Australian Premiere of 16mm films by Graham Ellard & Stephen Johnstone

Thursday 11 April 2024
6–8pm

Kaleide Theatre
RMIT University, 360 Swanston Street, Melbourne

Q&A with the artists presented by Associate Professor Adrian Danks

Slowly, and by hand — a program of four 16mm films:

Things to Come (2011)
Machine on Black Ground (2009)
FOSSIL (2019)
For an Open Campus (2016)

Q&A with the artists presented by Associate Professor Adrian Danks

Presented by School of Art and School of Media and Communication RMIT University
In partnership with the Artist Film Workshop (AFW)

Graham Ellard and Stephen Johnstone have collaborated since 1993. Their early work took the form of large-scale immersive video installations, and interactive digital works.

Since 2007 they have worked exclusively with 16mm film. By feeling their way in using the camera as a resolutely analogue investigative tool, and through a very particular aesthetic of natural light effects, heightened colour, and close-up detail, the films immerse the viewer in a poetic and abstracted visual world.

This program includes four of their key films exploring the relationships between architecture, cinema, materiality, the archive, the university and the gallery.

Their work has been shown internationally, being included in group exhibitions at Photographer's Gallery, London, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki; Tate Liverpool; Guggenheim Museum, New York; Setouchi Triennale, Japan; Stroom Den Haag. Solo exhibitions include: John Hansard Gallery, Southampton; Site Gallery, Sheffield; De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill; Satellite Gallery, Nagoya, Japan; Royal Academy, London. Film screenings include; Rotterdam International Film Festival, Oberhausen Film Festival; Anthology Film Archives, New York; Image Forum, Tokyo; London Film Festival; Tate Britain, London.

Ellard and Johnstone also write together, their book; Anthony McCall; notebooks and conversations was published by Lund Humphries in association with Kunstmuseum St Gallen, Switzerland, in 2015. Graham Ellard is Professor of Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, Stephen Johnstone is Professor of Fine Art at Goldsmiths College.

Free, bookings required. Register here.

Image: Still from @studio.ellardjohnstone