Queensland Film Fest

Queensland Film Festival is dedicated to screening and supporting the best in film and art.

[Chris Kennedy @secretflix]

Two of my films are showing at @the8fest this weekend.

The time-lapse film, "Brisbane River", shot last summer*, and "4x8x3", an early film of mine which was made on unsplit Regular 8mm film.

https://t.co/Oh27aWu0MB

 July 26-28, 2024

(* thanks to @ContainerBFS)

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@Duugy13 Hi Doug, please check your messages.

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Tonight!

[SCMS @SCMStudies]

It is with deep sadness that we mourn the passing of David Bordwell. Professor Bordwell’s contributions to film theory and history have been instrumental in shaping our understanding of cinema as an art form and storytelling practice.

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Restoring Parajanov is our next event!
Thursday 7 March with & at @ima_brisbane
With Daniel Bird presenting restorations of Sergei Parajanov's rare shorts:
Kyiv Frescoes (1967)
Hakob Hovnatanyan (1967)
&
Arabesques on the Theme of Pirosmani (1985)
https://t.co/TmrBvUnoVu

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Thank you
We’ll be back in 2024, with more details in January
Enjoy the break, or what you want to enjoy

Image: Tomonari Nishikawa | Light, Noise, Smoke, and Light, Noise, Smoke | 2023 A complex interplay between fireworks footage & sound shot during a Japanese summer festival

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[thomas violence @thomas_violence]

hell yeah!! loved the hell out of this, thrilled to get to see it on the big screen

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Confess, Fletch (Gregg Mottola) screens next week! QLD premiere, 7pm Tuesday 12 Dec at The Elizabeth The charming/troublesome Fletch (Jon Hamm) becomes the prime suspect in a murder case while searching for a stolen art. An addled noir comedy. Our summer xmas goodbye to 2023

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Blackhat (Michael Mann) screens next!
Aus prem, 7pm Tues 6 Dec at The Elizabeth
Nick (Chris Hemsworth) is released from jail to investigate the destructive hacking of a nuclear plant & stock exchange. A film that traces the relationship between the digital & the physical world.

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Bacurau (Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles) is our next screening!
QLD prem, 7pm Tues 21 Nov at The Elizabeth
Bacurau, a small town in the Brazilian sertão or outback, notices their community has somehow vanished from the map. A band of mercenaries appear.

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Kelly Reichardt in an in-depth interview with @brofromanother in @CinemaScopeMag covering the context and thought process behind her latest film Showing Up.

Which happens to be our next screening: 7pm, Tuesday 7 November at The Elizabeth Picture Theatre.

https://t.co/dRURCx7nM1

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Not our screening, but one we want to highlight: @QAGOMA and its free presentation of The Films of Ute Aurand, Robert Beavers and Gregory J Markopoulos.

With Ute and Robert in attendance.

https://t.co/8Smlovh8uX

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Showing Up (Kelly Reichardt) is our next screening!
QLD prem, 7pm Tues 7 Nov at The Elizabeth
A comedy drama about the life & death stakes felt by a minor artist preparing for a minor exhibition. Acutely observed & with a typically apt performance from Michelle Williams.

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Also tonight!

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Tonight!