Julia Flaster is an arts worker and film producer of both short films and documentaries, working between France and Australia. She is the founder of Debris, a story-driven print publication. Julia is currently working as a production assistant in Paris on a number of documentaries. Julia has curated a program of experimental films and hybrid documentaries named Material Memories:
Materials crack, leak, snap, split, collapse. They are difficult because they are unpredictable. Yet attention is not often given to the lives of materials and the experiences of those who manipulate them. This program examines how humans relate to, transform, and are transformed by the wider material world. Exploring the boundaries between unmediated reality and fiction, each film offers us a glimpse into the connections people forge with materials through various scales of making: men covered in dust living among rocks waiting to be cut; a location scout journeys to an abandoned opal mining town; runner beans grow under a collapsing roof … a stranger returns to his ancestral land at the end of the world.
Material Memories features films by Pia Borg, Yuyan Wang, Allison Chhorn and the Karrabing Film Collective. The program includes:
– Silica (23’/2017/Australia, UK) by Pia Borg
– The Plastic House (46’/ 2019 /Australia) by Allison Chhorn.
– All Movements Should Kill the Wind (12’/2019/China) by Yuyan Wang
– The Mermaids, Or Aiden in Wonderland (27’/2018/Australia) by the Karrabing Film Collective.
Date: Tuesday 29th of March
Time: Doors 7pm, Screening 8pm
Venue: Tempo Rubato, 34 Breese St, Brunswick 3056
Tickets: $16.5
