News.

This year has gone fast and now I feel awake from my Winter hibernation so I can show some things I've been doing.

Firstly, I've been working on some collages and I've submitted some to the Linden Gallery Postcard Show, which opens on February 4th 2012.

I've also been making some music. My album has been mixed and I'm just working on some film clip ideas before I send it out into the world. Zac and I have also been working on some songs for a couple of years and they are nearing completion. We are just finishing off a 5 song cassette, 2 tracks of which will be put up on our website in the very near future.

Baryshnikov played our last show quite a while ago. Our final release is available for download here.

In older news, my film Summon The Sun won the Upwey Community Bank Best Film Award at the Hillside Film Festival in February.

Also, Carl Cox's new album 'All Roads Lead To The Dancefloor' is out now on Intec Digital. My vocal soundtrack to 'Come Together' is used in his track 'Kommen Zusammen'. Here's the audio from the album:

and here's Carl playing it live in Germany:

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Collages.

I wanted to make some still images using found pictures and my own photographs. I started looking into some art history and found that collage has been used for a very long time but has never really been a 'fine art' and has instead existed alongside other art forms. It doesn't require much technique - just ideas and imagination. I think it helps people to express their subconscious, as you pick images that you are naturally drawn to and the subject comes out of the process of creating it. I'd like to keep making them as I have ideas and perhaps have an exhibition at some point.

Click here to see more Collages.

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Happy New Year!
Hope everyone had a fun Christmas. It's been a busy start to the year. 'Summon The Sun' was accepted into the Stuttgart Filmwinter Festival in Germany and I'm excited to be attending the event. Yay! Because it is all happening so soon and an opportunity I don't want to miss, I have booked my flight and am putting on a film screening fundraiser. Here are the details:

Thursday January 13th @ The Workers Club (Gertrude St.)
I am going to be showing a few films and there will also be performances by:
Miles Brown (from The Night Terrors)
Fjorn Butler
Natasha Rose (from Patinka Cha Cha)
& the guys from Absolute Boys DJing!
There will also be a bake sale and a limited edition DVD for sale featuring a selection of my films. Please tell your friends and come along as it will be a great night and will help me get to the festival and make some German friends.

If you can't make it all the way to Germany to see the film, it is also screening at the Hillside Film Festival on 19th February in Belgrave. Check the website as more details are announced.

In other news, Baryshnikov are currently mixing our first full-length album, which we will hopefully be releasing soon as a 10". I am also currently mixing a solo album, but more info on that soon...

Hope to see you next Thursday!

Stina.

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Hi,
Again, a long time between posts and lots of news:

• I finished Part 1 of my Spring film. It's called 'Summon The Sun' and I've made a separate post showing the complete film streaming from Vimeo! At the moment I'm trying to get it screened at some festivals overseas.
  
• I also finished editing together my film clip for the Flesh Vs. Venom track 'Apocalypse Now'. I'd taken the first footage in 2008 and showed some of it on a loop when the band was playing its last show. Recently I selected a song off their last album and, with Zac's help, built a film clip around it using this old footage. There are some stills from it in the relevant post.
  
• I've been finishing off some of these old projects in the hope of releasing a DVD collection of my work. I'm planning to begin compiling this by the end of the year.
  
• Both bands have been busy playing shows. Gold Tango are planning to record a full-length album by the end of the year and hopefully go overseas in 2011. Baryshnikov are talking about recording again too in the next couple of months and hopefully going to New Zealand sometime as well. We're playing in Adelaide on the 17th and 18th of July. Check out the myspace for details.

Talk again soon!
Stina.

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Apocalypse Now.

film clip for Apocalypse Now (june 2010, 4'20)
Sound performed by Flesh Vs. Venom. Raw footage first screened at their final show, 2008.

I began shooting footage for this clip to be shown at the final Flesh Vs. Venom show in 2008. Back then I didn't have a clue about image sizing and Final Cut Pro and compressing so I had a lot of trouble exporting out a 25GB file on to a DVD! So, on the night of the show, I had to film my laptop screen and, since the file was too big to even play all the way through on my computer, I had to manually drag the cursor through the timeline and did a bit of improvising when the footage skipped. Anyway, I eventually got the film to the gig and screened my footage directly off of the video camera. Surprisingly I got some pretty good feedback.

Fastforward 2 years and by now I have a bit more of a grasp on these programs on my laptop. I decided to use this 15 minutes of footage and edit it down into a film clip for just one track from the final FVV album 'Family Trees'. After settling on Apocalypse Now, Zac helped me with the editing process to get my idea of the narrative across. The basic idea is that a girl turns into a bear and goes into the woods in search of a partner.

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Summon The Sun.

Summon The Sun (june 2010, 3'30)

Summon The Sun is a lyrical film that evokes the feelings of transformation which occur when Winter becomes Spring. Life beckons the sun to assist with its awakening from a deep sleep. When the time is right, the dormant state of winter is lifted and life bursts forth into activity. Sounds and images combine to praise and celebrate this moment in the cycle of seasons when the aliveness of the world is most visible.

Apart from Wonderlust, which hasn't yet been successfully realised, this is my first finished film with multiple visual settings, and I feel it is a more developed collaboration between a musical soundtrack and diegetic sound.

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Hi, i've had a busy start to the year and this hasn't been updated all decade! I've got lots of exciting news to share again:

• Baryshnikov have a new CD EP demo thing out. It's a preview of a full-length recording we're hoping to start working on soon. We recorded it ourselves and the cover was a communal effort from band mates and even Zac, our #1 fan hehe. We're going to be playing on our first visit to Brisbane on the 26th and 27th of March. Check out the myspace page for details. We're also playing at Catfood Press this Saturday the 13th of March if you're in the area.
  
• My film 'Gravity Rebels' is going to be playing on the outdoor screen at Federation Square as part of the Next Wave Festival. I'm not sure which night my film will be on yet but the festival runs from 13th-30th of May.
  
• I'm still working on my Spring film and it's about half complete. I'm hoping to get it finished in time to submit to the Brisbane International Film Festival in November. I'll upload some stills soon.
  
• Another random thing that happened is that Josh Abrahams and Carl Cox have used the soundtrack to my film 'Come Together' in a new techno song they've been working on. They played it to me the other day and, i don't know much about techno but it's dark and dancey. It's not something I would've ever imagined myself to be involved in but that alone got me excited. Hopefully it'll be on Carl's new album that might be out early next year.
  
• I built a Harp about 18 months ago and i'm finally learning how to play it. My teacher for the past few months has been Xanya Mamunya and she's rad. It's very fun and exciting to be learning something new and it'd be nice to incorporate it into film sounds and other music projects once i get the hang of it. Here is a picture of me shredding:



Seeya!
Stina.

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