Container and the IMA present Alternative Views, a program of short international experimental films shot in South East Queensland.
The films presented tread lightly—whether it’s Jodie Mack refracting Palm Beach’s glistening water, Malena Szlam’s multi-year Bunya research, or Chris Kennedy’s surveillance of the William Jolly Bridge. This screening series is romantic, relational, and proposes a counter history of filmmaking in Australia by bringing together recent shorts.
Something Between Us (2015) – Jodie Mack, 10 minutes
A choreographed motion study for twinkling trinkets, beaming baubles, and glaring glimmers. A bow ballet ablaze. Costume jewellery and natural wonders join forces to perform plastic pirouettes, dancing a luminous lament until the tide comes in.
Go Between (2023) – Chris Kennedy, 6 minutes
Elegant, rigorous, playful. Chris Kennedy’s Go Between observes the Brisbane River, passing boats, and cars on the William Jolly Bridge through an intoxicating play of masking and superimpositions.
For Dan (2021) – Luke Fowler, 12 minutes
For Dan explores an intense period of correspondence between the artist’s late father and his closest friend, radical University of Queensland lecturer Dan O’Neill. Filmed across UQ and an eco-community in the Sunshine Coast hinterlands, the film documents the friendship between the young men while sketching a partial political history of Australia in the early 1960s.
Archipelago of Earth Bones: To Bunya (2024) – Malena Szlam, 20 minutes
Part of an ongoing film series tracing volcanic landscapes—new and ancient, barren and verdant—from Chile, across the Pacific, and to Australia. Archipelago of Earthen Bones: To Bunya evokes the layered histories of Glasshouse and Bunya mountains through a dazzling suite of in-camera multiple exposures and rhythmic editing. Sound by Lawrence English.
Double Phase (2020) – Takeshi Makino, 25 minutes
Filmed across Mount Tamborine, Tingalpa, and rural Victoria, Double Phase considers how the ’natural world’ is reductively framed within contemporary society. Takeshi Makino collides images into a cascade of celestial complexity.
Brisbane River (2023) – Chris Kennedy, 3 minutes
A timelapse of the Brisbane River.
With thanks to Luke Fowler, Chris Kennedy, Jodie Mack, Makino Takeshi, Malena Szlam, and LUX.
Tickets are available via New Farm Cinema’s website or counter. Free entry is available on request. Please email madeline@ima.org.au or ask in-person on the night.
