Following a national call for Expressions of Interest 105 applications were received for the 30 places in the Lab (20 South Australian and 10 national participants). The Lab will commission one new moving image work to be presented at Samstag Museum of Art during the 2024 Adelaide Film Festival. In addition, two projects will be selected for development support or mentoring by Illuminate Adelaide and the Art Gallery of South Australia.
AFF’s CEO & Creative Director Mat Kesting said: “Adelaide Film Festival is thrilled at the response from across Australia to this new initiative. The number of applications received is testament that Australian creatives are seeking out innovative opportunities to collaborate, learn and expand their thinking.”
“I truly believe that AFF EXPAND Lab will be a hothouse for exciting ideas to emerge in a supportive environment under the guidance of renowned mentors. The Adelaide Film Festival is the ideal backdrop to the Lab with the city coming alive with cinema lovers and filmmakers from across Australia and the world in attendance.”
Erica Green, Director of Samstag Museum of Art and co-commissioner of the EXPAND Commission added: “In a highly competitive process, participants have been selected from across the visual arts, film, moving image, XR and VR realms. Experienced and renowned artists will be meeting together at AFF EXPAND Lab to share their ideas, ambitions, and visions for bold new moving image work.”
The participants will be mentored by leading New York-based Australian artists Soda Jerk, a two-person art collective who make sample-based experimental films with a rogue documentary impulse. Their new feature Hello Dankness is the 2022 Adelaide Film Festival and Samstag Museum of Art Moving Image Commission. Also mentoring the participants will be Lynette Wallworth a two-time Emmy award winning artist/filmmaker renowned for creating profoundly empathetic works while pushing the boundaries of emerging technologies, and Alex Davies, an award-winning Australian media artist whose practice spans a diverse range of media and experiments with interaction, technology, perception, mixed reality and illusion.
AFF EXPAND Lab is a collaboration between the Adelaide Film Festival, Samstag Museum of Art , The Art Gallery of South Australia and Illuminate Adelaide. and is supported by the The Balnaves Foundation, and Arts South Australia.
The 30 participants are:
South Australia
Elyas Alavi
Kat Bell
Jingwei Bu
James Calvert
Cadence Chaos
Allison Chhorn
Dave Court
Alex Degaris
Kath Dooley
Anthony Frith
Sue Kneebone
Sarah Neville
Claudia Nicholson
Melinda Rackham
Alies Sluiter
Liam Somerville
CJ Taylor
Matthew Thorne
Joshua Tylor
Emmaline Zanelli
National
Nathan Mewett (WA)
Emma Roberts (Vic)
Ben Andrews (Vic)
Alexandra Kelly (Vic)
Xanthe Dobbie (Vic)
Eugenia Lim (Vic)
Robert Walton (Vic)
Archie Moore (NSW)
Susan Norrie (NSW)
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