Garden Reflexxx create, facilitate, talk about and make space for resourceful cinema and independent, queer filmmakers.
Below are a selection of works.
SWARM film festival, Sydney World Pride[2023]
Across multiple films that throw into relief our future and freedom, SWARM is a once-in-a-lifetime-immaculate-corpse-of-throat-grabbing-films screening at Skyline Drive-In curated with Xuela and Jackie De Lacey.
Video Work:
Grape Steak
99:00:00, Feature Film
Under a meteor new friendship and terror as silly Sydney strangers meet and stumble upon a bloodied victim of organised homophobic violence.
Magical Voice
00:10:00, Short Film
Bhenji Ra speaks to her friend Necho Brocchi over the phone in a charcoal bath.
Screened as part of SWARM at the Art Gallery of NSW February 2023
Conversion
Double-channel video, 2023
Directed by EO Gill
Co-shot and edited by GRXXX
Exhibited at Firstdraft Gallery in Gallery 1, Feb/March 2023.
Supported by Create NSW
Garden Reflexxx Presents... [2019 - ongoing]
A local film event where international headliners are curated with emerging filmmakers celebrating resourceful cinema at Pink Flamingo Cinema.
Movies Movies Movies [2018 - ongoing]
FBi 94.5, fortnightly radio segment and podcast featuring local and international guests.
Blue Car
[iPhone SE and 35mm] 10:57:00, Short Film, Installation
Two new friends drive into an oblivion of cinematic blue when they paint the overhead light with nailpolish. Screened at Soft Centre: ARC and Verge Gallery as curated by EO Gill’s Screwball.
Negativity by Brian Fuata
[iPhone 13 Pro] 10:00:00, Short Film,
uDirected and performed by Brian Fuata. Shot and edited by Garden Reflexxx. Two visions of Brian Fuata’s preparation for a plant-based improvisation play alongside each other negating the actual ten minute performance.
Screened at Verge Gallery as curated by EO Gill for Screwball.
Ang Idol Ko by Club Ate
[2021–22. 2-channel digital video, HD, colour, sound] 29:29:00,
Co-devised, shot and edited by Garden Reflexxx and collaborators Ang Idol Ko is a new episode in Club Ate’s art and storytelling of Bhenji Ra and Justin Shoulder.
Screening at the Museum of Contemporary Art from July 24 as part of Ultra Unreal.
Dust by Blake Lawrence
2022 two-channel HD video 60 minutes Made in collaboration with Garden Reflexxx
Screened at Firstdraft and Australian Design Centre
Below are a selection of works.
2023
SWARM film festival, Sydney World Pride[2023]
Across multiple films that throw into relief our future and freedom, SWARM is a once-in-a-lifetime-immaculate-corpse-of-throat-grabbing-films screening at Skyline Drive-In curated with Xuela and Jackie De Lacey.
Video Work:
Grape Steak
99:00:00, Feature Film
Under a meteor new friendship and terror as silly Sydney strangers meet and stumble upon a bloodied victim of organised homophobic violence.
Magical Voice
00:10:00, Short Film
Bhenji Ra speaks to her friend Necho Brocchi over the phone in a charcoal bath.
Screened as part of SWARM at the Art Gallery of NSW February 2023
Conversion
Double-channel video, 2023
Directed by EO Gill
Co-shot and edited by GRXXX
Exhibited at Firstdraft Gallery in Gallery 1, Feb/March 2023.
Supported by Create NSW
2022
Garden Reflexxx Presents... [2019 - ongoing]
A local film event where international headliners are curated with emerging filmmakers celebrating resourceful cinema at Pink Flamingo Cinema.
Movies Movies Movies [2018 - ongoing]
FBi 94.5, fortnightly radio segment and podcast featuring local and international guests.
Video Work:
Blue Car
[iPhone SE and 35mm] 10:57:00, Short Film, Installation
Two new friends drive into an oblivion of cinematic blue when they paint the overhead light with nailpolish. Screened at Soft Centre: ARC and Verge Gallery as curated by EO Gill’s Screwball.
Negativity by Brian Fuata
[iPhone 13 Pro] 10:00:00, Short Film,
uDirected and performed by Brian Fuata. Shot and edited by Garden Reflexxx. Two visions of Brian Fuata’s preparation for a plant-based improvisation play alongside each other negating the actual ten minute performance.
Screened at Verge Gallery as curated by EO Gill for Screwball.
Ang Idol Ko by Club Ate
[2021–22. 2-channel digital video, HD, colour, sound] 29:29:00,
Co-devised, shot and edited by Garden Reflexxx and collaborators Ang Idol Ko is a new episode in Club Ate’s art and storytelling of Bhenji Ra and Justin Shoulder.
