Paul Winkler Experimental Film Collection 1964-2011 Screener

Screener for Paul Winkler Experimental Film Collection 1964-2011 available online from Paul Winkler (born 22 June 1939) is a German-born Australian filmmaker who lives and works in Sydney. He was associated with Corinne and Arthur Cantrill, Albie Thoms and David Perry in pioneering local experimental film production in the 1960s. Winkler characterises his films as “a synthesis of intellect and emotion, filtered through the plastic material of film“. “I try to let ’imagines’ flow freely to the surface“. The ideas which he terms ’imagines’ may reflect Australian icons like Bondi Beach, Ayers Rock/Uluru and the Sydney Harbour Bridge, or textures, as in Bark/Rind, Green Canopy, and the bush. In 1973, Winkler’s film Dark identified with the Aboriginal land rights movement, acquiring a spirituality which was also manifested in Chants and Red Church. Later films take contemporary society for their subject, as in Rotation, Time ou