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Garden Reflexxx is the creative partnership of Eora/Sydney based filmmakers Jen Atherton and André Shannon. Operating as an intermedia group their productions are informed by queer community art practice and industry-critical theory in a search for natural bridges between independence, interdepedence and arthouse production.

Garden Reflexxx’s singular open-filmmaker artistry upends mono-director banality, meditating on group play and experimental making. Their works cut resourcefully between improvisation, videographic imagination, spiritual logic, impulse, and the mistakes-curious family movie. Permitting a form of neo-intimate portrait film. In their world words outrace ideas, crashing at the finish line - talk explosions as a penultimate monument. Collapsing through industry burnout or excessive artmaking lands an oeuvre of films, installations, criticism, radio, and iPhone poetry. A practice of interminably ongoing rushes-party bedroom productions where Time and Patience are one candle burning at both ends. The result? An inexhaustible enthusiasm for everything-film that finds humanism out of order and representation immediate: random-family orientated and realistic. By journeying through, their films create a seduction of spectacle. The chaos of relationships. Metropolitan situations without role models. Super-natural gay films.

From 2018 - 2022
Movies, Movies, Movies on FBi 94.5
Interviewing filmmakers and performing film criticism.

From 2019 - 2023
at Pink Flamingo Cinema we showcased realistic films at
‘Garden Reflexxx Presents’
a film festival celebrating resourceful cinema.

Exhibitions, collaborations,
writing and festival selections include:

Cement Fondu Art
Gallery of New South Wales
Firstdraft
Museum of Contemporary Art
Seventh Gallery
Verge Gallery
Powerhouse Museum
Slamdance Film Festival
The Lincoln Centre for Performing Arts
Performance Space: Day For Night Dancehouse
Vancouver Art Gallery
Soft Centre
Cement Fondu
Soft Stir

Garden Reflexxx
by Alexander Tanazefti

Refluxxx posters
by Andj Shannon

Working and living on stolen Aboriginal Land: the land of the Gadigal and Wangal People of the Eora Nation.

Sovereignty was never ceded.

Always was, always will be Aboriginal Land.