Prototype Care Package: Experimental films direct to your inbox

Curator Lauren Carroll Harris' utopian ideals persist in the screen sector's darkest days as she launches a follow-up to last year's 'Prototype' series.

When Lauren Carroll Harris launched her original Prototype series in July last year, it was intended to be a duration project of just three months. Over this period she distributed original commissioned works of video art, experimental film, and moving image art from a range of Australian creators to her subscribers via weekly email. The project developed out of her academic research into a crisis she identified in Australian film distribution that typically excluded artists like her: women, experimental artists, and others underrepresented or under-served in the industry due to their form or identity.

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Jini Maxwell is a curator at ACMI, and an award-winning videogame journalist. They curated ‘Honk: Untitled Goose Exhibition,’ co-curate Gay24, a monthly film night showcasing rare, radical and archival queer films. Jini is currently co-curating a major videogame exhibition at ACMI.