Robert Rooney Movie Night
Thirty years of Robert Rooney's experimental films, served with a side of fresh popcorn.
Overview
Movie nights rock — popcorn, entertainment, friends, what's not to love? In childhood, they were basically an excuse to squeal loudly and eat your body weight in jelly beans before becoming homesick sometime around 10pm. Let's just say, the movies weren't the main event. However, here's one you will want to be watching the screen for — the Centre for Contemporary Photography showcase their pick of 35 years of film by Robert Rooney.
In 1973 Rooney made his first film, Anzacs, using a Super 8 camera to document daily life in patterns and rhythms, a practice he developed throughout the decade that followed. In 2009 he started digging up his old photographic work and decided to make films of a similar ilk reinterpreting that material. Set to music that dictate the length of his films, the results are raw and unique.
Curators Maggie Finch and Patrick Pound screen a selection of these films on Wednesday night, for less than the shrapnel in your back pocket. BYO friends, popcorn provided. Book here.
Image via ccp.org.au
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