The Mill presents a much anticipated 10-day professional development project, Cinematic Experiments, in partnership with artist Margie Medlin and Mercury CX, funded by Arts SA.
In response to creatives pushing further into exploring digital spaces, this intensive workshop challenges a mixed cohort of dance, performance, film and design artists to explore the development of interdisciplinary, hybrid and digital platforms. The stimulating, experiment-based structure builds digital technologies skills for participating artists and ignites new ways of thinking and practicing.
The partnership between The Mill and Mercury CX reflects the labs interdisciplinary aspirations.
2021 Cinematic Experiments participants
Stephanie Daughtry
Concerned with built and natural spaces my practice considers human impact on our environment and vice versa.
I create immersive multi-disciplinary experiences which guide audiences through imaginary worlds.
Originally trained in the performing arts I have built a repertoire that encompasses installation, film, sound and participatory elements to strengthen the scope for innovative audience engagement. Inspired by experimental performance art practices that came to prominence in the 1960s, more recently I have been influenced by the immersive performances of companies such as Punchdrunk and Marshmallow Laser Feast. Similarly I am motivated by artists such as Olafur Eliasson who constructs built environments that cross over between performance and the visual arts through active audience participation.
Sarah Neville
Sarah Neville is an Australian choreographer who devises new media performance, instigates inter-disciplinary practices and invests in multi-platform processes and production outcomes.
Sarah has created work for Adelaide Festival and Fringe, Ausdance Choreolab, Dance House, Australian Choreographic Centre, ADT’s Ignition season, Strut Dance, Link Dance Company (WAAPA). Sarah was a member of Australian/ Spanish physical theatre company Corazon De Vaca, founder of Heliograph Productions and Kite Dance Theatre and an Artistic Associate with Open Space. Sarah has a Masters in Dance from QUT and is currently a PhD Candidate, co-tutelle between Deakin University and Coventry University (UK), researching Dance Digitisation.
In 2019 Sarah was an invited artist for a Public Art Commission at the European Centre of Culture’s exhibition at the Venice Biennale. Sarah is currently a recipient of Arts SA Fellowship, creating new work for Dance and Virtual Reality.
Catherine Fitzgerald
A professional director with significant experience creating high quality and profitable main stage productions in South Australia. Catherine has earned critical acclaim by risk taking, innovating and creating unique and engaging theatrical performances, bringing executive experience in directing, producing, dramaturgy, playwriting, acting and teaching to the position.
Catherine assesses and develops commissioned and non-commissioned scripts for the theatre. Committed to working with playwrights to develop new work, liaise with directors and actors in the development of that work and deliver professional workshops in performance, dramaturgy and playwriting.
She has worked successfully with many organisations and people from diverse backgrounds to deliver exciting meaningful events and projects, building inclusive and respectful relationships.
Ray Harris
Ray Harris is not a middle-aged man but an emerging Adelaide artist. Her work focuses on the psychological struggles and complexities of self-concept, focussing on prevailing everyday fantasies, created to cope with the complexities of repressed desires, feelings, anxieties and psychological pain accompanied by the facilitation of unawareness. Fascinated by mental spaces, she explores these issues through subjective interpretations of universal conditions in the dual creation of sculptural spaces and perfomative video embodying inner and outer experience.
Ray has exhibited at the AEAF, SASA Gallery; CACSA and Hugo Michell Gallery. As well as Sawtooth (Launceston), Boxcopy (Brisbane), InFlight (Hobart) Next Wave (Melbourne) Supermarket Art Fair (Sweden) and Gil and Moti Homegallery, (Netherlands) Pirimid Sanat (Turkey). Her work is held in The Borusan Collection and Project 4L- Elgiz Museum Collection, Turkey and private collections in Australia.
Liam Somerville
Liam Somerville is a Cinematographer and Video Artist living and working on Kaurna Land in South Australia.
Liam founded Capital Waste Pictures in early 2012 after graduating from a UniSA Bachelor of Digital Media (Film & TV & 3D Animation) that same year. In the camera department Liam is confident behind a camera with over 10 years industry/freelance experience from DOP, camera operator, camera assist and lighting department.
As a Video Artist Liam experiments using a wide range of tools from 3D software, game engines, generative coding, projection mapping, LED walls and analog video gear to create immersive visual experiences for web, installations and live performance.
