Abject Leader is an ever evolving collaborative project between sally
golding (film, projectors) and joel
stern (concrete sound)
abjectleader perform expanded cinema
pieces for multiple 16mm projectors, handmade and hand procesed film,
feedback systems, incongruous foley noise, sprockets and flicker, trumpets
and strings, specially prepared screens, alienated narration.
“Abject Leader’s deeply materialist aesthetic sets them at an angle to the mainstream of contemporary moving image work. In the era of digital proliferation, their emphasis on the analogue, the handmade, the photo-chemical and the acoustical, is pleasingly defiant, and a little perverse. It’s also captivating; Stern’s aggressively textured, complex noisescapes serve to contour the space in which Golding’s projections explore the bewitching possibilities of the celluloid medium, creating ephemeral cinematic experiences of startling sensuality. Hinging on the frisson of the moment, their work courts chance, improvising the performance of sounds and films. This is what makes their work so beautiful, vital, surprising, compelling: Abject Leader perform cinema.” – Danni Zuvela, 2007
Abject Leader have performed at New
Zealand Film Festival, What is Music?, Liquid Architecture, OtherFilm
Festival, Articulating Space, Wagga Space Program, Madcat San Francisco,
on a moving train, in Toowoomba, and many places in between…
abjectleader cinema was a film society
programming screenings of avant-garde, experimental and artist films
on 16mm. In 2006 abjectleader cinema morphed into OtherFilm
which is now one of Australia's foremost experimental film collectives,
the only collective focussed on expanded and performed cinema. OtherFilm
has stage three major festivals and countless film events.
abjectleader produce workshops exploring handmade and direct film techniques,
DIY darkroom practises, visual music, film sound and soundscape recording.
These have taken place at festivals including Electrofringe, OtherFilm
Festival and at Queenslands State Library, QCA, and QUT.
contact us for details or bookings on any of these things....
