‘Wandering Souls’
Director-producer Aviva Ziegler’s feature documentary Wandering Souls will screen on Sbs and at Australian and international film festivals following the world premiere last week at the Cambodia International Film Festival.
The film follows the mounting of a stage production, Bangsokol: A Requiem for Cambodia, which premiered in Melbourne in 2017. The work was created in memory of the two million Cambodians who died at the hands of Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge.
Wandering Souls also tells first-hand survival stories of those involved in the creation of the play and of the determination of Cambodians to reclaim an artistic heritage that disappeared during the four years of the reign of terror. This year marks the 40th anniversary of the regime’s overthrow.
Commissioned by the not-for-profit organization Cambodian Living Arts, the play was a first-time collaboration between Cambodian film director Rithy Panh and the country’s premier composer, Dr.
Director-producer Aviva Ziegler’s feature documentary Wandering Souls will screen on Sbs and at Australian and international film festivals following the world premiere last week at the Cambodia International Film Festival.
The film follows the mounting of a stage production, Bangsokol: A Requiem for Cambodia, which premiered in Melbourne in 2017. The work was created in memory of the two million Cambodians who died at the hands of Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge.
Wandering Souls also tells first-hand survival stories of those involved in the creation of the play and of the determination of Cambodians to reclaim an artistic heritage that disappeared during the four years of the reign of terror. This year marks the 40th anniversary of the regime’s overthrow.
Commissioned by the not-for-profit organization Cambodian Living Arts, the play was a first-time collaboration between Cambodian film director Rithy Panh and the country’s premier composer, Dr.
- 3/21/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
. Ghost, Toast and the Things Unsaid.. . The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (Acmi) continues its push into Vr with new commissions Ghost, Toast and the Things Unsaid and Into the Prehistoric Aquarium. . Each is a cross-disciplinary collaboration that takes live performance.—.theatre, dance and puppetry.—.into the realm of Vr. . Acmi director and CEO Katrina Sedgwick said Vr technology had the ability to bring live performance experiences to a broad audience. . .As Vr becomes a new tool for artistic expression we are excited about how leading practitioners who work in live performance can harness it and speak to audiences in new ways on this rapidly evolving platform," she said. . .Through our expanding commissioning strategy, along with our co-working space Acmi X, Acmi is supporting artists from across the creative industries to explore cross disciplinary collaborations and embrace new technologies to speak to audiences through the moving image.". . Ghost, Toast...
- 11/1/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Oscar Raby's The Turning Forest, screening at Miff via Oculus alongside Raby's Easter Rising: Voice of a Rebel.
Virtual reality looks set to break into the mainstream in 2016, with Australia's film festivals leading the way. The Melbourne International Film Festival kicks off this Thursday, and one of its most exciting new sidebars is its Vr program.
In this extract from the latest issue of If, we chat to those leading the way in the new medium (including Melbourne-based Oscar Raby, whose work is being showcased at Miff) to get the lowdown on what's happening in Vr - and what's ahead.
Australian filmmaker Matthew Bate first experienced virtual reality at last year.s Sundance, where his feature documentary Sam Klemke.s Time Machine played in the festival.s New Frontier sidebar..
.I'd never experienced it before, and I remember watching a couple of Vr works and standing up and declaring,...
Virtual reality looks set to break into the mainstream in 2016, with Australia's film festivals leading the way. The Melbourne International Film Festival kicks off this Thursday, and one of its most exciting new sidebars is its Vr program.
In this extract from the latest issue of If, we chat to those leading the way in the new medium (including Melbourne-based Oscar Raby, whose work is being showcased at Miff) to get the lowdown on what's happening in Vr - and what's ahead.
Australian filmmaker Matthew Bate first experienced virtual reality at last year.s Sundance, where his feature documentary Sam Klemke.s Time Machine played in the festival.s New Frontier sidebar..
.I'd never experienced it before, and I remember watching a couple of Vr works and standing up and declaring,...
- 7/24/2016
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
Daniel Crooks: Phantom Ride.
Acmi and the Ian Potter Cultural Trust are calling for submissions to the $100,000 Ian Potter Moving Image Commission, Australia.s biggest commission for moving image art.
The last two commissions produced The Calling by Angelica Mesiti and Daniel Crooks: Phantom Ride.
On top of $100,000, the successful artist will receive highly specialised curatorial, production and presentation expertise from Acmi.
Last year's winner Daniel Crooks said that the commission had "afforded me the rare privilege to focus exclusively on a project for an extended period - to think big, to experiment and ultimately to take an important step forward in my practice..
The projects tendered must be designed for exhibition in a gallery context. There are no restrictions on the duration of the work or the number of channels utilised.
Chaired by Acmi Director and CEO Katrina Sedgwick, the judging panel includes Amanda Duthie (CEO and Director, Adelaide...
Acmi and the Ian Potter Cultural Trust are calling for submissions to the $100,000 Ian Potter Moving Image Commission, Australia.s biggest commission for moving image art.
The last two commissions produced The Calling by Angelica Mesiti and Daniel Crooks: Phantom Ride.
