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Welcome To The Dollhouse (1995) presented by Carla Adams
Wednesday 17 July 2024 6:30pm
Goolugatup Heathcote
Welcome To The Dollhouse (1995)
While it wasn’t New Jersey native Todd Solondz’s debut as a director, Welcome To The Dollhouse (1995) was his break-out film, winning a Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival that year. Heather Matarazzo stars as awkward high school student Dawn Wiener, cruelly nick-named “Wiener-dog” by her classmates and tormented by the school bully, Brandon (Brendon Sexton III). All she wants is to be popular, and she has a crush on the lead singer (Eric Mabius) of her brother’s garage band. A comic-of-age comedy that is both bitingly funny and acidly dark, but also holds out sincere empathy for the emotional turmoil of adolescence and high school. Solondz would continue to cement his reputation as a controversial auteur with Happiness (1998) and Storytelling (2001) and brought back the character of Dawn Wiener – played this time by Greta Gerwig – in Wiener-Dog (2016).
About the programmer and presenter, Carla Adams
Carla Adams is a contemporary artist living and working in Perth. She graduated with first-class honours from Curtin University in 2014. Her work incorporates sculpture, textiles, painting, drawing, and book-making. Adams’ work has been exhibited at the Art Gallery of WA, Bus Projects (Melbourne), ARTBAR at The Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney), Verge Gallery (Sydney) and Blindside (Melbourne). Adams’ work was selected for the 2023 Ramsay Art Prize at the Art Gallery of SA. She is also an educator, working as a sessional academic at Curtin University and delivering creative workshops across Australia. She is currently represented by Aster + Asha Gallery.
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