... is a new film festival to be held on March 10, 2011 from 8-11pm at the Red Rattler in Marrickville. The only rule is that there must be no recorded sound. All sound must be performed live - whether it is music, voice-acting, foley, or some combination of the above, we care not - so long as you produce it there and then. Use the submissions page to register your entry. We have a three-hour running time including changeovers between acts, and will start refusing entries when this limit is reached. No there is no prize at this stage, sorry.
Apropos of the above festival, Chris Wheeler, Katie Day O'Neil and I are making three short (5 min) silent black and white science fiction films. We have a small budget and a really weird camera that I built from the body of an old still camera and a .003 lux near-spectrum infra-red CCD. The films are vignettes of creative workers in alternate futures, made to be performed with music and no dialogue. Working titles are Dog Days, Tiny Machines and Become Wolves. Being frequent film-world Art Department bods ourselves, we are doing every effect in camera - no CG!
The first film - Dog Days - will feature in the first Living Sound in Silent Light, with a live score played by Nimue Murphy on cello, Heathcliff Sheridan on loops and shortwave radio, and yours truly on a 44 gallon drum with a couple of big rubber mallets.
Stay posted for more news.
Kay Orchison
9 December 2010