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Friday, December 9, 2011
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Future Shorts
Cummins Theatre Show - 11th December
6pm Wine and Cheese
with live performance by Ryan Flanagan from the local band the Vanilla Pils
$5 (includes one glass of wine)
Please pre-book to allow for catering
7pm Future Shorts Festival – hand-picked short films
$5(for the films only)
Attend both for $7
Please be aware these films are M Rated
The next Future Shorts festival programme will screen in nine locations across Australia this November as part of the quarterly format. Programme highlights include the Oscar-winner “God of Love”, BAFTA-winning “The Eagleman Stag” and Sundance-winner “Deeper Than Yesterday.
Screenings: Perth, Byron Bay, Forbes, Castlemaine, Port Hedland, Karratha, Merredin, Kalgoorlie, and Albany. Screening info below. Melbourne and Sydney will join in Feb 2012.
What is Future Shorts?
The Future Shorts Festival is the biggest pop up film festival of its kind, showcasing the most exciting short films from around the world. Anyone, anywhere can set up a screening, forming a massive network of cinematic events and becoming part of a powerful global community.
Currently, the festival takes place in over 50 cities and 17 countries, showcasing a single programme of the best short films often alongside live music, DJs and art. From London to Moscow, Perth to Jakarta, the screenings take place across a huge variety of spaces including, music halls, cinemas, theatres, galleries, clubs, warehouses.
The Eagleman Stag – Dir: Michael Please / UK / 2010
The Eagleman Stag is a unique 9-minute stop-motion animated film that depicts a man’s haunting obsession with the passage of time and his unorthodox relationship with a beetle. Directed by Michael Please, the production was a highly ambition final year film produced while studying at the RCA – it is based on a story he previously wrote entitled “The Life and Time of Peter Eagleman.” Orchestral music was integral to this film and composed in tandem with the animation process.
Winner of Best Short Animation at BAFTA, and Special Jury Prize at SXSW.
View trailer here: http://vimeo.com/13394577
God of Love – Dir: Luke Matheny / US / 2010
Matheny, who wrote, directed and starred in this 19-minute inventive comedy about love-inducing darts won the Oscar for Best Live Action Short in 2011. A recent film student graduate at New York University, God of Love was produced as his thesis film project while enrolled at NYU’s MFA program. At the Oscars, he was hailed as delivering one of the best acceptance speeches of the evening and thanked his mother for her contribution to the movie.
Oscar Winner in 2011 for Best Live Action Short Film.
View trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlQsnMsq_RI
Deeper than Yesterday – Dir: Ariel Kleinman / Australia / 2010
Filmed on an old decommissioned military submarine with 35mm cameras, Deeper Than Yesterday tells the story of a Russian crew who suffer a rather savage form of cabin fever. Directed by Ariel Kleiman, a graduate of the VCA at the University of Melbourne, recently said “The more uncomfortable I feel making a film the better it will be.” Jurors have compared the film to “The Lower Depths,” Maxim Gorky’s best-known play – very Russian with long period of isolation and madness.
Winner of International Short Filmmaking Award at Sundance.
View trailer here: http://www.deeperthanyesterday.com/
The External World - Dir: David O’Reilly / Germany, Iceland / 2010
A boy learns to play the piano in this rather dark but occasionally humorous mediation on the anxieties and fears of a modern civilized society. Created as a lo-fi animation, The External World is a surreal seventeen-minute collection of vignettes which borrows themes from pop culture, cinema and videogames – classic and contemporary. Some have heralded this short as “a unique reconstruction of the universe” while O’Reilly recently noted in an interview, “I like creating experimental films that have an emotional function.”
Luminaris – Dir: Juan Pablo Zaramella / Argentina / 2011
Inspired by the Argentinian instrumental tango piece entitled “Lluvia de Estrellas” (Star Rain), Luminaris tells the story of a man living in a world controlled by time by light. Each day inhabitants of this fictional world awake and are pulled, as if by some otherworldly force, to their jobs by sunlight. Combining pixilation and stop motion techniques; the surrealist short pairs styles reminiscent of art deco with black cinema. Zaramella explains, "Originally, I approached the project as a puppet animation story, but doing some pixilation tests in the gardens of Fontevraud, just for fun, the seed of the present short was born: the idea of sunlight as a magnetic force.”
