Joelistics Presents Film School Mapping Melbourne 2020-21

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Watch the live premiere of Joelistics Presents Film School on 3 Dec, 7pm on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. And catch Joel Ma and Film School collaborators in conversation with Margot Tanjutco.

"Who knew in the midst of writing a collaborative album of weird beats and psych jams I would find treasured collaborations with film makers and dancers?

Joelistics presents Film School is a lot of things, it started off as an album and evolved into a series of collaborative filmed dance pieces that work as a unified whole drawing imagery from Asian ghost stories recontextualised in suburban Melbourne.

With this music and the film, I wanted to weave an eerie feeling, reminiscent of empty streets, a distant sense of dread and the hypnotic patterns of lockdown life. I wanted the dancers to personify our collective fear of sickness and loneliness and how those fears dance at the edge of every moment we hold dear.

Musically it is a blend of Pan Asian psychedelia, post rock stylings and lo fi synth scapes, made from the scraps of your ancestor's vocals, dusty loops and traditional Chinese and Western instruments.

The underlying feeling of this project is a meditation on the anxiety of our times and the transcendence that comes from facing fear."

- Joelistics (Joel Ma)

KEY INFORMATION

Thu 3 Dec 2020

Starts at 7pm

This is an online live event and will be live streamed on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.

To watch the live stream on Facebook or Instagram:

Please like and follow MAV on Facebook and/or Instagram, and you will be notified when the live stream starts on Facebook and/or Instagram. Or you can visit our Facebook and/ or Instagram page on 3 Dec at 7pm.

To watch the live stream on YouTube:

Please visit MAV's YouTube channel on 3 Dec at 7pm.

Joelistics Presents Film School is presented as part of Mapping Melbourne 2020-21.

Mapping Melbourne 2020-21 is supported by City of Melbourne, Creative Victoria and Australia Council for the Arts.

Featured image credit: Rajahan 1 by Kemal Ezedine.