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  BMX
Bandits double screen live mash-up (PG)
Starring: Nicole
Kidman
Director:
Brian Trenchard-Smith
Supporting
feature:
When:
7.00pm Sat Aug 12 2006
Where:
Dangar Island Community Hall
Return ferry to mainland:
No
Programmer: Jonathan Sykes
In association with:
National
Film & Sound Archive
A radical re-imagining of Nicole Kidman's
first feature. This unique
event features a live audio-visual remix side-by-side
with the film on two screens. Sydney video artists Tesseract
will mash up BMX Bandits with their own blend of activist
experimental video, while DJ Alistair provides the
soundtrack.
Back in 1980, BMX was a radical new
type of bike, wedded to the skateboard craze that preceded it with
acrobatic tricks, dirt-track racing and a certain outlaw frisson. 26
years later, street-occupying protest events such as Reclaim The Streets
and Critical Mass position bikes at the centre of an urban transport
crisis and a new way to imagine urban spaces.
 What
does this little zinger from Aussie film's renaissance look like through
this lens? Is it just coincidence that in 2006 bank robbers are foiled
by police on mountain bikes? Was that Nicole Kidman's real hair? Why be
content with just one screen?
All will become clear in a truly special event - a classic Australian
film interacting with its own future in a radical performance space.
It's bound to be a night of surprises, and one you definitely won't want
to miss.
Screening to members. Memberships avail. on the night $10Adult/$5Children
More
Links
Tesseract specialise in
innovative projection spaces and highly creative visuals - a perfect fit
with DIFS.
Tesseract home page http://www.trl.com.au/
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