Named after cultivated plants which escape into the wild, we draw connections between queer challenges to normativity and its parallels in innovative queer cinematic forms. Conventional cinema carries biases for those who have access to it, and is bound by countless rules about how to make it. Join us for a program that provokes ways that queer film can be about more than breaking the rules of rep
resentation, but also about who is behind the camera, and new ways that films can be made. SKILLSHARE - Saturday 18th March 2pm, ACMI Cube
�We offer an advanced workshop for moving image makers to share skills in innovative film and video practices. See the WILDINGS page on the website for announcements on our special guest mentors and for how to apply. PANEL - - Saturday 18th March 430pm, ACMI Cube
�Join us for a panel inspired by Jack Halberstam’s The Queer Art of Failure examining queer challenges to success narratives and the conformist status quo, as cutting-edge artists and up-and-coming academics explore the link between experimentation and failure in queer moving image work. Performers don’t seem to follow a script, shots are too long, obsolete mediums are rediscovered, performances are non-naturalistic, taboos are broken, narrative conventions are discarded. We start with a common question, “do these people know how to make films?” Have they failed – or are they making different kinds of moving images, in different ways? SHORTS - Sunday 19th March 145pm, ACMI Cinemas
Experimental film has it’s own conventions - cinephiliac obsessions with film, dance choreography, black and white, performance modes drawn from avant-garde theatre etc. This program jumps off from there, with work by net-artists, activists, performance artists, creative researchers, and emerging from marginalised communities. From sensual fat bodies, to queer re-figurings of familial bonds, challenges to heterosexuality as colonial project, femme musings on the nature of surfaces, QTPoC communities of resistance, wry queerings of public space, and fagalicious interventions into the state/corporate surveillance machine - join us in embracing the potential in failing cinematic conventions, for a program to inspire, provoke and excite.
