Talks
Adam Buxton presents BUG: The Evolution of Music Video
For the first time in Australia, comedian, music video fanatic and YouTube wrangler Adam Buxton reveals his favourite, most weird and inspiring videos from the edge of the digital revolution. Following sell-out runs at Edinburgh Festival Fringe and London’s British Film Institute, BUG mixes big screen clips with snappy quotes from YouTube critics and Buxton’s own expert commentary and deadpan comedy.
Exclusive to Sydney Festival, BUG takes you by the mouse through the new democracy of video-making, celebrating both well-known masters and newcomers on zero budgets, with hilarious insights into the online community.
Suitable for 15+
Where: Everest Theatre, Seymour Centre
When: 26 to 29 January at 8.30pm
Duration: 1hr 30mins
Cost: $30
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Hope 2012
We’re in the midst of a technological revolution, with the global village spinning ever faster, its economics more precarious and conflicts screaming louder. Yet the Arab Spring and other effective voices inspire us with possibilities for change. Citizens, it seems, have found a way to express themselves confidently and exert political influence.
Join some of Australia’s remarkable and surprising thinkers as they speak passionately about the causes closest to their heart and the changes they seek to encourage. Hope 2012 includes the inspirational Professor Shane Houston from the University of Sydney, comedian and disability advocate Stella Young and international theatre director Nigel Jamieson. The evening will also include musical performances from Sydney songstress Holly Throsby, urban troubadour Perry Keyes and Stiff Gins transporting us with their stunning harmonies.
Where: Eugene Goossens Hall
When: 9 January at 7pm
Duration: 1hr 30mins
Cost: $30
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I Am A Camera
Photographer William Yang is renowned for his poignant work exploring social diversity, belonging and travel. From behind the camera, he has connected with audiences around the world with his intimate photographs and observations of events and people around him.
Now Yang gets really personal. Intrigued by Facebook and the voyeurism it invites, he opens the shutter on his own life with characteristic wry humour and emotional honesty in this very engaging slideshow.
I Am A Camera sees Yang collaborating for the first time with celebrated composer Elena Kats-Chernin, whose work for live cello and percussion will drive Yang’s deeply-felt narrative and remarkable images.
Where: Reginald Theatre, Seymour Centre
When: 17 to 22 January at 7pm, 21 to 22 January at 2.15pm
Duration: 1hr 30mins
Cost: $30
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Vincent Moon
Defiantly lo-fi filmmaker Vincent Moon is globally renowned for his more than 200 influential Take Away Shows, glimpsing the lives and musical psyche of artists like Sufjan Stevens, The National and Grizzly Bear. After years on the road, armed with his amazing audio visual recordings, he stops over for a revelatory chat about amateur creation, creative networking and walking the earth from artist to artist. Now under nomadic label Small Planets, Moon is adventuring worldwide to film the lives and often remote cultures of traditional and edgy music-makers. In a one-off for Sydney Festival audiences, Moon unpacks an intimately global experience.
Where: Everest Theatre, Seymour Centre
When: January 22 at 5pm
Duration: 1hr 30mins
Cost: $15
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