PAST THE SHALLOWS - Ten Days on the Island

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A family of brothers navigates a family tragedy and a perilous journey in this film based on Favel Parrett’s award-winning novel.

Set in lutruwita/Tasmania’s rugged South, Past the Shallows centres on the plight of a family of brothers as they try to negotiate the loss of their mother, a father turned to alcohol, and life as young workers on a dangerously derelict abalone fishing boat. This experimental film adaptation from director Ben Winspear and cinematographer Matt Scott casts us into a cold, dark lutruwita/Tasmania where beauty and hardship reign and where an apple from an outcast can be the kindness that saves a child, if only for a day. Follow Parrett’s characters as they attempt to land a life-changing catch – and as they finally discover the truth about their tragic upbringing.

WAR MEMORIAL HALL - FRIDAY 19th MARCH 7:30PM - SATURDAY 20th MARCH 11AM, 2PM, 4:30PM - SUNDAY 21st MARCH 11AM, 1:30PM, 3PM

Book tickets here: www.tendays.org.au

THERE IS NO 'I' IN ISLAND - Ten Days on the Island

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There Is No ‘I’ In Island is an eclectic collection of short films cracking open the experience of the COVID-19 lockdown.

The series reveals the island’s resilience when lutruwita/Tasmania suddenly found itself cut off from the world. Multi-award-winning Tasmanian filmmakers Rebecca Thomson (Women Of The Island) and Catherine Pettman (RUMMIN Productions) called out to locals to record their fears, hopes and dreams in real time during the local peak of the pandemic and were overwhelmed by the response. Hours of candid voice recordings have been lovingly woven into glorious, allegorical stories visualised by extraordinary Tasmanian artists and animators.

WAR MEMORIAL HALL - FRIDAY 19th MARCH 4PM, 5PM, 6PM - SATURDAY 20th MARCH 1PM, 3:30PM - SUNDAY 21st MARCH 10AM, 12:30PM, 2PM, 5PM

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GOOD SILENCE - Ten Days on the Island

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Be guided through this sprawling multi-room work that conjures gentle landscapes in a marriage of nature, culture, sculpted clay and mined earth to create a personal monologue, a communal desecration where ritual is sacrosanct.

WILLOW COURT BARRACKS - FRIDAY 19th 4PM, 6PM, 7PM - SATURDAY 20th & SUNDAY 21st 10AM, 11AM, 12NOON*, 2PM, 3PM, 4PM

*Please note the 12pm sessions on Sat – Sun are for femme identifying and non-binary audience members only.

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ALDER HEY - Ten Days on the Island

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This work, improvised in the rubble of a hospital as it was being demolished, honours the histories of that place; the lives saved, the lives lost.

By drawing sounds out of this hospital bed, Vic is activating the voices held within its material structure, exploring the poetics contained within practical and functional objects and places. This work not only honours the human experience of illness, but the human experience of living.

“I could hear my entire career in the sound that you managed to play from that hospital Bed” was the response from a senior Intensive Care lead doctor at Alder Hey.

WILLOW COURT BARRACKS - FRIDAY 19th MARCH 4PM - SATURDAY 20th MARCH 10AM - SUNDAY 21st MARCH 10AM

Book tickets here: www.tendays.org.au