Take a drive with intimate stories, melt into a virtual new world, hang out with the school dance team, mourn the death of music (again). Honours Projects 2022 presents two film works, a staged play reading and a performed eulogy by Honours students in the School of the Arts & Media.
Please note: the performance scheduled for Thursday 22 September has been cancelled due to the national public holiday.
An Essay Film
What is a car? It is the crossing between the private and the public. It is a space for private confessions. It is a vehicle of mobility and constant emotional drive. In this video essay, the elusive quality of the car in cinematic conversations will be explored, while a fictional narrative follows a young academic who arrives in Sydney to deliver a talk at an urban design conference. He asks an estranged acquaintance to be his driver, and the two re-establish a special relationship as tensions heighten, emotions emerge, and secrets float to the surface.
Short Film
Inspired by theoretical debates and concepts such as techno-orientalism and posthumanism, The New World is a science fiction film set in the near future, where virtual space and artificial intelligence have become norms in human societies. Philosophizing the connections between contemporary human conditions and traditional Chinese culture, The New World contemplates on what it means to be human from a futuristic perspective, achieving what I call an “Asian Futurism.”
Moved Play Reading
16-year-old Sam and Joey are best friends (like, forever), and are both on the dance team at a prestigious Sydney private school. But when Joey’s nude photographs are leaked by her ex-boyfriend, she becomes the center of some unexpected attention. Meanwhile, things are starting to shift between Sam and her long-time friend and debate partner, Rory. In a term full of stolen scrunchies, blue slushies and broken hearts, the girls have to grow up fast, as they reckon with what might be more than a friendship between them.
Performance
I am swamped with grief; hyperpop is dead. Sadly, hyperpop died when one of its inventors made a bad playlist. Actually, hyperpop died when Charli XCX didn’t make an album, or maybe when she did. Actually no, hyperpop died when Glaive worked with Machine Gun Kelly. No, before that – probably it died when a straight person heard it for the first time. I’m going to be conducting a memorial service and giving a eulogy – you should come.
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