3,494 Houses and One Fence
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3,494 Houses and One Fenceby Mireille Astore and Fabian Astore. Lebanon/Australia, 2006, 6 min, BetaSP, U.S. PremiereShot in the “accessible outback” town of Broken Hill, Australia, and in Ain-Haj-Elias, Lebanon, 3,494 Houses and One Fence is an authoritative and compelling assertion of the power of place—and of distance, as the banality of suburban facades is set to the sounds of Beirut’s many wars. Filmmaker's Biography Mireille Astore (Lebanon/Australia) is an artist, writer and filmmaker. Her videos have been exhibited and screened in such venues as Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art, the Copenhagen Contemporary Art Centre, London’s Freud Museum and the Tate Modern, the Sakakini Cultural Centre of Ramallah and Espace SD in Beirut. She has had numerous solo and group exhibitions, and in 2003 she won the National Photographic Purchase Award. In 2007 she completed a Ph.D. in contemporary arts at the University of Western Sydney. Fabian Astore (Australia) is a digital-media artist and filmmaker. His work has been exhibited in numerous festivals, including the 2004 Sydney Film Festival, the Berlin International Video Festival, the Cadiz International Video Festival, Fluxusonline 2006 and the 2007 Adelaide Film Festival. He also does digital animation for such large-scale theater productions as Jake and Pete, which played at the Sydney Theatre Company and the Winnipeg Festival, and Stella and the Moon Man, which won the 2006 Helpman Award for Best Children’s Presentation. In 2007, he produced an animation for an Australia–Japan collaboration with the Kageboushi Theatre Company, Japan. Festivals and Awards
Credits Writers: Mireille Astore, Fabian Astore Producers: Mireille Astore, Fabian Astore Cinematographers: Mireille Astore, Fabian Astore Editors: Mireille Astore, Fabian Astore Sound: Mireille Astore, Fabian Astore Print Source Mireille and Fabian Astore Email: mireille@astore.id.au |