September '17 Program

Program

14—25 September '17 Contents Staff

Aahana Kumra Djalu Gurruwiwi

Films Special Events Industry Events

Opening Night Burma Storybook 13 Keepers of the Magic 23 Cinema 360 18 ACS NT Awards 30 Artistic Director with Petr Lom and Corinne van Egeraat Timothy Parish Lipstick Under My Burkha 5 Good Time 24 Immersive, full-dome Workshops 32 with special guest Aahana Kumra Best of Annecy 2017 13 planetarium cinema comes to General Manager A Ghost Story 24 Darwin for the very first time Alice Body SPARK Film Showcase 6 Best of Annecy Kids 2017 14 Ellipsis 25 with a temporary, pop-up Operations Manager Best of Territory Shorts 7 Ivan Tsarevitch and the Changing 14 with David Wenham structure at the Waterfront. James Parker Princess Westwind 8 Chauka: Please Tell Us the Time 26 Art House 28 SPARK Executive Producer and Workshops Coordinator with Ben Strunin and Djalu Gurruwiwi The Square 15 Information Manifesto 26 The art of the moving image is Blandine Ruffo The Documentary of 9 Loving Vincent 15 not limited to cinema screens. Dr G Yunupingu's Life Song to Song 27 Cinema 360 Coordinator Happening in participating Ticketing 36 with special guests and performances November 16 Cat Orme Endless Poetry 27 Darwin art galleries. Venues 37 Rock'n Roll 16 Publicist Closing Night ACS NT Awards 30 Calendar 38 Chryss Carr The Song Keepers 10 BPM (Beats Per Minute) 17 with Ray Martin and David Brill Cinesonic 31 with Naina Sen Photographer Drone Film Festival ANZ 17 Mad Max: Fury Road - Black & Chrome 30 Celebrating the relationship Murray Hilton King of Peking 11 Post-Apocalyptic Costume Party between sound and screen, Score 22 events include live cinematic Graphic Designer The Opposition 11 A Memory In Khaki 22 soundtracks and audio-visual Mike Frier Pop Aye 12 performances. Mountain 23 Tehran Taboo 12 with the Ad Hoc Ensemble Festival Club 31 DIFF Quiz Night 34 Live Script Read 34 with David Wenham

David Wenham Petr Lom & Corrine van Egeraat Naina Sen diff.net.au 2 3 th 7.15pm Welcome to the 8th 14 Thu Darwin International

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Darwin festival of film, whether Since 2015, the Northern it’s giving local audiences Territory Government has proudly unique access to the best new partnered with the Darwin Film films the world has to offer or Society to deliver the Darwin showcasing the best in cinema International Film Festival. from our region. INDIGENOUS We are pleased to partner VISIONS, for example, with DIFF again in 2017. As well Lipstick Under celebrates the Territory’s strong as showcasing our vibrant screen Indigenous cultural heritage. industry, DIFF delights visitors to We are particularly honoured to our tropical Top End, supporting include the NT premiere of the our tourism industry and local My Burkha much anticipated documentary businesses. honouring the life of Dr. G This year’s program includes Yunupingu. the extraordinary Cinema 360, Along with the iconic Deckchair Welcome to the 8th Darwin DIFF would not be which will bring an immersive, Directed by ALANKRITA SHRIVASTAVA SPECIAL GUEST Cinema and wet season movie International Film Festival, the possible without the hard full-dome planetarium cinema to program Flix in the Wet, Darwin Northern Territory’s foremost work of our team based at the the Darwin Waterfront Precinct Film Society is founder and operator celebration of screens arts and Deckchair Cinema, and the and will give festival goers a new OPENING NIGHT | NT PREMIERE of the annual Darwin International cinema. ongoing support of the Darwin film experience. Film Festival. And what a festival! It’s another historical Film Society, Festivals NT and I congratulate the whole OPENING NIGHT GALA WITH LIVE ENTERTAINMENT AND  DECKCHAIR CINEMA DFS is investing in DIFF more year for DIFF as we introduce Screen Territory. DIFF team for their tireless work SPECIAL GUEST AAHANA KUMRA than ever this year, specifically in Darwin’s first full dome cinema So, phones off everyone - in preparation for this year’s 2017 CTC and welcome our first-ever festival. The contribution from enabling the SPARK Short Film it’s time for the show to begin. India international guest, Mumbai- staff and volunteers is invaluable Initiative to get off the ground. Set in the crowded by-lanes of small Based in Mumbai, India, Aahana Kumra SPARK aside, we have an incredibly based actress Aahana Kumra. TIMOTHY PARISH to DIFF’s ongoing success. town India, Lipstick Under My Burkha is a popular theatre, Bollywood and 117 mins exciting program on offer this year, Kumra is star of our Opening Director, Darwin International I encourage Territorians and chronicles the secret lives of four television actress. She plays one of the result of significant growth Hindi with English subtitles Night film, Lipstick Under My Film Festival visitors to experience DIFF and I women in search of a little freedom. the four leading ladies in Lipstick Burkha, a black comedy feature look forward to seeing you all at facilitated by 3 years of committed Though stifled and trapped by Under My Burkha, one of the most Comedy, Drama initially banned in India, it also a movie soon. funding from the NT Government. conservative conventions, these four discussed films of 2017 - highly marks the beginning of our ASIA In fact, a big thanks to all our women claim their desires through controversial and initially banned in IN FOCUS program. LAUREN MOSS partners, without whose assistance small acts of courage and stealthy India despite winning multiple awards ASIA IN FOCUS is just Minister for Tourism and Culture it’d be a very different DIFF. Enjoy! rebellion. at international film festivals. one of a handful of themes of this year’s festival. Each theme JEFF COULTER Audaciously outspoken about women’s has a special resonance for a Darwin Film Society Chair sexual desires and fantasies, both WINNER visually and verbally. GRAND JURY PRIZE Deborah Young, Hollywood Reporter FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL Aahana DE FILMS DE FEMMES Darwin International Film Festival takes place on Larrakia Land. Kumra The Darwin Film Society pay respect to the Indigenous owners, past, present and future.

