The Australian Cinematheque at the Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane is presenting an extensive screening series of Visual Music. This series (mostly on film) began in late March with Disney's Silly Symphonies programs, and continues through June 1, 2008.
Programs include Oskar Fischinger, Jordan Belson, Norman McLaren, Len Lye, Mary Ellen Bute, Baerbel Neubauer, early Visual Music pioneers, Stan Brakhage and more, plus the premiere of a new CVM traveling program, Rare Classics: Essential Visual Music. A program of new visual music work curated by Joost Rekveld - Soundfields from the Netherlands - screens June 1.
Center for Visual Music provides a number of programs for this series:
May 2 - Mary Ellen Bute (presented in association with Cecile Starr and Women's Independent Film Exchange) May 3 - Jordan Belson: Films Sacred and Profane May 4 - Rare Classics (new program of rare and preserved films from CVM) May 25 - Oskar Fischinger: Optical Poetry May 31 - Time and Tides: Music Paintings by Baerbel Neubauer
