Films

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