dir. Stephanie Jane Day
Annie Hamilton performs live at Phoenix Central Park as part of Phoenix HALO.
Buzz Kull performs live at Phoenix Central Park as part of Phoenix HALO.
Eric Avery performs live at Phoenix Central Park as part of Phoenix HALO.
Shady Nasty perform live at Phoenix Central Park as part of Phoenix HALO.
Performed and recorded live at Phoenix Central Park
Directed by VERSUS / Jason Sukadana & Tanya Babic
Commissioned by Phoenix Central Park
A Subversus Original Production Company: Vs. Studio
Cinematography: Tyson Perkins
Editor: Sean McDermott
Post Production: Vs. Studio
Colour Grade: Matt Fezz
Sound Recording and Mix: Joshua Craig
Phoenix Executive Producer: Judith Neilson AM
Phoenix Producer and Creative Director: Beau Neilson
Phoenix Creative and Technical Director: Angus Hunt
Artistic Director: Nena Beretin
Copyright Phoenix Central Park & Subversus 2021
Writers:
Kofi Owusu-Ansah, Andrew Klippel, Dave Haddad, Michael Di Francesco, Kirin J Callinan, Julian Sudek
Producers:
Andrew Klippel, Dave Hammer
Performers:
Kofi Owusu-Ansah (Vocals) , Andrew Klippel (Keys), Kirin J. Callinan (Guitar), Michael Di Francesco (Bass), Julian Sudek (Drums)
Publishers:
Kofi - Ourness
Andrew - Mushroom (AUS) / Kobalt (World)
Michael - APRA - Future Classic Publishing Pty Ltd / Kobalt Music Publishing Australia
Julian - Self Kirin - Sony ATV
Dave - Kobalt
Mixed by:
Dave Hammer
Engineers:
George Nicholas, Thomas Marland
Mastered by:
Joe LaPorta @ Sterling Sound NYC
Directed by VERSUS
Performed by Gordi
Director: Tanya Babic
Director: Jason Sukadana
Production Company: Vs. Studio
Cinematography: Brad Jarrett
Editor: Sean McDermott
Phoenix Executive Producer: Judith Neilson AM
Phoenix Producer and Creative Director: Beau Neilson
Phoenix Creative and Technical Director: Angus Hunt
Artistic Director: Nena Beretin
Gordi Management: Adrian McGruther @ su:ku:ya
Post Production: Vs. Studio
Colour Grade: Matt Fezz
Production Stills: Jess Gleeson & Teresa Tan
Title Design: Russell Fitzgibbon
Production Manager: Justine Moyle
1st AC: Steivan Hasler
Gaffer: Lee Burling
Best Boy: Simon Lowerson
Steadicam: Julius Koivistoinen
Styling: Monique Moynihan
Hair and Makeup: Stephanie Cainero
Runner: James Berry
Sound Design and Mix: Joshua Craig
Sound Recording: Joshua Craig
Sound record assistant: Dorny Mayes
Music written by Sophie Payten (Gordi)
Music published by Mushroom Music
Gordi Apparition 1: Tatjana Appleford
Gordi Apparition 2: Bridget Heazlewood
Gordi Appartition 3: Niki Hrstic
Subversus Executive Producer: Tanya Babic
Subversus Creative Director: Jason Sukadana
‘Desperate Measures’ is a performative journey through the belly of Phoenix. A visceral sensation of urgency is manifested through the collision of dance, music and architecture.
Directed by VERSUS (Jason Sukadana & Tanya Babic)
Performed by Richard Cilli, Juliette Barton and Claire Edwardes
Choreography by Richard Cilli and Juliette Barton
Music:
Red Drum (Claire Edwardes)
Bike Racks (Claire Edwardes)
Chooks (Erik Griswold)
Production Company: Vs. Studio
Cinematography: Brad Jarrett
Producer: Tanya Babic
Editor: Jason Sukadana
Assistant Editor: Sean McDermott
Phoenix Executive Producer: Judith Neilson AM
Phoenix Producer and Creative Director: Beau Nielson
Phoenix Creative and Technical Director: Angus Hunt
Artistic Director: Nena Beretin
Post Production: Vs. Studio
Colour Grade: Abe Wynen at Crayon
Production Stills: Teresa Tan
Title Design: Russell Fitzgibbon
Production Manager: Justine Moyle
1st AC: Steivan Hasler
Gaffer: Alan Fraser
Best Boy: Simon Lowerson
Steadicam: Max Mclachlan
Standby props: Nicola Bruni
Hair and Makeup: Stephanie Cainero
Runner: James Berry
Sound Design and Mix: Joshua Craig
Sound Recording: Joshua Craig
Sound record assistant: Leigh Perrett
Subversus Creative Director: Jason Sukadana
Mirador
featuring Angela Goh
Directed by VERSUS & Angela Goh
Choreographed and performed by Angela Goh
“Getting lost was central to my first experiences being inside Phoenix—doors led to stairwells, led to corridors, led to other stairwells that looked the same but were different, which led to dark corners which turned onto underground levels, which through other doorways suddenly opened out onto rooftops. Being inside Phoenix is like navigating a labyrinth. For Mirador we wanted to capture this feeling of mystery—how the building reveals itself in both puzzling and dazzling ways that feel like there is always more to discover.”