Dianne Reid
Dianne Reid is a performer, choreographer, camera operator, video editor, writer and educator. She has created dance for a range of live and screen contexts. Hipsync is her dance video production company established in 2002. Dianne has created some 50 screendance works, many of which have screened internationally.
Dianne trained in Adelaide in Communication Studies (Drama), then a BA Dance under David and Simi Roche (South Australian College of Advanced Education). In 2001 she completed a Master of Arts in Screendance at Deakin University. She was a founding member of Outlet Dance in Adelaide (1987–89) and a member of Danceworks from 1990–95 under the direction of Helen Herbertson and Beth Shelton. Between 1996-2004 Dianne was Associate Lecturer in contemporary dance, physical theatre and dance video at Deakin University (aka Rusden). In addition, she has been a guest teacher and/or choreographer for VCA, WAAPA, Chunky Move, Dancehouse and Australian Dance Theatre.
Danielle Reynolds
Danielle Reynolds is a multi-disciplinary artist who creates works that comprise interchangeable components of: large-scale painting, sculpture, moving image, sound and performance. Reynolds work is generated from a studio practice that engages with notions of ‘not knowing’ and failure as desirable states to work from and with. The resulting work commonly employs recurrent themes of humour, gesture, popular culture and futility.
Reynolds completed Honours at Victoria College of Arts (First Class Honours) in 2016 following the completion of a Bachelor of Fine Arts at RMIT University in 2015 and Chelsea College of Arts: The University of Arts London. Reynolds was selected for the 2017 Next Wave Kickstart program with Canine Choreography a work that was later included in 2018 Next Wave Festival.
Reynolds has exhibited nationally and internationally in a number of group shows and worked as a guest artist for: Field Theory’s ICON at Federation Square (2018), Emile Zile and No Clients Fair exchange for National Gallery of Victoria’s Melbourne Art Book Fair (2019) and Madison Bycroft's Antihero (live performance component) as part of Feedback Loops at ACCA (2019).
Inneke Taal
Inneke Taal is an artist currently based in Adelaide, Australia and has also lived in Melbourne, Sydney and Singapore. Their practice is situated in the field of multi-media sculpture, looking at video, sound, installation and performative practices as a way of considering subtle embodied experiences and spatial relationships through movement.
Inneke has a First Class Honours degree from Adelaide Central School of Art (ACSA), a Bachelor in Visual Art, ACSA, and a Bachelor in Linguistics and Drama, Deakin University. Inneke has a background working for performing arts organisations and remains interested in the performativity of site in her visual arts practice.
Tanya Voges
Multidisciplinary Artist Tanya Voges creates choreography for theatre and gallery spaces which invite audiences to engage, participate, feel immersed and explore trace. Tanya works and resides on the unceded lands of the Peramangk peoples of the Adelaide Hills.
She is part of the Artist Residence in Motherhood and has created an alternative mothers' group MAMAA- Mother Artists Making Art, Australia which has both an online community and studio sharing in Adelaide. Engaging with collaborators of various disciplines Tanya brings her experience in dance, drawing, community engagement and dance film making to make multimedia performance works, live dance pieces and dance for screen.
Photo credit: Sam Roberts.
2021 film staff
Paul Gallasch
A new voice in the Australian film landscape, Paul Gallasch is a filmmaker whose work has become known for its raw honesty, dark humour and emotional intimacy. He is a member of the Australian Directors Guild, Australian Screen Editors and a winner of the prestigious Australian Documentary Prize from the Sydney Film Festival (Killing Anna).
In 2018 he finished his first feature film, the experimental documentary Love in the Time of Antidepressants, supported by Screen Australia and the South Australian Film Corporation, which premiered to sold out screenings at the Adelaide Film Festival.
He is currently producing and editing the verité documentary The Ark, directed by Madeline Gordon. Paul is a previous recipient of the SA Writers Development Grant and the Points North Institute Fellowship.
Rebecca Duncker
After receiving a first class honours from Adelaide University in Environmental Biology, Rebecca decided she was more at home dabbling in science fiction rather than science.
In 2017 Rebecca received the Cliff Ellis Emerging Cinematographer award at the South Australian ACS awards and has been working in the camera department across a wide range of projects spanning from short films and music videos to television and film.