RealTime E-dition 28 June 2017

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In The Second Woman, a hugely popular, cinematically framed durational performance created by female artists in Hobart’s Dark Mofo, Nat Randall [above] plays out one scene over and over, each time with a different man from the general public, yielding a telling variety of outcomes. At the Sydney Film Festival, rarely seen films made by women in Sydney in the 70s and 80s reveal the power and potential of feminist experimental and documentary filmmaking. Also at SFF and in her first film, Su Goldfish constructs a life of her father from fragments. At the MCA, Zanny Begg and Elise McLeod’s video work The City of Ladies provokes questions about the representation of women by women in utopian scenarios. We go to Tokyo with Philipa Rothfield and lend an ear to Mexico City with Ann Deslandes. We’re having a two-week mid-Winter break and, rested and energised, will be back with you on 19 July. If you haven’t yet donated to RealTime, please do so over the next two days; every dollar makes a difference for the arts. Keith & Virginia

UNEASY UTOPIAS Sarinah Masukor observes conflicting visions of feminist struggle unfold randomly by algorithm in a singular new video work, The City of Ladies, inspired by a utopian medieval text.

FROM ARCHIVE INTO THE FUTURE A retrospective of Sydney feminist cinema at the Sydney Film Festival points not just to a hidden archive of experimental and innovative women’s filmmaking, but a potential future for Australian cinema, writes an inspired Lauren Carroll Harris.

SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL’S ENGAGING OUTLIERS Katerina Sakkas’ search for non-mainstream, experimental and eerie features in the 2017 festival program is rewarded with idiosyncratic works by Thai, Afghan and New Zealand filmmakers.

INTERVIEW: MARK HOWETT Perth’s Ochre Contemporary Dance Company presents Artistic Director Mark Howett’s Good Little Soldier, a personally-driven account of the effect of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder on soldiers and their families.

FEAR OF PHONES In Wireless, choreographer Lisa Wilson and composer Paul Charlier boldly reveal how “the joyous freedom of handheld technology has been replaced by a monolithic and disturbing entrapment,” writes Kathryn Kelly.

THE PEOPLE REMEMBER, THE CITY LISTENS Ann Deslandes reports from Mexico City on innovative artists’ nurturing of collective memory and political reflection via the public gathering of sounds and music on digital platforms.

INSIDE THE REAL/DIGITAL WARP Fremantle Arts Centre and Revelation Film Festival present eight Australian video art works that suggest, writes Laetitia Wilson, we are living out the aftermath of digital disruption.

PUTTING THE PIECES TOGETHER
Su Goldfish’s documentary premiering at the Sydney Film Festival reveals the maker’s sheer investigative and creative determination to uncover her father’s elusive past, writes Virginia Baxter.

NOT SO FICTIONAL CLEVERMAN
The first two episodes of Cleverman season two reveal a deepening of the show’s themes of biological genocide and real-life Indigenous apocalypse, trickled through the superhero genre, writes Tyson Yunkaporta.

THE FEMALE STAR AS AGENT
At Dark Mofo, Briony Kidd applauds Nat Randall's 24-hour performance, the Second Woman, for its rigorous onstage evocation of filmmaking, skilful engagement with volunteer male participants and its insightful feminist vision.

INTELLECTUALITY, THE SOCIABLE SCENT
With a scent, Dark Mofo artist Isabel Lewis prompts her audience to consider the ways we sense and think in what Briony Kidd experiences as a synthesis of artist talk, performance, installation and social gathering.

REALTIME TRAVELLER: TOKYO
In an ideal introduction to this remarkable city, Philipa Rothfield describes Tokyo as "a sensory vortex, a perceptual oasis in the rush of my own life."

AFTER JULIA:
GIFT FOR AN EX-PM
Featuring commissioned works from seven Australian female composers, Decibel's warm, witty and politically incisive new music tribute to Julia Gillard plays at Brisbane's Metro Arts on 13 and 14 July and Monash University on 20 July.

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