Keyword is a monthly screening event that activates the literature of the Library Portal bookshelves through moving images. On the last Thursday of every month we project a selection of a short doco and a feature length film that builds a dialogue with ideas, concepts, and theories we’ve rummaged up from the collection. Keyword is a co-curated event, organised by a core team in collaboration with the audience.

Entry is by donation that goes directly towards library portal’s rent ($10 is suggested). Please register your attendance here. We will have decaf dandelion chai available for purchase, and will provide cushions and pillows, byo blankets, get cozy.

S1.2025_Keyword: Errancy

Season 1 of Keyword is themed Errancy. We will be interrogating the idea of errancy as a behaviour, a choice, a body, and an emotion. In film, errancy is explored through a broad range of techniques—A plot refusing a trope, a director refusing a tradition; a character who makes the same mistake more than once, and the director that chooses to make that a part of their story. Errancy is deviant and playful, intentional and incidental; it’s a plea to hesitate when faced with the status quo. To err means to choose a path of friction, erring towards the otherwise.

Each month we will hint at the feature film by sharing the title of the short doco we will be screening. Season 1 shorts will highlight the work of German experimental documentary filmmaker Harun Farocki. But the feature film will remain a secret until the event itself.