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The SPARK Short Film Initiative guides th 8.30pm local emerging filmmakers from script to screen. In early 2017, these 4 short films Best of Territory Shorts 17 Sun existed solely in script form. They were submitted along with more than twenty others to SPARK’s independent judging panel, and went on to receive support required to turn them into fully-fledged DISCOVER SOME OF THE BEST NEW SHORTS, INDIGENOUS short films to premiere on the big screen at Darwin International Film Festival. MADE RIGHT HERE IN THE TERRITORY. VISIONS Support included seed funding, as well as mentorship and workshop opportunities The Darwin Film Society is the major  DECKCHAIR CINEMA  DECKCHAIR CINEMA and introductions to participating sponsor of this bold new initiative, also industry professionals. Event proceeded supported by Screen Territory. by NT Filmmakers Network Meeting. Carry the Flag The Greedy Emu Bakala Finding Mawiranga

Written by Richard Mark Written by Richard Directed by Danielle Maclean Directed by Terrah Guymala Directed by Nik Lachajczak Directed by Dylan River Sumatra Roy and Matt Garrick Snowdrops Keep Campbell and Penelope 2017 28 mins 2017 12 mins 2017 15 mins 2017 15 mins He's crooning for a bruising Mules Directed by Matt Garrick Falling on My Bed A visiting Indonesian crooner is caught Directed by Will Tinapple Produced by Angela A Territory story based on true events There is a rich and powerful This songline runs from Croker Steve (Bakala) Wurramara first After years of haunting silence, up in Darwin’s seedy underbelly in this Madden Produced by Penelope story stitched into a few pieces Island to the Katherine region noticed signs of Machado Tom E. Lewis returns to his moody, film noir inspired tale of lust When underwear goes missing from Mules and Richard of coloured fabric of a man and takes in central western Joseph Disease in his late Grandmothers' country, seeking and longing. clotheslines across Darwin, police investigation leads to a surprising twist Campbell whose design created meaning Arnhemland. It is the story of teens and has spent his entire the permission of Lawmen to in this quirky comedy. for a nation of people once Emu as an old woman, her adult life challenging the learn Dhumbul, the Morning invisible to the mainland of greed in not sharing food with progressive effects of this cruel Star ceremony. With his family's Australia. Celebrate the 25th her grandchildren, the way they disease. Driven by a desire for blessing, and the spirits and stars Deadline Written by Jane Hampson Lured Written by Lee Frank anniversary of the creation of tricked her out of necessity a better future for himself and as his guides, Tom prepares to Directed by Dixi Joy Directed by Maria the Torres Strait Islander Flag as so that they could eat food his family, Bakala is searching sing his way to the mysterious Be a newsmaker not a newsbreaker You’ll be hooked Bankier and Jane Reynolds and Andre we journey into the Straits with themselves, her revenge on for a cure. He explores the Sandy Island Mawiranga. The pressure of a mounting deadline Hampson Two mates are fishing in the crocodile Sawenko Bala B to uncover and honour them by hurling a throwing stick land and the sea of the Groote at the MT News leads the journalists infested waters of the Territory - but the life and times of his late at them, and the way it comes Archipelago, making balms Produced by Jane Hampson Produced by Lee Frank to take drastic measures in this tabloid one of them is keeping a terrible secret. father – Bernard Namok Senior, back to lodge in her throat, from plants, trialing bush and Dixi Joy Bankier journalism farce. the flag’s creator. precipitating her change into an medicine and using ceremony emu, and the transformations of in the hope for an answer. her children into different birds. Thanks to our scripts' judging panel: Rachel Clements, Phil Denson, Meredith Garlick, David Tiley.

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Documentary rd 7pm Westwind: of Dr G 23 Sat Yunupingu’s Djalu’s Legacy SPECIAL EVENT Life Directed by BEN STRUNIN SPECIAL GUESTS Directed by PAUL WILLIAMS

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SPECIAL EVENT FEATURING LIVE PERFORMANCES AND PRESENTED BY  DECKCHAIR CINEMA SPECIAL EVENT FEATURING LIVE  DARWIN DIRECTOR BEN STRUNIN AND YIDAKI MASTER DJALU GURRUWIWI PERFORMANCES AND SPECIAL GUESTS ENTERTAINMENT 2017 CTC CENTRE