Screening at the Museum of Contemporary Art from July 24 as part of Ultra Unreal.
Dust by Blake Lawrence
2022 two-channel HD video 60 minutes Made in collaboration with Garden Reflexxx
Screened at Firstdraft and Australian Design Centre
2021
Video Work:
Dressing Party [HD video and DV] 01:00:00, Live Stream
Filmed elements of Verity Mackey’s ‘Dressing Party’ curated by Angela Goh’s ‘Time Dresses up as a Ghost and Arrives to the Party Dripping’ for the Asia Discovers Asia Meeting for Contemporary Performance at the Taipei Performing Arts Centre.
Megan Alice Clune - Swirl of the Void & So Bored
[HD] music videos
Collaboration with Megan Alice Clune, Angela Goh & Evelyn Roth
2020
Video Work:
[HD] 01:02:33, mono, archival film project
Collaboration with Bhenji Ra, House of Sle, The Gender Centre and Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras
Exhibited online through Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras on the Transgender Day of Rememberence
Collaboration with Bhenji Ra, House of Sle, The Gender Centre and Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras
Exhibited online through Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras on the Transgender Day of Rememberence
[HD] 00:08:18, mono, fashion artfilm
Collaboration with Niamh Galea and Lizzie Kidd for Ramp Tramp Tramp Stamp
Exhibited at Terminal Six
Collaboration with Niamh Galea and Lizzie Kidd for Ramp Tramp Tramp Stamp
Exhibited at Terminal Six
[HD] 00:05:15, looped, no audio, video work
Footage by Sione Tuívailala Monū, Chris Green, Annie Schofield, Jemma Rowe, Innas Tsuroiya, Emmett Aldred, Jimmy Nuttall
Commissioned and presented by Knox St Window
Footage by Sione Tuívailala Monū, Chris Green, Annie Schofield, Jemma Rowe, Innas Tsuroiya, Emmett Aldred, Jimmy Nuttall
Commissioned and presented by Knox St Window
[HD] various lengths, stereo
Commissioned by Seventh Gallery
30 films over 30 nights of April 2020
I. Opening Night, II. Hailstorm, III. There’s A Difference Between Doing And Thinking, IV. Beat, V. Bunker, VI. Grand Paris & Dreams Do Come True, VII Romance Apocalypse, VIII. Supermoon, IX. For Real, X. Meteors, XI. Invade Iceland, XII. Jardins Suspendus, XIV. Sling Ring, XV. Vengeance, XVI. Dark Mother 2D, XVII. Toad, XVIII. Mardi Gras, XIX. Blue Car, XX. Cold Power, XXI. STATE Festival, XXII. Angel, XXIII. Carlos Reygadas, XXIV. Snakes in the Grass, XXV. In Batland, XXVI. Airplane Cemetery, XXVII. Jasper’s Studio Elegie, XXVIII. Bart’s Nightmare, XXIX. Night on Floating Island, XXX. Huge Bins
I. Opening Night, II. Hailstorm, III. There’s A Difference Between Doing And Thinking, IV. Beat, V. Bunker, VI. Grand Paris & Dreams Do Come True, VII Romance Apocalypse, VIII. Supermoon, IX. For Real, X. Meteors, XI. Invade Iceland, XII. Jardins Suspendus, XIV. Sling Ring, XV. Vengeance, XVI. Dark Mother 2D, XVII. Toad, XVIII. Mardi Gras, XIX. Blue Car, XX. Cold Power, XXI. STATE Festival, XXII. Angel, XXIII. Carlos Reygadas, XXIV. Snakes in the Grass, XXV. In Batland, XXVI. Airplane Cemetery, XXVII. Jasper’s Studio Elegie, XXVIII. Bart’s Nightmare, XXIX. Night on Floating Island, XXX. Huge Bins
[HD] 00:02:24, stereo, video shown on laptop
Yousuf Khan Noor x Garden Reflexxx, exhibited at Garden Reflexxx Presents: Talkies Challenge, and as part of Mixed Business at Pari
Yousuf Khan Noor x Garden Reflexxx, exhibited at Garden Reflexxx Presents: Talkies Challenge, and as part of Mixed Business at Pari
[HD], video interview for FBi Radio
Published online through FBi’s Youtube
Published online through FBi’s Youtube
[HD] 00:24:22, stereo, video work
Assemblage documentary
Screened at Seventh Gallery in Naarm, Melbourne
Assemblage documentary
Screened at Seventh Gallery in Naarm, Melbourne
Interviews:
[by Jen Atherton] (published: Sissy Screens)
[by André Shannon] (published: Sissy Screens)
Curation:
Australian Premiere for EXTREMELY ONLINE by Pink Flamingo Cinema, supported by the Inner West Council
Resourceful film festival at Pink Flamingo Cinema featuring Harley, Jimmy Nuttall, Emmett Aldred, Nunzio Madden, Pia Borg, Oates Wu, Feng Chen, Lily/Mia/Ma, Victoria Singh-Thompson + Xnorkpowka
Workshops:
A free online animation short course for creatives featuring tutorials, interviews, exercises, and resource lists
Commissioned by the City of Sydney
Commissioned by the City of Sydney
2019
Curation:
AFTRS Alumni Film Club
Hosted at AFTRS, a screening and QandA with
Erica Glynn, director of She Who Must Be Loved
Samuel Van Grinsven and Sophie Hattch, filmmakers of Sequin in a Blue Room
Garden Reflexxx Presents...
