This special screening is part of Photofields 2024, a Powerhouse program that brings together photographers working across astronomy, journalism, art, film, and philosophy to explore the role of lens-based media to connect with the sky, cosmos, and Country. It features the premiere of Liselle Mei's Human Computer, a short film exploring the work of female star measurers and focusing on Winsome Bellamy, who measured the stars at Sydney Observatory for 20 years. Our feature presentation is Theo Anthony's All Light, Everywhere, a documentary that examines persistent understandings of the camera as a scientific device intended to capture absolute reality.

To view the full Photofields program, please visit https://powerhouse.com.au/program/photofields-2024 

Liselle Mei is a director, producer and writer. An honours graduate of New York University’s film school, her first film, Ana: Portrait in Days, screened at the Lincoln Centre. Her feature documentary Love Opera screened in Cannes Cinephiles to critical acclaim and was voted by audiences as best feature documentary at the Australian Screen Industry Awards 2021. Mei has a New York Film Academy fellowship in screenwriting. Her credits include Seeing Red (winner of a jury award at the Asian Pacific Film Festival) and Red Earth (finalist at the Asian American screenplay competition).

Theo Anthony is a filmmaker based in Baltimore and Upstate New York. His first feature documentary, Rat Film, premiered to critical acclaim, with a successful festival and theatrical run followed by a broadcast premiere on PBS Independent Lens in early 2018. Anthony is the recipient of the 2018 Sundance Art of Non-Fiction Fellowship and the 2019 Sundance and Simons Foundation Science Sandbox Fellowship. All Light, Everywhere was Anthony’s first film to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.