Djalu is an aging tribal elder, a yidaki Djalu Gurruwiwi is a senior member of Australia A soaring, evocative audio-visual most revered of Australian artists. 2017 CTC master and custodian of an ancient the Galpu clan of the Yolngu people, journey into the life, culture and Co-produced by Dr G Yunupingu 90 mins Australia dreaming. Feeling he has no-one and an internationally renowned Yidaki landscapes of one of Australia's most himself, the film uses the tools of his English to inherit his sacred and esoteric maker and player. beloved singers – Dr G Yunupingu. music – chord, melody, song – and the 93 mins traditional songlines, Djalu seeks a Documentary, Music Blind from birth, Dr G Yunupingu sounds of the land to craft an audio- solution. Originally from Melbourne, Director found his identity through song and the first cinematic experience of beauty English/Yolngu Matha (Gumatj and Gälpu) with He sets out to make a film, a film Ben Strunin is now based primarily haunting voice that has already become and power, offering a rare insight into a English subtitles that will take him to the world and in London. He has travelled with and legend. His debut album introduced reclusive master who spoke in his own find a willing custodian for the next filmed Djalu for over five years. Ben Australia to the Songlines and culture inimitable language. Documentary, Music generation. Strunin will be available for a Directors of his Elcho Island community, but Dr Q&A on Sat 16 September, check G Yunupingu found himself increasingly Yidaki – it’s been my whole life. Workshop program for details. OFFICIAL SELECTION torn between city and country, present OFFICIAL SELECTION A good life. MELBOURNE and past, self and the community to MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL Djalu Gurruwiwi which he owed so much. FILM FESTIVAL From director and close friend FILM FESTIVAL Paul Williams comes a profound Djalu Gurruwiwi exploration of the life and music of this

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th 7pm th 5pm 15 Fri 16 Sat King of The The Song Keepers ASIA ASIA Peking IN FOCUS Opposition IN FOCUS Directed by NAINA SEN SPECIAL GUESTS Directed by SAM VOUTAS Directed by HOLLIE FIFER

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SPECIAL EVENT PRESENTED BY DARWIN FILMMAKER NAINA SEN AND  DECKCHAIR CINEMA Set in 1990s Beijing, this film follows  BCC DARWIN In 2012, 100 policemen wielding  BCC DARWIN PRODUCER RACHEL CLEMENTS the story of a former projectionist machetes and guns descended on the 2017 CTC feeling the impacts of the home 2017 CTC Paga Hill Settlement in Port Moresby. 2016 PG entertainment industry. Together with This investigative documentary In the obscure churches of remote Born in New Delhi, India, and based in Australia his young son, he starts creating and China follows activist Joe Moses as he Papau New Guinea Central Australia, a hidden musical Darwin, Naina Sen is an award winning 80 mins selling pirated bootlegged DVDs. 88 mins battles the courts and risks to his own 90 mins legacy of ancient Aboriginal documentary filmmaker, creative Australian writer-director Sam life to save 3,000 people from being languages, sacred poetry and baroque producer and video installation/ English, Western Arrarnta Voutas (Red Light Revolution) puts his Mandarin with English forcibly and even violently evicted English and Pitjantjatjara subtitles music is being preserved by the projection artist specialising in cross reverence for movies on full display, from their homes. Documentary, Current Central Australian Aboriginal Women’s cultural storytelling. Documentary, Music crafting a beautiful story that is at Comedy Affairs Choir. once an endearing father-son story Crisply filmed and ominously scored, Embarking on a tour of Germany, A remarkable and enormously enjoyable and a love letter to cinema. Fifer’s movie is underwritten with a the choir return the hymns given documentary about a rather improbable terse sense of outrage that so many to their great grandparents by concert tour. Combines something of the scrappy issue documentaries attempt but rarely missionaries, this time sung in their DIY aesthetic of Michel Gondry’s Be achieve with such devastating effect. Karl Quinn, Sydney Morning Herald Kind, Rewind with a touch of the joy of own Aboriginal languages. OFFICIAL SELECTION NOMINATED Chris Barsanti, Film Journal International NOMINATED MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL discovery found in Giuseppe Tornatore’s BEST INTERNATIONAL AUDIENCE AWARD FILM FESTIVAL Cinema Paradiso. NARRATIVE FEATURE SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL Wendy Ide, Screen Daily TRIBECA FILM Naina Sen FESTIVAL

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A road movie, set in Thailand. It tells  BCC DARWIN The lives of three strong-willed  BCC DARWIN A portrait of a country emerging from  BCC DARWIN The Annecy International Animation  BCC DARWIN the story of Thana, a disenchanted women and a young musician years of military dictatorship, told Film Festival was created in 1960 and architect, who bumps into his long- 2017 CTC intersect in this portrait of Tehran as 2017 CTC through Burmese poetry. 2017 CTC takes place in the town of Annecy, 2017 CTC lost childhood elephant, on the a schizophrenic society where sex, The documentary circles around France. streets of Bangkok. Dissatisfied with Thailand adultery, corruption, prostitution and Iran the story of the country’s most famous Burma/Myanmar Initially a biennial event, the Multiple countries his current life in the city, Thana takes 104 mins drugs coexist with strict religious law. 90 mins dissident poet alive today, Maung 81 mins festival has grown into a major annual 75 mins his elephant on a road trip across the In this bustling modern Aung Pwint, as he recounts a life spent program that showcases the best of country, in search of the rural farm Thai with English subtitles metropolis, avoiding prohibition Persian with English in exile and in jail and waits for his Burmese with English what’s happening in the animation All films in English or with subtitles subtitles English subtitles where they grew up together. Drama, Road Movie has become an everyday sport and long-lost son to return home. industry on a global scale. Annecy A voyage of self-discovery breaking taboos can be a means of Drama Documentary, Art International Film Festival traverses Short film unfolds aided by a host of characters, personal emancipation. A story full of poetry, in images, the world far and wide with its Best of from a pokerfaced policeman, to language, structure and form. Annecy 2017 program combining a a crematorium monk to a lonely When you break a taboo apart, some selection of prize-winning shorts from Filmkrant karaoke singer. will hate what they see. The film is a the latest festival. mirror. An offbeat road movie across Thailand *Some content may not be suitable WINNER Ali Soozandeh, Director of Tehran Taboo NOMINATED with a touch of the surreal. BIG SCREEN AWARD GOLDEN CAMERA for young audiences. Check out Best of Annecy Kids 2017 for a family- Maggie Lee, Variety ROTTERDAM NOMINATED – GOLDEN CAMERA, CANNES FILM CANNES FILM FESTIVAL friendly program of animated shorts! INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL Join special guests Director Petr Lom FILM FESTIVAL and Producer Corinne van Egeraat for a post-film Q&A.

