Dismantle all conceptions of cinema with an evening of real-time virtual performance in one of Sydney’s iconic art-deco film theatres, showcasing two world premiere works co-commissioned with Now or Never & ACMI - 

Hearsay, by Naarm-based artists Eek, Kirby Casilli, and Tina Stefanou, is an extended filmic performance that transforms the cinema into a zoological amphitheatre. Blending moving image, contemporary performance, hypnotism, and sound, Hearsay meditates on the erosion of trust and the ways in which perception, through body, memory, state, means, and the other, undergo reconstruction and distortion.

Team Rolfes & The Mustang Speedrun is the latest chapter from NYC’s masters of virtual performance. Following the success of club theatre variety show Diskokina and an international tour of their critically acclaimed 321Rule (premiering at SOFT CENTRE 2022), Team Rolfes returns with a chaotic audiovisual sprint: a misfit crew of avatar jockeys struggles to keep their failing exoskeleton operational as they speed toward a surreal championship. Brought to life via live motion capture, cinematic game engine animation, and cerebral sound design, The Mustang Speedrun will force you to rethink what constitutes ‘cinema’.

VENUE - Chauvel Cinema, Paddington | 249 Oxford St, Paddington NSW 2021
WHEN - 7pm - 9.30pm, August 29th
*PARA-CINE will be debuting in Narrm 26th of August as part of Now or Never. More info here.