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Double Vision
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When
Fri 13 Mar 2026
7pm
Experience three short works from iconic experimental filmmaker Makino Takashi, with live sound by Lawrence English.
This one-night event brings together three immersive works that reframe cinema as a live, sensory encounter. Long recognised as one of the most influential moving-image artists of his generation, Makino’s practice collapses distinctions between film, installation, and live performance, creating layered, dynamic compositions that coalesce into a singular, immersive cinematic event.
Anti-Cosmos
Inspired by the work ‘Cosmos and Anti-cosmos’ by Japanese philosopher Toshihiko Izutsu, this film pairs Makino’s dense, accumulative imagery with a low-frequency soundtrack designed to resonate through the viewer’s body.
Imagination with Lawrence English
Makino’s latest work is a meditation on creating something from nothing. Constructed from unexposed found film salvaged from a historic Japanese film lab and performed with a live soundtrack by Lawrence English, the work unfolds as an open-ended stimulus for imagination.
Space Noise 3D
An immersive live cinema work using 16mm and video projectors, a live soundtrack, and 3D glasses to give physical presence to the images beyond the screen. A duel between immaculate digital and irregular organic material dissolves into layered chaos. Enormous quantities of light movement from film loops collide with digital pixels to create constantly evolving imagery. The accompanying live sound repeats and disperses noise, further developing the visuals through swirling velocity. Noise, a fundamental element of the film itself, becomes the aim of Makino’s quest for a new film experience.
Makino Takashi
Makino Takashi is a Tokyo-based experimental filmmaker widely considered one of the most influential Japanese moving-image artists of his generation. Makino graduated from the Cinematography/Sound Recording course at the Department of Cinema at Nihon University College of Art, Japan, in 2001, and studied film, lighting and music under the Quay Brothers at Atelier Koninck QBFZ in London the same year. Makino gained his skills relating to film and video while undertaking colouration as a colourist on various filmography, commercials and music videos from 2001 to 2011. He has been screening his works since 2004. He captures video of ready‑made objects, including natural phenomena, humans and cities, using various formats. By layering and configuring these images in the editing process, his films become organic, imaginative works that seem to burst outward without limit, earning widespread international recognition. Currently based in Japan, Makino presents films, music, installations and audiovisual performances worldwide. He was awarded the Tiger Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2011 and has received honours at several international film festivals, including Hamburg and Moscow, as well as the Grand Prize at the 25FPS International Experimental Film and Video Festival. His works have screened in over 120 cities globally.
Lawrence English
Lawrence English is an artist, composer and curator based in Australia. Working across an array of aesthetic investigations, English’s work explores the politics of perception and prompts questions of field, agency and memory. English utilises a variety of approaches including visceral live performance and site-specific installation to create work that invites audiences to consider their relationship to listening, place and embodiment. Over the past decade he has worked with sound as a medium for embodied experience and is determined to share his interests in the transformative and sensorial, transgressive possibilities of sound. He is a Sidney Myer Creative Fellow, was awarded an Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award in conjunction with his PhD in 2017, and has been supported by the Mike Kelley Foundation for his public artwork project in Los Angeles, Seirá. In 2022, he was appointed the Annual Honouree by the Institute of Modern Art.
Curated by Brad Spolding
Brad Spolding is a curator, programmer and producer working across art forms. Brad has curated several festivals and events focusing on audio-visual experimental and electronic arts practice. He was the Artistic Director of The Substation for 7 years and, during this time, curated a program for the 2020 AsiaTOPA festival across Arts Centre Melbourne, including works by Ryoji Ikeda and Nonotak. He curated a venue-wide program of new works for the International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA) at Brisbane Powerhouse in 2024 and co-curated the 2024 and 2025 OHM Festivals with Lawrence English. Brad holds a Bachelor’s in Visual Arts, a Graduate Diploma in Arts Management and a Master's in Arts and Community Practice. He is a board member of the Macfarlane Fund, Temperance Hall, an alumnus of the Cranlana and Creative Australia Leadership programs, and a founding member of Theatre Network Australia.
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