Container and the IMA present a showcase of recent experimental 3D films by Johann Lurf, Victor Van Rossem, and Blake Williams that push against the concept of 3D realism seen in more narrative films, to instead explore the possibility of spatiality, contradictory vision, and histories of seeing.

Johann Lurf  Twelve Tales Told 2014

Johann Lurf’s maximalist, 35mm barrage of Hollywood studio logos, transforms the iconic corporate prelude to the big production-to-come into a sustained, stuttering spectacle in which fractured and fantastical worlds collide into a bombastic anti-climax. 4min.

Johann Lurf  Forever… Forever 2025

Over twenty-two months, Johann Lurf fixed the gaze of a specially developed 65mm camera on the Ottenstein Reservoir. What begins as a quiet observation of nature gradually transforms into a monumental image of cosmic motion. At first, the lake appears familiar. But as the exposures grow longer, the dimensions shift. Stars draw delicate lines; the sun inscribes bright arcs; the moon traces soft, calligraphic diagonals. The water surface becomes a perfect mirror that folds land and sky symmetrically into one another—above and below, light and shadow, becoming and fading. 21min.

Christina Jauernik and Johann Lurf Revolving Rounds 2024

Revolving Rounds is a cyclical film in both form and content. Shot at an agricultural field on the outskirts of Vienna, it begins as it ends, tracking a planimetric path alongside three greenhouses as the early morning sun beams across the surrounding lands. 11min.

Johann Lurf Cavalcade 2019

Lurf designed a 150cm-diameter water wheel—with one face divided into patterned circles of varying shapes and colour—and installed it in a stream. We observe it in rest, motion, and rest again from a single vantage point, as it’s illuminated by strobe-lights synchronised with the camera. Clockwise and anti-clockwise movements magically interweave in a disorienting display. 5min.

Victor Van Rossem Toward a Fundamental Theory of Physics 2025

Shot on 16mm film using a handcrafted time-slice camera with 293 lenses—a modern reinterpretation of the original device built by Tim Macmillan in the early 1980s—this 3D short offers a tactile exploration of time and light as the raw materials and fundamental paradoxes of cinema. 13min.

Blake Williams Laberint Sequences 2023

Shot in and around the Laberint d’Horta in Barcelona, the film charts several journeys into the garden in search of its centre, where a statue of Eros waits. As the film navigates the maze’s false pathways, its recursive structure begins to crack, and a mysterious underworld floods its gates. 20min.

Blake Williams Felt 2025

A man sees mountains and sets out to recreate them. During a traverse across the Western United States, we observe familiar sites in a new light, and the world gets lost in the fold. 15min.

With thanks to Johann Lurf, Victor Van Rossem, Blake Williams, and sixpackfilm.

Tickets available via New Farm Cinema’s website or counter. Free entry available on request. Please email madeline@ima.org.au or ask in-person on the night.