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Is culture's digital phase starting to fade or will online events continue?


 
When Project Arts Centre reopened the Gallery on May 13th with Luminous Void, a celebration of 20 years of the Experimental Film Society, it was the third time the exhibition had been rescheduled. “The plan had been for this big programme of events,” says artistic director Cian O’Brien. Now some will be online, but there is an increasing sense that culture’s digital phase may be fading – though not entirely disappearing.
While Covid has made arts organisations up their digital game, and online events have removed geographical barriers, they are no replacement. “I have struggled to engage with work online,” says O’Brien. “Unless something really holds your attention, it doesn’t work. In a theatre you have that collective sense to bring you back if your attention wanders. Also, I’m spending my whole day in front of a screen, so I’m not differentiating. That’s a challenge.” ....

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La Mama Cinematica: Love


La Mama Cinematica: Love
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Cinematica’s LOVE edition aims to explore the myriad shapes of love in all its glorious forms through the medium short-film, obscure and experimental film, the moving-image and avant-garde cinema.
Featured Filmmakers:
Irene Proebsting and Barry Brown were active members of the eclectic and iconoclastic Melbourne Super 8 Film Group and have been collaborating on hybrid analogue digital media projects since the 1990s. Their films and soundtracks deploy numerous compositional strategies including appropriation, chance, collage and improvisation, and utilise a variety of idioms ranging from evocative post-verity dramaturgies to absurdist agitprop narratives. Their works have been exhibited in a number of experimental screenings such as the Night Projection Window at the CCP, discreet montage at the Latrobe Regional Gallery, and Obscure Transmissions as part of the RetrOZ! Series, at the Artist Film Workshop. ....

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