Film Programme
Face
documentary
Australia, 2010, 26'
Director: Adele Wilkes
Producer: Polly Staniford
Director of photography: Jody Muston
Writer: Adele Wilkes
Animation: Donna McCrum
Composer: Kane Ikin
Editor: Sally Blenheim
Synopsis: Face focuses on Beautiful Agony, an ongoing art project that collects video self-portraits of faces during orgasm. This intimate and confronting documentry explores the uniquely individual experience of sexual pleasure and its artistic expression.
Director: Adele Wilkes
Adele Wilkes is a Chinese-Australian filmmaker, writer and media arts practitioner. Her work
encompasses documentary, narrative, and cross-media collaborations (performance,
experimental art and video installation). As a media-maker, she combines an artist’s sensibility
with a background in writing and media theory, and training in film production. She is particularly
interested in breaking down the boundaries between art, cinema, real life and natural
phenomena.