Added to the line-up: WHITE SOUND by Sarah Tracton
“An experiential trip into sonic landscapes by profoundly deaf Sydney filmmaker Sarah Tracton, ‘white Sound’ explores the notion of a soundless existence. Visualised through deaf & hearing impaired observance this film mediates at the positives & joy that emerges from a sensory deprivation.”
‘Current (Reprise)’ documents a 2008 ticker-tape parade in New York City – the first since the destruction of the World Trade Center. A mirror-like coda to Doyle’s May 2001 video ‘Current’ (Slamdance 2003), which documents the last parade before 9-11, ‘Reprise’ picks up where the last film left off – at ground zero amidst a 
storm of communication. Radio towers, satellite dishes, and helicopters that hover between skyscrapers seem to monitor or perhaps even propel the storm. Reams of paper explode, slice, and float through the air. Ultimately, this information made manifest drifts through unpopulated streets like tumbleweeds of spent human communications. The city is consumed, erased by a blanket of information.
We’re proud to announce our event’s retrospective short film, Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy (selected for official competition at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival) by Australian artist and filmmaker Tracey Moffatt, whose works are held in the collections of the Tate, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, National Gallery of Australia, and Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy – Australia’s audio and visual heritage online.
Join us at the Verge Arts Festival Tent during the 2011 Verge Arts Festival for a night of short films, Chai tea and talks celebrating the often unexplored wide world of experimental cinema.
