Monthly 16mm Experimental Film Night

Tix $10 cash on door

AFW is excited to present three super 8 films by artist Maeve Woods.

7:30pm Tuesday 27 May 2025 The Brunswick Green

313/315 Sydney Road, Brunswick.

8mm projection.

$10 tix on the door.

Maeve Woods burst into the Melbourne Super 8 film scene in a bout 1989 when she moved down from Sydney, bringing with her a new long form work ( for super 8 ) Lit Flat. She would go on to make two more long form works and several shorter films over the next 7 years in the Melbourne Super 8 scene. Maeve, while most established as a painter, has explored many media. In the 1980s she worked a lot with colour slides. She also worked with collage and with installations. Some of her slide work is re-explored in her later super 8 films. Indeed, rephotography and re-framing of images occurs frequently in her film work. Maeve was always a keen cineaste. However this was not what most informed her own filmmaking. Like her paintings, her films are mostly motivated by concerns for properties of the surface – in her films this is the surface of bodies and objects, of the film material and of light itself.

FILMS

Gritty | 1991 | 7 mins

“GRITTY was rephotographed off both slides and cine footage made in 1983. The location is a popular beach where people are active enjoying the sunshine. However, I wanted to explore the notion of the Gaze and to bring out the darker aspects that resort, specially hints of voyeurism. I do

this through exaggeratedly slow camera movements upon the still images and long unnaturally extended pans with moving images of children running and fishing in sunset reflecting pools.”

Triad Tesseraic | 1992 | 9 mins

The 16th century wall in Ferrara, Italy has a surface made up of thousands of pyramids. Using slides taken from this wall in 1982, photography, multiple exposure overlayering, gels and coloured light break the wall material into shimmering triadic forms. Substance - disintegration.

Lit Flat | 1987 | 49 mins

Filmed in a small, upper story flat in Sydney. An exploration of light, space and surface tension.

Stills:

1. Lit Flat, 1987

2. Tawdry Sass, 1996 (not screening)

3. Tawdry Sass, 1996 (not screening)