- Angela Goh
Music by Corin Ileto
Costume Design by Verity Mackey
SPACE | ACTION: Smoulder
Concept designer, projection art: Carla Zimbler
Music: Sumn Conduit (Ben Carey & Sonya Holowell)
Percussion & Electronics: Nicholas Meredith
Dancer & Choreographer: Victoria Hunt
VFX: John Carolan
Production Company: Entropico
Executive Producer: Erin Moy
Director: Chloe de Brito
Producer: Jemma Cole
DOP: Tom Black
Stylist: Isabella Mamas
H&MU: Celeste Gubb
Gaffer: Tom Keyes
Camera Assist: Gary Morris
Sound Recordist: James Langfield for Gigpiglet
Production Assist: Chloe Hayman
Editors: Andrea Chen & Chloe de Brito
Colourists: Tom Black & Andrea Chen
Set Stills: Evo
Artwork Design: Bridget Peters
Artwork Animation: Tommy Stone
Promo Audio: Rowan Dix
SPACE | ACTION: Sticky Beacon
Featuring Loose Fit
Recorded live at Phoenix Central Park
Big Brother is watching, Little Brother is listening, and Loose Fit is laying it down.
"We liked Gabe’s concept of letting Loose Fit roam around Phoenix as if it were our very own absurd, mad, art HQ. The energy got more weird as the day went on. Gabe and the video team represented our crooked, slightly unhinged style of music really well with some pretty disorienting tilted cinematography. There was a bit of a ‘golden ticket’ vibe too: with the security guards pacing the building’s angular concrete facade, and us being some of the lucky few people allowed inside during lock down."
- Loose Fit
"Sticky Beacon is a playful exploration of surveillance and the mystery shrouding Phoenix. A lightheaded and dizzying journey through the space.”
- Gabriel Gasparinatos, Director
Production Company: Entropico
EP & CD: Erin Moy
Director: Gabriel Gasparinatos
Producer: Jemma Cole
DOP & Colourist: Tom Black
Stylist: Isabella Mamas
H&MU: Celeste Gubb
Gaffer: Tom Keyes
Camera Assist: Gary Morris
Sound Recordist: James Langfield for Gigpiglet
Production Assist: Chloe Hayman
Editor: Andrea Chen
Set Stills: Evo
Artwork Design: Bridget Peters
Artwork Animation: Tommy Stone
Promo Audio: Rowan Dix
Space | Action: The Worker
featuring Party Dozen
A labour of love and a love of the labour, in The Worker the wild synth, drum, and sax duo, Party Dozen, moved through the Phoenix’s liminal spaces of light and dark, glare and gloom, vibrant and vanish. Flaring, flashing lights, and a little too much smoke machine.
"We wanted this track to feel like something you could start your day to. A sonic salutation for the bored and sanitised. And after postponing our ‘Pray For Party Dozen’ Album tour for almost 12 months, ’The Worker’ felt like part cathartic outlay of locked-down frustrations, and part jubilation... finally picking up our tools and getting back to work."
- Kirsty Tickle, Jonathan Boulet (Party Dozen)
“The raw energy dynamic between Party Dozen is explosive and alive. I felt like I was watching two planets violently orbit. This production uses Phoenix as the gravity in this equation as our two performers drift inwards the ceiling and light installation by Sam Whiteside collapses in on them to reinforce their sonic super nova.”
- Joel Burrows, Director
Production Company: Entropico
EP & CD: Erin Moy
Director: Joel Burrows
Producer: Jemma Cole
DOP & Colourist: Tom Black
Lighting Design: Sam Whiteside
Stylist: Isabella Mamas
H&MU: Celeste Gubb
Camera Assist: Gary Morris
2nd Camera Assist: Autumn Loveday
Sound Recordist: James Langfield for Gigpiglet
Production Assist: Chloe Hayman
Grip: Kris Wallis
Grip Assist: Justin Van Azul
Editor: Andrea Chen
Set Stills: Evo
Artwork Design: Bridget Peters
Artwork Animation: Tommy Stone
Promo Audio: Rowan Dix
SPACE | ACTION: Touch
Featuring Sydney Dance Company
“This film is centered around the first moment the Sydney Dance Company dancers were able to make physical contact again after months of adhering to a strict no-touch policy during Covid. The dancers move between tight, unified choreography and fluid, reactive movement prompted by emotional cues of not being able to touch and then finally joining. It unfolds as a spiraling journey through passageways and stairs down to the core of Phoenix - the rotating platform in the garage. Phoebe Twigg's (ptwiggs) track 'Creation in Destruction' for the film greatly complemented the erratic pace of the edit and the intensity versus relief felt in the dancers movement.
– Claudia Brand, Director
“Phoenix is an inspirational space, which embodies the nexus between architecture and creativity. Working with the Sydney Dance Company dancers to bring to life a creative response to Phoenix Central Park was a delight. Contemporary dance reflects the new, the future, the vanguard and it was incredible to have the opportunity to make a short film driven by the sinuous lines and surprises around each corner of this breathtaking building.”
– Rafael Bonachela, Artistic Director & Choreographer
Production Company: Entropico
EP & CD: Erin Moy
Director: Claudia Brand
Producer: Jemma Cole
DOP: Tom Black
Stylist: Emilie Joy
H&MU: Celeste Gubb
H&MU Assistant: Cassie Lapthorne
Gaffer: Tom Keyes
Camera Assist: Gary Morris
Production Assist: Chloe Hayman
Grip: Joe Bruneteau
Grip Assist: Mark Glasgow
Music: ptwiggs
Editor & Colourist: Andrea Chen
Compositing: Simon Jackman
Set Stills: Evo
Artwork Design: Bridget Peters
Artwork Animation: Tommy Stone
Promo Audio: Rowan Dix