Whether you’re the kind of person who picks apart film adaptations of graphic novels/comics and bangs on about the lack of depth/truth of the protagonist, or the kind who’s wiling to just watch Spiderman and enjoy it for the babefest, GoMA’s Drawn To Screen film program have the film for you.
Drawn To Screen features films from genres spanning almost a century’s worth of film adaptions. From conventional Marvel-ish genres and everyone’s favourite super heroes (Batman, Spiderman etc), to autobiographical comic-cum-animation Persepolis which explores Marjane Satrapi’s experience of the Islamic Revolution in Iran.
They’ve got the golden oldies like Blondie and Footrot Flats. They’re showing Australian content like The Kid Stakes – an Australian silent from from 1921 Sydney Nicholls‘ comic which deals with the foibles of a kid and his pet goat. They’ve got Daniel Clowes, Kevin Smith and Harvey Pekar. The Studio Ghibli‘s, Japanese cult horror, biopics like Gainsbourg and the just plain strange (cue Barbarella). And if you want to know more about the life of the comic book artist, they’re even showing documentaries on legends like Robert Crumb, Alan Moore and (not the bad seed) Warren Ellis. Whatever you’re genre, it’s hard to pick apart this comprehensive retrospective. See you in the cool dark cinema, geeks.
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An Interview with Zola JesusNika Danilova is as unstoppable as her music sounds. Zola Jesus, the band she conceived in rural Arizona (where her father hunted) is a constructed...
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The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist ...Dan Clowes makes comic books that are perfectly suited to pet obsession and bedroom consumption. He pores over his drawings with a perfectionism...
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Greatest Hits Vol. 3Greatest Hits Volume 3 is a show-reel of single channel videos in a visual translation of the time-worn trend of producing mixed tapes/bags of...
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The Victims, ‘Sleeping Dogs Lie’ ...From the deepest, darkest depths of Perth, the Hoodoo’s Dave Faulkner (vox/Guitars), Dave Cardwell (bass), and Scientists/Hoodoo’s/Beasts...
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Catherine Or Kate, ‘On Hiatus’ ...Brisbane-based collaborative duo Catherine or Kate’s upcoming showing On Hiatus is the first in a series of one-night exhibitions put on by...
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Apocalypse BooksYou might label apocalyptic preparation as paranoia, but don’t expect an invitation into anyone’s bunker with an attitude like that. The...