Release Cycle - Pinxy Cinema: Unholy Balikbayan x Tito Timmy

For Release Cycle SEVENTH Gallery & Composite partner to present a 12-month screening series featuring clusters and conglomerations of moving works by visual artists that experiment widely with form and format.

For the 3rd iteration of Release Cycle, we present works by SALUHAN collective and Filipino filmmaker, Timmy Harn.

Showcasing outcomes from their Unholy Balikbayan workshops through their Making Space Residency at Siteworks, four performance outcomes from Bea Rubio-Gabriel, Cris Palmares, Kenneth Suico, and Kenny Waite will be woven through Timmy Harn’s films, together exploring cultural memory, traditions and lore, and the embodiment of resistance through performance and story-telling practices.

Time: Doors and drinks start from 6:30pm; screening from 7pm.
Prices: $10 waged / $5 unwaged / no one turned away for lack of funds.
Seating allocations will be on a ‘first-come, first-served' basis and capacity is limited.

Timy Harn is a Filipino visual artist, whose works are mostly based in the filmmaking process, and reflect personal experiences around his historic hometown of Manila. Like most Filipinos, Harn grew up in a strict Catholic upbringing that might be reason for his eclectic interests ranging from the mystical and occult to extraterrestrial culture. Most of his influences are characterized by the Philippines as a cultural melting pot brought by prehistoric early settlers from the region, down to its known stories of colonization. His interest in the old also translates into the use of various filmmaking formats, from the analog textures of film celluloid and home videos, to the high-definition clarity of digital imagery, allowing him to merge historical timelines and define “the feeling of a future.”

SALUHAN is a Filipinx/o collective based in Naarm, Melbourne on Wurundjeri Country. They were created to establish a network between create practitioners in Australia and the Philippines, and has since expanded to include collaborative projects that combine arts, activism, and community development. SALUHAN has previously facilitated Agimat (2021), SALUHAN Virtual Gatherings (2020), SALUHAN: A Filipino Community Arts Event (2019); and are currently undertaking a residency at Footscray Community Arts. The Dialekto workshops through the Making Space Residency at Siteworks, continuing through to Footscray Community Arts, has been made possible with the support of NAVA and City of Melbourne.

Bea Rubio-Gabriel is a performance artist, writer, and curator born in the Philippines now based in Naarm/Melbourne. They explore the Baybayin script in how it can be activated as a gateway to rebuild cultural connections, and enact care and resistance aesthetics through rhizomatic curatorial methodologies. They have exhibited as a part of Hyphenated Biennale (2021-22), and was the recipient of the Emerging Curator’s Program with BLINDSIDE Gallery (2021). Bea was one of the facilitators for Unholy Balikbayan and is currently one of the contributors for Parallel x Runway Journal (2022).

Cris Palmares is an artist and naturalist, born in Australia, with Waray-Waray roots. Raised in lutruwita/Tasmania, but now based in Naarm/Melbourne: Cris uses the home they have found amongst the natural world as a means of ingress to re-connecting with precolonial and on-going land-based ancestral knowledge of the archipelago.  A re-connection: decolonially and in struggle; to, with, and for kin – kapwa.

Kenneth Suico is a visual artist living and working in Naarm/Melbourne. Born in Cebu, Philippines, Suico applies modes of video, pop song performance, and installation to consider the act of repurposing, and the appropriation of what is considered Western-based mythology and imagery into their personal history and cultural superstitions. Suico was one of the facilitators for Unholy Balikbayan and is currently exhibiting at SEVENTH Gallery.

Kenny Waite is an emerging artist and writer, with family roots in Davao. Born on Gunaikurnai land/Gippsland, they are now living and working in Naarm/Melbourne. They use painting, song and word to explore our many identities and how our heritage, grief and queerness overlap with the common theme of re-connection to self, culture and community. A process of how personal creation and representation can be used to reconnect and heal lost connections.

Time: Doors and drinks start from 6:30pm; screening from 7pm.
Prices: $10 waged / $5 unwaged / no one turned away for lack of funds. 

Seating allocations will be on a ‘first-come, first-served' basis and capacity is limited.

Accessibility Requirements

All screenings in this program are captioned however if you have any other accessibility requirements please let us know.

Wheelchair Accessibility

Composite is wheelchair accessible via the main carriageway ramp from Johnston Street as well as elevator access to the UG floor via the 'art deco' entrance midway down the Johnston Street facade and also via the rear entrance beside the Keith Haring mural, which has a ramp and leads to the elevator.

Gender Neutral Bathrooms

Composite has all gender-neutral bathrooms.

Accessible Parking/Dropoff Areas

If you are coming by car, there is accessible drop-off and pick up space at the side of the building beside the Keith Haring mural. There are also accessible parking located in the carpark at the rear of our venue.

Public Transport

Composite at Collingwood Yards is close to Stop 19 at the corner of Smith Street/Johnston Street on the 86 tram line. Only some Trams on this route are serviced by a mix of low floor and high floor trams. Read more at the PTV site here. The number 200 and 207 Bus' also stop directly over the road from Collingwood Yards.

Guide Dogs/Service Dogs

Guide dogs and service dogs are welcome at Composite.