On top of $100,000, the successful artist will receive highly specialised curatorial, production and presentation expertise from Acmi.
Last year's winner Daniel Crooks said that the commission had "afforded me the rare privilege to focus exclusively on a project for an extended period - to think big, to experiment and ultimately to take an important step forward in my practice..
The projects tendered must be designed for exhibition in a gallery context. There are no restrictions on the duration of the work or the number of channels utilised.
Chaired by Acmi Director and CEO Katrina Sedgwick, the judging panel includes Amanda Duthie (CEO and Director, Adelaide...
- 6/8/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Director, Robert Connolly, will executive produce, Hive Fund winner, Guilty.
Guilty, Remembering Agatha and Bunghole have won funding in the third and final round of the Adelaide Film Festival Hive Fund initiative.
Australian artists Matthew Sleeth, Emma Magenta and Bruce Gladwin are set to collaborate with screen creatives Maggie Miles, Robert Connolly, Andrew Bovell, Julie Eckersley and Ester Harding on three new projects as part of the initiative.
Hive is an Adelaide Film Festival initiative in collaboration with the Australia Council for the Arts, Screen Australia and ABC Arts.
It is a disruptive initiative designed to bring together Australian artists and filmmakers to cross-pollinate their creative ideas, develop screen-based projects and support bright talent to take the next step.
The three newly commissioned projects will have their world premieres at the next edition of the biennial Adelaide Film Festival in 2017 and will all air on ABC TV.
The first project,...
Guilty, Remembering Agatha and Bunghole have won funding in the third and final round of the Adelaide Film Festival Hive Fund initiative.
Australian artists Matthew Sleeth, Emma Magenta and Bruce Gladwin are set to collaborate with screen creatives Maggie Miles, Robert Connolly, Andrew Bovell, Julie Eckersley and Ester Harding on three new projects as part of the initiative.
Hive is an Adelaide Film Festival initiative in collaboration with the Australia Council for the Arts, Screen Australia and ABC Arts.
It is a disruptive initiative designed to bring together Australian artists and filmmakers to cross-pollinate their creative ideas, develop screen-based projects and support bright talent to take the next step.
The three newly commissioned projects will have their world premieres at the next edition of the biennial Adelaide Film Festival in 2017 and will all air on ABC TV.
The first project,...
- 5/2/2016
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
Director, Robert Connolly, will executive produce, Hive Fund winner, Guilty.
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Guilty, Remembering Agatha and Bunghole have won funding in the third and final round of the Adelaide Film Festival Hive Fund initiative.
Australian artists Matthew Sleeth, Emma Magenta and Bruce Gladwin are set to collaborate with screen creatives Maggie Miles, Robert Connolly, Andrew Bovell, Julie Eckersley and Ester Harding on three new projects as part of the initiative.
Hive is an Adelaide Film Festival initiative in collaboration with the Australia Council for the Arts, Screen Australia and ABC Arts.
It is a disruptive initiative designed to bring together Australian artists and filmmakers to cross-pollinate their creative ideas, develop screen-based projects and support bright talent to take the next step.
The three newly commissioned projects will have their world premieres at the next edition of the biennial Adelaide Film Festival in 2017 and will all air on ABC TV.
The first project,...
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Guilty, Remembering Agatha and Bunghole have won funding in the third and final round of the Adelaide Film Festival Hive Fund initiative.
Australian artists Matthew Sleeth, Emma Magenta and Bruce Gladwin are set to collaborate with screen creatives Maggie Miles, Robert Connolly, Andrew Bovell, Julie Eckersley and Ester Harding on three new projects as part of the initiative.
Hive is an Adelaide Film Festival initiative in collaboration with the Australia Council for the Arts, Screen Australia and ABC Arts.
It is a disruptive initiative designed to bring together Australian artists and filmmakers to cross-pollinate their creative ideas, develop screen-based projects and support bright talent to take the next step.
The three newly commissioned projects will have their world premieres at the next edition of the biennial Adelaide Film Festival in 2017 and will all air on ABC TV.
The first project,...
- 5/2/2016
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
Stuck in the Middle With You.
Acmi will present a virtual reality collaboration between Closer Productions and the Sydney Dance Company.
Jointly directed by filmmaker Matthew Bate and director/choreographer Gideon Obarzanek, Stuck in the Middle With You allows the viewer to become part of the on-stage performance - a live dance work originally choreographed by Obarzanek for the Sydney Dance Company.
The Vr work - the first that Acmi has presented - will run from March 5 to March 14.
.Stuck in the Middle With You is a unique work in its approach to Vr", Acmi CEO Katrina Sedgwick said..
"This is a cross-disciplinary collaboration which uses pioneering Vr technology to capture a live performance experience in an entirely new, immersive platform. It not only places the viewer in the middle of the stunning dancers of Sydney Dance Company in a way that could never be possible in a theatre space,...
Acmi will present a virtual reality collaboration between Closer Productions and the Sydney Dance Company.
Jointly directed by filmmaker Matthew Bate and director/choreographer Gideon Obarzanek, Stuck in the Middle With You allows the viewer to become part of the on-stage performance - a live dance work originally choreographed by Obarzanek for the Sydney Dance Company.