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From houseproud hedgehogs to  BCC DARWIN In a derelict theatre in Paris, a  BCC DARWIN Christian is the respected curator of a  DECKCHAIR CINEMA Loving Vincent is the world’s first fully  DECKCHAIR CINEMA pocket-sized musicians, Best of projectionist and his two young contemporary art museum, a divorced painted feature film, bringing together Annecy Kids 2017 is a special program 2017 CTC assistants are breathing new life into 2016 CTC but devoted father of two who drives 2017 CTC the paintings of Vincent van Gogh to 2017 CTC for younger fans of animation. old tales using shadowplay on the an electric car and supports good tell his extraordinary life story. Consisting of a selection of Multiple countries old screen. France causes. His next show is "The Square", Sweden Every one of the 65,000 frames UK / Poland prize-winning family friendly shorts 80 mins The latest film from virtuoso 53 mins an installation which invites passersby 142 mins of the film is an oil painting. 125 95 mins from the latest Annecy International silhouettist Michel Ocelot is a visually to altruism, reminding them of their professional artists travelled from all Animation Festival in France, All films in English or with sumptuous journey through four French with English role as responsible fellow human Swedish with English across the world to the Loving Vincent English English subtitles subtitles subtitles audiences of all ages can come wildly different worlds of imagination beings. But sometimes, it is difficult to studios in Poland and Greece to be a Biography, Crime. Drama along to enjoy this sample plate Short film and intrigue. Fantasy, Romance live up to your own ideals. Drama, Satire, Comedy part of this amazing production. of some of the best animation the A poignant satirical drama world has to offer! As always, Ocelot’s illustrations reflecting our times and the confused Brings a poetic sense of tragedy to the provide a stunning platform to explore identity of the modern male. last act of van Gogh’s life, and fresh the very art of storytelling. insight into the kind of man he was. The Square is a comedy, by the way - Mercedes Milligan, Animation Peter Debruge, Variety a merciless and mercilessly funny one, Magazine NOMINATED WINNER WINNER YOUTH JURY AWARD laser-point precise in its humor. PALME D'OR AUDIENCE AWARD SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL A.A. Dowd, AV Club CANNES FILM FESTIVAL ANNECY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL FILM FESTIVAL

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Set in a pagan Estonian village where  BCC DARWIN Forty-something Guillaume Canet  DECKCHAIR CINEMA The AIDS epidemic remains strong  BCC DARWIN Drone film is seem as a unique form  DECKCHAIR CINEMA werewolves, the plague, and spirits has everything to make him happy. in living memory, claiming countless of capturing the world from above, roam, November follows the doomed 2017 CTC Until one day on a film shoot a young 2017 CTC lives over the space of a generation. 2017 CTC allowing the mind to see what would 2017 CTC love story of Liina and Hans, two 19th actress describes him a has-been. Set in 1990s Paris to a thumping house be impossible by presenting a whole century peasants. Estonia / Netherlands / Featuring Canet as himself and France music score, BPM is both a powerful France new vision of cinematography. Australia, New Zealand Poland A potent, heady mixture of real-life partner Marion Cotillard 123 mins film about people politicised by a 140 mins Drone Film Festival Australia + 105 mins magic, black humour and romantic 115 mins as herself, Rock’n Roll pushes the disease and a highly acclaimed drama New Zealand was created as a feature- love smouldering persistently against celebrity satire genre to new extremes. French with English that tackles the illness with passion, French length showcase for drone films, English Estonian, German subtitles the cold muddy toil of serfdom. humour and sensitivity. Drama stories and documentaries by film Short Film Festival Drama, Fantasy, Romance One of the best French comedies of Comedy, Music makers, production companies and Weird, beautiful and surprisingly recent years. Campillo’s film has a furious forward everyday drone hobby enthusiasts. affecting. momentum that’s inspired by the Michel Decoux-Derycke, 6néma determination of its characters. Every night of the festival, enjoy an John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter exclusive exhibition of artwork pieces Time Out by drone filmmakers from around WINNER WINNER the world, featured in the Drone Film JURY AWARD GRAND PRIX Festival screening. TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL CANNES FILM FESTIVAL

16 Tickets and info at diff.net.au Tickets and info at diff.net.au 17 Pioneered in the 1950s, full dome projection was initially used for educational purposes at planetariums. More recently, artists, animators and filmmakers have been exploring the technology for its unique cinematic potential. Planetariums are no longer reserved for astronomy lessons; they now provide an immersive experience into some of the world’s leading creative films; with cinematography that flies environment over your head and creeps up from behind you. The Cinema 360 will bring cinematic full dome experience immersive, full-dome will please the most avid film planetarium cinema to fanatics and movie enthusiast, Darwin for the very first time as well as anyone who wants to with a temporary, pop-up experience the next generation structure situated at Darwin of film technology. Waterfront Precinct. Coral: Rekindling Venus 45 mins

Coral: Rekindling Venus is a major work for fulldome digital planetariums by acclaimed Australian artist Lynette Wallworth. An extraordinary journey into a mysterious realm of fluorescent coral reefs, bioluminescent sea creatures and rare marine life, revealing a complex community living in the oceans most threatened by climate change. Featuring the music of Hans TICKET PRICES OPEN DAILY* Richter, Dr G Yunipingu and more. Adult $12 Session 1 10.30am At 6pm on Wednesday 20th September Child / Concession / $10 Session 2 12.30pm Coral: Rekindling Venus will be introduced DFS Menber by Producer John Maynard. Session 3 6pm Family $30 Session 4 7.30pm (2 adults, 2 children) *Closed Monday 18th. The programming Tickets are valid for one Session changes daily, See the Calendar on page 38 for viewing schedules.

