Mission Possible - Education SA

Anti-racism DECS school project - 2007 July - Adelaide SA

The Hero Project team worked with 20 students and several teachers to produce a multi-cultural awareness video for the Department of Education Multicultural Unit.

The Hero Project worked with 20 students from Gilles St Primary School, Adelaide, to record positive example and activities around multi-cultural educational practice.

The participating teachers from several Adelaide schools received professional development training to use digital media in the classroom. The team included Helen Grant [Gilles St PS], Shona Russo [LeFevrre HS] and Andy Mewett [Glenunga HS].

Mission Possible screened as part of the Come Out 2007 Youth Film Fest at the Mercury Cinema in Adelaide.

DECS SA used the film to promote their multicultural unit across Government schools in South Australia. The film was officially launched by Minister for Education Hon jane Lomax-Smith at the Glenunga International High School alongside a new multicultural manual.

Hi there!
Just wanted to say thanks again for the opportunity to work with you all this week. My learning curve was huge- even though I know I saw a fraction of all the roles you do there. Hope the edit went well today…
Thanks again. You will hear from me next term!
Cheers, Shona Russo
LeFevrre High School

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Gilles St Primary School

First Fleet Back - NITV

3min trailer and 22min documentary - 2005 July - SA

Advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that this website and video links may contain images and voices of people who have died.

First Fleet Back - Uncle Kevin vs the Queen is a multi-award winning half hour satirical documentary on racism and reconciliation, made 2003-2005 in collaboration with Arabunna Elder Kevin Buzzacott, broadcast nationally in 2007-2009 on National Indigenous TV.

Join the ‘Minister for Invasion Affairs’, vote now to de-colonize Australia and follow Aboriginal Elder Kevin Buzzacott’s thought-provoking struggle for self-determination and against racism.

In a blend of cinema verite, blaxploitation and satirical reality TV, Tallstoreez’  22-min hybrid documentary pushes the boundaries of the genre.

Available through Video Education Australasia VEA

Winner Audience Choice Award, South Australian Short Film Festival, April 2005

Winner Best Documentary Award at the South Australian Short Film Festival, April 2005

Broadcast on Australia’s National Indigenous TV NITV in July 2007.

Festivals include:

• EthnoFilmFest Berlin, Germany, November 2007

• FIFO International Documentary Film Festival, Tahiti, February 2007

• The Dreaming Festival, Queensland 2006

• Transmediale.06, Berlin, Germany, February 2006

• East Timor Film Festival, Sydney January 2006

• Sydney Indigenous Arts Festival 2005

• Melbourne Underground Film Festival MUFF 2005

• electrofringe 2005 Newcastle

• WildSpaces Film Festival 2005 Australia

• SA Short Film Festival, Adelaide, 2005

Partners

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Holiday Camp - anti-racist documentary

2min trailer + 50min documentary 2002 July - Woomera SA

A confronting 1-hour documentary about refugee policy in Australia, translated into 8 languages and sold into multiple territories globally since 2002.

The pivotal action of the documentary is the 2002 Woomera refugee prison outbreak – after months of protests, including hunger strikes, 53 refugees escape during the Easter protest, supported by hundreds of outraged Australians.
After witnessing the outbreak the audience is invited to consider the complex issues arising from this border crossing; in particular the diversity of constructions about protest and activism.

Holiday Camp (Adelaide/Hamburg 2002) investigates the current Australian immigration policies, in the context of 200 years of colonization, connecting the issues of indigenous dispossession, genocide, and the incarceration of refugees.

It explores the implications of the mandatory detention system and the construction of national borders. ‘Holiday Camp’ challenges us to consider what risks do we take…

Holiday Camp -  how is your liberation bound up with mine?

The film screened in over 300 festivals and events around the world.
Selected screenings:

• Documentary Film Festival Cairns, Australia, (July 2005)

• SHURIFF (Seoul Human Rights Film Festival), South Korea (21-26 May 2004)

• World Social Forum Film Festival, Mumbai, India (16-21 January 2004)

• DOCOMANIA, New Plymouth, New Zealand, (7+8 November 2003)

• WildSpaces Film Festival, 30 cites around Australia (1-3 August 03)

• Sehsuechte03, International Students Film Festival, Berlin-Potsdam, (4 May 03)

• Transmediale03, Berlin, Germany (4 February 03)

• CounterConference Toronto, Canada (6 April 03)

• 2nd European PGA-conference, Leiden, Netherlands (1-4 September 02),

• Borderpanic Symposium, Sydney, Australia (11 September 02)

• Electro Fringe, Newcastle, Australia (3 October 02)

• Straight out of Brisbane (19 November 02)

• Channel 31 Sydney and Melbourne (November 02)

• European no-border-camp-campaign – convergences in Strasbourg, France (19- 30 July 02)

• Jena, Germany (25-30 June 02)

Unknown Germany - experimental theatre tour

Unknown Germany (Unbekanntes Deutschland) - 1999-2001 Germany/ Spain / USA

Unknown Germany is an experimental performance, combining theatre, clandestine actors, audience provocations with video projection, slideshows, installations and absurd dance events.

This multi-modal work is based on sculptural component made from several bags of wet clothing and shoes discarded by refugees crossing the Straits of Gibraltar from Marocco and recovered by Carl and his collaborators on Spain’s southern beaches near Tarifa, Andalusia, in 1999. The overall show tells a story about Fortress Europe, racism, whiteness and sexualised violence and its underlying normalised role models.

In a tour de force it pushes the audience to relinquish their shoes, essentially taking them hostage, mixing their belongings with those found on the beach and hoisting them above their heads - a promise and a threat.

A hidden provocateur half way through the show challenges the performers to stop the show and come clean on their white supremacist privilege - the audience is forced to take sides, the hall lights coming on turning their seats into the stage…will they decide for the show to continue or will they shut it down?

In each performance somehow the show continues, carrying the audience’s pity into a runway modeling refugee clothing. Borders are being crossed, in internalised escape and real refuge, a fitted kitchen explodes in a parody of pornographic phantasies, problem zones on body surfaces and in-and-exclusion are being examined. Audience are advised to avoid the front rows.

Unknown Germany toured six cities in northern Germany in summer 2001, with 6 sold-out shows. An excerpt of the show was performed in Bowling Green, Ohio, USA, at the national underground publishing conference.

hydrax productions presents:

Writers and Artistic Directors - Gesine Knuth and Carl Kuddell

Creative Producer - Carl Kuddell

Lights - Sabine Schmidt

Performers - Gesine Knuth, Carl Kuddell, Bjorn

Music and DJ - Ulli Bowmans

Support - Rassmus Eulenberger

Video - Martina