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
  • Serwah Attafuah x Soft Centre - Apotheosis: Outlines 2021

    Presented by Sydney Opera House at Outlines 2021.

    A real-time motion capture performance, in which movement artist Lydia Kivela explores a hyper-real 3D environment created by Serwah Attafuah, accompanied by an original score, performed live, by ptwiggs. Inspired by the glaring neon ambience of ...

  • Shortwave: Deepfaith - A Deepfaith Digital Odyssey, Act 1 (2021)

    Travelling to a new Verse, we begin our story… A coming of age for this neo-outsider. A tragedy to some, a new hope for others. As she moves from her post-life-apocalypse. We extend an open invitation to anyone who wants to be their best.

    Directed by DeepFaith
    Music Produced by DeepFaith and Chr...

  • Shortwave: jobfit & Craig Stubbs-Race - mitifb(sorrynotsorry) (2021)

    ‘mitifb(sorrynotsorry)’ is a poem/track that collages moments of pre-apocalyptic frustration, absurdity and cheeky thoughts. Originally created in 2019 at a 30th birthday party in the Blue Mountains, jobfit have developed this track iteratively over two years, the latest version released via Sydn...

  • Shortwave: Kalanjay Dhir - The best i can do is redirect energy (2021)

    Help the artist’s flowery avatar polish a sheet of brass and receive a little neural reward! Every day, the Sun works so hard to convert matter into energy. Many experiences on Earth are contingent on this energy called sunlight.

    the best i can do is redirect energy (2021) thinks about the behav...

  • Shortwave: Xanthe Dobbie - Eidolon (2021)

    EIDOLON is a fanatical ode to the image - a myth built on fragmented histories. In the year 2000 Jennifer Lopez wore a green, Jungle-print dress designed by Donatella Versace, so iconic that she broke the internet and Google had to invent Google Images just to keep up. A few thousand years before...

  • Shortwave: Eugene Choi - A Burning House (2021)

    Follow the pigeons into the nooks and crannies of the city, into the homes they inhabit even if they are on fire; follow the woman from China and the man from South Korea, and remember how they met in Japan; remember how they use to joke and dream in a shared language that is not their own, about...