Winner of the Audience and Fipresci Award at Annecy 2011 International Animation Festival
Radio Amina – Dir: Orlando von Einsiedel / Nigeria / 2011
Radio Amina, part documentary, part narrative, tells the story of Amina Dibir, a 12 year old street hawker from Kano, Nigeria and her imaginary radio show where she gets to say all the things she wishes she could in real life. It is an intimate look at the discrepancies between the life of a girl from Northern Nigeria and her reality.
WA SCREENINGS ONLY - Local film of the month
The Life of Cardboard – Dir: Wayne Nicholson / Australia / 2011
This surrealist short film is a visual treat and an introduction to the character of "Carl DeSouza" who's weird and wonderful co-dependence with the textile cardboard is told through a trinity of films detailing specific plot-points in his life.
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
The Merredin Repertory Club Present - SCROOGE A Christmas Carol
The path to redemption is intricately told in this beloved and well known Christmas story adapted by Limelight Scripts. Ebenezer Scrooge is a tight fisted old man, with not a bit of kindness in his icy heart.
On Christmas Eve, Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his business
partner Jacob Marley and is warned of his impending fate if he doesn't change his ways.
Can Scrooge see the error of his ways before it’s too late?
A cast of 28 locals including 9 new actors bring this fun adaptation to life with plenty of songs and laughs.
Performance dates are November 25 and 26th, December 2nd 3rd and 9th. at 7pm. The evening performances include a two course dinner and the matinee is BYO nibblies.
There is also a special matinee performance at 2 pm on Sunday 4th December for only $25.
Tickets are available from the Cummins Theatre for $45 per head for tables of 8. The show is rated PG.
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
What's on at the Cummins in October and November
The Sum of us
Wednesday 19th October — 8pm
starring John Jarratt and Patrick Harvey
The stage play of the film that started Russell Crowe
Tickets — $35 Adult / $30 Concession
The Heartland Tour
Country Singers Melinda Schneider and Graeme Connors
Thursday 27th October — 8pm
Presented by Premier Artists
Tickets — $53.90 Adult / $49.90 Concession / $46.90 Child or group bookings
The Marriage of Figaro
Friday 28th October — 8pm
Presented by Co-Opera
Tickets — $35 Adult / $30 Concession / $25 Child
Wednesday 19th October — 8pm
starring John Jarratt and Patrick Harvey
The stage play of the film that started Russell Crowe
Tickets — $35 Adult / $30 Concession
The Heartland Tour
Country Singers Melinda Schneider and Graeme Connors
Thursday 27th October — 8pm
Presented by Premier Artists
Tickets — $53.90 Adult / $49.90 Concession / $46.90 Child or group bookings
The Marriage of Figaro
Friday 28th October — 8pm
Presented by Co-Opera
Tickets — $35 Adult / $30 Concession / $25 Child
Menopause the Musical
3rd of November - 8pm
$45 Adult / $40 Concession / $35 Early Bird (before October) or Group
The Rhythms of Ireland
6th of November - 8pm
$64.90 Adult / $54.90 Concession
The Cummins Theatre Box Office will be closed from the 30th of Sept to the 14th of October. If you have any inquires during the time please feel free to leave a message on 08 90413295 or email cumminstheatre@merredin.wa.gov.au. For urgent inquires please contact the Shire of Merredin on 08 90411611. Sorry for any inconvenience.
Monday, August 29, 2011
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Coming September the 30th
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
FREE CONCERT SIMULCAST, LIVE DIRECT FROM PERTH CONCERT HALL
Perth Theatre Trust and Perth Concert Hall in association with Royalties for Regions presents the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra free concert simulcast live direct from Perth Concert Hall on Friday 30 September at 7.40pm.
IN VIENNA THEY WAIT UP TO 10 YEARS TO ATTEND A CONCERT BY THIS ORCHESTRA!
Internationally recognized as one of the world’s greatest orchestras, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra is more closely associated with the history and tradition of European classical music than any other musical ensemble. Under renowned conductor Christoph Eschenbach, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra will perform masterworks by composers connected with the orchestra and its home city; Schubert b-minor Symphony, ‘Unfinished’, Mahler Des Knaben Wunderhorn featuring Baritone Matthias Goerne and Beethoven Symphony No.8.
...the sound of this orchestra simply is extraordinary, wherever it plays. The Telegraph, London
...the sound of this orchestra simply is extraordinary, wherever it plays. The Telegraph, London
Tickets: Please book your complimentary tickets from the venue’s ticketing agent prior to the event *There is a limit of 4 tickets per person.
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
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