New Cinema

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 An unmissable highlight of the 2009 BigPond Adelaide Film Festival will be THE DOME PROJECT presented by the Australian Network for Art & Technology (ANAT). This unique program showcases films created for full-dome environments, hink IMAX, only 360 degrees, well maybe it's only 180... but you get the idea: it's big!
 
No longer “limited” to the cosmos, full-dome is a rapidly growing platform enabling filmmakers and artists working in screen-based media to produce works with the potential to capture and engage audiences as never before. With full-dome theatres now exceeding the number of IMAX and other large format theatres worldwide, the medium is fast maturing and branching outside of traditional astronomy-related programming and into the broader arts and sciences.
 
 
Over four evenings at the Mawson Lakes Planetarium we will be screening works from DomeFest, the international festival and competition for works produced for full-dome environments. Curated and introduced by special guest, DomeFest founder and director, David Beining, The Best of DomeFest showcases the most innovative and exciting works submitted to the Albuqurque-based festival over the past seven years.

Emerging from the forecourt of the SA Museum in the late afternoon thePortable Dome will offer a taste of the immersive potential of dome environments. Screening on a continuous loop will be the Australian premiere of Celestial Mechanics by Scott Hessels (USA/Singapore), a reconstruction of Poème électronique, originally shown during 1958 Brussels World’s Fair with visuals by Le Corbusier and music by Edgard Varèse, and an excerpt form Future Memory, a film by South Australian artists, Amanda Phillips and Alexandra Waite.
 

PORTABLE DOME SA Museum forecourt
Daily between 4pm and 8pm Saturday 21 February to Tuesday 24 February
THE BEST OF DOMEFEST Mawson Lakes Planetarium
Bus departs from outside the SA Museum for Mawson Lakes Planetarium at 6pm & 7:30pm sharp
Wednesday 25, Thursday 26, Saturday 28 February and Sunday 1 March
FUTURE MEMORY Golden Grove Arts Centre
7pm & 8:30pm Wednesday 25 February to Saturday 28 February
DOME PROJECT SYMPOSIUM Bradley Forum, Uni SA (adjacent to Samstag Museum)
11.00am – 12.30pm Sunday 1 March