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Once Upon a Time in the Western Suburbs

Country: Australia, Language: English, 7 mins

  • Director: Gideon Obarzanek; Matthew Bate
  • Producer: Anton Andreacchio

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Ballroom culture is popping up in Australia...of all places!

A word of advice, you need a seminal film like Paris is Burning...this is not it!


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The(ir) Blurb...

After previously collaborating on the award-winning I Want to Dance Better at Parties, Matthew Bate (Shut Up Little Man: An Audio Misadventure, MIFF 2011) and Gideon Obarzanek team up for Once Upon a Time in the Western Suburbs. This VR dance work puts viewers in the middle of a street dance battle featuring artists from the XO State festival, held as part of Arts Centre Melbourne's AsiaTOPA in February 2017.