Some people dream in black and white but I’ve had dreams where I had to call for the projectionist because it was in the wrong aspect ratio. I have nightmares in video.
Some Film Museums I Have Known is a captivating adventure in performance and film. Fusing solo performance with a spectacular array of live audiovisual effects, the performance follows the story of Paula, a movie-obsessed loner with a bad film script and some big dreams. As Paula’s aspirations unravel, the line between cinema and reality begins to blur, and we encounter an action hero trapped in a VHS nightmare, a rickety ghost train, the birth of cinema and a haunted film museum, hungry for souls.
Pilfering elements of horror and fantasy, Some Film Museums I Have Known is a darkly comic and fantastical journey into the heart of one woman’s cinematic obsession. Allow yourself to be pulled into a world of dioramas, tiny cameras, VHS and internal monologues within an ever-evolving DIY set. Some Film Museums I Have Known is the latest offering from acclaimed theatre company Rhubarb Rhubarb, the team behind the wildly popular cinema remixes Wonka! and The Mad Max Remix.
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Supporters: ACMI, Arts NSW, Australia Council for the Arts, Performance Space, Queen Street Studios, PACT, Serial Space, Quarterbred.
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, it’s arts funding and advisory body.
Some Film Museums I Have Known was assisted through HotHouse Theatre’s A Month in the Country residential program, funded jointly by Albury City and The Myer Foundation.
Commissioned and developed by Next Wave through Kickstart 2009.
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Presented by Rhubarb Rhubarb
Eddie Sharp:Writer, Director
William Mansfield: Co-Devisor
Cecily Hardy: Performer
Eddie Sharp, Will Mansfield, Kali Reid, Cecily Hardy, Kenzie Larsen
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Eddie Sharp is a writer, performer and curator who lives and works in Sydney. He has a BA (Hons) in Performance and Video from COFA. He has devised and performed in shows at the Opera House, Next Wave Festival, Melbourne Comedy Festival, Performance Space, Imperial Panda Festival, CarriageWorks Art Centre and The Lan Franchis Memorial Discotheque. He was a member of the 2005 Impact ensemble. Eddie is the founder and co-director of the City of Sydney supported Imperial Panda Festival, which was recently nominated for two Time Out SMAC awards, including the prestigious SMAC of the year award and listed as “Creative Catalyst” by Creative Sydney (part of Vivid Sydney) He performed in and co-devised the 2008 Next Wave show “The Tent”. He is the co-writer and director of Wonka! A Live Cinema Remix and The Mad Max Remix, an ambitious hour- long video remix and live redub of the entire Mad Max trilogy, both of which have been performed to critical acclaim at The Imperial Panda Festival and Melbourne Comedy Festival. He is the founder and co-director of Erotic Fan Fiction Readings, a successful program of readings and short stories that he has been running since 2006 with contributions from authors such as Brendan Cowell, Lally Katz and Thomas Henning. Erotic Fan Fiction Readings have been invited to take part in the Sydney Writers Festival, Worlds Funniest Island and The Wheeler Centre for Books Writing and Ideas. He is the resident contemporary art critic for FBi radio and a proud member of the Cab Sav collective.
William Mansfield is a Sydney based new media artist, specialising in video animations, film, photography, A/V, electrical and sculptural installations. He completed Honours in Time Based Arts at the College of Fine Arts, UNSW in 2007. Mansfield’s practice is concerned with self-identity, everyday banality and human interaction in urban non-places. His works have been exhibited in group shows throughout Australia and abroad. In particular as part of the Loop 08 Festival in Barcelona and ain Berlin for the 2005 touring This is Not Art Festival. Mansfield’s work has been televised on Noise Animations on Rage TV Australia. In 2007 he was the recipient of the ‘Experimentation in Film’ Award, for three of his animations at the Sydney Underground Film Festival. Mansfield’s latest artwork was screened as part of Video Kills – Triple City Threat in Sydney, New York and Berlin in 2009.
Of late Mansfield has designed a t-shirt collaboratively with Sydney fashion label Ksubi. He is also the co-founder and creative director of the creative design studio Expialidocious. Mansfield too is a member of Modular Records’ creative think-tank and collective The Groop. His artistic practice was featured in an article entitled ‘Enduring Duration’ in the first quarter’s edition of Artlink magazine.
Mansfield is also an integral member and foley artist in Rhubarb Rhubarb the remix collective responsible for cult sensations ‘Wonka: A live cinema remix and The Mad Max Remix that have both toured down to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and the latter appearing at this years inaugural World’s Funniest Island. He also collaborates with Sydney based performance and hybrid media artists Brown Council. Mansfield has furthermore assisted on and produced an array of feature and short films.
In addition Mansfield is a member of Sydney indie pop band Tennis, who formed in late ’07 and have played with numerous international and local acts throughout Australia. Tennis are releasing their debut single in January 2010.
Kali Reid is a Sydney based producer, art maker and facilitator of community projects. Recent work includes visual arts installations in the Hyde Park ‘Spice Garden’ for Sydney Festival First Night 2010; Elephant (2008), which was developed at Underbelly Arts Lab and became a hit at The Sydney Children’s Festival; and Token Word, a monthly poetry and performance night which regularly attracted full houses and reinvigorated the Sydney poetry scene from 2004-6. Since 2006 Kali has produced the Hills Hoist, a multi-arts precinct within Peats Ridge Festival. She has ongoing relationships with arts collectives Knot Gallery, Token Imagination, Rhubarb Rhubarb and Reef Knot.
From 2005-9 Kali also worked as associate producer for SBS and ABC television documentaries. In 2007 she travelled around Australia as field producer for Red Ithaka Productions on Making Babies (SBS, 2008), and in 2008 around Turkey on Embedded with Nationalists (SBS, 2009). Since returning from Turkey Kali has produced a series of short films for Showtime in association with Tropfest and two episodes of Whatever! The Science of Teenagers (ABC, 2009) for Essential Media.
In 2010 Kali will produce the multimedia theatre show Some Film Museums I Have Known at Next Wave Festival in Melbourne. As a founding member of 107 Projects Inc, Kali is also working to open a new multi-arts venue in inner Sydney.
Cecily Hardy holds a Bachelor of Communications Theatre and Media from Charles Sturt University, She has performed at most of Sydney’s theatre spaces including Belvoir Street, The Performance Space and Griffin, where she was the lead in Brendon Cowell’s Rabbit. She collaborated with My Darling Patricia, through three national seasons of their multi-award winning show Politely Savage, for which she was nominated for best overall performer at the Melbourne Fringe Festival in 2006. Cecily co-formed the company Prompt Theatre who produced The Flats at Darlinghurst Theatre and PACT Theatre. Prompt also staged Tracked, a show she wrote for the Old Fitzroy Theatre in 2003. She has most recently been part of development for the show Computer Boy commissioned by Arts Projects Australia in collaboration with puppeteer Sam Routledge.
Kenzie Larsen is a Sydney based artist who works accross sculpture, video, installation,performance, painting and drawing. Larsen graduated from Sydney College of the Arts, with Honours in 2006 and has exhibited widely in Sydney and Melbourne in Solo and group shows. She is a director of the Artist Run Initiative “Locksmith Project Space” and co? editor of the arts publication “Locksmith Project” She has undertaken residencies at the Piet Zwart Institute in The Netherlands and will to travel to Armenia in 2010 for a residency at the arts and cultural studies laboratory in Yerevan.
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