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book		2004 / edited by Charles Green Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 2004. Call No: 771(94) TWO Source: AT Place: Melbourne Publisher: National Gallery of Victoria PubDate: 2004 PhysDes: 221 p. : col. ill. ; 17 x 17 cm Subject: EXPERIMENTAL FILMS; EXPERIMENTAL FILMS. AUSTRALIA; AVANT-GARDE FILMS. AUSTRALIA; UNDERGROUND FILMS. AUSTRALIA Contents: 2004 : mapping contemporary Australian art and new media / Charles Green -- Surveying the boundaries of nation : from montage to network / Victoria Lynn -- Roundtable. Always turning art back into politics / Philip Brophy ... [et al.] -- Essays. Body: Extreme makeover : the 21st century body / Isobel Crombie ; Boredom : Bored? / Anonda Bell ; Collaboration : The ethics of collaboration / Nikos Papastergiadis ; Critic : The artist, the director, the manager and their critic / Blair French ; Decades : Against pluralism / Rex Butler ; Epic : Slashing and storming and sinning our war across adventure's most violent age / Clare Stewart ; Fashion : Telling tales / Katie Somerville ; Hybrid : Attack of the killer hybrids / Adrian Martin ; Indigenous : Spirit, resonance and innovation : indigenous art 2002-04 / Judith Ryan ; Net : net.bytes / Melinda Rackham ; Painting : Fast-forward painting / Kelly Gellatly ; Reality TV : Beyond the shadow of reality / Catharine Lumby More info
book		An Australian film reader / edited by Albert Moran and Tom O'Regan Sydney: Currency Press, 1985. Call No: 71(94) AUS Author: Moran, Albert, 1942; O'Regan, Tom, 1956 Place: Sydney Publisher: Currency Press PubDate: 1985 PhysDes: 391 p. ; 21 cm Series: Australian screen Subject: FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. AUSTRALIA; AVANT-GARDE FILMS. AUSTRALIA; SUPER-8 MM FILMS. AUSTRALIA; WOMEN IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; BERESFORD, BRUCE; WEIR, PETER; CHAUVEL, CHARLES; Grierson, John; HALL, KEN G.; SENTIMENTAL BLOKE, THE (AT, Raymond Longford, 1919); GALLIPOLI (AT, Peter Weir, 1981); SCHOOL IN THE MAILBOX (AT, Stanley Haews, 1946?); FROM THE TROPICS TO THE SNOW (AT, Richard Mason and Jack Lee, 1964); BIG COUNTRY, A (AT, 1979); LAST TASMANIAN, THE (AT, Tom Haydon, 1978); MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER, THE (AT, George T. Miller, 1982); SERIOUS UNDERTAKINGS (AT, Helen Grace, 1983); INDONESIA CALLING (AT, Joris Ivens, 1948) Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 376-379 ISBN: 086819123X (pbk.) : $24.95 Aust LON: anb86819123; 4105507 More info
serial		Cantrills filmnotes [Melbourne, Australia: A. Cantrill, 1971. Call No: held no.1-93/100 Mar. 1971-Dec.1999/Jan.2000 Author: Cantrill, Arthur; Cantrill, Corinne Source: AT Place: [Melbourne, Australia Publisher: A. Cantrill PubDate: 1971 PhysDes: v. : ill. ; 21-33 cm Subject: EXPERIMENTAL FILMS; EXPERIMENTAL FILMS. AUSTRALIA; ART CINEMA; ART CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; AVANT-GARDE FILMS; AVANT-GARDE FILMS. AUSTRALIA Summary: ‘Cantrills Filmnotes’ was a magazine edited and published by legendary filmmakers Arthur and Corinne Cantrill from 1971 to 2000. The publication reviewed independent films and videos with a focus on experimental and personal film, video art, digital media and performance and installation art. Early issues of the publication present like a homemade ’zine’, with hand drawn titles and wonderful tactile details such as a 16 mm filmstrip taped to one of the pages. This publication is an important document of the independent Australian film community. Articles included contributions from artists discussing their work, interviews and critic. International and local film and video artists included names such as Len Lye, Harry Smith, Nam June Paik, Red Grooms, Stan Brakhage, Mike