Deep in nature, out of time, through a river portal, a young woman discovers a genetically modified food source that gives her strange visions of the end of the natural world.

The Odd River flows up north to Briz/Meanjin for a special engagement at Palace James St that'll satiate your movie hunger and satisfy the pickiest of cinema goers.

Featuring a 20 minute set of genetically-modified music from Helen Svoboda followed by a screening of the 30 minute film by Angus Kirby, join us on an audiovisual journey into the unknown.

ALBUM

The Odd River is the latest work of award-winning bassist, vocalist and composer Helen Svoboda. The soundtrack weaves moments of startling beauty, childlike playfulness and dense chaos. Featuring a large ensemble of Australia’s most intriguing performers, Helen’s quirky compositional style cycles through a rapidly changing landscape, seasoned by the eclectic instrumentation of double bass, voice, prepared piano, harmonium, zither, trombone, piccolo trumpet, woodwinds, percussion and virtuosic whistling.

Full album availabile via Earshift Music.

https://helensvoboda.bandcamp....

FILM

Filmmaker Angus Kirby brings to life the rich soundscape to create a thirty-minute fairytale, inspired by Svoboda's compositions. The natural world here is another character, something much larger than people, looming over us - ready to swallow us completely.

The film is a fantasia; evoking the collision of organic and inorganic, of the natural and unnatural - captured deep in the forests of south-east QLD.