Erica Glynn, director of She Who Must Be Loved
Samuel Van Grinsven and Sophie Hattch, filmmakers of Sequin in a Blue Room
Garden Reflexxx Presents...
The Talkies Challenge at Pink Flamingo Cinema Marrickville featuring Xnorkpowka, Jesse Kanda, Kenesha "Murdamommy" Sheridan and Wills Glasspiegel, Bentley Brown, Martin Bruch & Reinhilde Condin, Freya Aisbitt and Ellie Bailey, Mireille Eid, Yousuf Khan Noor, and André Shannon, Ray Farkas and Kymon Palau
Last Minute Challenge at Pink Flamingo Cinema, Marrickville featuring Kilia Tipa & Jen, Francesca Levi and Mica Levi, Ryan Trecartin and Lizzie Fitch, Lily Bennett, Nao Bustamente, Brontez Purnell, Jodie Mack and Morgan McGlothan
Last Minute Challenge at Pink Flamingo Cinema, Marrickville featuring Kilia Tipa & Jen, Francesca Levi and Mica Levi, Ryan Trecartin and Lizzie Fitch, Lily Bennett, Nao Bustamente, Brontez Purnell, Jodie Mack and Morgan McGlothan
Film criticism, essays and interviews:
Published by Rough Cut Film
Published by Rough Cut Film
Video Work:
Kilia Don’t Stop
[HD] 00:07:32, stereo, video work
Screened at UNSW Art Week 2020, Pink Flamingo Cinema
Screened at UNSW Art Week 2020, Pink Flamingo Cinema
[Music Video]
Collaboration with Al Joel, Ash Bell, Maggie Wu, Haruka Sato & Jennifer Poon
Premiered on Earmilk
First Take
[HD] various durations, stereo, video essays for FBi 94.5
Sydney Film Festival 2019
Sydney Film Festival 2019
First Take: Rocketman
First Take: Joker, Judy and Hustlers First Take: Dark Arts at AGNSWFirst Take: In Conversation with Jillian Bell First Take: 2019
First Take: Joker, Judy and Hustlers First Take: Dark Arts at AGNSWFirst Take: In Conversation with Jillian Bell First Take: 2019
2018
Curation:
Pornoagogo with Joe Pol
With a special screening of Vegas in Space and a performance by Miss 3D and The Sopranhoes at The Red Rattler
Video Work:
[HD] 00:03:52, stereo, VR 360 work and installation
Collaboration with Rowan Yeomans, Niamh Galea and Blake Wilson Screened at the Bucharest Fashion Film Festival, Chauvel Cinema
Commissioned by the Sherman Centre for Culture and Ideas and the Australian Film Television and Radio School
Collaboration with Rowan Yeomans, Niamh Galea and Blake Wilson Screened at the Bucharest Fashion Film Festival, Chauvel Cinema
Commissioned by the Sherman Centre for Culture and Ideas and the Australian Film Television and Radio School
[HD] 00:07:46, stereo, video work
Collaboration with Rowan Yeomans, Blake Wilson, Anja Brown & William Tran
Collaboration with Rowan Yeomans, Blake Wilson, Anja Brown & William Tran
[HD] 00:11:25, stereo, interview video
Collaboration with Loc Nguyen
Published in Runway Magazine
Collaboration with Loc Nguyen
Published in Runway Magazine
Collaboration with Chiara Garrett-Saladrau and Gloria Bose[HD] 00:05:21, stereo, video work
Screened at Dead End Film Festival 2019
[Music Video]
Collaboration with Yolanda Frost, Ellie Bailey, Chris Green, Al Joel, Joe Pol, Bianca Tomchin, Elspeth Scrine and Serena Siow,
Premiered on Noisey
Collaboration with Yolanda Frost, Ellie Bailey, Chris Green, Al Joel, Joe Pol, Bianca Tomchin, Elspeth Scrine and Serena Siow,
Premiered on Noisey
[André Shannon video essay]
Commissioned by the Melbourne International Film Festival
Commissioned by the Melbourne International Film Festival
Published on MIFF.com
2017
PLASTICBEACH Video work and installation with hessian sacks, beach rubbish, binaural microphones, flourescent lights, tape
Collaboration with Lily Bennett and Max Boutwell Draper
Multimedia install and performance for Vivid 2017
GREENLIGHT Group show at The Shop Gallery, Glebe
Residency with Eleanor Bailey at Oxford Arts Factory Cube
Shadecloth, butchers paper, tape, sprite, ladder, blue gym mat, watering can, fake cum
Multimedia install and performance with Eleanor Bailey at Tekminimal Art Space
Group show, instllation and performances at Creative Space 99 with Freya Aisbitt, Lily Bennett, Max Boutwell Draper and Ellie Bailey
Film Festival and install for the AFTRS Library
Honey, marble maze, disco ball motor, aquarium.
