Possible Worlds + Eels + Wuz

I have been up to a whole bunch lately, mostly photography-related after school activities.

My good friend Kate works for The Festivalists, who put together, amongst many other things, the Possible Worlds Film Festival, which is a festival of Canadian film held annually in Sydney. I didn’t know Possible Worlds even existed [though no fault of the guys who put it together, I tend to live with my head under 80 thousand tonnes of rock and miss most awesome cultural events], so when Kate asked if I would like to volunteer my services at some of the screenings, I was über excited at the prospect of meeting some new people, getting out from under that 80 thousand tonnes of rock and seeing some Canadian film.

I went along to the opening night at Dendy Circular Quay, and saw the film Chloe. It was a saucy thriller.

Before hand, I took some crowd shots.

Here we have filmmaker Nelofer Paziraand Possible Worlds Artistic Director, Matt Ravier.

They are both ridiculously photogenic.

I loved these girls! How much fun do they look like they’d be? I bet they make up all kinds of awesome uke songs.

I went along again on one of the last nights and saw Leslie, My Name is Evil. It was a strange film, I don’t know that it quite got where it wanted to go, but it was a really interesting film to watch, kind of a pop art take on the Manson family.

After the screening, all the hip kids headed to the after party. I followed them.

And followed them.

And followed them.

Then we partied.

And projected.

And partied.

After getting over that and editing a trillionity billion photos, my dear friend, and fellow Canonista, Fiona, asked if I wanted to shoot the Eels last night. I like Eels, I wanted to shoot them, so I said okay!

Here’s where I fan boy out a little bit, so please, just let me have a moment.

The gig was at the Enmore Theatre. The venue where I’ve seen some of my favourite musical acts ever. A huge old theatre venue. And here I was, with a sticker slapped on my jeans, which allowed me access to the photo pit in front of the stage. 16-year-old Julia would have died and gone to heaven. 27-year-old Julia came close. It was so exciting, and shooting from the pit is AWESOME.

Here is my pit pass, as modelled by me, assisted by The Wuz:

The support was Laura Imbruglia, who I’ve never seen live before. She was both a delight to listen to and to shoot.

Then came Eels. We had a three song limit and those three songs were short, darkly lit and performed by only two members of the band. I didn’t let this phase me, I was all ‘Canon 500D? Let’s do this shit!’. And we did. I was pretty happy with the results I got, but as bummed as all the other photographers when we got booted out of the pit and turned to discover the whole band on stage with awesome red and orange lighting. Them’s the breaks.

The rest of my pics are over at my Flicks, yo!