Fireworks Logo

Latest Shorts...

  • Whale 52 - Suite for Man, Boy, and Whale
  • Inheritance (The)
  • Last Day of Byron Bray (The)
  • Alex Julia: Naked in Your Bed
  • Gossip/Clecs
  • All Change
  • Why Did You Invite Me to Your Wedding?
  • No Brainer
  • Surviving Voices: AIDS Caregivers
  • Male Gaze: Goodbye Love (The)
  • When The Petals Fall
  • Queen Lizzy
  • Inheritance 
  • Seahorse 
  • Bluebird
  • Male Gaze: Courage Under Fire (The)
  • Pang
  • Alec Gaston: Butterfly in a Blackhole
  • Placeholder
  • Something in the Air
  • Male Gaze: Wandering Hearts (The)
  • Sexual Fire
  • So Be It
  • Within
  • Hills Don't Dance Alone
  • Cockroach
  • My Week with Maisy
  • Stimulants & Empathogens
  • Sunset
  • Beef and Blanche
  • Every Time I See A Yellow Car
  • Iconic
  • Tender Resistance
  • Male Gaze: Naughty Boys (The)
  • Upon Her Lips: She Likes Girls
  • Sunday Lunch
  • Coyotes
  • Magid / Zafar
  • America
  • Motorcycle (The)

Once Upon a Time in the Western Suburbs

Country: Australia, Language: English, 7 mins

  • Director: Gideon Obarzanek; Matthew Bate
  • Producer: Anton Andreacchio

CGiii Comment

Ballroom culture is popping up in Australia...of all places!

A word of advice, you need a seminal film like Paris is Burning...this is not it!


Watch...

 

The(ir) Blurb...

After previously collaborating on the award-winning I Want to Dance Better at Parties, Matthew Bate (Shut Up Little Man: An Audio Misadventure, MIFF 2011) and Gideon Obarzanek team up for Once Upon a Time in the Western Suburbs. This VR dance work puts viewers in the middle of a street dance battle featuring artists from the XO State festival, held as part of Arts Centre Melbourne's AsiaTOPA in February 2017.