UQ Art Museum Public Programs: 'Speculative Ethnographies /Science Fiction' film screening.
Event Details
- Date:
- Tuesday, 12 May 2015
- Time:
- 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
- UQ Location:
- James and Mary Emelia Mayne Centre (St Lucia)
- URL:
- http://www.artmuseum.uq.edu.au
- Event category(s):
Event Contact
- Name:
- Ms Gillian Ridsdale
- Phone:
- 67793
- Email:
- g.ridsdale@uq.edu.au
- Org. Unit:
- The University of Queensland Art Museum
Event Description
- Full Description:
- In association with our exhibition 'Peter Hennessey: Making it real', please join us for the second part of the free screening series, curated and introduced by John Edmond, Associate Curator (Film), UQ Art Museum.
'Slow Action'
Ben Rivers 2010 | 45 minutes
'Slow Action' is a post-apocalyptic science-fiction film which exists somewhere between documentary, ethnographic study and fiction. 'Slow Action' applies the idea of island biogeography – the study of how species and eco-systems evolve differently when isolated and surrounded by unsuitable habitat – to a conception of the Earth in a few hundred years; the sea level rising to absurd heights, creating hyperbolic utopias that appear as possible future mini-societies.
'Slow Action' is filmed at different sites across the globe: ‘Lanzarote’ – a beautiful strange island known for its beach resorts, yet one of the driest places on the planet, full of dead volcanoes and strange architecture; ‘Gunkanjima’ – an island off the coast of Nagasaki, Japan, a deserted city built on a rock, once home to thousands of families mining its rich coal reserves; ‘Tuvalu’ – one of the smallest countries in the world, with tiny strips of land barely above sea level in the middle of the Pacific; and ‘Somerset’ – a yet-to-be-discovered island and its various clades.
'Quickeners'
Jeremy Shaw | 2014 | 36 minutes
In the south-eastern portion of Area 23 – a deserted and derelict region once known in the late age of human civilisation as the Americas – a tiny population of ‘Quantum Humans’ have been gathering, meeting together under a common bond. Their aesthetic appearance is not unlike that of any Quantum Human; their biological and technological make-up the same, and their direct neural link to ‘The Hive’, concurrent with our unified Quantum Human Society. They are immortal Quantum Humans, like you and I.
But there is one thing currently separating them from our social order: the Quantum Humans of Area 23 are afflicted with an extremely rare disorder known as Human Atavism Syndrome – or H.A.S.
Free. All welcome.
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- Directions:
- St Lucia Campus | Gatton campus.
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