Afterlight
Lakeside Facade, Belconnen Arts Centre
Current Suite: 31 July 2026 – 22 August, Sundown–9pm
Afterlight is a curated program of short digital artworks that illuminate the lakeside facade of Belco Arts throughout non-daylight savings months (April–September). This 15-minute loop is projected onto the west-facing side of the Theatre, above the external café & bar seating area, playing from sundown to 9pm every evening. The current suite of works plays until 22 August.
Requiem
Alexander Boynes
Requiem is a silent reimagining, edited by Alexander Boynes, of his 2018 video Woomera Story, featuring a performance by Brendon Ashley (Kamarrang) and cello composed and performed by Tristen Parr. Through digital layering, colour separation and temporal displacement, the body moves between physical presence and luminous trace. Its gestures accumulate as afterimages, repeatedly forming, fragmenting and dissolving across the screen.
Although presented without sound, the work retains the elegiac rhythm of the original cello composition. Silence intensifies its sense of absence, allowing the figure to function as both witness and lament.
The Road Ahead
Nicci Haynes
The Road Ahead ties together footage and drawings, made from inside cars and at roadsides in Canberra, Australia. It was made originally as a site-specific film to be screened on a roadside concrete wall as part of the Localjinni’s Dynamo Hub, 2022 moving film and sound show.
The Road Ahead has since been screened at experimental film festivals in Australia and overseas.
Production: Nicci Haynes: filming, drawing, editing.
Conscious Duality
Karen Milder
Being of two parts in flow and movement combined.
Over the last five years I have collected film footage of my travels within Australia as I explore parts of my place and space in the zone of zeitgeist.
Filming – Karen Milder
Direction – Karen Milder
Post-Production – Karen Milder
Still – Karen Milder
Titeann braon ar bhraon go mbailítear an loch
Murielle Celis
Titeann braon ar bhraon go mbailítear an loch (drop by drop a lake is formed) is a short moving-image work compiled from eleven individual video pieces originally created for an interactive public art installation presented as part of Typetrail 2026, an annual exhibition running through the whole of Kells in Ireland.
The original installation allows the audience to navigate between the eleven looping videos using a touch sensor. For Afterlight, these individual works have been re edited into a single film.
Handcrafted animation is combined with digital video. Using Stop Motion Studio, I created animations from newsprint cutouts and folded origami forms. These were edited in Capcut and layered on top of real life video footage.
Limbs + Wings
Sonia Levesque
This micro film features a winged faceless woman and a griffin. It’s a visceral piece that explores themes of
transformation, identity, and the sentient condition… it’s ultimately a film about struggle and resilience.
Beginning as a series of micro feelings swirling around and slowly taking shape inside of a games engine (Unreal Engine), Limbs+Wings blends innovative real-time filmmaking methodology with a fine art sensibility.
Upcoming
The following works will play from 23 August to 11 September 2026.
Bloom
Egg Picnic
Bloom is a seven-minute animation by Eggpicnic that celebrates the places we call home and the quiet forces that sustain life. Created using 2D animation and illustration, the work unfolds in a continuous cycle of blooming wildflowers and pollinators from across the world, featuring species from South and North America, India, Asia and Oceania.
Bloom is a meditation on pollination, both ecological and symbolic. As flowers open and pollinators emerge, the animation reveals how life is sustained through connection and cooperation. These same principles extend beyond the natural world, as the work also reflects on the pollination of cultures and communities, and how this ongoing exchange can shape a sustainable future for all life.
The illustrations and animation were created by Eggpicnic.
Commissioned by Vivid Sydney, Bloom was exhibited in 2025 at the Argyle Cut in The Rocks, Sydney, transforming the historic site into a living landscape.
It’s All Soup In The End
Emma Lyn Winkler
It’s All Soup In The End is a stop-motion animation that faces the futility of fixating on the inevitable by exploring death, absurdity and anxiety. Each frame is hand-painted, exaggerating the plasticity and extremes of cartoon visual language through the liquidity of the paint. Inspired by the medieval fool archetype, this animation depicts helpless cartoon figures being ridiculously deconstructed.
Rather than shying away from death and increasing one’s dread, this animation explores how reframing and accepting dying as a generative transformation can be an antidote to anxiety.
Production team Writing, animation and editing: Emma Lyn Winkler Writing and editing assistance: Ellis Curmi Created as part of the Signal Screen Commissions.
Magic Turtle Island
Anne Spalter
Turtles as ancient navigators of the impossible. Ferried across glowing oceans and shimmering deserts, they move beneath skies where UFOs hover like luminous jellyfish and the horizon dissolves into ribbons of colour. Each magic turtle island short is a small fever dream — saltwater and sand, starlight and static.
The work lives in the space between the natural and the cosmic: tide pools that open onto galaxies, dunes that breathe saturated, psychedelic light. The compilation invites you to enter the magical realm of the turtles and let the stage become beautiful. These are postcards from a universe far more luminous than our own.
Montage of Imagination
Helen Newman
Montage of Imagination is a dynamic and whimsical montage of multi layered static and animated imagery woven into a chaotic, joyful visual feast.
Using a blend of animated collage cutouts, video effects, vintage photographs, and text, the work creates a constantly evolving, playful environment that is a free-flowing experiment of the imagination. The raw materials of local icons such as landmarks, streets, faces are woven together with universal icons. Birds perch on Belconnen’s iconic Powerful Owl sculpture, a child watches the seeds of a dandelion float in the breeze, butterflies emerge from the skull of a robot and historic images of developing Belconnen are overlaid with a montage of diverse people.
Montage of Imagination celebrates the playful, ever-evolving nature of creativity—where the line between reality and fantasy is tugged forward and back.
The Forest of Infinite Secrets
Rank SSS
The Forest of Infinite Secrets is a long-form immersive audiovisual experience bringing together nature, architecture, space, and cinematic storytelling through a sequence of evolving digital environments.
The work unfolds through forests, imagined landscapes, architectural fragments, celestial environments, and atmospheric transitions that slowly evolve over time, creating a continuous immersive journey shaped by perception, scale, movement, and emotion.
Inspired by natural environments and architectural thinking, the project explores themes of wonder,
emotional presence, memory, and the relationship between people and immersive space.
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Magpie and the Man
Miles Howard-Wilks
A short hand-drawn animation about the encounters between a magpie and a man.
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