and Mini Doc, which were each judged by a different panel of jurors.
In addition, each panel also awarded an Artistic Vision or Artistic Excellence award to another deserving film in each category. Plus, there were four Programmers Choice awards given out for cinematography, editing and in “natural facts.” The full list of winning films is below.
Best Feature:
Last Train Home, dir. Lixin Fan
Artistic Vision:
GasLand, dir. Josh Fox
(Jurors: Doug Pray, Jeanie Finlay and Cliff Froehlich)
Big Sky Award:
Next Year Country, dir. Joseph Aguirres
Artistic Excellence:
Sweetgrass, dir. Lucien Castaing Talors and Ilisa Barbashs
(Jurors: Shirley Sneve, Thomas Phillipson and Tim Huffman)
Best Short Film:
Danza Del Viejo Inmigrante...
In addition, each panel also awarded an Artistic Vision or Artistic Excellence award to another deserving film in each category. Plus, there were four Programmers Choice awards given out for cinematography, editing and in “natural facts.” The full list of winning films is below.
Best Feature:
Last Train Home, dir. Lixin Fan
Artistic Vision:
GasLand, dir. Josh Fox
(Jurors: Doug Pray, Jeanie Finlay and Cliff Froehlich)
Big Sky Award:
Next Year Country, dir. Joseph Aguirres
Artistic Excellence:
Sweetgrass, dir. Lucien Castaing Talors and Ilisa Barbashs
(Jurors: Shirley Sneve, Thomas Phillipson and Tim Huffman)
Best Short Film:
Danza Del Viejo Inmigrante...
- 2/20/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher's "October Country" won the Sterling U.S. Feature Award at Silverdocs: The AFI-Discovery Channel Documentary Festival, which concludes Monday in the Washington, D.C. area. The Sterling World Feature Award went to Lucy Bailey and Andrew Thompson's "Mugabe and the White African."
"October" documents the multi-generational story of a working-class family coping with poverty, teen pregnancy, foster care, child molestation and war.
"Mugabe" explores, through the lens of a 74-year-old white farmer, Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe's controversial land seizure program, which intended to re-distribute white-owned farmland.
The award for a short film went to Andreas Koefoed's "12 Notes Down," the portrait of a 14-year choir performer coping with the fact that his voice is changing.
A Special Jury mention went to "Salt," directed by Michael Angus and Murray Fredericks, which chronicles photographer Murray Frederick's journey into the remote salt flats in South Australia.
"October" documents the multi-generational story of a working-class family coping with poverty, teen pregnancy, foster care, child molestation and war.
"Mugabe" explores, through the lens of a 74-year-old white farmer, Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe's controversial land seizure program, which intended to re-distribute white-owned farmland.
The award for a short film went to Andreas Koefoed's "12 Notes Down," the portrait of a 14-year choir performer coping with the fact that his voice is changing.
A Special Jury mention went to "Salt," directed by Michael Angus and Murray Fredericks, which chronicles photographer Murray Frederick's journey into the remote salt flats in South Australia.
- 6/22/2009
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher's October Country and Lucy Bailey and Andrew Thompson's Mugabe and the White African are the big winners at the 7th edition of the Silverdocs Documentary Festival (one of the two major strictly documentary showcase film festivals for North America - other being Toronto's Hotdocs). Both films receive a cash prize of 10 thousand big ones. The jury which included Margaret Brown (one of our favorite doc filmmakers) awarded October Country with the Sterling Award for a Us Feature, while the jury that included Geoffrey Smith (The English Surgeon) awarded Mugabe... with the Sterling Award for a World Feature. Last year's winner were The Garden, and Smith's English Surgeon. Here is the issued press release featuring all the award winners, with the public favorite being announced tomorrow. Sterling Award for a Us Feature goes to October Country directed by Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher,
- 6/20/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
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