modmove » Filmmaker http://modmove.com Australian Entertainment and Popular Culture in Review Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:14:57 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.4 Theo Angelopoulos http://modmove.com/exhibitions/theo-angelopoulos/ http://modmove.com/exhibitions/theo-angelopoulos/#comments Mon, 18 Apr 2016 21:21:30 +0000 http://modmove.com/?p=3509 Theo Angelopoulos (1935–2012) is widely regarded as the greatest Greek filmmaker, having crafted an epic vision of modern Greece and the Balkans through allegories of its turbulent social and political history.

His films are celebrated for their poetic and elliptical style, choreographed sequences and haunting cinematography. Angelopoulos’s career was marked by a number of loosely connected film cycles — a trilogy of history, trilogy of silence, trilogy of borders and unfinished trilogy of modern Greece.

Each confront different social, economic and cultural legacies, including Greece’s occupation and independence from Ottoman Turkey; a political history involving military dictatorship and civil war; the plight of refugees in Europe and the repercussions of the Balkan wars; Greek literature, mythology, and the director’s own biography.

Seen together for the first time in Australia, this retrospective highlights the work of one of the most distinct and distinguished modern filmmakers.

Theo Angelopoulos
15 April 2016 – 22 May 2016
GOMA
www.qagoma.qld.gov.au

]]> http://modmove.com/exhibitions/theo-angelopoulos/feed/ 0 Shirley Clarke and the New York beat Exhibition at GoMA http://modmove.com/exhibitions/shirley-clarke-and-the-new-york-beat-exhibition-at-goma/ http://modmove.com/exhibitions/shirley-clarke-and-the-new-york-beat-exhibition-at-goma/#comments Mon, 08 Jun 2015 21:30:43 +0000 http://modmove.com/?p=2560 A dynamic member of the New York independent film movement of the 1950s and 1960s, and a pioneer of video in the 1970s, Shirley Clarke (1919–97) is one of the great untold stories of North American cinema.

A dancer turned video artist and filmmaker, her work pushed beyond the boundaries of fiction and non-fiction and explored the space in-between. Her love of jazz found its way into many of her films, the improvisational rhythms matching the kinetic energy of her camerawork. With fellow filmmaker Jonas Mekas, Clarke was instrumental in the formation of the New American Cinema Group, now the largest archive and distributor of independent and avant-garde films in the world.

This program celebrates Clarke’s recently restored feature films The Connection 1961, Portrait of Jason 1967, and Ornette: Made in America 1985, as well as her Academy Award winning documentary Robert Frost: A Lover’s Quarrel with the World 1963. The program also features her film The Cool World 1964 and a selection of Clarke’s short films and video artworks, interviews with the artist, and her only onscreen feature film role in Agnès Varda Lion’s Love 1969.

Feature films include:
The Connection 1960 Ages 18+
The Cool World  1963 M
Robert Frost: A Lover’s Quarrel With the World 1963 Ages 18+
Portrait of Jason 1967 Ages 18+
Lion’s Love1969 Ages 18+
Ornette: Made in America 1985 Ages 18+

Shirley Clarke and the New York beat
12–28 June 2015
Australian Cinémathèque | Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA), Brisbane
www.qagoma.qld.gov.au

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