Media Release

Stream Dreaming

3rd Annual Bridgetown Digital Media, Arts and Film Festival
21st-24th January 2010

www.streamdreaming.com.au

Stream Dreaming aims to explore a rich layered fabric of ephemeral experience, intimacy,
void and ecological sustainability.

Stream Dreaming particularly welcomes stimulating artwork that engages a wide audience
exploring current ecological questions with sustainable visions that resonate on a local,
regional and/or global scale.

Nestled between giant granite boulders on the Blackwood River, Bridgetown is home to a
diverse and vibrant community of artists working in contemporary digital and visual media forms. This is a rare opportunity to have your creative views presented in a unique setting, attracting diverse audiences from across the region.

Stream Dreaming provides a platform offering arts practitioners working in the field of
digital media and contemporary visual performance the opportunity to present their work
displayed through a number of screens, bringing new and innovative media work to the
public in indoor and outdoor locations.

THE PROGRAMME

The programme offers Film, Dance, Music, Art, Digital Media and Workshops over four days.

Stream Dreaming will showcase some of the best WA Feature and Short Films and offer opportunities for networking over the period of the festival. We are excited to be presenting Crush, Stone Bros, Legacy, Home: A report on youth homelessness in Bunbury, River Tourists, The Water Was Dark and it Went Forever Down & It's Not Just About Archaeology.

Stream Dreaming presents Digital storytelling " Speak Easy" workshops, aimed at getting our Regional stories out into the world.

Stream Dreaming acknowledges the support of ScreenWest.










For further information and interview requests please contact: Festival Coordinator,
Alana Grant


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Stream Dreaming applications closing soon!!

Images From 2^nd Annual Bridgetown Film Festival 2009 

Photo: Justin Morrissey. Original image: Marnie Orr. Body: Caitlin McLoughlin. 

Stream Dreaming applications are closing soon!!!

The festival aims to explore a rich layered fabric of ephemeral experience, intimacy, void and ecological sustainability.

Stream Dreaming is a platform offering arts practitioners working in the field of digital media and contemporary visual performance the opportunity to present their work displayed through a number of screens, bringing new and innovative media work to the public in indoor and outdoor locations.

A curated playlist will be compiled of film shorts, animations, video art, motion graphics, photography and other still images. 

Stream Dreaming particularly welcomes stimulating artwork that engages a wide audience exploring current ecological questions with sustainable visions that resonate on a local, regional and/or global scale. Successful artists work in consultation with a production team to select from a range of buildings, facades and screens throughout the town and nearby rural surrounds to realise your work’s creative potential.

Nestled between giant granite boulders on the Blackwood River, Bridgetown is home to a diverse and vibrant community of artists working in contemporary digital and visual media forms. This is a rare opportunity to have your creative views presented in a unique setting, attracting diverse audiences from across the region. Stream Dreaming is programmed to take place in January 2010.

More info visit www.btownfilms.com

Email: admin@btownfilms.com  

Camera Body Place

Site based research investigating the camera as holding agency in relation to human body in place. The extended company is working with local new and established visual media artists from the Bridgetwon area, south Western Australia.

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CALL FOR FILM SUBMISSIONS

The 3rd Annual Bridgetown Digital Media, Arts & Film Festival is calling for Films of all genres to be screened late January in the scenic South West WA.

There is no entry fee, films should be entered by sending an email to admin@btownfilms.com.
We can only accept screening format on DVD.

Films from WA will all have the opportunity to be programmed in the festival.

'Stream Dreaming' is a Digital Media Arts and Film event set in regional Western Australia. It is a showcase event for Arts Practitioners working in the field of Digital Media and Exhibition.

The festival aims to support works which explore a rich layered fabric of ephemeral experience, intimacy, void and ecological sustainability.

Submissions close on 15th October 2009

Please visit the website for more information: www.btownfilms.com

 

Bridgetown Digital Arts, Media and Film Festival 2010 - Explore!