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The Darwin Waterfront is proud to host Darwin’s first Cinema360 during this year’s Darwin International Film Festival. The 360 Cinema is a welcomed addition to the Waterfront’s year-round program of events, bringing a new and immersive cinema experience from across the globe to Darwin locals and visitors. music Sam Burke General Manager, Darwin Waterfront

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Landbridge is proud to sponsor the Darwin International Film Festival in partnership with the Deckchair Cinema DOUBLE FEATURE DOUBLE FEATURE and the Darwin Waterfront Corporation. Cinema 360 is a unique and exciting Dark Universe Jules Verne Voyages The Wall tourism offering that aligns with the 25 mins 55 mins 67 mins Landbridge vision to support Darwin as a premier tourism destination through our investment in the development of a luxury Stories in the Stars Samskara A visual production inspired by the music 5-star hotel on the waterfront and other Dark Universe was developed by the of Pink Floyd, join us for a journey through 28 mins American Museum of Natural History, 17 mins major infrastructure projects that will Pink Floyd’s 1979 album The Wall. Featuring New York ([http://www.amnh.org)/] contribute to the long term prosperity of a mesmerising blend of live-action, graphic Dark Universe: Come along on a journey www.amnh.org), in collaboration with Acclaimed digital artist Android Jones, the Territory. the California Academy of Sciences, San representation and kaleidoscopic imagery through Jupiter’s atmosphere. Peer at presents Samskara – a stunning visual journey Francisco, and GOTO INC, Tokyo, Japan. and the music of legendary Pink Floyd. the web of dark matter holding galaxies into the mind. Jones’ artwork is inspired by together, and watch the colourful remains the ancient Sanskrit texts or Vedas. His two- of the universe’s beginnings unfold. With dimensional art has been given depth, and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson as your combined with sacred geometry, to create a guide, find out how discoveries over the past kaleidoscope of imagery never seen before. Michael Hughes 100 years have led us to two great cosmic Landbridge mysteries: dark matter and dark energy. Jules Verne Voyages is a mesmerising artistic interpretation of the novel From the Earth to Stories in the Stars explores a new way of the Moon and its sequel Around the Moon by Wharf One Food and Wine, Il Lido Bar Pizza, looking at the sky through the stories of the famous science fiction author. The project Hot Tamale, Antiquity, Crepe Escape, The the Boorong people. Indigenous stories is a co-production of the three independent Oyster Bar, Trampoline, Thirsty Zac, Fiddlers from north-west Victoria come to life as fulldome artists Rocco Helmchen, Ralph Green, Chow, The Coffee Club, Curve Café, we find out how they relate to living in the Heinsohn and Tobias Wiethoff and consists of The Precinct Tavern and Stokes Hill Wharf are Australian bush. three thematically connected episode pieces. all open throughout DIFF.

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What makes a film score unforgettable?  BCC DARWIN In 2009, the streets of Damascus  BCC DARWIN Three hundred years ago, setting out  DECKCHAIR CINEMA Celebrating the breathtaking cinematic  BCC DARWIN A film composer is a musical teemed with people and markets to climb a mountain for the sake of it moments that have transfixed audiences scientist of sorts, and the influence 2016 CTC brimmed with life. 2016 CTC would have been considered close to 2017 CTC around the world, this documentary 2016 CTC they have to complement a film This is a lyrical documentary lunacy. explores our fascination with moving and garner powerful reactions from USA about the Syrian Civil War that Qatar Why do mountains now hold Australia images and provides insight into how Canada global audiences can be a daunting 93 mins weaves five personal stories 108 mins us spellbound, drawing us into 74 mins cinema's most iconic moments came 78 mins task to take on. Hollywood’s elite about life under the Assad regime, their dominion, often at the cost of to be. Most of all, it honours the great composers give viewers a privileged English highlighting years of silence, fear Arabic with English subtitles our lives? Mountain explores this English masters of cinematography, unsung English look inside the musical challenges and Documentary, Music and terror. Together the stories are War, Current Affairs question in a cinematic and musical Music, Nature heroes whose vision and talent was Cinematography, Art creative secrecy of the world’s most collected fragments of memory that collaboration featuring the Australian always right before our eyes. international music genre. tell us that free life can never be Chamber Orchestra. Featuring interviews with Vittorio monochromatic, let alone khaki. Storaro (Apocalypse Now) and Roger The masterminds speak for themselves, One of the most visceral essay films Deakins (O Brother, Where Art Thou?), creating a non-intrusive film with a A valuable contribution to the growing ever made. among many others pulsating heartbeat. discourse around the Syrian Civil War. Harry Windsor, Hollywood Reporter OFFICIAL SELECTION Veteran cinematographer Vic Sarin Film Inquiry WINNER Daniel Glassman, Point of View OFFICIAL SELECTION WORLD PREMIERE turns to his DOP colleagues for an VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL BEST NEW FILMMAKER Magazine HOT DOCS FILM FESTIVAL VIVID LIVE, SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE endlessly fascinating tour of key image FILM FESTIVAL BOULDER INTERNATIONAL makers of the past 50 years. FILM FESTIVAL Ken Eisner, The Georgia Straight

