A SMALL slice of history will take place this Sunday when the North Bellarine Film Festival screens a program of experimental and avantgarde films at Portarlington Neighbourhood House.<\/p>\n
It believed to be the first time a program dedicated to experimental and avant-garde\u00a0cinema will have been screened at a film festival outside of a capital city in Australia.<\/p>\n
It will also be the only North Bellarine Film Festival program to screen outside Drysdale. Curated by Portarlington\u2019s own international award-winning experimental filmmaker David King, the program will showcase 20 animation, experimental and avant-garde films from Australia and around the world.<\/p>\n
King said he wanted to showcase as broad a\u00a0range of films as possible to overturn people\u2019s misconceptions about these genres.<\/p>\n
\u201cQuite simply, a huge range of work falls under these banners and most people have only seen maybe one or two examples,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
International films range from the breathtaking animation of Murat Sayginer\u2019s Dust and Paris Mavroidis\u2019 Divers, to the toe-tapping swing of Stuart Pound\u2019s Boogie Stomp Pink and the nightmarish black-and-white vision of Johnny Clyde\u2019s Noctiflora.<\/p>\n
Australian films include the mesmerising music video Author of the Accident by Adelaide\u2019s Alison Chhorn, and The Sea, a Cubist reflection of the ocean by Gold Coast video poet Marie Craven.<\/p>\n
King will also premiere his own latest experimental work, Lost in a Borgian Labyrinth, while Clifton Springs artist Tony Convey will open Pandora\u2019s Box in The Box.<\/p>\n
The program has drawn interest from filmmakers and film lovers from Melbourne, Adelaide and further afield, including those with films in the program.<\/p>\n
\u201cPort Phillip Ferries made this possible by offering half-price return tickets to filmmakers and film lovers coming from Melbourne,\u201d King said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe also have Portarlington Neighbourhood House to thank for offering their excellent screening facilities.\u201d<\/p>\n
The program is on Sunday November 18 and will start at 2pm and finish at 4pm. Entry to the session is free.<\/p>\n
City of Greater Geelong councillor Jim Mason will open the film festival during at a red-carpet reception at the Potato Shed in Drysdale on November 16 at 7pm.<\/p>\n
For tickets to the festival visit a City of Greater Geelong Customer Service Centre or the Potato Shed Box Office.<\/p>\n
Telephone sales are also available on 5251 1998.<\/p>\n
Visit northbellarinefilmfestival.org for more information including session times for all films.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A SMALL slice of history will take place this Sunday when the North Bellarine Film Festival screens a program of experimental and avantgarde films at Portarlington Neighbourhood House. It believed to be the first time a program dedicated to experimental and avant-garde\u00a0cinema will have been screened at a film festival outside of a capital city […]<\/p>\n