Explore the digital world through this unique online publication that explores specific practice in various regions around the world. 

http://www.experimenta.org/mesh/mesh19/index.html

Australian Indigenous Artist to Exhibit at Venice

In June this year, artist Vernon Ah Kee will be the first Indigenous Australian living
in Brisbane to exhibit his artwork at the highly prestigious 53rd Venice Biennale
International Art Exhibition. This ground-breaking experience will be recorded by
Silver Screen Pictures in association with QPIX, as part of the new documentary,
Vernon Ah Kee.
Executive Director of QPIX, Kerry O’Rourke says ‘QPIX and Silver Screen
Pictures are working together to capture Vernon Ah Kee’s incredible artistic
career culminating in the Venice Biennale. Many Australians, whether involved
with the arts or not, will appreciate what an outstanding achievement this is.’
Vernon Ah Kee says of his recent selection, 'I'm really excited to be exhibiting
in Venice. It is a major highlight of my career and I hope my work will be well
received.'
Rebecca Fawcett, Supervising Producer on the documentary, Vernon Ah Kee
says 'QPIX has sponsored the Vernon Ah Kee film crew to travel with Vernon and
his family to Venice. The crew will capture the many highlights of the Venice
Biennale including the glamorous opening events, the networking and the
acclaim on an international stage.’
‘Vernon Ah Kee will also explore the behind-the-scenes struggles and pressures
of the Biennale, from having to ship and install large artworks in a foreign
country at one of the world’s most venerated art exhibitions, to facing the
criticism of the art world’s elite. ‘ Rebecca says.
Vernon Ah Kee Director, Alex Barnes says ‘Vernon's work is highly thoughtprovoking.
His work for the Venice Biennale is a masterful interlacing of Aussie
surf and indigenous cultures. Using surfboards as canvases for his art Vernon
has collaborated with Gold Coast indigenous surfer, Dale Richards, who was
filmed surfing Vernon’s artworks. This film, along with the surfboards, are part
of Vernon’s unique exhibition piece.’
Vernon Ah Kee has been developed and produced by Silver Screen Pictures
under the Pacific Film & Television Commission’s Documentary Program, in
association with QPIX - the state screen development centre.
For interviews with Vernon Ah Kee or Alex Barnes please contact Alex on 0434
029 590 or alex@silverscreenpictures.com.au.
For interviews with Supervising Producer, Rebecca Fawcett or Executive
Director of QPIX, Kerry O’Rourke, please contact Camilla Roberts on the details
below.
QPIX
QPIX Ltd is a leading Australian centre for the development of the national
screen and media industry. The company develops and assists in the
production of film and TV content. It is focused on the development of
independent screen production and professionals. QPIX also operates the film
and television school QPIX Training. QPIX chairs the national industry network
Screen Development Australia (SDA), comprised of 6 development centres
nationally. QPIX's goal is to build an innovative and globally competitive
Australian screen industry.
Camilla Roberts, Marketing Manager, QPIX Ltd, Phone 07 3392
2633
www.qpix.org.au camilla@qpix.org.au

Stream Dreaming 2010

Stream Dreaming

January/February 2010
Call for Atrist Submissions

Stream Dreaming is a digital media arts event set in regional Western Australia. It is a showcase event for arts practitioners working in the field of digital media and exhibition.
Stream Dreaming aims to provide artists with access to a network of public screens and non-traditional audiences through-out the city, state, country (and the world through ). A continual playlist of digital art plays on a multitude of screens in and around Bridgetown in the heart of the southwest. This curated playlist is a compilation of silent, general rated visual works of animation, abstract, video art, short film, motion graphics, photography or other stills. It is user generated and curated works.

Stream Dreaming welcomes the integration of moving images into building facades as a communicative element, and its effect on Urban Space.

Submissions that can explore a rich layered fabric of ephemeral experience, intimacy, void and ecological sustainability will be favoured. Interactive and immersive narratives/ stories that reflect upon experiences in natural landscapes and told through any form of digital media will be considered.

Send a short 100 word description of your project to admin@btownfilms.com

Submissions close Friday December 4th 2009

For more info visit

visit www.btownfilms.com