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After a botched bank robbery lands  DECKCHAIR CINEMA A white-sheeted ghost returns to his  DECKCHAIR CINEMA THIS SCREENING WILL BE PRESENTED BY SPECIAL GUEST DAVID WENHAM  DECKCHAIR CINEMA his vulnerable younger brother in suburban home to console his bereft prison, small-time hustler Constantine 2017 MA15+ wife only to find that in his spectral 2017 M 2017 CTC (Robert Pattinson) is plunged into state he has become unstuck in time, the buzzing labyrinth of New York’s USA forced to watch passively as the life USA In the middle of a crowded city the Actor David Wenham first rose to fame Australia underworld in an increasingly 100 mins he knew and the woman he loves 92 mins paths of two strangers collide. This as ‘Diver Dan’ in the long-running 86 mins desperate attempt to free the only slowly slip away. chance occurrence initiates a night TV series SeaChange. He has since family he has. English An unforgettable meditation on English of adventure and connection that inhabited countless characters in a 30- English Good Time recalls the grit and Crime, Drama love and grief, and a wholly-unique Drama, Fantasy, Romance challenges their separate lives. year career spanning theatre, TV and Drama, Comedy, Romance urgency of ‘70s New Hollywood films experience that lingers long after the Set in Sydney over the course of film.Ellipsis marks his debut as director. such as Taxi Driver, Mean Streets film credits roll. one night, Ellipsis is a portrait of the and Dog Day Afternoon. The new city, celebrating the distinct nature and unpredictable thriller from white-hot Lovely, mysterious and cosmic. idiosyncrasies of the people that live indie directors the Safdie brothers. Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York and work there. NOMINATED NOMINATED David Wenham’s delightful debut WORLD PREMIERE PALME D'OR AUDIENCE AWARD sparkles with Sydney and joie de vivre. SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL CANNES FILM SUNDANCE FILM The Guardian FESTIVAL FESTIVAL David Wenham

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Over a period of several months,  BCC DARWIN From acclaimed visual artist Julian  DECKCHAIR CINEMA In this modern love story set against  DECKCHAIR CINEMA Through Alejandro Jodorowsky's  DECKCHAIR CINEMA Iranian journalist and Manus Island Rosefeldt, Manifesto features two- the Texas music scene, two couples autobiographical lens, Endless Poetry detainee Behrouz Boochani had access 2017 CTC time Academy Award winner Cate 2017 CTC chase success through a rock ‘n’ roll 2017 M narrates the years of the artist's youth 2016 CTC to a phone. Blanchett in 13 distinct, must-see landscape of seduction and betrayal. during which he was introduced into In secret, and with help from Papau New Guinea vignettes that incorporate timeless Germany / Australia A sumptuously superficial feast, USA the foremost bohemian artistic circle Chile Iranian-Dutch filmmaker Arash Kamali 90 mins manifestos from 20th century art 95 mins masking a deeper exploration of the 129 mins of 1940s Chile. 128 mins Sarvestani, Boochani created a film movements. ways and whys we are able to hurt A tribute to Chile's artistic which portrays what he describes as Persian, English, Kurdish From anchorwoman to English the people we love most. English heritage, the film is also an ode to the Spanish with English subtitles “the coarsening banality and repetition” Documentary homeless man, from Pop Art to Drama Drama, Music, Romance quest for beauty and inner truth, as a of indefinite detention. Dogma 95, a chameleonic Blanchett A masterpiece, life-changing and universal force capable of changing Drama gives an unmissable tour-de-force other superlatives I stand by, it is one's life forever, written by a man This simple but intensely confronting performance. suffused with that feeling of when you who has dedicated his life and career documentary offers an unprecedented want to cry but can’t. to creating spiritual and artistic look at the appalling conditions in Pure genius. awareness across the globe. Christopher Hooton, Independent (UK) Australia’s refugee detention centre. Rolling Stone OFFICIAL SELECTION More than any previous Jodorowsky Tom Clift, Junkee.com NOMINATED NOMINATED WINNER BEST DOCUMENTARY SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL AUDIENCE AWARD opus, it's also a work of disciplined BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE and touching emotional resonance. SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL EDINBURGH FILM SAN FRANCISCO FESTIVAL Owen Gleiberman, Variety INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

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MATS UNDÉN

Mats Undén is a Darwin-based artist and musician originally from Sweden, specialising in interdisciplinary and experimental printmaking and sound/electronic art. As a musician and printmaker, Undén’s lifelong passion for Above left Moves and Marks - Performative music and sound has always Printmaking at DVAA 2013. Bryn Wackett and Jenelle Saunders gone hand in hand with a Photo: Sara Higgs passion for visual art. During Above his years in Darwin, he has Moves and Marks - Performative Printmaking at DVAA 2013. Jenelle curated shows at NCCA and ART Saunders, Mats Undén and Bryn CDU Gallery, and staged live Wackett Photo: Sara Higgs performances at multiple local

Below venues. For the last five years Detail of the Buchla Music Easel used in Mats Undén holds the position HOUSE Moves and Marks and in Shadow Play. Photo: Mats Undén as Lecturer in Printmaking at

