2004 cinema program 'focus on' starts this sunday with cordelia beresford
The Australian Centre of the moving image is proud to present 'Focus On', six special meet-the-filmmaker afternoons at ACMI cinemas as part of the 2004: Australian Culture Now, an new major survey of Australian contemporary art, and collaboration between ACMI and the National Gallery of Victoria.
Focus On will run on Sundays - 20 June, 4 & 18 July, and 1, 15 & 29 August 2004.
Focus On will highlight the work of six outstanding Australian moving image makers -Cordelia Beresford, Richard Grant, Susan Kim, Catriona McKenzie, Cate Shortland and Ben Speth, giving audiences a rare opportunity to meet the filmmakers in person, hear them discuss their approach to filmmaking, and view (and in some cases get an early sneak preview of) some of their memorable work.
Cordelia Beresford is considered one of Australia's most accomplished cinematographers and directors.
Ben Zipper, a reviewer from the online film journal Senses of Cinema, describes her award-winning short film Restoration as "embracing a strong sense of avant garde". Screen Culture organization Popcorn Taxi recently described her one of Sydney's "most exciting, yet diverse directors".
A graduate of the Australian Film, Television and Radio School, Cordelia Beresford has won several prestigious awards for her work - Restoration won the Dendy prize for Best Short at the Sydney Film Festival, and the Jury Prize for the Short Film Competition at the Long Beach International Film Festival. Other exceptional films that she worked on include Martha's New Coat, directed by Rachael Ward, the AFI Award nominated Preservation, directed by Sofya Gollan, and most recently The Eye Inside especially commissioned for '2004', and which is currently appearing on the Public Imaging screens around ACMI.
Beresford says of The Eye Inside: "I am interested in issues of personal identity and photography. Using notorious photographs of female 'hysterical' patients from the Salpetriere Hospital (Paris, 1870s-80s) as a starting point, I have interpreted and re-staged the situation the photographs were taken in to examine the boundaries between a 'real' identity and an imposed one. Through these historical images I have sought a highly subjective, contemporary response to the themes I feel are still defined as much by cultural boundaries as personal ones: feminine/masculine; sane/mad; healthy/incurable; free/subjugated."
Cordelia's presentation will include excerpts from seven of the short films she has worked on as the director or cinematographer, including the award-winning Restoration, her graduating from AFTRS piece Chop Suey, and the Rachael Ward-directed short Martha's New Coat.
Published Friday, 18 June 2004
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