MIFF 2010

Melbourne International Film Festival
Hot Tips thus far:

CITIES ON SPEED PROGRAM 1 ★★★☆
MARWENCOL ★★★★★
LEMMY ★★★★★
THE FAMILY JAMS ★☆
WASTE LANDS ★★★★★
THE RED CHAPEL ★★★
THE GHOST WRITER ★★
THE INVENTION OF DR. NAKAMATS ★★★★
BLANK CITY ★★★★
THE TROTSKY ★★★☆
HOW MUCH DOES YOUR BUILDING WEIGH, MR. FOSTER? ★★★★

Inception film campaign

Eatlacma

Eatlacma opened in late June (runs til November 11, 2010)
- a transdisciplinary exhibition exploiting the institution's diverse collection.

Brett McKenzie eating a hamburger.
LACMA is a year-long investigation into food, art, culture and politics. It explores the social role of art and ritual in community and human relationships. EATLACMA unfolds seasonally, with artist’s gardens planted and harvested on the museum campus and concurrent exhibition: Fallen Fruit Presents The Fruit of LACMA (27/07-7/11). It culminates in a day-long event (November 7, 2010) in which over fifty artists and collectives re-imagine the entire museum’s campus and galleries.

Brett McKenzie eating a hamburger.

“Show Us How You Eat” is part of this exhibition - a social networking art experiment that investigates how people masticate and generally get a kick out of food.
- curated by Fallen Fruit—David Burns, Matias Viegener and Austin Young—and LACMA curator Michele Urton.
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In an octopus' garden in the shade...

aka GUERILLA GARDENING

Seed-Sprouting Flower Grenades

These seed bomb grenades are based on the BioGrenade art project by Tony Minh Nguyen. Available in ryegrass, buttercup and poppy - the compost, mud, and seeds dissolve as the plants sprout, leaving rich soil and flower seed fodder.

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Garden Chair Invites Plants and Insects Inside

These nouveau arthropodic chairs are designed by Analog Media Lab and explore the interface between human and insect life by bringing domesticated insects into the home. Both Rococo Armchair and Ghost Chair designs possess foliage and a channel for insect transfer housed within the chair.

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Anyone

will understand.



More Bourdin.

Oneiric

Of, relating to, or suggestive of dreams.

Pronunciation: \ō-ˈnī-rik\
Function: adjective
Etymology: Greek oneiros dream;
[Greek oneiros, dream + -ic.]
In film theory context: refers to depiction of dream-like states, or use of the metaphor of a dream or the dream-state to analyze a film.

We'll slide down the surface of things...

When she walked into the room at the casting director's complex in Culver City she instantly provided a steady hum of menace that left me dazed, which acted as a mask so I appeared as calm as a cipher.

- Bret Easton Ellis, Imperial Bedrooms (2010)

What's a girl to do?

Bat for Lashes

Visual Assassin

Guy Bourdin

POLAROIDS





GLOSSY

Electric Blue

Performative architectural presence, the Electric Hotel is 4 floors of full-length windows, revealing the lives of 7 characters, connected by 1 mysterious blue box.


This David Lynch-esque work offers repetitive loops of movement that develop connections between characters. Simultaneously, spatial relationships between the dancers and audience clash with the impact of this vast structure on it's urban surroundings projecting depth and intrigue.

Modernist set designer Börkur Jónsson, navigates interior & exterior in the form of six 40 foot high shipping containers, deconstructed at the end of each season and driven across the country to be erected again in less than 3 days. Next stop - London.