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Made in the West - Arts in the West - Short Film Commission
Western Sydney Creative commissioned Made in the West Film Festival to produce four short films by local film makers celebrating the dynamic and rich arts scene in Western Sydney.
The films:
Belonging, made in Parramatta by Afro Sistahs Collective
A short documentary that poetically explores the journey of creative producer Safia Amadou, from curating a thriving contemporary art scene in West Africa, to overcoming the hardship of settling in Australia and becoming an emerging film producer in Western Sydney. Along the way, Safia connects with colleagues to establish the Afro Sistahs film collective, a sisterhood and creative community of young Afro-Australian women. Being connected to this community nourishes Safia’s sense of purpose, to produce screen projects that celebrate her African heritage and identity.
When Worlds Collide, made in Blacktown by Esky Escandor and Victor Tran (Cineverse)
A snobby electronic-dance music producer, an ancient folk singer, and obnoxious 80’s rock guitarist compete for who is the loudest. The film is set in Blacktown, the home of many varying traditions and unique tastes. How will the dance music producer maintain his cool when being constantly interrupted by the proximity of his noisy neighbours?
No Film Sets in Bankstown, made in Bankstown by Alex Dona
A young Lebanese director is inspired by a local film festival to create his own short film in his home town of Bankstown. His ambition is surpassed only by his arrogance, and as he takes his venture into a city that has seen very few film sets, he learns very quickly how difficult it actually is to make a film.
A Bird's Eye View: The Art of Rhonda Sampson, made in Campbelltown by Bina Bhattacharya (Gemme De La Femme Pictures)
A vibrant and provocative snapshot of proud Kamilaroi artist and Campbelltown resident Rhonda Sampson, who runs arts organisation RS Creative Solutions. As Rhonda completes her latest commission for Western Sydney airport, she takes viewers on a tour of her works and reflects on her roots and community, the fast-changing profile of South-West Sydney and what the future holds for the region
Club Weld Lunchtime Concert Series
Club Weld flips the script in an ableist industry, helping neurodiverse artists network and build skills – while putting their music front and centre. - The Guardian
Through September and November musicians from the Club Weld music making and professional development program for talented neurodiverse musicians (with autism and other cognitive conditions) performed at five of WSU campuses. also showcased were a selection of Club Weld music video.
Club Weld music pop, new-folk, electronic and experimental, regularly features on FBi Radio, WFMU (USA), 2SER, & ABC’s Rage and prestigious music-podcast Waste The Alphabet. Singles, LPs and EPs are released through ABCMusic, available on Spotify and Bandcamp and tracks featured in Dylan Alcott’s film, Head over Wheels and Stan TVs Bump. The program and the musicians were the subject of stories on ABC’s 7:30, ABC Artworks and recently in The Guardian. The WSU line ups included Jerrah Patston, Jonathan Yung, Nina Gotsis, Patrick Li, Sienna Acquaro, Charbel Nehme, Kate Field & Adoni.
Arts & Cultural Exchange’s Club Weld program increases opportunity, access, social integration, and visibility of musicians with disability and is committed to experimentation in the development of dynamic training and professional development models that result in measurable outcomes. The project is ambitious, and practical in its push for demonstrative change, it upskills and facilitates ‘working musician’ pathways in the music industry, accelerates professional outcomes and social inclusion for vulnerable, isolated musicians who, on their own face insurmountable obstacles to participation in the music industry.
Queer Wanderings - Sydney World Pride Commission
To celebrate Sydney World Pride, Western Sydney University presented the site- specific artwork Queer Wanderings by local artist Nadia Odlum at PSQ1 – The Peter Shergold Building.
"Queer Wanderings expresses the intimacy and entanglement of queer urban lives. In her book 'Queer Phenomenology' philosopher Sara Ahmed describes the sense of disorientation that results from seeing the world differently. In response to this, queer people in urban space orient towards each other. Commonalities of experience and desire lead to interweaving paths, which create geographies of shared spaces and networked relations. As we emerged from Covid-19 lockdown, and came back to the city streets, I experienced a re-meeting of many queer kin and connections. In the return of urban social life, chance meetings resumed – at the coffee shop, on the dancefloor at the protest. I discovered and created new overlaps in lovers and friends.
The city was overlaid once more with swirling links of personal connection and care. The drawing series 'Queer Wanderings' emerged from this experience. Through links of overlapping arrows, these small works on paper mapped my personal experiences of queer spatiality."
To make this work specific to World Pride I have used the eleven colours present in the Progress Pride Flag. Developed in 2018 by American graphic designer Daniel Quasar, this flag incorporates the iconic six-coloured rainbow flag, with chevrons of colour added on the left hand side. White, pink and blue represent transgender and non-binary communities, and black and brown represent marginalised LGBTQ+ communities of colour." Nadia Odlum, 2023
Nadia Odlum is a multidisciplinary artist from Sydney, Australia. Driven by a fascination with urban environments, they create playful and immersive works that explore personal and collective experiences of space and urban architecture. Often working site-specifically, their output spans, sculpture, painting, installation, artist-led workshops and performance collaborations. They are a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney.
This commission was a joint project by Western Sydney Creative and the Division of Infrastructure and Commercial