Bottom Charles Darwin University. Detail of performative print ”Gamma” 2013, ink on paper, 78x106cm Photo: Mats Undén

The art of the moving image is not Tonality in Time and Space Lak-Lak: LAŊANI MARIKA limited to the cinema screen and The colours of Laŋani Marika Laŋani Marika is the oldest artists have always experimented living member of the Rirratjingu MATS UNDÉN LAŊANI MARIKA with new and exciting ways clan in East Arnhem Land. As NCCA FREE DVAA FREE a senior clan elder she has the to break out of the traditional responsibility of passing on, both symbolically and literally, format. Art House is DIFF’s arts Contemporary printmaker and sound artist Mats Master weaver and colour dyer Laŋani Marika, the all her cultural knowledge to the program which takes place at Undén’s solo exhibition explores how music most senior elder of the Rirratjiŋu clan, imparts her next generation before she dies. participating galleries across and printmaking interact outside their traditional colour knowledge to the generations of tomorrow in As well as being a respected frameworks. When introducing music and dance into this 6 piece video installation by The Mulka Project of Darwin with video art installations artist with work exhibited all the creation of visual arts, when do we actually move Northeast Arnhem Land. Created by two accomplished over the world, Marika is a and projections exploring the from one discipline into the other? The exhibited Yolŋu cinematographers, Patrina Munuŋgurr & Gayili culture and tradition educator potential of the moving image. works draw on a series of experimental dance-print Yunupiŋu, this exhibition weaves together Laŋani’s and expert in bush medicine performances in Darwin with dancers Bryn Wackett alchemy, art, and ethnobotony with vibrancy and colour. Entering Art House’s orbit in and local botany. 2017 are two stalwarts of the and Jenelle Saunders, and involves a new performance This collection of knowledge now permanently resides with dance, sound and large-scale printmaking. In within The Mulka Project’s Yolŋu owned archives in local contemporary art scene – partnership with DIFF2017, Undén will transform the Yirrkala but will be on display to the public for a short Darwin Visual Arts Association screen room into an immersive experience of sound, time over the Darwin International Film Festival. and the Northern Centre for light and projection to soothe your busy mind. The Contemporary Art – both show opens Friday 1st September at 6pm, with a new large-scale performative print being created by supporters of contemporary art in the artist delivering live electronic noise, and invited all its forms. dancer Bryn Wackett.

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9pm | Happy Yess rd 5pm rd 9.30pm9.15pm Das Cabinet des Destrait Nosferatu Sat Sat 23 23 CINESONIC celebrates Dr Caligari Remixed the relationship Experimental sound artist Mats Comprised of two solo Darwin Levin Diatschenko, as AUSTRALIAN Black & between music and Unden will once again perform producers (Pulzanti and experimental project PODVIG, film through a series his unique analogue electronic Broadwing), Destrait pulls away will perform a live and original CINEMATOGRAPHERS soundtrack to this German silent from the predictable anchors of soundtrack to the silent classic Chrome SPECIAL EVENT of live audiovisual horror movie classic released in electronic music and layers lush Nosferatu, the first Dracula- performances. 1920. With the use of analogue harmonies over loose downtempo inspired movie ever made. SOCIETY NT AWARDS Mad Max: Fury Road synthesisers, Theremins, tape beats. The duo's new audio-visual echoes and spring reverbs he live performance opens a new Directed by GEORGE MILLER will entrance you with an eerie door of experimentation and soundscape reflecting the avant- improvisation. garde electronic pioneers.

10.30pm | Happy Yess HOSTED BY RAY MARTIN  DECKCHAIR CINEMA COSTUME PARTY! THEME:  DECKCHAIR CINEMA Westwind Afterparty TropicalaBASS Bolo Bass WITH GUEST OF HONOUR POST-APOCALYPTIC DAVID BRILL ACS 2017 CTC 2016 MA15+ Digest DIFF with a The film Westwind showcases Get on down to TropicalaBASS Bolo (pronounced Boh-Loh) is a Australia Australia digestif (or a beer) at the meeting of two musical at Happy Yess with a night large, heavy, single-edged knife worlds, where Western pop of Hot Tropical Bass Beats. of Filipino origin similar for the Hosted by Ray Martin this gala evening Ditching the vibrant colours of the DIFF Festival Club! VJs features the best TV, short films, music English 2015 cinema release, this black-and- 120 mins and Indigenous sacred songs Featuring a fine selection of machete and used for hacking. meet DJs in this home become a common language local and international DJ's Bolo Bass is a new crew coming videos and documentaries shot by NT Short Film Festival / Awards white version is director George Miller’s English cinematographers in the past two years. Night preferred vision of his post-apocalyptic of DIFF up late. used to transcend barriers. bringing you a feast of tropical out of Darwin, NT featuring Join special guest legendary combat world, set chronologically between Action Celebrate the power of music dance music from across JUNO and MANGOHIG. They cinematographer David Brill and Mad Max and The Road Warrior. in bringing people together at the globe accompanied by present 'Cutthroat beats for Australian film industry members for a DINNER & SHOW 5pm Max joins a band of renegades Happy Yess after the film’s NT incredible live projection art everyday bass music peasants'. premiere screening, with guest that will have you carving it up 3-course dinner as the sun sets into the All Tickets $130 fleeing across the wastelands, led by harbour (craft beer, wine, soft drink, tea elite Imperator Furiosa. They’re hotly DJs and live performances. on the DFloor all night! and coffee included). Or come for the and viciously pursued by the warlord SHOW ONLY 6.45pm film program only. Either way this will Immortan Joe and his ruthless followers. BEST COSTUME rd be one of the highlights of the festival. Adult $16 Yo Budju Darwin Pride Festival event Concession $12 I was struck by how much more iconic DESIGN 23 Proudly presented by Child $8 the images felt in black and white. More THE 88TH ACADEMY Saturday Darwin Pride Festival will add a dash of camp to the DIFF Festival Under 18s must be accompanied DFS Member $10 elemental, abstract and authentic. AWARDS 9pm | Happy Yess Club with Yo Budju, a tropical feast of queer sound and vision. DJ by a parent/guardian. George Miller, director Mad Max movies Whiskey Houston (Outpost, Melbourne) will play alongside an epic No free tickets to this event party lineup of local talent, getting Darwin onto the dance floor. 30 Tickets and info at diff.net.au 31 16th Saturday 17 th Sunday 23rd Saturday 24th Sunday

