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  • Genesis Owusu | The Fall

    Genesis Owusu | The Fall

    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

  • Gordi: Refracted

    Gordi: Refracted

    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

    Desperate Measures

    ‘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

  • Angela Goh: Mirador

    Angela Goh: Mirador

    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

  • Smoulder

    Smoulder

    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

  • Loose Fit: Sticky Beacon

    Loose Fit: Sticky Beacon

    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

  • Party Dozen: The Worker

    Party Dozen: The Worker

    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

  • Sydney Dance Company: Touch

    Sydney Dance Company: Touch

    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