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A film by Reckless Eye Productions
55 minutes duration
For any enquires please email: malcolm(at)recklesseye.com
THE FARMER'S CINEMATHEQUE is now available for viewing on line at:
http://beamafilm.com/the-farmers-cinematheque/#.WfZ0ikyB3UI
The film is also available for sale on DVD. Please email for purchase details.
55 minutes duration
For any enquires please email: malcolm(at)recklesseye.com
THE FARMER'S CINEMATHEQUE is now available for viewing on line at:
http://beamafilm.com/the-farmers-cinematheque/#.WfZ0ikyB3UI
The film is also available for sale on DVD. Please email for purchase details.
Written and directed by Malcolm McKinnon and Ross Gibson
Produced by Annie Venables
Cinematography by Ben Speth
Music by Chris Abrahams
Archival film by John and Relvy Teasdale
Malcolm McKinnon is an Australian artist, filmmaker and ghost-wrangler working mainly in rural communities. His current practice is primarily in the realm of documentary filmmaking and social history, motivated by an appreciation of living memory and local vernacular. He makes films and multi-media work for physical and on-line exhibition in museums and other institutions. He has also made films for television, including the recent documentaries Making Dust and Seriously Singing.
Ross Gibson is Centenary Professor in Creative & Cultural Research at the University of Canberra. He was Creative Director at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (1998 - 2002) and a Producer for the Museum of Sydney (1993 - 96). Recent works include the books The Criminal Re-Register, 26 Views of the Starburst World and The Summer Exercises, as well as co-production of features for ABC Radio National's 'Soundproof' series, plus a suite of artworks 'Life After Wartime' (1990 - 2015) co-produced with Kate Richards. He has been making films and multimedia environments for more than thirty years.
Annie Venables has worked as a freelance producer, line-producer and production manager in the film and TV industry for nearly 25 years, both in the UK and Australia. Recent credits include: Bespoke (three x half-hour documentary series for ABC TV Arts, 2015 - Producer), Death or Liberty (Docudrama for ABC TV, 2015 – Line Producer) Making Dust (Documentary: ABC Artscape 2013 – Producer); Conspiracy 365”(Drama series:12 x 1 hr live action thriller for Family Movie Channel 2011- Line Producer); Sisters (Mini documentary series for Australian Pavilion Shangahi 2010 – Producer/Director) and The Ice Maiden Expedition (Documentary International broadcaster 2009 – Producer/Director)
Ben Speth grew up in New York City and worked there with Paul Morrissey, Yvonne Rainer, Stuart Sherman, Tere O'Connor and John Jasperse among others. He worked as director of photography on music videos (The Ramones, David Lee Roth, Ricky Martin, Everything But The Girl), documentaries (Paris Is Burning, Treyf, Trembling Before G_d, My Friend Paul) and feature films (The Delta, Junk) before moving to Melbourne in 2000. Since then he has worked as cinematographer on projects with Jenny Kemp (Still Angela), Margie Medlin, (Elasticity and Volume, Mobility in an Artificial City), Ros Warby (Solos, Swift, Monumental), Shelley Lasica (History Situation), Scott Rankin (Ngapartji Ngapartji), Lyndal Jones (The Avoca Project) and Ross Gibson (Street X-Rays).
Chris Abrahams is best known for his work with the Australian trio The Necks, with whom he has performed extensively in Australia, Europe and North America and released 16 albums. The Necks have won two Aria awards for the albums Chemist and Drive By. Outside of this setting, Chris has released seven solo albums, including four solo piano recordings. He has also released five albums of songs co-written with the vocalist Melanie Oxley. For film, Chris has composed scores to the Australian feature-films The Boys (1998, with The Necks) and The Tenderhook (2008). Both scores were nominated for an AFI award in the category for best original music in an Australian feature film.
John Teasdale (1936 – 2004) and his father Relvy Teasdale (1904 – 1966) were farmers at Rupanyup in the Victorian Wimmera. Both men were also keen and highly accomplished cinematographers, filming for over 50 years to create a long-term record of life on a family farm and also a record of community life in rural Australia. (John Teasdale was also a veteran ABC television “stringer”, contributing footage for news broadcasts from 1956 though until the mid 1980s.)
See also: http://www.cv.vic.gov.au/stories/creative-life/john-teasdale-chronicle-of-a-country-life/
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/earshot/green-love/7236922
http://www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/country-living/rupanyup/news-story/7df6529f8edb688dea9fdc903f0c54c4
SUPPORTERS
The Farmer’s Cinematheque has been developed with assistance from Film Victoria and Screen Australia.
The Farmer’s Cinematheque has been developed with assistance from Film Victoria and Screen Australia.
Production has been assisted by Wimmera Regional Library Corporation, Yarriambiack Shire Council, Rupanyup Major Events, Rupanyup/Minyip Finance Group, Tasco Petroleum, Suzanne Elliott and other private donors.
Special thanks Rupanyup A & P Society, Barengi Gadjin Aboriginal Land Council, Rupanyup RSL, the National Film & Sound Archive, Museum Victoria, Culture Victoria, Adelaide Film Festival and, most especially, to all of the Teasdale family.
