Film Club: Simone Hine

Playtime (1967)

10 May 2020

Simone Hine is an artist, curator and writer. Her artworks expand across performance, video, installation and sound. She re-contextualises media images, with a particular focus on the cinematic. These media images are expanded spatially and temporally in order to re-examine otherwise transitory moments. Hine is a founding co-director of Kuiper Projects (Brisbane) a contemporary art gallery and project space (2017-present). She was also a founding co-director of Screen Space (Melbourne), a screen-based gallery (2010 – 2016) and Beam Contemporary (Melbourne), a commercial gallery (2010 – 2014). Hine holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne: School of Culture and Communication, in Art History. She has presented research nationally and internationally and has written numerous exhibition catalogues.

FILM: Playtime (1967) (1hr 58mins) dir. Jacques Tati

ABOUT: The most daring and expensive work of Jacques Tati's career took nine years to complete and links a young American tourist and a befuddled Frenchman as they repeatedly encounter one another in the course of a day.

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