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THEATRE DVD & Streaming & Performance info / buy THEATRE DVD & Streaming & performance artfilmsdigital OVER 450 TITLES - Contemporary performance, acting and directing, Image: The Sydney Front devising, physical theatre workshops and documentaries, theatre makers and 20th century visionaries in theatre, puppets and a unique collection on asian theatre. ACTING / DIRECTING | ACTING / DEVISING | CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE WORKSHOPS | PHYSICAL / VISUAL THEATRE | VOICE & BODY | THEATRE MAKERS PUPPETRY | PRODUCTIONS | K-12 | ASIAN THEATRE COLLECTION STAGECRAFT / BACKSTAGE ACTING / DIRECTING Director and Actor: Passions, How To Use The Beyond Stanislavski - Shifting and Sliding Collaborative Directing in Process and Intimacy Stanislavski System Oyston directs Chekhov Contemporary Theatre 83’ | ALP-Direct |DVD & Streaming 68’ | PO-Stan | DVD & Streaming 110’ | PO-Chekhov |DVD & Streaming 54 mins | JK-Slid | DVD & Streaming 50’ | RMU-Working | DVD & Streaming An in depth exploration of the Peter Oyston reveals how he com- Using an abridged version of The works examine and challenge Working Forensically: complex and intimate relationship bines Stanislavski’s techniques in a Chekhov’s THE CHERRY ORCHARD, the social, temporal and gender between Actor and Director when systematic approach to provide a Oyston reveals how directors and constructs within which women A discussion between Richard working on a play-text. The core of full rehearsal process or a drama actors can apply the techniques of in particular live. They offer a Murphet (Director/Writer) and the process presented in the film course in microcosm. An invaluable Stanislavski and develop them to positive vision of the feminine Leisa Shelton (Director/Performer) involves working with physical and resource for anyone interested in suit contemporary theatre. psyche as creative, productive and about their years of collaboration (subsequent) emotional intensity the making of authentic theatre. resourceful. in directing, during which they have in the space, and crucially not produced 5 new theatre works. imposing any preconceived ideas onto the work. The Making of a The TEAM Makes a Play ONE: Healing with Theatre How to Audition Char∙ac∙ter Monologue 62’ | CG-Wilson2 | DVD & Streaming 92’ | RPP-Team | DVD & Streaming 90’| PAN-One | DVD & Streaming 100’ | PO-Audition | DVD & Streaming 88’ | NM-Char | DVD & Streaming This video draws on rehearsal and The inside story behind the making of It is a large scale performance Peter Oyston addresses a number A raw and candid dialogue about performance footage, reveals how the TEAM’s award-winning Edinburgh project centred around the of questions and demonstrates the life and craft of acting between Wilson created his unique one- and National Theatre hit, Mission opportunity of facilitating one-to- how to shape a speech, how to longtime colleagues and friends man performance of Hamlet and Drift. An exclusive view behind the one meetings between audience learn lines, how to prepare, how Dabney Coleman, Peter Falk, Charles captures the rich texture of Wilson’s scenes and inside the process and and performer and designed to to place images in space how to be Grodin, Sydney Pollack, Mark Rydell multi-dimensional theatrical style. the people. create a fulfilling and lasting quality flexible, daring and confident. and Harry Dean Stanton. of contact ACTING / DIRECTING An Obsession with Supporting Actors The Art of Theatre, Film and Making War Horse Teachers on Acting Hamlet Television - An Introduction 55’ | AB-Obses | DVD & Streaming 34’ | CG-Sup | DVD & Streaming 45’ | OBB-Art | DVD & Streaming 48’ | SEV-Making | DVD & Streaming 21’ | AFT-Teach | DVD & Streaming John Bell has stamped the role of Supporting Actors will be an The basic elements of theatre, film Making War Horse is the story of how Leading Australian teachers Hayes Hamlet as his own, having played it invaluable tool for aspiring actors and television performance - are Michael Morpurgo’s award-winning Gordon, Dean Carey and Murree numerous times over 35 years. Now and a fascinating behind-the explored in this educational video. and captivating children’s novel, Hutchinson discuss their approach he is handing on the baton to talented -scenes view for those interested This program visually develops and War Horse, became one of the most to the teaching of acting, with em- young actor Leon Ford (Changi) who in the thinking of theatre, television explains the concepts of art on stage popular and acclaimed productions phasis on specific improvisational moulds it into something fresh and and film industry pros. Directed by and on the screen, the basic concepts in the National Theatre’s history. techniques and the building of a exciting as Bell directs. Australia only. Suzannah Warlick. of dramatic