The Vr work - the first that Acmi has presented - will run from March 5 to March 14.
.Stuck in the Middle With You is a unique work in its approach to Vr", Acmi CEO Katrina Sedgwick said..
"This is a cross-disciplinary collaboration which uses pioneering Vr technology to capture a live performance experience in an entirely new, immersive platform. It not only places the viewer in the middle of the stunning dancers of Sydney Dance Company in a way that could never be possible in a theatre space,...
- 2/17/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
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The Dardenne brothers’ Two Days, One Night, starring Marion Cotillard, wins Sydney Film Prize.
Two Days, One Night, the Palme d’Or nominated drama from Belgian brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne starring Marion Cotillard, has won the seventh Sydney Film Prize.
The feature beat 11 other contenders due to “its masterfully elegant storytelling, its dedication to a fiercely humanistic, super-realist worldview, its brave, essential commitment to community solidarity, and its celebration of a woman’s power and vitality”.
The comments were made by jury president and local filmmaker Rachel Perkins when announcing the award last night (June 15), the final night of the 61st Sydney Film Festival.
The film is about a woman who has to convince her factory colleagues to forfeit their bonuses in order for her to keep her job,.
The Sydney Film Prize aims to recognise “courageous, audacious and cutting-edge” film.
The Dardennes were in Amsterdam for the release of the film, so were unable...
Two Days, One Night, the Palme d’Or nominated drama from Belgian brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne starring Marion Cotillard, has won the seventh Sydney Film Prize.
The feature beat 11 other contenders due to “its masterfully elegant storytelling, its dedication to a fiercely humanistic, super-realist worldview, its brave, essential commitment to community solidarity, and its celebration of a woman’s power and vitality”.
The comments were made by jury president and local filmmaker Rachel Perkins when announcing the award last night (June 15), the final night of the 61st Sydney Film Festival.
The film is about a woman who has to convince her factory colleagues to forfeit their bonuses in order for her to keep her job,.
The Sydney Film Prize aims to recognise “courageous, audacious and cutting-edge” film.
The Dardennes were in Amsterdam for the release of the film, so were unable...
- 6/16/2014
- by Sandy.George@me.com (Sandy George)
- ScreenDaily
French language film Two Days, One Night has taken out the Sydney Film Prize at the closing night gala held yesterday evening at the State Theatre in Sydney.
The film, directed by brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, stars Marion Cotillard as a woman who, with the help of her husband (Fabrizio Rongione) tries to convince her co-workers to forgo their yearly bonus so she may keep her job.
The film is a Belgian production with French and Italian co-producers.
It .has very well received critically and currently has a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 92 per cent.
Other prize winners included Janine Hosking.s 35 Letters, which took out the Inaugural Documentary Australia Foundation Award for Australian Documentary, with a special mention going to Tender directed by Lynette Wallworth.
The Dendy Awards for Australian Short Films were also announced, with the Dendy Live Action Short Award going to I Want to Dance Better at Parties,...
The film, directed by brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, stars Marion Cotillard as a woman who, with the help of her husband (Fabrizio Rongione) tries to convince her co-workers to forgo their yearly bonus so she may keep her job.
The film is a Belgian production with French and Italian co-producers.
It .has very well received critically and currently has a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 92 per cent.
Other prize winners included Janine Hosking.s 35 Letters, which took out the Inaugural Documentary Australia Foundation Award for Australian Documentary, with a special mention going to Tender directed by Lynette Wallworth.
The Dendy Awards for Australian Short Films were also announced, with the Dendy Live Action Short Award going to I Want to Dance Better at Parties,...
- 6/16/2014
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
French film Two Days, One Night has taken out the Sydney Film Prize at the closing night gala held yesterday evening at the State Theatre in Sydney.
The film, directed by brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, stars Marion Cotillard as a woman who, with the help of her husband (Fabrizio Rongione) tries to convince her co-workers to forgo their yearly bonus so she may keep her job.
The film has very well received critically and currently has a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 92 per cent.
Other prize winners included Janine Hosking.s 35 Letters, which took out the Inaugural Documentary Australia Foundation Award for Australian Documentary, with a special mention going to Tender directed by Lynette Wallworth.
The Dendy Awards for Australian Short Films were also announced, with the Dendy Live Action Short Award going to I Want to Dance Better at Parties, directed and written by Matthew Bate and Gideon Obarzanek.
The film, directed by brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, stars Marion Cotillard as a woman who, with the help of her husband (Fabrizio Rongione) tries to convince her co-workers to forgo their yearly bonus so she may keep her job.
The film has very well received critically and currently has a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 92 per cent.
Other prize winners included Janine Hosking.s 35 Letters, which took out the Inaugural Documentary Australia Foundation Award for Australian Documentary, with a special mention going to Tender directed by Lynette Wallworth.
The Dendy Awards for Australian Short Films were also announced, with the Dendy Live Action Short Award going to I Want to Dance Better at Parties, directed and written by Matthew Bate and Gideon Obarzanek.
- 6/16/2014
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
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