Sydney Super 8 Film Group

Banner

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1990 – 1991

Film

colour, sound, Super 8

Banner is described as "A compressed history of US expansionism by way of some well-known cultural icons."1

"Working backwards, the distinctive red stripes of Sydney's Coca Cola sign and REagan's Star Wars policy must have inspired that original star-spangled banner worked out by Betsy Ross and George Washington on a clear Philadelphia night in 1776."2

1. Matinaze 1990 catalog.
2. "Eclipse" (1990) screening program

Format

Duration

Super 8

00:04:00

Matinaze 1990

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Film and Video Exhibition

10 March 1990 – 24 March 1990

A selection of Australian film and video art presented by the Sydney Super 8 Film Group at the Domain Theatre, Art Gallery of NSW during March 1990.

It featured works by Victoria Dawson, Melanie El Mir, Dennis Wilcox and Derek Kreckler, Liz Watts, David Opitz, Rosie Cross, Stephen Cummings, Barbara Campbell, Philip Samartzis, Philip Brophy, Michael Lee, and others. [See Selected Objects]

Group

Location

Art Gallery of NSW

Sydney

NSW

Australia

Selected objects

Kurt Brereton

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Date

b. 1955

Kurt

Brereton

Artist, Filmmaker

“Did you know Kurt Brereton was born in a circus and ran away to live in a home?” asks George Alexander in his opening address for Brereton's 2001 multimedia exhibition Kurt Brereton at The Loft, Loft Gallery, UTS, Sydney. He goes on to add, in this short biographical note:

Author

Stephen Jones with material supplied by Kurt Brereton.

Male

Period of activity

from 1977

Lecturer

Other works

Selected Film/Videography (1978 -1994)

Chuck You Farley: Punks in Sydney 1977, (1978) 16mm film, col/b&w, 25min.

An anarchic post-structural doco from inside the Sydney punk scene.

Greetings From Sydney, (1978), 8mm film, col/sound, 15mins.

“a short comic murder film playing with rear projection illusions featuring Sheona White and Duncan McLay.”1

Portrait While You Wait, (1978), u-Matic video, col., 30 mins

A post-Warhol take on street portrait artists.

Damn The Ironing, (1978), u-Matic video, col., 35mins.

Doco on suburban life-drawing classes focusing on retired men.

True Luv, (1979), u-Matic video, col., 60mins.

Doco on Pipi Storm circus performances.

Backwards To You, (1979), 8mm, col/sound, 20mins. In collaboration with the Polish performance artist Piotr Olszanski.

An anti-sports culture comedy sketch on the Sydney City to Surf marathon. Olszanki runs backwards from finish to start and meets race 100 metres from the end before being swallowed up in the rush of mass normality.

Rock Against Racism, (1981) (camera) 3/4 " col. 90mins.

Doco on concert performance shot from stage looking out to the audience faces.

Aboriginal Islander Dance Company, (1981), 3/4 " col. 60mins

Doco on traditional dancers from Oenpelli who perform and live in a city (Sydney) for the first time and are about to fly to Europe.

Party Tricks, (1981) 8mm, col/sound, 4mins.

“a magic performance starring a rebel scratch (post-cut into the film) that danced and performed disappearing tricks.”2

The Coal Cliff, (1981) Super 8, 15mins, 24 fps, sound. Co-directed with Kate Richards. Actors: Sal Brereton, Kate Richards, Ken Bolton, Kurt Brereton

The Coal Cliff is a non-linear narrative that tracks the everyday mundane dramas that make up relationships. Set in a house "squat" at Coal Cliff on the south coast of NSW, the film conflates time (a weekend trip) while expanding a sense of space (coastal cliff backdrop), The film plays with the relationship between sound and image (synchronicity) as a metaphor for unfolding expectations, desires and disappointments necessarily connected with intimacies between lovers, friends and family.3

Screened at:

The 2nd Super 8 Film Festival Sydney October 1981
ICA London 1982
King St Gallery, Bristol 1983
Super 8 Effect, d/Lux/MediaArts, Chauvel Cinema, Sydney, 2007.
The Coalcliff Days exhibition, Wollongong City Gallery, 2011

Aus-Land (or The Other Country), Super 8mm, 20mins, 1981

Screened in collaboration with George Alexander performance as part of the Foreign Bodies (First) Semiotics Conference, Sydney.

Ideal Homes, Super 8mm, 10mins, 1982

Filmed on location at Knossos Palace, Crete.

Sleight of Land, Super 8mm, 20mins, 1984

Screened as part of a stage performance with George Alexander as part of the Futur*Fall (Second) Semiotics Conference, Jamison St. Nightclub, Sydney.

1http://www.kurtbrereton.com/coalclifffilm.html

2Ibid.

3Ibid.

NSW

Australia