Hoolboom, Barbara Sternberg, Phil Hoffman, Al Razutis, Ellie Epp, Aggy Read, Garry Shead, Lynsey Martin, Jim Wilson, Jas Duke, Paul Winkler and of course Corinne and Arthur Cantrill Cantrills Filmnotes ceased publication with the issue December 1999-January 2000 (#93-100) due to lack of funding and financial support. -- AFIRC Notes: Title from cover; 2 copies of No. 3 and no. 6 ISSN: 0158-4154 Frequency: Two issues yearly (irregular) 1975-<1980; Formerly: Four issues yearly, 1973-1974; Formerly: Six issues yearly, 1971-1972 Indexed In: FIAF LON: 81643772; 2126310 ID2: 233 More info
journal article		The Censored and celebrated film festival : the Sydney Underground: Ubu Films 1965-1970 in Practice (Spring/Summer 1997) iss.2 p.67-69 Author: French, Lisa PhysDes: Festival report; Bibliography; Illustration(s) Subject: AVANT-GARDE FILMS. AUSTRALIA; UBU FILM GROUP Summary: A review of a festival celebrating the experimental films of the 'Ubu Film Group'. More info
journal article		Lessons of noise and silence : avant-garde cinema and experimental music in Australia in Studies in Australasian cinema (2007) vol.1 iss.2 p.223-234 Author: Martin, Adrian PhysDes: Article Subject: EXPERIMENTAL FILMS. AUSTRALIA; SOUND; MUSIC IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; AVANT-GARDE FILMS. AUSTRALIA Summary: This article is an historical survey of Australian experimental cinema from the 1960s to the present day organized around the use of music and sound. Six aesthetic categories are distinguished: film as backdrop to live music; live music as backdrop to film; pre-recorded music as a ‘bed’ for images; images as a bed for pre-recorded music; disjunction between image and sound; image–sound fusion. The debate over the effects of musical rhythm in cinema is discussed.--ABSTRACT More info
Online resource serial		Realtime Rushcutters Bay, N.S.W.: Open City Inc., 1994. Available here Call No: held no.1- Jan. 1994- Source: AT Place: Rushcutters Bay, N.S.W. Publisher: Open City Inc. PubDate: 1994 PhysDes: v. : ill. ; 43 cm Subject: ART CINEMA; ART AND THE CINEMA; ART CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; AVANT-GARDE FILMS. AUSTRALIA Notes: Cover title; Subtitle : performance and the national arts; Has supplement: Onscreen : film, media & techno-arts ISSN: 1321-4799 Order Notes: Current Frequency: Monthly LON: abn94139680; 10857727 URL status: URL: 'https://www.realtime.org.au/archives/' Checked: 31/08/2021 12:36:08 PM Status: Live Details: HTTP status 200 - Usual success response More info
Interim book		"To become immortal and then die" : The representation of home photographic materials in cinema / Adrian Danks Call No: 61[77] DAN Author: Danks, Adrian PhysDes: 233 p. ; 29 cm. Subject: AESTHETICS; PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE CINEMA; AUTEUR THEORY; AVANT-GARDE FILMS; AVANT-GARDE FILMS. AUSTRALIA; EXPERIMENTAL FILMS; EXPERIMENTAL FILMS. AUSTRALIA; Powell, Michael; PRESSBURGER, EMERIC; BELLE NOISEUSE, LA (FR, Jacques Rivette, 1991); BADLANDS (US, Terrence Malick, 1973); SONG OF AIR (AT, Merilee Bennett, 1987); CANTERBURY TALE, A (UK, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1944); PEEPING TOM (UK, Michael Powell, 1960); JFK (US, Oliver Stone, 1991); CALENDAR (CN/GG/AR, Atom Egoyan, 1993); WINDOW WATER BABY MOVING (US, Stan Brakhage, 1959) Summary: This thesis analyses the representation of 'home' photographic materials within a range of historically, aesthetically and generically diverse cinematic works. [Taken from thesis summary.] Notes: PhD thesis More info
subject clippings file		UBU FILM GROUP Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: UBU FILM GROUP; AVANT-GARDE FILMS. AUSTRALIA; UNDERGROUND FILMS. AUSTRALIA More info

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