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September 11, 2007

Hand-Made and Home-Grown: The Films of Evan Mather and David Lowery

The 2007 Melbourne Underground Film Festival begins in just over a week, and included on the schedule this year are sidebars dedicated to the work of the inimitable Evan Mather and myself. Matthew Clayfield curated these sessions, and wrote the notes for the just-released programme:

For all their differences, the films of Evan Mather and David Lowery are, in some respects, very similar. Specifically, they are the films of artists who are similarly concerned with the intricacies of place, memory, nostalgia, imagination, and the physical processes of filmmaking itself. Mather and Lowery are filmmakers who, like children with scissors and glue, 'hand-make' their films; who use their films to remember their pasts, or to rewrite them; and who imbue place—be it Baton Rouge in Mather's Scenic Highway, Las Vegas in Fansom the Lizard, or Texas in Lowery's work more generally—with a loaded emotional resonance tied, inexorably, to childhood, adolescence, and to events further back in the collective memory of our culture. The will be the first time either filmmakers' work has screened in Australia.

There's more in the actual program, including the full lineup of films, which in my case covers everything from Still to A Catalog Of Anticipations. A big thanks to Matt for giving my work its antipodal premier - I wish I could be there. It'd be interesting to see five years of short films compressed into an hour. How meta-autobiographical!

Posted by David Lowery at September 11, 2007 6:20 PM

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