On Sunday 28 May at the Australian Cinémathèque, Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane, our fourth City Symphony Live Music & Film event features the music of composer and musician Madeleine Cocolas. Madeleine is crafting a live score for the films boasting pulsating synthesisers, lush soundscapes, experimental electronics and field recordings to subtly evoke the…
On Sunday 30 April, our third City Symphony Live Music & Film screening features a selection of rarely screened short films. Within these films street photographers capture cheeky kids playing in New York’s East Harlem in the 1940s, meanwhile in the film Bridges Go Round 1958 the camera dances with a city skyline, and two films…
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The 18-piece band — Matt Hsu’s Obscure Orchestra — is the musical accompaniment to the lyrical Slovakian documentary Lines 2021 on Sunday 26 March in our next ‘City Symphony’ Live Music & Film series. While the City Symphony film movement began in the 1920s, this contemporary film, released a hundred years after the movement began,…
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The launch of our new event cinema series kicks off on Sunday 26 February and runs across 10 unique screenings and music performances until 26 November 2023. Our ‘City Symphony’ Live Music & Film series will start with a screening of the iconic Man with a Movie Camera 1929 paired with Brisbane based post-rock band…
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From enigmatic artworks to repurposed images, I’m sure many can testify to similar experiences of being introduced to visual artists and its many ‘genres’ via their record collection. In the second in the series — Sleevage: Collaborations between art and music — these musical conduits highlight the compact lessons in the history of art and…
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Following on from the Rave film program that recently screened at the Australian Cinémathèque and in time for Record Store Day on 12 June, Brisbane-based musician and DJ, Phil Smart reflects on his experience of the rave scene and its connection to film and pop culture. When you’re part of a subculture, it’s not often…
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