Container x IMA: Big Cinema (Film Screening)

Container and the IMA present a showcase of recent experimental 3D films by Johann Lurf, Victor Van Rossem, and Blake Williams that push against the concept of 3D realism seen in more narrative films, to instead explore the possibility of spatiality, contradictory vision, and histories of seeing.

Johann Lurf  Twelve Tales Told 2014

Johann Lurf’s maximalist, 35mm barrage of Hollywood studio logos, transforms the iconic corporate prelude to the big production-to-come into a sustained, stuttering spectacle in which fractured and fantastical worlds collide into a bombastic anti-climax. 4 minutes.

Johann Lurf  Forever…Forever 2025

Over the course of twenty-two months, Johann Lurf fixed the gaze of a specially developed 65mm camera on a single fragment of the world: the Ottenstein Reservoir. What begins as a quiet observation of nature gradually transforms into a monumental image of cosmic motion. At first, the lake appears familiar – a place suspended between sky and water. But as the exposures grow longer, the dimensions themselves shift: stars begin to draw delicate lines, the sun inscribes bright arcs, the moon traces soft, almost calligraphic diagonals. The water surface becomes a perfect mirror that folds sky and landscape symmetrically into one another – above and below, light and shadow, becoming and fading. 21 minutes.

Christina Jauernik and Johann Lurf Revolving Rounds 2024

Revolving Rounds is a cyclical film in both form and content. Shot at an agricultural field on the outskirts of Vienna, Johann Lurf and Christina Jauernik’s 3D short begins as it ends, tracking a planimetric path alongside three greenhouses as the early morning sun beams across the surrounding lands. 11 minutes.

Johann Lurf Cavalcade 2019

Lurf designed and constructed a 150cm-diameter water-wheel, with one face divided into various patterned circles of varying shapes and colour. It was then fixed in place in a stream; we observe the wheel in rest, motion, and rest again from a single vantage-point, as it is illuminated by strobe-lights synchronised with 35mm cameras. Clockwise and anti-clockwise movement magically interweave in a dis-orienting display. 5 minutes.

Victor Van Rossem Toward a Fundamental Theory of Physics 2025

Shot on 16mm film using a handcrafted Time-Slice camera with 293 lenses—a modern reinterpretation of the original device built by Tim Macmillan in the early 1980s—this experimental (3D) short offers a unique, tactile exploration of time and light as the raw materials and fundamental paradoxes of cinema. 13 minutes.

Blake Williams Laberint Sequences 2023

Shot in and around the Laberint d’Horta in Barcelona, the film charts several journeys into the garden in search of its centre, where a statue of Eros waits. As the film navigates the maze’s false pathways, its recursive structure begins to crack, and a mysterious underworld floods its gates. 20 minutes

Blake Williams Felt 2025

A man sees mountains and sets out to recreate them. During a traverse across the Western United States, we observe familiar sites in a new light, and the world gets lost in the fold. 15 minutes.

With thanks to Johann Lurf, Victor Van Rossem, Blake Williams, and sixpackfilm.

Tickets available via New Farm Cinema’s website or counter. Free entry available on request. Please email madeline@ima.org.au or ask in-person on the night.