Dir: Aden Young
Year: 2008
Country: Aus
Duration: 8min
Drawing on the magical fables half-remembered from childhood’s chimerical memories, Aden Young’s The Rose of Ba Ziz unfolds through the kind of visual experimental exotica that in part recalls the lavish works of the 60s’ underground. An empty lot and its inhabitants are transformed into the mystical land of Ba Ziz, a world that sparkles with slashes of colour and echoes to haunting, even melancholy, music drawn from violins and accordions. Young melds together this arabesque vision with a fluid narration that emphasises the linguistic pleasures of the children’s book from which this tale was adapted, creating a genuinely luminous work.
Screens with: The Family Jams
Fri July 9, 7pm
Tue July 13, 7:15pm
Sund July 18, 5.15pm