News and Articles
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9 August 2010 Dome Lab hits Perth for 2010
Fulldome, with its hemispherical screens and surround-sound, is an accessible and powerful test-bed enabling filmmakers and artists to experiment with and develop this new language of film. With a shift in the focus of fulldome, producers are turning their sights to the entertainment potential of live-action story-telling for large-formats. More »
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4 August 2010 ‘The Waiting City’ Filmmaker Returns To Fremantle
Award winning Cinematographer, Denson Baker ACS, recently returned to Fremantle to share the techniques he used filming The Waiting City and The Black Balloon. The very special masterclass was one of the many courses at the Film & Television Institute WA, designed to fast-track students into the film industry. More »
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8 July 2010 Vote For WA in the IF Awards
The IF Award nominees are now online for public voting and there is a huge number of WA films in competition for the coveted Australian awards. There are five WA features nominated, ranging from box office success, Bran Nue Dae , to the low budget Indie comedy screening at Revelation Perth Film Festival, A Day at the Oasis . West Australian expats are also key creatives or producers of foreign shot, The Waiting City and Passengers . More »
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7 July 2010 Little Sparrows to Feature at MIFF
Following its successful world premiere at the Sydney Film Festival, Little Sparrows has been selected to screen at the upcoming 2010 Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF).
Directed and produced by Taiwan-born Yu-Hsiu Camille Chen, Little Sparrows tells the story of Susan, her three daughters and the choices they confront when her breast cancer returns… More »
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6 July 2010 Beyond the Frame: introducing filmmakers, media artists and audiences to fulldome
The emergence of ‘destination cinema’ and the proliferation of large-format screens in public spaces present a challenge – and opportunity – to filmmakers working in traditional screen formats. At the very least a new cinematic language is required, one that takes account of the audience’s very different experience of stories presented on large-format, ‘frameless’, screens. As Academy-Award winning director and Dome Lab tutor, Ben Shedd, puts it, “the frame is our frame of reference”, when we remove it “we create virtual first person experiences rather than second hand events”. More »
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