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FIELD, Super 8mm film, colour, sound, 6 mins. An evocative, poetic contemplation upon asthetic chance featuring a soundscore for 6 guitars and slow motion toy recorders. More here: FIELD |
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INDUSTRIAL VESPER #11, AMIGA SOFTWARE + AUDIOTAPE, 18:00, 1993. … A meditation on bureaucracy… Steve Middleton, 3RRR Art Show Elliptical, hybrid reportage documenting the privatization of the Victorian Electricity industry. Draws upon the political theatre of Erwin Piscator, B grade sci-fi, constructivist design and classical silent cinema. Industrial Vesper #11 is currently part of a new media emulation program being conducted by the Digital Media Heritage Lab at Swinburne University. More here: Virtualities |
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RISING THERMAL, 2022, 9.46 mins, Video from original Super 8 Film Rising Thermal was part of the FRAGILE EARTH: EXTINCTION exhibition, 2022, Gippsland Art Gallery, SALE. Rising Thermal creates an unsettling, ominous atmosphere of uneasiness reflecting on the rising temperature of earth’s warming atmosphere and how it is causing catastrophic changes to Alpine Regions and the species that live there. |
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EDGE OF THE RANGE, 2018, 6min, B&W/Col, Super 8mm. An important stand of Strzelecki Gums and 2 HA of vegetation near Latrobe River in danger of being cut down for road widening.
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Image: Still from Industrial Nocturne No. 2 INDUSTRIAL NOCTURNE NO. 2, 2016, 6min, Col/B&W, Video. Industrial Nocturne No. 2 examines class, identity and ideological fabrication via fractured auras and strategic abstractions and is concerned with (i) the absence of full and meaningful employment (ii) the intransience of capital to formulate sustainable organisational modes and (iii) post industrial alienation. The video amalgamates archival photographs from the former State Electricity Commission Victoria, Super 8 freeze frames of the decaying (now demolished) Yallourn E Power Station and recent B&W stills of disused power utility infrastructure. The industrial images are augmented by ambivalent agitprop intertitles and miscellaneous snapshots. The texts are a collage and composite of diffuse narrative elements combining payroll codes, medical interviews, mechanical inventories and polemical slapstick. The uncertain queries, directives and interjections form a sinister inquiry. Haunted, whimsical and alogical, an oscillating montage of obscure ambiences, (in)discreet didactics & random occlusions. Part hystorical cut-and-paste, part contemporary critique of capital, Industrial Nocturne No. 2 unfolds at the interstices of documentary illusion and absurdist fiction.
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POSTLUDE, 2013, 3min, Col, Super 8mm. Scored for 128 magnetic-tape guitars, an ultra-minimalist exploration of hyper-velocity and abstract consonance.
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ABANDONED EMPIRE, 2012, 9 min, Col, Super 8mm. Features an immersive, futurist muzak soundscape of metallic anti-rhythm, dysphonic strings and hyper-mechanical auras. Exhibited in DISCREET MONTAGE at Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell.
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HARMONIC GHOSTS, 2009, 2:30min, B&W, Super 8. … where faintly Gothic images brush against each other like dry, blown leaves… Jake Wilson, RealTime A random montage of unknown passers-by and incidental scenery is transformed into an ambient horror photoplay by a somnambulist drone performed on six amplified electronic guitar tuners. |
abstraction documentary constructs
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