Film Club: Kyle Weise

The Conversation (1974)

21 June 2020

Kyle Weise is a writer and curator. He has a specific interest in the moving image across cinema and art, and its mediation of technology and space. Weise has curated numerous exhibitions and has written about contemporary Australian art in catalogue essays and articles for various publications, including Eyeline, Dissect, Un Magazine and Millennium Film Journal. Together with Simone Hine he co-founded and co-directed Screen Space, a not-for-profit gallery dedicated to the moving image (2010-2016) and Beam Contemporary, a commercial gallery focused on emerging experimental practices (2010-2014). Both spaces were located in Melbourne’s CBD. Hine and Weise are currently running an ARI in Brisbane’s CBD called Kuiper Projects. Since 2018 he has worked as the Curator of the Exhibition Program at Metro Arts, Brisbane

FILM: The Conversation (1974) (1hr 48mons)dir. Francis Ford Coppola

ABOUT: Francis Ford Coppola’s cinematic masterpiece is the slowly-gripping, bleak study of electronic wiretapping that is examined through the private, internalised life of Harry Caul, a lonely and detached surveillance expert. Harry is an invader of privacy. The best in the business. He can record any conversation between two people anywhere. But so far, three people are dead because of him and two more may follow. Stars Gene Hackman, Harrison Ford and Cindy Williams.

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.