USA // FILM
Melbourne Festival and Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) present
PHOTO Noah Kalina
NEW YORK NARRATIVES
STAGE ON SCREEN
A unique selection of contemporary
performance films celebrating the
work of top calibre PS122 artists
Reggie Watts, Tommy Smith,
Tina Satter and Young Jean Lee
(Melbourne Festival 2012), along
with long time collaborator of
Okwui Okpokwasili (Bronx Gothic),
Ralph Lemon.
Films produced by OntheBoards.TV
AUSTRALIAN CENTRE
FOR THE MOVING IMAGE
Federation Square
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FREE
www.festival.melbourne
ACMI 03 8663 2583 acmi.net.au
THE SHIPMENT
MON 12 OCTOBER at 6PM
Playwright and director Young
Jean Lee and a cast of five African–
American performers create an
unsettling terrain of well–trodden
stereotypes that dare audiences to
laugh as they consider their own
preconceptions about race and
culture.
Filmed at On the Boards,
Seattle WA on 3 Oct 2009
SEAGULL (THINKING OF YOU)
TUE 13 OCTOBER at 6PM
Tina Satter draws on Chekhov’s
letters, translations, and perverse
sense of comedy to consider anew
the darkness, beauty, and history of
his iconic play The Seagull and its
resonances with her Half Straddle
ensemble.
Filmed at The New Ohio Theatre
on 14 Jan 2013
TRANSITION
TUE 13 OCTOBER at 7.45PM
SUN 18 OCTOBER at 7.30PM
An absurd yet addictive mix
of stereophonic effects, live
video, geometric movement and
improvisation created by comedic
musician Reggie Watts and
playwright/director Tommy Smith.
Filmed at On the Boards,
Seattle WA on 16 Oct 2009
HOW CAN YOU STAY IN THE HOUSE
ALL DAY AND NOT GO ANYWHERE?
WED 14 OCTOBER at 6PM
Reflecting on his relationship
with 102–year–old former
sharecropper, carpenter and
gardener Walter Carter, as ݕ