Screen Commissions

Screen Commissions

Showcasing new screen commissions from Sydney Opera House, featuring short films and ground-breaking events at the intersection of screen and live performance.

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Screen Commissions
  • Tender: Mohammad Awad - Bikes (2024)

    Tender reveals the nuances and tender sides of the communities of Western Sydney through four individual but interconnected documentary films by multidisciplinary artists.

    Mohammad Awad debunks the myth that queer and trans people need to leave their Western Sydney homes to find love, joy and in...

  • Tender: Diamond Tat - Marrow (2024)

    Tender reveals the nuances and tender sides of the communities of Western Sydney through four individual but interconnected documentary films by multidisciplinary artists.

    Diamond Tat’s poetic film, Marrow is a cinematic ode to womanhood, both in its silent volatility and profound gentleness. I...

  • Tender: Carielyn Tunion - i am a deepsea fisherwoman... (2024)

    Tender reveals the nuances and tender sides of the communities of Western Sydney through four individual but interconnected documentary films by multidisciplinary artists. Carielyn Tunion’s video poem, "i am a deepsea fisherwoman, but i do not catch fish", explores the connections of a personal d...

  • Tender: Sharon Mani - At The Heart of it (2024)

    Tender reveals the nuances and tender sides of the communities of Western Sydney through four individual but interconnected documentary films by multidisciplinary artists. In Sharon Mani’s work, At The Heart of it, local memories and stories are shared from those who call Western Sydney home.

    "A...

  • Shortwave: Blak Social - Gatekeepers (2024)

    Gatekeepers is a hidden bar out the back of Haze Land in Queen’s City. The place where you find all the Indigenous musicians you never get to meet because of the gatekeepers in the music industry.

    Gatekeepers is the fourth instalment of Blak Social’s Queenscitiverse project which already include...

  • Shortwave: Mat Spisbah, Harrison Hall, Li Yi Fan - If you cant Larp... (2024)

    "If you cant Larp, You'll cry" scrutinises the shift in digital media production brought about by the subscription economy and the implications of not owning but merely accessing software. It explores how these tools have changed the way we communicate, and created new desires for understanding a...

  • Shortwave: Em Yali - Planetether Kin (2024)

    Planetether Kin follows an exploration of human relationships with the Earth and each other. Through a blend of neo-ritualistic practices and contemporary film techniques, we embark on a journey of intergenerational wisdom and interconnectedness. Soft sculpture and earth materials guide us throug...

  • Shortwave: Trà Mi Dinh - Nhang Trầm Hương (2024)

    Nhang Trầm Hương is a cinematic movement piece suspended in a cloud of incense smoke.

    In an abstract choreography of body and film, Dinh considers her relationship to incense, identity, and family. Incense smoke is fleeting; always moving, unfurling, expanding. As it curls and wafts through spac...

  • Shortwave: Maissa Alameddine & Narjis Mirza - Mohabbat, a Lullaby ... (2024)

    Maissa Alameddine & Narjis Mirza - Mohabbat, a Lullaby for a Rising.

    Multi-disciplinary artists Maissa Alameddine and Narjis Mirza share a practice of working collaboratively with their communities, developing contemporary stories grounded in their diasporic experiences. Stemming from their rec...

  • Shortwave: Tahlia Palmer - Look Intruder (2024)

    Look Intruder confronts the volatility of Australian national identity, a concept fraught with contradictions, where symbols and narratives of colonial triumph mask harsh realities. The flag’s southern cross and union jack are to be found everywhere, floating above, haunting and hanging. “Austral...

  • Music of the Sails - Highlights (2023)

    ‘Music of the Sails’ was an ambitious 50th anniversary digital artwork that reimagined the sounds of the House - and was live-streamed for 744 hours throughout October 2023.

    As we celebrated our 50th year, we dreamt about the future, and contemplated the ways in which technology will impact on ...

  • Lu Yang - DOKU - The Binary World: Outlines 2023

    DOKU, The Binary World is a premiere screening of the live motion-capture performance by Shanghai-based artist Lu Yang, originally staged in 2022 as a real-time collaboration between Hong Kong's Freespace, West Kowloon Cultural District and the Sydney Opera House.