conventions and how all character step-by-step. this impacts the audience. Actors on Acting Actors on Acting The Shakespeare Speaking for Myself (Australian) Sessions 27’ | CAT-Act | DVD & Streaming 28’ | AFT-Act | DVD & Streaming 55’ | RI-Shakesp | DVD 75’ | PE-Speaking | DVD & Streaming Murray Hamilton, James Earl Jones, Jack Australia’s leading actors critically de- With founders of The Royal This documentary film captures the Klugman and Rip Torn give opinions on construct their process, with particular Shakespeare Company and Kevin core of New York City on a human the lack of good roles, the incursions emphasis on TV and film: John Bell, Kline, Dustin Hoffman, Cynthia Nixon scale, focusing on the work of eight of television, Hollywood vs. Broadway, Lorraine Bayly, Noni Hazelhurst, Angela and David Hyde Pierce, in intimate widely varied performing artists: A rehearsal and experimentation, Punch McGregor. With absorbing workshop settings with John Barton dancer, a concert pianist, an actress,a keeping your day job, acting as a candour they discuss their techniques and Sir Peter Hall. Focusing on the singing poet... etc. sophisticated form of showing off, for making a character come alive language as the way into Shakespeare’s and why these stars went into acting and evoking authentic and believable magical world, these workshops bring themselves. emotional responses on stage. Shakespeare’s characters to life on stage. ACTING / DEVISING The two journeys of Jacques Lecoq 97’ | LO-Lecoq t | DVD & Streaming Creative work is constantly stimulated, largely through improvisation, which is also the first approach to play writing. The school’s sights are set on ar t theatre, but theatre education is broader than the theatre itself. It is not just a matter of training actors, but of educating theatre artists of all kinds: authors, directors, scenographers as well as actors. Part 1: The first journey: body, movement Part 2: The second journey: play, creation. A fascinating homage to Jacques Lecoq, who died in January 1999 and whose ideas and teachings made him one of the most influential theatre figures of recent times. Jean-Noel Roy’s two forty-five minute documentary films show Lecoq at work with students at his Paris theatre school, and include interviews with many, now well-known, former pupils. Jacques Lecoq performed his brilliant lecture- demonstration Tout Bouge at the Institut Français as part of the 1982 Mime Festival. Director: Jean Noel Roy. Devising Performance Devising Celebration: Walyalup Dreaming In Transit - 186’ | KD-Crossing | DVD & Streaming Engineers of the Imagination Hidden Directions Devising 1 - Documentary Devising 2 - Performances 23’ | CSU-Dev |DVD & Streaming 30’ | RS-Wal | DVD & Streaming 45’ | OD-Tran | DVD & Streaming This documentary follows the Three performances from three Forced Entertainment visits This film explores how a traditional Directors explain their processes and journey of a group of young people, different “CROSSING” projects Australia. indigenous story is translated from principles: women directors who are from all corners of the globe, who one of which is documented on an oral story into a performance seeking a new way of working, their were selected to work together Part 1. The performances are the The film is a useful introduction to involving dance, puppetry, music own way of working, alternatives for 3 weeks before the IDEA 2007 outcomes of 3 weeks intensive the theatre of image, large scale and voice. This can be used as a for the developing generation of Congress began. devising and rehearsing. It is a truly dramatic construction techniques, tool to bring together ideas and directors. intercultural experience about and processional theatre, outdoor the right people to create original for young people in the world. performance and mask, ritual and performance. spectacle. CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE Nigel Kellaway in Sleepers The Rameau Project Nigel Kellaway “Brief Synopsys... KaBooM: wake! wachet auf! (2 parts) Stories from Distant Frontlines 82’ | NK-Sleep | DVD & Streaming 90’ | NK-Rame | DVD & Streaming 150’ | NK-Works | DVD & Streaming 84’ | NK-Brief | DVD & Streaming DLM-Kaboom |DVD & Streaming A man is at recollection, harboring A sprawling, multi-layered music The set of excerpts from ten major ... a beautiful naked woman ‘of a KaBooM is a physical performance a nagging desire to connect with theatre work, reveling in the grandeur, works by Nigel Kellaway (1994 - certain age’ brutally stabs a young event – its subject is War. It is based the present. Adrift from cultural delicacy, complexity and underlying 2004) has recently been assembled, man to death”. Rich elements of on real stories of soldiers who have and historical specifi-cities where wit of the French Baroque, it employs
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