About

In this major thematic program for the APT7 exhibition, the motif of 'change' is used to explore 20 years for filmmaking throughout the region, reaching from the Middle East across Asia to Australia and the Pacific. Featuring a wide range of video and filmmaking practices, genres and makers, the program includes more than 80 films by some of the world's most celebrated directors. The works featured consider social, political and aesthetic transformations broadly, as well as specifically in moving image culture.

'Change' highlights a contemplative mode of storytelling that sets individual experience within the context of broader social change. In particular, children and young adults are shown as a locus for change within cinematic narratives. Other subjects explored in the program include political and social upheaval, urban transformations and the shifts between rural and city life, labour, industry and the environment; shifting borders and the movements of people; and the intersection of faith, religion and conflict.

The intertwining of documentary and narrative elements is also a re-occurring strategy, highlighting the creation of new cinematic forms that exceed the traditional categories of documentary and fiction. The program acknowledges that the nature and characteristics of filmmaking have shifted during the last decade, a change galvanised by the rise in independent film and video using digital technologies, the democratisation of media through accessibility and portability, as well as artists and filmmakers working experimentally across art and cinema contexts.

QAGOMA acknowledges all the archives, filmmakers and distributors who have generously provided screening materials for this program. In particular, the support of the National Film and Sound Archive Australia and Chinese-Taipei Film Archive. Program curated by José Da Silva, Australian Cinémathèque.

