At the Thornbury Picture House - Peter Tammer presents his latest film TRIP OF A LIFETIME (Australia, 2025)

Peter writes:

I won't summarise the backstory or details of how the film came to me, that is very well covered by my friend Bill in his detailed notes which you can find if you click here 

As you can appreciate this has been a long drawn out process which started about 1988 and really kicked off when my friend Mike Reed helped me with the digitising of some of my films in 2007. It was only at that time I learned that I could make a telecine on a sprocketless machine, so no damage would be done to the fragile filmstock.

I made that telecine to Digital Tape at Complete Post but it took me another ten years to really get going in the restoration when I discovered Topaz and other AI engines for the first time. You could say that the serious work on the restoration started then, so I've been mucking around with it for 8 years now. That period also includes consideration of many different strategies in using the footage. I finally resolved against any narration or fictional narrative overlay.

Tuesday, March 18, time TBA (around 8:30 pm) Thornbury Picture House, house prices. Tickets from March 4.

Hoping to see many of you in March at the Thornbury Picture House.

MANY THANKS TO YOU BILL FOR YOUR WONDERFUL SUPPORT!

Peter.

AT the Thornbury (Melbourne) Picture House - A RETROSPECTIVE OF THE FILMS OF KAREN PEARLMAN & RICHARD JAMES ALLEN

 

Victoria Haralabidou in I Want to Make a Film about Women
(Dir: Karen Pearlman, 2020)

RICHARD ALLEN WRITES:

Karen Pearlman and I have our first ever Australian retrospective of our company Physical TV's films, entitled PHYSICAL TV: TEMPORAL ANOMALIES on Tuesday November 14, 2023, at 8.30pm, at the Thornbury Picture House in Naarm / Melbourne. The program is presented under the aegis of the Unknown Pleasures: Australian independent cinema series, curated by Bill Mousoulis and Chris Luscri.

Karen and I will be flying down from Sydney for the screening and for the post-screening Q&A moderated by Anna Dzenis of La Trobe University and the Victorian College of the Arts.

(The Physical TV Company is a critically acclaimed international film production company based in Sydney, Australia.  Physical TV creates dramas, documentaries, and dancefilms informed by scholarly research into the history and the future potential of the cinematic medium.  Its works have been commissioned or purchased for multiple broadcasts by ABC and SBS-TV in Australia, and picked up for broadcast in China, Europe and on cable TV in the USA.  Physical TV screen productions have travelled to over 300 film festivals on six continents, garnered over 100 awards or nominations, many have attracted grant funding or support through government or philanthropic arts funding bodies and been added to the collections of major film archives around the world.

(Founding Director of the Physical TV Company, Richard James Allen is also well known for his creativity as a poet, and most recently published a novel, More Lies (Interactive Press); while founding director Karen Pealrman is a leading theorist on film editing and feminist film histories, her most recent book is Cutting Rhythms: Intuitive Film Editing (Focal Press).  A number of Physical TV works include poetry by Allen and are informed by research by Pearlman.)

You can find comprehensive program notes on the nine short films to be screened at the Thornbury Picture House by Bill Mousoulis IF YOU CLICK HERE