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UBU Films - Sydney Underground Movies 1965-1970 DAVID PERRY EXPERIMENTAL FILMS DVD catalogue 2013 film - cinema artfilms educating imagination www.artfilms.com.au ALBIE THOMS Albie Thoms was a leading light of the Australian version of 60s/70s counter-culture movement which had a strong independent and experimental film-making presence. AN INTERVIEW WITH ALBIE THOMS This precious interview was recorded just three weeks before he passed away in November 2012. It covers a wide range of topics: Albie Thoms’ early theatre experiments with absurd plays, becoming a film maker, EXPERIMENTAL the UBU experimental film group’s work, government politics, rebellion, and the emergence of Sydney’s counterculture. It is a touching account AUSTRALIAN CINEMA SERIES from a once rebellious artist, illustrated with original photos, film clips, excerpts of performances and, most importantly, with selected clips from Albie’s experimental films. Code: KD-Albie Uni A$280 / School A$224 UBU Films - Sydney Underground Movies 1965-1970 Garry Shead DaVID PERRY EXPERIMENtaL FILMS Code: DP-Exp Uni A$320 / School A$272 PALM BEacH Code: AT-Palm Uni A$180/ School A$153 COLLECTABLE LIMITED EDITION SUNSHINE CITY Code: AT-Palm This digital collection of selected 16mm films made by the Ubu Films group Uni A$180 / School presents a unique opportunity to reconsider the wealth of invention that A$153 GarrY SHEAD is one of Australia’s most famous and acclaimed lyrical figurative expressionist artists, the signifies one of the most important cultural periods in Australia. Ubu Films was winner of the Archibald Prize for Portraiture and the Dobell Prize for Drawing. His experimental films are less formed in Sydney in mid-1965 by Albie Thoms, David Perry, Aggy Read well known than his paintings and prints yet stretch throughout his entire career over the past five decades. and John Clark - the group adopted the name of Alfred Jarry’s 1896 satirical 3DVDs Code: GS-Exp Uni A$350 / School A$210 play Ubu Roi. The films within this collection exemplify a period of unbridled DaVID PErrY is unique among Australian artists in that he is equally competent in making paintings, creative experimentation that flourished during Ubu’s brief five drawings, prints, posters, photographs, films and videotapes. In work encompassing more than half a year period preceding institutional control of the arts in Australia. century, he has demonstrated his proficiency in these media, with his art exhibited in international film and 3 DVDs + Booklet Code: AT-Ubu Uni A$380 / School A$266 video festivals and leading art galleries. K IT GU YAT T David Perry Films KIT GUYatt FILMS: PRESIDENT Johnson’s VISIT, BALMAIN Dr JAZZ Code: DP-DrJazz AND THE PHALLIC FOREST Uni A$220 / School A$187 1. President Johnson’s Visit: A comment on U.S. President Lyndon Johnson’s 1966 Australian tour, while Australian and American troops fought in Vietnam. THE REfractING 2. Balmain: An enquiry, at once lyrical and tragic, into the reality of (the inner GLASSES Sydney suburb of) Balmain in 1969. 3. The Phallic Forest: The story is about Code: DP-Refract Oliver and Julia, he in advertising, she an academic, living in a terrace house Uni A$220 / School A$187 which they’re renovating, while at the same time their relationship is falling LOVE AND WOrk apart. Code: KG-Forest Uni A$220 / School A$187 Code: DP-Love Uni A$180 / School A$153 EXPERIMENTAL NEW AUSTRALIAN CINEMA SERIES Paul Winkler Collections 6 Volumes Code: PW-Vol1-6 Each: Uni A$420 / School A$294 Available as a 6 volumes set for A$2,300 Paul Winkler (born 22 June 1939) is a German-born Australian filmmaker who lives and works in Sydney. He was associated with Corinne and Arthur Cantrill, Albie Thoms and David Perry in pioneering local experimental film production in the 1960s. Winkler characterises his films as “a synthesis of intellect and emotion, filtered through the plastic material of film”. “I try to let ‘imagines’ flow freely to Dirk De Bruyn the surface”. The ideas which he terms ‘imagines’ may Dirk de Bruyn’s body of film work commands a unique place reflect Australian icons like Bondi Beach, Ayers Rock/ in the history of Australian experimental animation. Uluru and the Sydney Harbour Bridge, or textures, as EXPERIMENTS in Bark/Rind, Green Canopy, and the bush. Projected on two screens, with two separate soundtracks, the always exceptional, and occasionally brilliant, photographic Volume 1 (1964-1974): Volume 4 (1984-1991): images are enhanced by de Bruyn’s rigorous control Mood, Isolated, Red & Green, Incongruous, Australian over a wide variety of experimental techniques. Without Requiem No.1, Neurosis, Bush, Facades, Faint Echoes, overindulging in any of them, de Bruyn uses animation, Scars, Dark, Chants, Brick Glitter, Long Shadows optical illusions, time lapse, solarization, hand tinting, flash Wall Volume 5 (1993-2000): frames, refilming and flicker effects, accompanied by a dense atmosphere