The Adelaide Film Festival 2005 has compiled an extensive program of FREE screenings, forums, exhibitions and works in progress as part of this year’s program.
FREE screenings include the Late & Great series of documentaries that changed the world. The films in this late night program include Manufacturing Consent, which is co-directed by Adelaide Thinker in Residence Peter Wintonick, Nanook of the North the world’s first feature documentary, from French filmmaker Alan Resnais Night and Fog and one of the most debated films in the history of cinema Triumph of Will.
The short films from the KINO Kabaret project will also be screened FREE every second night during the Festival on 19, 21, 23 and 25 Feb at Garage Bar and Dining at 9pm. These films will be written, shot and edited every two days in and around Adelaide with teams of local filmmakers and the KINO team from Quebec, Canada.
Our FREE Forum program includes:
Lalo Schifrin in Conversation with James Morrison on Sun 20 Feb at 4.30pm. Pianist, composer and conductor, the extraordinary Lalo Schifrin has written almost 100 scores for films and television, with four Grammy Awards and six Oscar nominations to date.
Famed film scholar David Bordwell (US) will present two lectures, Intensified Continuity and the Contemporary American Film on Mon 28 Feb 12.30pm and Planet Hong Kong on Wed 23 Feb at 12pm.
“David Bordwell is without a doubt the most intelligent, incisive and erudite scholar working in academic film studies.” Thomas Elsaesser
Adelaide Thinker in Residence Peter Wintonick will present a lecture on The Hybrid Film on Sat 19 Feb at 2pm. Join Peter as he looks at some key examples of the hybrid film: “films which use blending strategies, grabbing from drama, non-fiction, faction, animation, comedy, and the experimental.”
Renowned US critic Godfrey Cheshire discusses the astonishing and distinctive Iranian film industry with documentary filmmaker (and son of auteur Abbas Kiarostami) Bahman Kiarostami (Infidels & Pilgrimage) in Inside Iranian Cinema on Mon 21 Feb at 12.30pm.
“Iranian films show us a society struggling with itself, trying to reconcile cultural traditions with political choices, vaunted ideals with thorny realities. We don’t get such rich, nuanced views of these challenges from any other medium.” Godfrey Cheshire
Meet award winning writer and director Sarah Watt (Look Both Ways) and see her astonishing earlier animations in Drawing the line - The Animations of Sarah Watt. Sarah will be in conversation with Margaret Pomeranz, on Sun 20 Feb at 1pm.
Part of the Architecture & Film strand, the Cinematic Space: Sustainability, Transformation and Identity forum will be held at the Grainger Studio on Sun 27 Feb at 2pm, asking pressing questions about the sustainability of our planet. Reconciliation of culture and technology, tradition and progress, and sustainability and development, require inventive ecological strategies and organisations.
Television is the scourge of our society, it is addictive – making us fat, selling us rubbish and emptying our minds. But it can also be a place of extraordinary creativity? Join Wil Anderson (ABC The Glasshouse), Courtney Gibson (ABC TV Arts & Entertainment), Nick Fraser (BBC Storyville), Peter Wintonick (Adelaide Thinker in Residence), Jane Roscoe (SBS), Sophie Cunningham (The Age) and Chair Tony Ayres as they go head to head in the Is TV Art? Debate.
This FREE debate, presented with the Australian International Documentary Conference and the State Library of SA, will be held at the Adelaide Town Hall on 20 February at 7.15pm.
Panellists Godfrey Cheshire (USA), director Kate Wood, writer Ian David and Glenys Rowe (SBS) examine television and what it offers in and of its all-pervading self in The Art of TV – The Forum on Tues 22 Feb at 11am.
FREE exhibitions include the Art & The Moving Image series, a program exploring the impact of the moving image on visual art, and computer gaming exhibition reactivate!, which looks at how today’s game culture has influenced established cinematic and story-telling techniques.
The FREE Works In Progress series offers audiences rare access into the minds of some of Australia’s finest filmmakers and the journeys they must take as the create their art for the screen. These sessions include:
The Insite: Screenplay Reading of Cath Moore’s wonderful script, Moving South, presented to the public by actors Ernie Dingo (The Great Outdoors), Aiden Young (Serenades) and Luke Carroll (Australian Rules), with the guidance of award-winning director Craig Monahan (Peaches).
A master class by award winning documentary maker Cathy Henkel (The Man Who Stole My Mothers Face, I told you I was ill: Spike Milligan).
The opportunity to see works in progress from David Bradbury – Poverty of Abundance, and documentary maker Sherine Salama - In The Compound: The Last Days of Yasser Arafat at the Mercury.
All FREE events must be booked. For information and bookings: visit www.adelaidefilmfestival.org, call 08 8231 3422 or in person at the AFF Box Office, Greater Union City Cinema, 128 Hindley Street, Adelaide.
The AFF is proudly supported by the Government of South Australia through Arts SA, presented by Internode and sponsored by The Advertiser, ETSA Utilities, the Adelaide City Council and Network Ten.