Introducing Australian filmmakers and their audiences to exciting immersive full-dome screening experiences

PORTABLE DOME SA Museum forecourt
Daily between 4pm and 8pm Saturday 21 February to Tuesday 24 February

THE BEST OF DOMEFEST Mawson Lakes Planetarium
Bus departs from outside the SA Museum for Mawson Lakes Planetarium at 6pm & 7:30pm sharp
Wednesday 25, Thursday 26, Saturday 28 February and Sunday 1 March

FUTURE MEMORY Golden Grove Arts Centre
7pm & 8:30pm Wednesday 25 February to Saturday 28 February

DOME PROJECT SYMPOSIUM Bradley Forum, Uni SA (adjacent to Samstag Museum)
11.00am – 12.30pm Sunday 1 March

For bookings visit the Adelaide Film Festival link below.

An unmissable highlight of the 2009 BigPond Adelaide Film Festival will be THE DOME PROJECT presented by the Australian Network for Art & Technology (ANAT). This unique program showcases films created for full-dome environments, a new and powerful digital medium that provides large-format immersive experiences presented on the hemispheric screens of both fixed and portable planetariums.

No longer “limited” to the cosmos, full-dome is a rapidly growing platform enabling filmmakers and artists working in screen-based media to produce works with the potential to capture and engage audiences as never before. With full-dome theatres now exceeding the number of IMAX and other large format theatres worldwide, the medium is fast maturing and branching outside of traditional astronomy-related programming and into the broader arts and sciences.

The Dome Project introduces Festival audiences, artists and filmmakers to the production and exhibition opportunities being made available through these developments.

Over four evenings at the Mawson Lakes Planetarium we will be screening works from DomeFest, the international festival and competition for works produced for full-dome environments. Curated and introduced by special guest, DomeFest founder and director, David Beining, The Best of DomeFest showcases the most innovative and exciting works submitted to the Albuqurque-based festival over the past seven years.

Emerging from the forecourt of the SA Museum in the late afternoon the Portable Dome will offer a taste of the immersive potential of dome environments. Screening on a continuous loop will be the Australian premiere of Celestial Mechanics by Scott Hessels (USA/Singapore), a reconstruction of Poème électronique, originally shown during 1958 Brussels World’s Fair with visuals by Le Corbusier and music by Edgard Varèse, and an excerpt form Future Memory, a film by South Australian artists, Amanda Phillips and Alexander Waite Mitchell.

The Festival is also delighted to co-present the full-length world premiere of Future Memory (dir. Amanda Phillips and Alexander Waite Mitchell), a full-dome dance film investigating cycles of existence, creation and consciousness screening at the Golden Grove Arts Centre.

A seminar on the production and distribution opportunities being made available by the dome medium will take place as part the Festival’s symposium Double Helix - Art and the Moving Image. The seminar will be moderated by Jennie Zeiher (Rising Sun Pictures) and features expert panellists David Beining (DomeFest), Monica Zetlin (Melbourne Planetarium), Scott Hessels, Peter Morse, Warik Lawrance, Amanda Phillips (artists) and Chris Fluke (Swinburne University’s Centre for Astrophysics & Supercomputing).

To complement The Dome Project, ANAT is producing both print and online special editions of Filter magazine for the Festival. Guest edited by international media artist and academic, Scott Hessels, Screen Play looks at the proliferation and impact of screens in contemporary urban life, including portable media, architectural screens, online media, digital broadcasting and – of course! - the full-dome environment.

 

ANAT acknowledges the financial assistance of Screen Australia and Science Outside the Square, a program of the Ri Australia.

The Dome Project gratefully acknowledges the contribution of the Uni SA School of Natural and Built Environments, Swinburne University’s Centre for Astrophysics & Supercomputing, DomeFest, The Melbourne Planetarium, Sky-skan, Mirage3D, The Golden Grove Art Centre, Felicity Arts, Storpac and Jumbo Vision International.

Files

The Dome Project_Press Release.pdf

Websites

http://www.adelaidefilmfestival.org/program/list_by_strand/16