the NOW now dipped-in-cinema will host a feast of audio visual goodness every night!

Our lush experimental film program has been hand picked from the National Film Archive by the Other Film team from Brisbane. Check the full program for the pick of films and screening times (most nights the program runs from 7-8pm, so you don’t miss a thing!)

From 8-11pm each night the goodness continues with an amazing array of original works by local artists pulled together by Alex White. Be sure to visit this page again as we drip feed this DVD line-up to you day by day…

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Cicada is a collection of artists who work with landscape - urban, natural, constructed and imagined. http://cicada.tv ”MOB” is a study of organic motion, swarming behaviours and sound, Mob creates an abstracted environment populated with individual organisms of motion and sound. Within this environment the audience experiences the unfolding of a textural world, which builds up to the point where individuality is neutered and an abstracted crowd organism is formed.

‘When the kissing bird of nothing, comes calling.’ (Duration: 3mins)
by Anastasia Freeman An animation that honours the frame-by-frame editing of stop-motion. It is a nostalgic piece that rather than seeking to make a new video practise, simply revisits where video art has its roots. More than anything else it is a playful film and its loose narrative circles around the experience of relationship to art and other.

“CRT is AOK” by Fortran: Signal based analogue television work. Fortran sing a dirge for the departing cathode ray tube.

Toby Burvill and Torunn Higgins have combined their practices; video, sound and sculpture, photography respectively, to create thier new work. The piece evokes imagery of movement in dark place/space without the integration of human presence. It is an emotive work that encourages the viewer to interact and respond to the space presented in the video.

Stephen Fox will present new work ‘Three Land’ (7 minutes) The rhythm of three sequences of still images caught in a loop, conflicting with the visual beat of the natural landscape. When form and motion obscure vision and comprehension – what is seen only serves to detach the viewer from their surroundings.

‘I’m going to kick you so hard in the fuck, you’ll shit!’
byIvan Lisyak is an Electronic artist/ Musician from the Blue Mountains.

Sarah Last (Muttama), field recording
Sarah is an artist and independent curator based in regional NSW on a farm 2000mtrs above sea level, consequently she generally avoids venturing into the outside world. Since 2003 Sarah has curated the unsound experimental arts and sound festivals for wagga space program http://space-program.org/. She is currently interested in dualities of nature and the paradoxes it presents with human interaction. “Still Born” her work for the NOW now festival is a field recording presenting a linear narrative that unfolds an interplay of ethical dialectics as two farmers pull a dead breached calf from its living mother.

“Longing for Walden” (duration: 8mins)
by Adam Costenoble

Cameron Foster - TV PULP (duration 4.45) -
Rare footage of ripe organic pixel conglomerations, before they have been harvested and systematised into tasteless broadcast content.

“Muttama” field recording
Sarah Last is an artist and independent curator based in regional NSW on a farm 2000mtrs above sea level, consequently she generally avoids venturing into the outside world. Since 2003 Sarah has curated the unsound experimental arts and sound festivals for wagga space program http://space-program.org/. She is currently interested in dualities of nature and the paradoxes it presents with human interaction. “Still Born” her work for the nownow festival is a field recording presenting a linear narrative that unfolds an interplay of ethical dialectics as two farmers pull a dead breached calf from its living mother.