Video/filmography
Video Work: Purrumbete Verandah for the The Stony Rises Project. The group exhibition reviewed in ‘The Age’ – Rock art, but not as we know it. There is an artists statement published in the accompanying book‘Designing Place’ published in parallel with the opening exhibition.
Locative Painting 2008-ongoing (work-in-progress) is a research project that explores the development of a prototype website that documents the relationship between Eugene Von Guérard’s landscape paintings and the locations they recorded in the Corangamite Shire of Victoria. Von Guérard sketched and painted in this particular region from 1857-61. The prototype website is developed by integrating the Google Maps, application programming interface (API). A contemporary view of history and colonial heritage is explored by using each painting as a focal point to generate media content. For example, a number of video interviews have been conducted with local people, who have connections to these locations, some have ancestors who settled the land and commissioned the paintings. Geotagging each painting location with latitude and longitude coordinates, the visual representation of maps are used to provide a geographical viewpoint within a documentary narrative.
(Video frame, ‘Miguel Playing with Dog’, Videographer Daniel Perez, World Vision Columbia)
Bogota: Columbia 2008-09 is a consultancy research project undertaken in collaboration (credits) with the Digital Content Team of the international aid organisation World Vision Australia. This is a project that explores new ways of using online video to document aid programs. The project involved facilitating as part of my doctorial research the production of an interactive documentary prototype that documented a World Vision program for internally displaced people in Bogota, Colombia. Started in June 2008, the research partnership produced a working prototype that provided a framework for World Vision to independently build a published beta version as an integral part of the organisation’s new website, launched in May 2009. Online video was used to capture an authentic portrayal of the daily lives of people in this community and the many facets of a development aid program that assists them, with the aim of providing Australian supporters access to highly transparent information from multiple perspectives.
Glasshouse Birdman 2008-ongoing (work-in-progress) explores a form of interactive online dociumentary using the videodefunct web system. A video portrait of Terry Dale a registered bird carer with Wildlife Volunteers Association (WILVOS) and Queensland Parks and Wildlife. This work was submitted successfully into a national Screen Based Production Review (triple-peer review) as part of the Australian Screen Production Education & Research Association (ASPERA) Conference 2008.
videodefunct: pedestrian (vlog) Keith Deverell, Seth Keen, David Wolf, published online in curated selection, JavaMuseum art +blog = blogart, 2007
‘The Hazzard Diaries’, (interactive video) ‘Transformations’ electronic journal, ‘The Making Badlands Exhibition’ online artspace, 2006
(First 2 mins): 6.22 MB – Audio: Tarquin Manek
‘The Hazzards’, (single-channel DVD) 16 min. triptych. Drift Video Works 5, Sydney Moving Image Coalition, UNSW, Selected Australia Centre for the Moving Image, Memory Grid Collection, Melbourne, 2005
‘sugartown’, (installation) single channel video 50 mins, audio loop, audio interviews, performance, Bundaberg Arts Centre, 2003
11.8 MB – Audio: Simon Ross
‘Nodal Dialectics 1.0’, (single-channel video), 2 min 42 sec, Electrofringe, video screening program, Newcastle, Oz Digital Shorts, curated by Peter Giles (AFTRS), Sydney Film Festival, 2005
‘boomsplatbangwhack’, (installation, single-channel DVD) 2 min. loop, National touring group exhibition (13 venues), WA, NSW, QLD including Queensland Museum, Brisbane, 2004-06
4.7 MB – audio: George Turnure
‘Sightless Vision’ (single-channel video), Experimental video, international competition, Screened dLux media arts – d>art01, Sydney Film Festival, 2001
Cinema
2001, ‘Honey’, Director, Co-Producer, (Melbourne, Auckland, Sydney) 12-minutes, 35mm short drama film funded by New Zealand Film Commission. Writer Christine Rogers, Script Advisor Andrew Bovell. Screened: NZ International Film Festival 2002, HOF Hamburg International Film Festival 2002, TV broadcast – TVNZ, TV3, Studio Universal Spain
1997-98, ‘The Love Letter’, Writer, Director, Producer, 16mm film. 5-minutes. Short drama film funded by N.Z. Arts Council. Screened International N.Z. Film Festival 1997, St. Kilda Film Festival
Television documentaries
1995-96, ‘Godzone Sheep’, Writer, Researcher, Director, Greenstone Pictures. 46 mins. A prime-time documentary on New Zealand art and craft interpretations of sheep. Broadcast TVNZ (Funding NZONAIR, TVNZ).
View Godzone Sheep on NZ ON SCREEN online in sections.
1994, ‘Live to Work’, Writer, Researcher, Director, Zee Films, 46 mins. A prime-time documentary on the Japanese work ethic in New Zealand. Production completed in Japan and N.Z. Broadcast TVNZ, (Funding NZONAIR, TVNZ).
1991-94, ‘First Hand Productions’, Producer, Documentary unit commissioned by TVNZ and NZONAIR. Responsible for producing primetime and half-hour documentaries for a series on everyday New Zealanders. Writer, Researcher, Camera, Editor, and Director on every production.
‘At Risk’, 46 mins. A 14-year old Polynesian teenager living on the streets.
‘Suzy,’ 46 mins. A prime-time documentary that examines orthodox and alternative cancer treatments.
‘The Two Minute Silence’, Half-hour documentary on the smallest N.Z. daily newspaper.
‘Surviving on the Benefit’, Half-hour documentary on a family totally dependent on welfare housing and benefits.
‘Gumboots and Tutus’, Half-hour documentary on performing arts competitions for children.
‘Out of Work’, Half-hour documentary on a middle class family facing redundancy.
‘Just to Back a Winner’, Half-hour documentary on a group of city TAB punters.
Television factual programs
1999-00, SBS Television Researcher, Writer, Director, (Sydney) Fusions, 5-minute programs for a broadcast series on multicultural arts.
‘A Beautiful Life’, The story of an Iranian immigrant.
‘Migamarra’, Didgeridoo – Shakuhachi’, bamboo flute duet.
‘Malkosh’, Indian raga based fusion group.
‘Migration Medley’, Richard Vella the composer.
‘Rinne Satsuki’, improvising on the Koto as part of the group Warratah.
Music video
1997 ‘Elevator’, Director, Producer, 16mm film, 4mins. Funded by N.Z. Arts Council, Pagan Records