Mudfest, the University of Melbourne Student Union’s biennial arts festival that celebrates students’ artistic expression and encourages them to experiment artistically, is back for five days this week from Tuesday August 22nd until Saturday August 26th. Amongst the various events featuring more than seventy artworks will be some film-related ones.
On Wednesday the 23rd, from 3 to 5 pm in the Rowden White Library, will be Flicks & Friends, made up of back-to-back screenings of five student shorts followed by Q&As with the filmmakers. Free popcorn & drinks will also be available.
The films:
Road Trip Song by Ailish Taylor, a folk/pop song video about road trips, love, making it to the light at the end of the tunnel, and realising you’re glad you stayed.
一层一层/Layer by Layer by Carmen Yih, “A filmic homage to the forgone artistic dreams of my maternal lineage. As I pursue my artistic ambitions, I experience these echoes of forgone dreams layered upon me.”
Liminal by Nicholson Nurputra, based on a personal experience during the pandemic when Melbourne underwent a series of lockdowns. Liminal attempts to connect with viewers who encountered stressful, fatiguing moments due to the major change in lifestyle and convey the influence this had on personality and emotion.
Pause by Simin Dolatkhah and George Wood, which explores choice and constraint, connection and loss, possession and dispossession. Inspired by artist Dolatkhah’s experiences in Melbourne during lockdowns, the video evokes the uncanniness of the interpersonal by blending conventional visual storytelling with 3D and post-processing techniques.
Whale Video 01 by Belly Of A Whale. No other info available.
If you can’t make the screening on Wednesday, the films will be showing again at the Rowden White Library as part of a Film Fiesta on Thursday the 24th from 10 am to 1 pm and 2 to 7:30 pm, as well as on Friday the 25th from 2 to 7:30 pm.
Before the shorts on Friday, the Rowden White Library will also host from 1 to 2 pm a professional development talk with creative Zac Millner-Cretney. A Melbourne-based filmmaker and content producer with more than a decade of industry experience, Millner-Cretney specialises in editing and post-production, and is knowledgable about online video production. His career has focused on producing work within progressive political spaces, having worked with a wide range of activist and advocacy groups both within Australia and internationally. He recently co-edited the Screen-Australia-funded feature documentary Things Will Be Different.
For more info on Mudfest 2023, head here.
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