of word puns, dialogue, primal screams, music Volume 2 (1976-1979): Elevated Shores, Green Canopy, Time Out For Sport, and even recycled and letraseted soundtracks. StUttERING CONVERSatIONS Brick Wall, Backyard, Disc 1: Experiments on two screen + Performance Red Church, Bark-Rind, Capillary Action, Rotation, NarratIVES WITH MY MOTHER Turmoil Disc 2: Resource pack: Screen 1 + 2 Collectors’ Item! Two DVD An intense and at times Sydney Harbour Bridge, Plus Article by Steven McIntyre PDF. Window, Bondi compilation of Dirk de Bruyn’s disturbing series of encoun- Volume 6 (2004-2011): Code: DDB-Experiments Uni A$250 / School A$200 work from 1974-2004. To ters between the filmmaker Volume 3 (1980-1983): Fishtank, Pop kitsch, Many be released in June 2013. and his mother as they Cars, Taylor Square, Sydney- Buddhas, Drums + Trains, Subscribe to our mailing list relive the traumatic years Bush, Urban Spaces, Ayers Shooting Arrows to be informed. of his childhood and adole- Code: DDB-Stutter Rock, Brick & Tile, Traces scence. Code: DDB-Convers Uni A$380 / School A$304 Uni A$150 / School A$120 ANIMATION ANIMATION A brilliant collection of award winning Brittish, Japanese and French ANIMATION FILMS are available for educational libraries. Visit our website / Film and Cinema / Animation AUStraLIAN CINEMA HISTORY SHORTS NEW ONE COUNTRY, ONE PEOPLE - NgUrra KUJU WaLYja This exceptional collection of short films explores the story of the Canning Stock Route told through the eyes of four emerging Aboriginal filmmakers: Clint Dixon, Morika Biljabu, Kenneth “KJ” Martin and Curtis Taylor with award-winning filmmaker and mentor Nicole Ma. The compilation Ngurra Kuju Walyja - One Country, One People - Films from the Canning Stock Route tells an intercultural and intergenerational story of community, collaboration and reconciliation in action. Across Western Australia’s expansive desert HISTORY OF THE ArcHIVE BOX / FILM-WOrk / MENacE CarLTON + GODarD region, the Kimberley, Pilbara and Goldfields, a network of Aboriginal AUStraLIAN CINEMA ArcHIVE PROJEct Disc 1: Film-Work = CINEMA communities and their art enterprises are home to some of Australia’s Code: SAU-History A 3 DVD box set, provides an Films create d by the Buesst’s leisurely, intimate most distinguished artists. Uni A$375 / School A$188 in-depth encounter with the Australian Waterside Workers and at times quite personal stories, sources and contexts Federation Film Unit (1952- documentary on the ‘60s Code: FO-One Uni A$280 / School A$140 INTERVIEWS WITH of Melbourne’s Realist film 58) constitute a highly & early ‘70s independent AUStraLIAN movement, including the significant contribution Melbourne filmmaking scene feature documentary The to an Australian cultural centred in Carlton is one of FILMMakERS Archive Project. heritage of working class the most significant cinematic BOB CONNELLY, cultural production often contributions to Australian DISC 1: THE ArcHIVE film history. It is a testament ROBIN ANDERSON, overlooked by both film and PROJEct labour historians. to the per-severance & BOB WEISS, feature documentary Disc 2: Menace energy of this important but FRED ScHEPSI, Examines the work film enthu- The early cold war years in neglected scene. IaN PRINGLE, siasts active in Australia in Australia were characterized Code: SUP-Carlton JANE CAMPION, the early Cold War years. by attempts to suppress Uni A$250 / School A$213 JILL RObb, DISC 2: THE REALIST political dissent including FILM UNIT’S FILMS banning of the Communist UrbaNANDSUBUrbaN JOHN SEALE, urbunsuburban features a Contains the surviving films Party. In Menace we see the PETER WEIR, selection of works on video of the Melbourne Realist Film experience from the perspec- LEX MarINOS, tive of those who defended and film by David Pledger Unit in full. made in five instalments. LINDSAY ANDERSON, democratic freedoms. DISC 3: Code: JH-Filmwork They were made as a NICOLAS ROEG, part of or constitute the SUppLEMENtarY Uni A$250 / School A$175 PETER WatkINS OraL HISTORY whole material for live performance, interactive Price of each DVD: EXtraS (with info cinematic artwork, visual Uni A$164 / School A$139 booklet) Code: JH-Archive art, site-specific installation Uni A$320 / School A$224 or screen and object-based public art. Code: NY-Urban SHORTS Uni A$250 / School A$213 FIVE SHORT FILMS EarLY WOrk SHOrt JOHN HUGHES THE DaNCING CLASS BY NIGEL BUESST FILMS 1965-80 SHOrt FILMS & OtHER SHOrt These films were made Includes the following 1. Nowhere Game, 1971 / StORIES by Tom Cowan with minimal resources so early works: Matuta, Time 2. Cybernetic Synergy: The Disc 1: The Dancing Class- it’s no surprise that they Past, Skin Deep, Marcel, Kinetic Art of John Hansen, Nimmo Street/ The Dancing look fairly basic. However Calcutta, The Journey, 1974 / 3. November Eleven, Class/ Signature/ Helen they deserve attention on The Island, We Are All 1979 / 4. Is It Working? of Sydney/ Australia Felix.

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