    In a remarkable networked perfo...

  • TRACES - A First Nations voice-to-art experience: Outlines 2023

    TRACES is an original film of the interactive voice-to-art installation staged at Sydney Opera House in 2022, by award-winning First Nations artists and writers, Kamsani Bin Salleh & Kirli Saunders, and featuring additional performances by Teela Reid and Nardi Simpson..

    Supported by Magabala Boo...

  • Harrison Hall - Body Pipelines: Outlines 2023

    In the age of digital immersion, what does it mean to exist in a physical space? Can we be sure that the body is even real? In Body Pipelines, artist and digital choreographer Harrison Hall, alongside collaborators Sam Mcgilp and Liam Wolfe, explores the collapsing boundaries between the digital ...

  • Sonic Mutations - A Generative Music Exploration: Outlines 2023

    Sydney-based electronic musicians salllvage and Alexis Weaver come together for a unique collaboration, using artificial intelligence in a live performance environment.

    Working from the premise that A.I. can unlock music’s potential in unexpected and delightful ways, salllvage and Weaver use di...

  • Queer PowerPoint Live! : Outlines 2023

    This performance contains adult themes and strong language.

    PPT meets LGBTQIA+ as the corporate world’s snooziest presentation software gets a joyous queer makeover in this hit experimental performance from interdisciplinary artists Xanthe Dobbie and Harriet Gilles. Inviting artists to explore t...

  • Shortwave: Feras Shaheen - The Bop (2023)

    The Bop* is a dance film created in collaboration with the general public.

    The Bop invites the audience to engage in a task-based dance project allowing them to explore their interpretation and experimentation in a public space without diverting far from their day-to-day routines. The Bop seeks ...

  • Shortwave: Claudia Nicholson - The Deep Rivers Say it Slowly (2023)

    The Deep Rivers Say It Slowly is a new video work by Claudia Nicholson that borrows its form from the photographic slideshow. Slipping between still and moving images, the work revisits a collection of photographs mostly taken by the artist while visiting Central and South America for the first t...

  • Shortwave: Nasim Patel - non-paradise (2023)

    non-paradise is a meditation on deserts. It compares the myth of the desert as an absent place with white noise, the presence of all frequencies on a spectrum being simultaneously received by an interface. Drawing parallels between white noise and social hostilities toward the desert landscape, t...

  • Shortwave: JD Reforma - Butterfly (2023)

    JD Reforma’s Butterfly is a filmed performance that manipulates theatre as raw material. Embodied by two actresses, it pivots on the potent dynamic between the central protagonists of the stage musical, Miss Saigon and the classical opera on which it is based, Madama Butterfly. It traces the axis...

  • Shortwave: Brad Darkson - Dream Job (2023)

    Reddit: a website community for people to discuss any topic in forums called 'subreddits' or just 'subs'. In 2023 the 10th most visited website in the world.

    Antiwork: Unemployment for all, not just the rich!: a subreddit for those who want to end work, are curious about ending work, want to get...

  • Shortwave: Riana Head-Toussaint - Animate Loading: 3 (2023)

    Animate Loading is a disability-led work that is in direct dialogue with the space it inhabits. A dynamic group of performers drawing on their diverse movement languages and embodied experiences to activate a space, bringing its seen and unseen dimensions into focus.

    First created on a rooftop c...

  • Shortwave: Jazz Money - All a Homeland (2022)

    Our narratives are informed by the maps laid upon and beneath our skin. ‘all a homeland’ invites the audience on a poetic journey of place and self, an excavation of the identities in our built worlds and the ways in which we build ourselves against them. Against a vivid blue background sand, fla...

  • Omelia - R+J RMX: Outlines 2021

    Presented by Sydney Opera House at Outlines 2021.

    Technology is now sophisticated enough to write poetry and enter into intelligent dialogue with humans - but what is the role of machines in the creative process? Masters, servants, or just a different set of tools? R+J RMX is a performance work ...