Installation at Salt Suck’s Times Tides at The Red Rattler
Installation at Salt Suck’s Times Tides at The Red Rattler
Video Work:
[HD] 00:27:19, Samsung 360, stereo
Made in Los Angeles in collaboration with Eleanor Bailey
Screened at The Red Rattler as part of Salt Suck’s Times Tides and at Seventh Gallery
Made in Los Angeles in collaboration with Eleanor Bailey
Screened at The Red Rattler as part of Salt Suck’s Times Tides and at Seventh Gallery
[HD] 00:36:48, Samsung 360, stereo
Collaboration with Stelly G and Freya Aisbitt made in nipaluna/Hobart, screened at 107 Projects and Seventh Gallery
Collaboration with Stelly G and Freya Aisbitt made in nipaluna/Hobart, screened at 107 Projects and Seventh Gallery
[HD] 00:02:45, mono
Screened in at World Premiere Mykonos Biennale 2017,
Seventh Gallery and Knox St Bar
Screened in at World Premiere Mykonos Biennale 2017,
Seventh Gallery and Knox St Bar
[HD] 00:01:59, mono
Made with permission from Jake Jaxson Screened in at PLAYGROUND, Knox St Bar and Seventh Gallery
Made with permission from Jake Jaxson Screened in at PLAYGROUND, Knox St Bar and Seventh Gallery
Jen Atherton video essay
[360 HD] 00:04:18, cyanotype, mono
Collaboration with Alison James featuring work by Anna Atkins
Screened at GREENLIGHT
[HD] 00:06:52, mono
Collaboration with Eleanor Bailey
Screened at Tweekend
Collaboration with Eleanor Bailey
Screened at Tweekend
[HD] 00:02:23, iPhone SE, morph cuts on Premiere Pro
Screened at Tweekend
Screened at Tweekend
[HD] 00:47:59, iPhone SE, stereo
[HD] 00:04:29, stereo
Collaboration with Niamh Galea, Rex Woods and Manon Buchalet for Nehma Vitols
Screened at Golden Age Cinema
Screened at Golden Age Cinema
2016
Video Work:
[HD] 00:18:52, stereo
Screened at Flowers123, Seventh Gallery and at The Red Rattler
Screened at Flowers123, Seventh Gallery and at The Red Rattler
[HD] 00:03:19, stereo
Collaboration with Clayton ‘Scruffy Clay’ McBride and Rex WoodsScreened at Dead End Film Festival 2018 and at Seventh Gallery
Collaboration with Clayton ‘Scruffy Clay’ McBride and Rex WoodsScreened at Dead End Film Festival 2018 and at Seventh Gallery
[HD] 00:15:06, stereo
Screened at The Red Rattler, AFTRS and at Seventh Gallery
Screened at The Red Rattler, AFTRS and at Seventh Gallery
[HD] 00:22:00, stereo
Screened at pornfilmfestival Berlin, Diamond in the Rough Cut, The Red Rattler, National Film and Sound Archive at Art Not Apart festival and Shanghai Queer Film Festival
Screened at pornfilmfestival Berlin, Diamond in the Rough Cut, The Red Rattler, National Film and Sound Archive at Art Not Apart festival and Shanghai Queer Film Festival
2015
Video Work:
Vengeance [HD] 00:03:43, stereo
Screened in North America at the Lincoln Centre New York, Winner Best Experimental Film at Montreal World Film Festival 2016, Seventh Gallery
Night on Floating Island [HD] 00:12:24, stereo
Screened in North America at Slamdance Film Festival 2018, The Red Rattler, Seventh Gallery
Screened in North America at the Lincoln Centre New York, Winner Best Experimental Film at Montreal World Film Festival 2016, Seventh Gallery
Night on Floating Island [HD] 00:12:24, stereo
Screened in North America at Slamdance Film Festival 2018, The Red Rattler, Seventh Gallery
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