Garden Reflexxx Presents: Party Girl

An evening of films at the Library presented by Garden Reflexxx, this series is headlined by the decade-in-the-making Us and the Night by Audrey Lam.

Doors open at 6.30pm, event start 7pm

GARDEN REFLEXXX’S JEN AND ANDRÉ SAY:

Audrey Lam is currently the most important arthouse director in Australia. A 2024 Creative Fellow of the Sidney Myer Fund, a classy array of festival invitations, and upcoming curatorial programs at Brooklyn Academy of Music and Open City Documentary Film Festival London, Audrey’s success proves the power of awe-tinged shenanigans. Her works suspend disbelief from inside the documentary format. Her feature debut Us and the Night is a meticulous look at the profundity of boredom, proving doco-wisdom isn’t just for the wise man. Previous screenings include IFFR, MIFF, and Centre Pompidou.
Actress, writer, podcaster, Tortured Poet, and self-destructive it-girl, Priya Leigh is one of Sydney’s worst-kept secrets. She is the quintessential voice of Gen-Me, and weaponises all facets of culture in her own works of broadcast criticism and cultural observation. Sydney New Wave but cannot surf. Her work has appeared in film and radio as part of SFF, FBi 94.5, and Overshare Video Festival.

One of the most significant artists of the century, Amrita Hepi renders her body into live performances of risk-curious phenomena. Using memory, habits, agents of socialisation, the home, and the institution as workspace, Amrita complicates our perceived limits of choreography. Her toolkit includes the quotidian, the historic, in controlled improvisations of calculated chaos and unbridled beauty. Get the carrier bag! Amrita has shown extensively in major institutions around the world.

Re-Ordering Australia, Ari Angkasa OES [oestrogen] is an octo-modal artist (filmmaker, performer, director, writer, impersonator, comedienne, theorist, and fish). Her works, usually shown in galleries but catered to the terminally online, exit the canvas, into new images of respective identity related proclivities. If film is the 7th art, Ari is truly the 8th. In 2024, Ari Angkasa was nominated for the Incinerator Art Award.

Garden Reflexxx is the film partnership of Jen Atherton and André Shannon, who work in resourceful/resourceless filmmaking and experimental film programming. Their projects are D.I.Y in nature while concerned with industry-critical practice and how cinematic conventions relate to money, costs of living, arthouse revisionism, and accuracy. Their video productions challenge anachronistic exhibition status, pointing the finger at camera quality, performance art, value systems, and cinematic power. This is their 6th film festival event and first outside of their choice screening space Pink Flamingo Cinema.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

State Library of New South Wales, Metcalfe Auditorium, Ground Floor, Sydney, Australia