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A funny thing happened on the way to the drive-in

Screen culture, digital art and live performance overlap in the latest project by hybrid arts company, Aphids.
21 Jan 2014
Richard Watts
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Evan Knoble, the star of Finale (image supplied by Aphids)

Founded in 1994, Melbourne-based company Aphids are renowned for the presentation of experimental and innovative works which fuse music, performance and new technologies. Their latest work celebrates that dying icon, the drive-in movie, while simultaneously exploring the intersection of the private and the public, live performance and screen culture, the death of analogue technology and the rise of the digital.

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Richard Watts

Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts

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