Movies
by Kim Devenish
The selection can also
be seen on our YouTube page
(medusazoe)
In December 2007 we lost our friend Karl Beavis and this has prompted me to get the following two movie clips up onto the net
Click Here to view my Karl tribute.
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The Big Koala Trilogy Part
1 : 1’30” 2002 A look at a newspaper article marking the opening of the “Big
Koala” to the strains of R. Strauss’s “Also Sprach Zarathustra” Part
2 : 1' 20' 2003 A look at the "Big Koala"
souvenir matches Part
3 : 2 min 2004 A sad testament to the closure of the
"Big Koala. |
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Tussock Dance 3’30” 2002 Tussock
grass sways to the tune of “Cu-cu-ru-cu-cu Paloma” performed by
Los Paraguayos |
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Large
and Unusual Vegetables 3 mins. 2001 A look at a wacky collection of
newspaper articles involving unusual or large vegetables Music:
La Lupe’s “This is my mambo” remixed by Kim Devenish |
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Front row seats at birdland 46 min. completed 2005 Takes a long lingering look at about 20 different types
of birds that visit our birdbath and feed in the surrounding shrubs and trees.
Filmed over 2 years, this film shows the world outside our window. A nature
documentary in our back yard Music by Kim Devenish. Narrated by Julie Constable and naturalist Bob McDonald. |
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Leg Dance
3’30’
2001 Collaborative effort with Julie Constable. Kim and Julie demonstrate their
new outdoor dance craze in a paddock. Music by
Kim Devenish. Entered in the 15 / 15 film festival in 2002. |
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Ping Pong 2001 3 min An impromptu finger puppet show performed by young Dusty
and Max to the tune of Karl Beavis’s immortal song, “Ping Pong” |
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Book Covers Pt 1
3 min. 2003 A quick look at the diverse artwork that is to be
found on the covers of books, set to music by Kim Devenish. |
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Vegetable People 2003 10 min. A close look at the entrants in the kids vegetable sculpture
section at the 2003 Foster show. Music: "Yelapa" - (Adam Ross)- The Adam
Ross Reeds "Wave" - (Jobim) - Antonio
Carlos Jobim "Buggy Boy" - (M Ben Juris / T
Benny Lux) - Arabesque "In a Persian Market" Enoch
Light and his orchestra |
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Dragonfly. 2 min 2002 Close
up look at a dragonfly hovering above a creek. Music by Kim Devenish |
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Kale’s
Carousel 3’30” 2002 Super 8 footage of
Kale’s Carousel in Sydney transferred to computer and edited to
original music. |
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Christmas
Eve in Foster 2002 10 mins. A
look at the people in our local district at the 2002 Christmas Eve street
party. |
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Strzelecki
Lyrebirds 11 min. 2002 Peeks at the
incredible songbirds in the Strzelecki forest. Made as part of a CD Rom in
collaboration with Julie Constable |
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Strzelecki Forest Rally 22 min
2003 Documenting the demonstration
held by Gippslanders on the steps of the Victorian State parliament to try to
save the Strzelecki Forests.. Speeches: Greens Senator Bob Brown, Strzelecki resident Julie
Constable, Gunai Nation spokesperson Robbie Thorpe, Anthony Amis from Friends
Of The Earth, Gavin McFazdean from The Wilderness Society and Nicky Moffat
from Environment Victoria. As the speeches progress, the camera gazes at the
collection of interesting faces in the crowd. |
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Harry The Miner 18’
15” 2003 The saga of a statue,
the human urge to build statues and the human urge to tear statues down.
It’s a documentary with a lot of laughs and pathos. |
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The
Latrobe Valley 6 min. 2003 Ageing
heavy industry pouring steam into an already foggy sky on a drizzly day.
Music by Kim Devenish |
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Our own private living nightmare
11’41” 2003 A
slow and dread filled drive along the road from Morwell to the Amcor Paper
Mill at Maryvale accompanied by the impending doom of Vaughan Williams’
Sixth, as Julie and I reluctantly make our way to a meeting we are not
looking forward to…. |
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Echidna 4 min 2003 A close look at a
remarkable Echidna as it trundles about hunting for ants and doing various
other echidna things, striking some very cute poses in the process. Filmed at
Morwell Nat. Park in the Strzelecki Ranges. |
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Fish
Habitat movie Approx. 30 min.
Commissioned by the Corner Inlet Fisheries Habitat group, looks at the
benefits of re-flooding drained swamps and the need to modify floodgates to
restore fish habitat while protecting farm land from inundation. Narrated by
Bob Macdonald |