Filmmaking on a Cinema Studies 101: Exploring the Screenwriting ACS Masterclass Indigenous Shoestring with Sound in Film possibilities of Masterclass DAVID BRILL, RAY MARTIN Story-telling David Wenham GREG DOCWRA live video for PHILIP TARL DENSON 10.30am | 1hr $15 | $10 PANEL DAVID WENHAM 10.30am | 1hr $15 | $10 music, theatre and 10am | 6hrs $40 | $30 2.45pm | 2hrs $15 | $10 WORK Two of Australia's most 1.30pm | 1hr $15 | $10 installation An introduction to the key Territory's own Philip Tarl Denson celebrated television news Danielle Maclean (Director, SEAN HEALY SHOPS elements of sound design for will help you build your skills and professionals will reflect on Carry the Flag), Naina Sen Philip Tarl Denson Beloved Australian screen legend their extensive careers and David Wenham is coming to film and television, and an 3pm | 1hr $15 | $10 understanding of story structure. (director, The Song Keepers), exploration on how sound This masterclass is broken into ponder the changing face of Bernard Namok (Producer, DIFF Workshops to talk about news gathering and the future elements of dialogue, music, Come and explore the world two sessions over one jam- Carry the Flag), Shannon Swan his directing debuts with his low of the crafts of journalism and effects, foley and atmos work of video software + hardware, packed day. Open to all. (Producer, Gurrumul), Paul budget first feature Ellipsis. Come news cinematography. along and engage with David and individually and together in a light rhythms, - but mostly - Williams (Director, Gurrumul). All workshops are held get a unique insight of his wealth unified soundscape. ideas and possibilities. What is Single Shot Camera of talent and experience! possible with live video today? Burma Storybook: a at CDU Business School, How could you be exploring it? – an award-winning Darwin Waterfront, unless Improvisational Live masterclass on the Westwind; flying Music Soundtrack approach to camera challenges of filming otherwise stated. See Large-format movement map on page 37. through the wall MATS UNDÉN in Myanmar projections and AURORA SCHEELINGS BEN STRUNIN 11.45am | 1hr $15 | $10 PETR LOM projection mapping 1.30pm | 2hrs $15 | $10 CORINNE VAN EGERAAT Aurora Scheelings 2.45pm | 1hr $15 | $10 NICK AZIDIS Experimental sound artist 12.30pm | 2hrs $15 | $10 Mats Undén will share his Learn a distinctive approach Ben Strunin followed Djalu 4.15pm | 1hr $15 | $10 to filmmaking where a scene Gurruwiwi around the world improvisational approach to The filmmakers, who worked for live movie scoring and sound is filmed in a single shot. Using and throughout Australia for Join projection artist Nick Azidis three years on their film which design, demonstrating the lightweight cameras, you’ll learn close to 8 years from start for an workshop introducing tells the story of Myanmar's soundscapes' techniques how to film beyond physical to finish. Becoming a part of large-format projections and transition through poetry, will used in his unique analogue barriers and how camera Djalu's family and writing the projection mapping and learn discuss their challenges, and electronic soundtrack for movement becomes the means story with them, this went far about the foundations of their new ambitious outreach 'Cabinet des Dr Caligari'. for cinematic expression. beyond a fly on the wall doc. designing projection works to project. suit diverse art, cultural and Screen Territory: Soundtrack events industry projects. 360 Cinema Drone Workshop Masterclass WARIK LAWRENCE David Wenham Meet the Director IAN RICHARDS Sally Ingleton MARINE BOY NT Film-makers 4.15pm | 1hr | Dome $15 | $10 SALLY INGLETON Network 1pm | 2hrs | Deckchair $15 | $10 1.45pm | 1hr $15 | $10 4pm | 1hr FREE As planetariums worldwide PENELOPE PATTON continue to embrace the new The focus on this session is on Freshly appointed Screen The soundtrack masterclass 5.30pm | 2hrs | Deckchair FREE frontier of fulldome, Warik will the specifics of using UAVs for Territory Director Sally Ingleton will explore the role of music examine the development of effective video. Take part in an and sound in film. It will focus overview planning exercise, will provide precious insider tips The NT Filmmakers Network this technology, discuss the on technology and production covering factors such as wind, on how to best take advantage is a group that helps connect inevitable collision of narrative values that that are accessible height, obstacles and the of government support to the filmmakers with their peers cinema and immersive reality to independent filmmakers and creative outcome of the filming. screen industry, and partake in across the Northern Territory. that has called out for a new musicians. an informal Q&A session with The aim of the group is to create screen language. local screen professionals and connections and opportunities in Ben Strunin enthusiasts. the film industry. Sean Healy

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