Alexandra Beesley - Filmography
2010 - writer / director / animator / producer
'The Wall' [a.k.a. Springcycle} looped video projection
Director: Alexandra Beesley
Writer: Alexandra Beesley
Animators: Alexandra & David Beesley
Producer: Alexandra & David Beesley; Beeworld Pty Ltd
Looped animated site-specific video installation projected onto the southern facade of the Northcote Town Hall. Commissioned as part of Darebin City Council's ProjectART project, screening August 2011.
2009 - writer / director / animator / producer
'White Ribbon' videoloop projection project / DVD
Director: Alexandra Beesley
Writer: Alexandra Beesley
Producer: Alexandra & David Beesley; Beeworld Pty Ltd
Looped 5'57" animation installation for the United Nations' International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women - White Ribbon Day - 25 November; commissioned by Darebin City Council, Women's Domestic Violence Crisis Service Victoria (WDVCS) & Northern Integrated Family Violence Services (NIFVS)
2009 - panellist, International Symposium series
'Art of Difference' disability and deaf arts festival, 2009
Session Four: "Mainstreaming: getting your work out of the ghetto"
Gasworks Art Park, March 2009
2008 - animator / producer
'Dignity of Risk' Projection Project / DVD (current project)
Director: Alexandra Beesley / Rachel Lowe
Writer: Alexandra Beesley / The Echo Lens Photographers
Producer: Alexandra & David Beesley; Beeworld Pty Ltd
Looped 3'55" animation installation for International Day of People with a Disability commissioned by Darebin City Council / Access for All Abilities
2007 - writer, producer, researcher
The Tale of the Right Hand of Spider Lil (and her Cabinets of Curiosity) (current project)
Director: Alexandra & David Beesley
Writer: Alexandra Beesley
Producer: Alexandra & David Beesley; Beeworld Pty Ltd
Developed with assistance from the Australian Film Commission
2006 - writer, producer, content developer
Revolving Door - interactive website
Companion website to "Revolving Door - animated documentary"
Director: Alexandra & David Beesley
Writer: Alexandra Beesley
Producer: Alexandra & David Beesley; Beeworld Pty Ltd
Developed with assistance from the Australian Film Commission
Copyright 2006 Australian Film Commission & Beeworld Pty Ltd
2006 - writer, director, producer & animator
Revolving Door - animated documentary
17 minutes
Director: Alexandra & David Beesley
Writer: Alexandra & David Beesley
Editor: Vanessa Alexandra
Producer: Alexandra & David Beesley; Beeworld Pty Ltd
Produced with assistance from the Australian Film Commission's 'Strand X Experimental Film Fund'.
Awarded the "Contemporary Investigations Acquisition Prize" in the Southern Panoramas Competition section of the 16th International Electronic Art Festival SESC_Videobrasil, 7 October 2007, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Awarded the "HRAFF Jury Prize" at the inaugural Human Rights Arts & Film Festival, December 2007, Melbourne, Australia.
Awarded "Bonehead Award", Best Animated Short Film, Bare Bones Film Festival, April 2008, Muskogee, USA
Awarded Runner-up Best Documentary Short & Runner-up Best Experimental Documentary Short, IFCT World Tour 2008, July 2008, Seattle, USA
Screened in competition, CPH:DOX (2006) - the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival (Denmark), November 2006
Streaming in competition, 4th CON-CAN Movie Festival (Japan), May 2007
Selected for opening night screening / screened in competition, St Kilda Film Festival (Australia), June 2007
Selected for St Kilda Film Festival 'Best of the Fest' National Tour (Australia), June - July 2007
Dendy Award nominee for Most Innovative Short, Sydney Film Festival (Australia), June 2007
Screened in competition, 17 Internationales Videofestival Bochum (Germany), June 2007
Screened in competition, CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival (Canada), June 2007
Selected for screening, DOCNZ 2007 International Documentary Film Festival (New Zealand), September - November 2007
Screened in competition, 11th annual LA Shorts Fest (USA), September 5 - 17 2007
Screened in competition, 16th International Electronic Art Festival - SESC Videobrasil (Brazil), October 2007
Selected for screening, Morelia International Film Festival (Mexico), October 5 - 14 2007
Selected for screening, 15th Annual Rendezvous with Madness Film Festival (Canada), November 8 - 17 2007
Screened in competition, 12th Siena International Short Film Festival (Italy), November 19 - 24 2007
Screened in competition, International Human Rights Arts & Film Festival (Australia), December 2007
Selected for screening, 'Dom Omladine' film festival (Serbia), December 6 - 9 2007
Selected for screening, 'Imagem-Pensamento' project [16th Videobrasil on tour] (Brazil), December 2007
Selected for screening, 'Laboratorio Arte Alameda' [16th Videobrasil on tour] (Mexico), December 2007
Selected for screening, 'Australian Perspectives' animated documentary program at ACMI (Australia), January 12 2008
Selected for screening, St Petersburg International Short & Animation Film Festival (Russia), February 1 2008
Selected for screening, International Festival of Cinema & Technology (USA), March 2008
Broadcast on SBS Television, (Australia), March 22 2008
Screened in competition, 9th Annual Bare Bones International Independent Film & Music Festival (USA), April 17 -27 2008
Screened in competition, 3rd International Short Film Festival 'Psarokokalo' (Greece), February 1 - 8 2009
Screened at 'Art of Difference 09' deaf & disability arts festival, Gasworks Art Park, Melbourne (Australia), March 2009
2005 - writer, researcher
Boxing Kangaroo - 3-part documentary series proposal
Producer: Angela Borelli; Taxi Films
Development funding obtained through
the Australian Film Commission.
2001 - writer, director
Revolving Door - online documentary proposal
Director: Alexandra & David Beesley
Writer: Alexandra & David Beesley
Producer: Alexandra & David Beesley; Beeworld Pty Ltd
Short listed for the ABC / AFC 'Documentaries Online' initiative
1999 - producer, writer, director
Rumbalara, Our Elders' Story - short video
12 minutes
Director: Alexandra & David Beesley
Writer: Alexandra & David Beesley
Producer: Rumbalara Aboriginal Cooperative Ltd
Video presentation for the United Nations' Year of the Elder Person conference, Brisbane
1998 - researcher, location producer & producer's assistant
Red Light Girls - 6-part television documentary series
~ 300 minutes (6 x 50 minutes episodes)
Series Director: Mark Jones
Producer: Lisa Perrin; Granada Television (UK)
Broadcast repeatedly throughout Europe on B-Sky-B, documentary series lifting the lid on the sex industry throughout the world. Shot entirely on location in Manchester UK, Melbourne Australia and Los Angeles, California, USA.
1998 - researcher
Viagra: The inside story - television segment
20 minutes
Director: Catriona Lewis
Producer: Granada Television (UK)
Takes an in depth look at the booming trade in brothel tours for Viagra enhanced octogenarians in Nevada, USA.
1991 - writer, researcher, co-producer
A Business Doing Pleasure - television documentary
27 minutes
Director: Sharon Connelly
Producer: Open Channel Productions
Broadcast on ABC television and included in the State Library of Victoria's Interactive Documentary screening program.