THE MERCURY CINEMA

The Mercury and Iris Cinemas are run by the Media Resource Centre to enhance screen culture and to give screening opportunities to emerging South Australian film, video and digital media artists.

Cinemas are also available for hire. For more information CLICK HERE.

CONTACT
Operations Manager, Jeremy Chance e-mail  

Exhibition Manager, Toby Bramwell e-mail
Ph. (08) 8410 0979

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VIDEO BRAZIL


Sat 28 June 2008 6.00pm

d/Lux/MediaArts and the Media Resource Centre present the prize-winning works from the 16th International Electronic Art Festival SESC_Videobrasil in São Paulo. This touring program represent the wealth of contemporary strategies involving video, shedding light on a wide variety of investigations regarding narrative. Introduced by Festival Director Solange Oliveira Farkas, a curator known for her role in the research and fostering of contemporary art production in the southern circuit.

ALL TICKETS ONLY $5.00

Juksa || Rawane's Song || Revolving Door || Varzea

 

JUKSA

Dir. Maurício Dias & Walter Riedweg
Brazil/Switzerland  2006  30mins  Digital
The three remaining inhabitants of a small island in the North Pole talk about thirty-three years of their lives. Universal reflections on time and aging set to a song by Henry Purcell sung live at an intimate session.


 

RAWANE'S SONG

Dir. Mounira Al Solh
Lebanon/Netherlands  2006  7mins  Digital
A video about a Lebanese woman who does not want to talk about war. Taking this as her premise, she assumes an ironic discourse, but cannot shake the avoided theme. The voice substituted by subtitles leaves space for silence, in which we can hear Rawane’s footsteps.


 

REVOLVING DOOR

Dir. Alexandra Beesley & David Beesley
Australia  2006  19mins  Digital
“It’s a big decision to sell your body to a man with money in his hand”, says Gillian, the protagonist of this documentary that mixes photography and animation. A look at the complex questions involved in her work on the streets of Melbourne, Australia.


 

VÁRZEA

Dir. Estúdio Bijari & Ricardo Iazzetta
Brazil  2006  9mins Digital
Cold and emptied, the city of São Paulo becomes a football pitch, which turns to floodplain, which becomes the stage for football practice. A work of video dance about territories, frontiers, and the occupation of public space.