FILM ADJACENT

#18 Happening 06/11/23 at The Undercurrent
Experiments in Youth Storytelling and Radical Education. Presented by Poppy Carter

#17
Local Filmmakers' Experimental Cinema: ’Blackholes are Gathering’ (super cut) (Dan Harris 2019). ‘An Echo of Reflection’ (Poppy Marshall-Kirby). ‘Business’ (Joe Cain 2023). ‘TERROR NULLIUS Unmixed’ (Caitlin Lynch 2018). ‘Carwash’ (Jacques Sirot 2023). The Hampton Project (Poppy Carter). At Night We Dance’ (Christopher T. 2021), ’Desire Trilogy’ (Tyler Shane Tesolin). Presented 02/10/24

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#16
OCEAN 2: 'Leviathan' (Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel 2012) Presented by Christopher Thompson on 05/09/24

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#15
Aotearoa Poetry Film Festival Retrospective: Part 1. — 'L’etoile de mer' (Man Ray 1928). 'The House Is Black' (Forugh Farrokhzad 1963). 'Sign Language' (Tony Konnyves 1985). 'Snows of Aorangi' (NFU Excerpt 1955, feat. J.K. Baxter). 'Psalm 150' (Jerico Brown 2020). 'Waiting' (Thadra Sheridan 2014).'Word' (Louis Vuitton 2012). 'Levi’s Legacy' (Levis 2011) Part 2 — . 'Eeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeee' (Ariane Caron-Lacoste). 'Idk' (Chelsea Werner-Jatzke). 'Antique Lands' (Zack McCune, NZ). 'Changing Skin' (Maxime Coton, Belgium). 'Dulce et Decorum' (Walter Haussner, NZ). 'Mochi' (Eoghan McDonaugh, NZ). 'Whirflow' (Kathleen Mantel, NZ). 'Inferno' (Shu Run Yap, NZ). 'The Sound of Soil' (Christopher T. and Hannah van Seventer, NZ, 2023). 'Waves of Ghosts' (Dominic Hoey and Jack Nicol, NZ). 'Shades of Grey' (Lyon Pol, NZ). Presented by Alfio Leotta on 01/08/24

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#14
Nostos: 'Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania' (Jonas Mekas 1972) Presented by Tyler Shane Tesolin on 04/07/24

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#13
Mulvey, Queen of the Gaze: ‘Penthesilea: Queen of the Amazons’ (Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen 1974). Presented by Lilian Goodliffe on 6/06/24.

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#12
OCEAN 1: 'The Blessed Assurance' (Isabelle Carbonell 2018), '.TV' (G. Anthony Svatek 2017), 'Slow Action' (Ben Rivers 2011). Presented by Christopher Thompson on 02/05/24

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#11
A Short History of Experimental Cinema: Part 1 — 'The Artwork in the Age of its Mechanical Reproducibility' (Keith Sanborn 1996, USA), 'An Optical Poem' (Oscar Fischinger 1938, Germany), 'De Natura' (Lucille Hadzihalilović 2017, France), 'Boston Fire' (Peter Hutton 1979, Detroit), 'Beginning' (Artavazd Peleshian 1967, Armenia), 'Kustom Kar Kommando' (Kenneth Anger 1965, USA), 'Weird Woman (State I)' (Genesis P. Orridge 2003-2010),' Death Mask II: The Scent' (Ed Atkins 2010, Britain). Part 2 — 'Free Radicals (Len Lye 1958, NZ?), 'Circadian Rhythms' (David Blyth 1976, NZ), 'Napkins' (Joanna Margret Paul 1975, NZ), '2.5 kilometre Mono Action for a Mirage' (Alex Monteith 2011, NZ), 'Not Everybody Can Do Everything' (Peter Waring 2010. 13m32s excerpt). Presented by Tyler Tesolin and Christopher Thompson on 04/04/24

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#9
Interspecies Art Practice in the Anthropocene: (Untitled) 'Human Mask' (Pierre Huyghe 2014), 'What the Sun Has Seen' (Agnieszka Polska 2017), 'The Word for Water is Whale' (Zadie Xa 2021), 'Becoming Sensor in an Oak Savannah' (Natasha Myers), and an excerpt from 'Donna Haraway: Story Telling for Earthly Survival' (Fabrizio Terranova 2016). Presented by Hannah van Seventer on 14/09/23.

#8
Gender and Morality with Death Metal Music Video. Presented by William Pigot on 31/08/23

#7
Anti-Oppenheimer: 'Hiroshima Mon Amour' (Alain Resnais 1959). Presented by Tyler Shane Tesolin on 10/08/23

#6
Camp Cinema by Lesbian Filmmakers: 'D.E.B.S' (Angela Robinson 2003), 'Girltrash!' (Robinson 2007), 'Stuck' (Jamie Babbit 2001), and 'Sleeping Beauties' (Babbit 1999). Presented by Lilian Goodliffe on 27/07/23

#5
Machinima: Test Screening of Mercado’s PhD films. Presented by Oscar Manuel Nodal Mercado on 13/7/23.

#4
Protest Film Screening: 'Street Politics 101' (subMedia 2013), 'Rebels in Retrospect' (Russell Campbell 1991). Presented by Christopher Thompson and Tyler Tesolin on 29/6/23

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#3
Sisyphus, Again: 'Dog Star Man' (Stan Brakhage 1964). Presented by Tyler Tesolin on 8/6/23

#2
NZ Exp—Against the State: 'Johnny Barcode' (Brent Hayward 2011), 'Manawanui' (Hayward 1996), 'The Maintenance of silence' (William Keddell 1985), and 'How to shoot a Crime' (Chris Kraus 1987). Presented by Christopher Thompson on 18/5/23

#1
Awkward and Dark: 'Autobiographical Scene Number 6882' (Ruben Östlund 2005), 'Incident at a Bank' (Östlund 2009) & The Dinner Scene from 'The Square' (Östlund 2015) and 'World Of Glory' (Roy Anderson 1991). Presented by Tristan Keillor on 4/5/23

Screenings every month at The Undercurrent