List of Works

• Ch'ing shaonien ne cha (Rebels of the Neon God) 1992 | Director: Tsai Ming-Liang
• Romper Stomper 1992 | Director: Geoffrey Wright
• Bedevil 1993 | Director: Tracey Moffatt
• Neak sre (Rice People) 1994 | Director: Rithy Panh
• Once Were Warriors 1994 | Director: Lee Tamahori
• Xích lô (Cyclo) 1995 | Director: Tràn Anh Hùng
• Fire 1996 | Director: Deepa Mehta
• Nánguó Zaìjiàn, Nánguó (Goodbye South, Goodbye) 1996 | Director: Hou Hsiao-Hsien
• O Tamaiti 1996 | Director: Sima Urale
• Segell Ikhtifa (Chronicle of a Disappearance) 1996 | Director: Elia Suleiman
• Chun guang zhà xiè (Happy Together) 1997 | Director: Wong Kar-Wai
• Hana-bi (Fireworks) 1997 | Director: Takeshi Kitano
• Ta'm-e gilas (Taste of Cherry) 1997 | Director: Abbas Kiarostami
• Yíge dou bùnéng shao (Not One Less) 1999 | Director: Zhang Yimou
• Batoru rowaiaru (Battle Royale) 2000 | Director: Kinji Fukasaku
• Birah bharyo ghar aangan kone (The Bamboo Flute) 2000 | Director: Kumar Shahani
• Dokfa nai meuman (Mysterious Object at Noon) 2000 | Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
• Roozi ke zan shodam (The Day I Became a Woman) 2000 | Director: Marziyeh Meshkini
• Yi Yi (Yi Yi: A One and a Two...) 2000 | Director: Edward Yang
• One Night the Moon 2001 | Director: Rachel Perkins
• 11'09''01 – September 11 2002 | Directors: Youssef Chahine, Amos Gitaï, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Shôhei Imamura, Claude Lelouch, Ken Loach, Samira Makhmalbaf, Mira Nair, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Sean Penn, Danis Tanovic
• August: A Moment before the Eruption 2002 | Director: Avi Mograbi
• Ten 2002 | Director: Abbas Kiarostami
• Die Geschichte vom weinenden Kamel (The Story of the Weeping Camel) 2003 | Directors: Byambasuren Davaa, Luigi Falorni
• Panj é asr (At Five in the Afternoon) 2003 | Director: Samira Makhmalbaf
• Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks, Part I: Rust 2003 | Director: Wang Bing
• Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks, Part II: Remnants 2003 | Director: Wang Bing
• Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks, Part III: Rails 2003 | Director: Wang Bing
• Dare mo shiranai (Nobody Knows) 2004 | Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
• Pear ta ma 'on maf (The Land has Eyes) 2004 | Director: Vilsoni Hereniko
• Basshingu (Bashing) 2005 | Director: Masahiro Kobayashi
• Máng zhong (Grain in Ear) 2005 | Director: Zhang Lü
• Sulanga Enu Pinisa (The Forsaken Land) 2005 | Director: Vimukthi Jayasundara
• Yawmon Akhar (A Perfect Day) 2005 | Directors: Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige
• Gwoemul (The Host) 2006 | Director: Joon-Ho Bong
• Mukhsin 2006 | Director: Yasmin Ahmad
• Once Upon Awakening 2006 | Director: Lida Abdul
• Sanxiá haorén (Still Life) 2006 | Director: Jia Zhang-Ke
• Takva: A Man's Fear of God 2006 | Director: Özer Kiziltan
• Autohystoria 2007 | Director: Raya Martin
• Buda as sharm foru rikht (Buddha Collapsed out of Shame) 2007 | Director: Hana Makhmalbaf
• Corroboree 2007 | Director: Ben Hackworth
• Flower in the Pocket 2007 | Director: Liew Seng Tat
• Frozen 2007 | Director: Shivajee Chandrabhushan
• Babi buta yang ingin terbang (Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly) 2008 | Director: Edwin
• Heshang de Aiqing (Cry Me a River) 2008 | Director: Jia Zhang-Ke
• In Transit 2008 | Director: Lida Abdul
• Melancholia 2008 | Director: Lav Diaz
• Milh Hadha al-Bahr (Salt of this Sea) 2008 | Director: Annemarie Jacir
• Banjir Kemarau (Flooding in the Time of Drought) 2009 | Director: Sherman Ong
• EARTH 2009 | Director: Ho Tzu Nyen
• Empire's Borders I 2009 | Director: Chen Chieh-Jen
• Exodus 2009 | Director: Almagul Menlibayeva
• Lola (Grandmother) 2009 | Director: Brillante Mendoza
• Niupi er (Oxhide II) 2009 | Director: Jiayin Liu
• Shangfang (Petition) 2009 | Director: Zhao Liang
• Port of Memory 2009 | Director: Kamal Aljafari
• Sahman (Border) 2009 | Director: Harutyun Khachatryan
• Samson and Delilah 2009 | Director: Warwick Thornton
• Vihir (The Well) 2009 | Director: Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni
• Bal (Honey) 2010 | Director: Semih Kaplanoglu
• Boy 2010 | Director: Taika Waititi
• Empire's Borders II – Western Enterprises, Inc. 2010 | Director: Chen Chieh-Jen
• Svet-Ake (The Light Thief) 2010 | Director: Aktan Arym Kubat
• The Green Wave 2010 | Director: Ali Samadi Ahadi
• 3.11 Sense of Home 2011 | Directors: Victor Erice, Naomi Kawase, Jia Zhang-Ke, Kaori Momoi, Apichatong Weerasethakul, Leslie Kee, Isaki Lacuesta, Bong Joon Ho, Zhao Ye, Toyoko Yamasaki, Pedro Gonzalez Rubio, Ariel Rotter, Naguib Razak, Wisut Ponnimit, So Yong Kim, Jonas Mekas, Catherine Cadou, Steven Sebring, Takushi Nishinaka, Shunji Dodo, Kazuhiro Soda
• Igillena maluwo (Flying Fish) 2011 | Director: Sanjeewa Pushpakumara
• In film nist (This is Not a Film) 2011 | Directors: Jafar Panahi, Mojtaba Mirtahmasb
• Khyi rgan (Old Dog) 2011 | Director: Pema Tseden
• Lung Neaw Visits his Neighbours 2011 | Director: Rirkrit Tiravanija
• The Cloud of Unknowing 2011 | Director: Ho Tzu Nyen
• There is something in the Air 2011 | Director: Iram Ghufran
• Toomelah 2011 | Director: Ivan Sen
• Transoxiana Dreams 2011 | Director: Almagul Menlibayeva
• O le tulafale (The Orator) 2011 | Director: Tusi Tamasese
• Paranmanjang (Night Fishing) 2011 | Director: Parking Chance (Park Chan-Wook, Park Chan-Kyong
• Ini Avan (Him, Here, After) 2012 | Director: Asoka Handagama
• Mekong Hotel 2012 | Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
• Student 2012 | Director: Darezhan Omirbayev
• Tepenïn Ardi (Beyond the Hill) 2012 | Director: Emin Alper
• The Sapphires 2012 | Director: Wayne Blair
• Walker 2012 | Director: Tsai Ming-Liang