Container and the IMA present Alternative Views, a program of recent international experimental short films shot in South East Queensland. The films 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 romantic, relational program proposes a counter history of filmmaking in Australia.

Jodie Mack Something Between Us 2015

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. 10min.

Chris Kennedy Go Between 2023 

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. 6min.

Luke Fowler For Dan 2021

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. 12min.

Archipelago of Earth Bones: To Bunya 2024

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. 20min.

Takeshi Makino Double Phase 2020

Filmed across Mount Tamborine, Tingalpa, and rural Victoria, Double Phase considers how the natural world is reductively framed within contemporary society. Makino collides images into a cascade of celestial complexity. 25 min.

Chris Kennedy Brisbane River 2023

A time lapse of the Brisbane River. 3min.

Thanks to Luke Fowler, Chris Kennedy, Jodie Mack, Makino Takeshi, Malena Szlam, and Lux.

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.