Frankston is a study of the place I grew up, a satellite of Melbourne with affordable housing, nature-strips and beach views. The downright ordinary nature of the opportunities and festivities afforded by Frankston, and the ambivalence one can feel going back there, nonetheless give rise to a new aesthetic: the suburban symphony. In this case the symphony is rendered in strange hues and luminescences as though affirming Robin Boyd’s depiction of ‘the Australian ugliness’ in 1960, where he claims that “taste has become so dulled and calloused that anything which can startle a response on jaded retinas is deemed successful.”
Revelation Perth International Film Festival — Mimesis Documentary Festival — New Jersey International Film Festival — Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival — Liverpool Underground Film Festival — Kerala Short Film Festival — Festival Prisme #4 — Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin — Harkat 16mm Film Festival — Society for Visual Anthropology Film & Media Festival
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