Film club: SCINEMA screening

Event date: Wednesday 17 August 2011 - 06:00pm to 07:30pm
Location: The Science Exchange. Program: Film Club.
Bookings have closed for this event.

RiAus continued to showcase the best films from the 2011 SCINEMA Film Festival as part of its regular film club. In a live video cross to CSIRO in Canberra, Cris Kennedy the Festival Director, introduced the auditorium audience to the films selected for the evening, and gave some interesting insight to the workings of SCINEMA in his interview with programs co-ordinator, Deb Shaw.
<a href="http://www.vimeo.com/28134948">http://www.vimeo.com/28134948</a>

Program for the night:

Teclopolis Javier Mrad – Argentina – 2010

WINNER – Best Animated/Experimental Film
A gorgeous stop-motion animation set in a world made from recycled technology.

The Light bulb Conspiracy Cosima Dannoritzer-Spain – 2010

WINNER – Best Film

Once upon a time products were made to last. Then, in the 1920s, a group of businessmen were struck by an insight: ‘A product that refuses to wear out is a tragedy of business’ – thus Planned Obsolescence was born, and shortly after, the first worldwide cartel was set up to reduce the life span of the incandescent light bulb, a symbol for innovation and bright new ideas, and the first official victim of Planned Obsolescence.

99% Rust Nenko Genov-Bulgaria-2010
This documentary explains the all-too-short life cycle of metal. About 70% of all metal is used just once and then it is discarded, the remaining 30% is recycled.

In association with SCINEMA and COSMOS Magazine