Screened Tropfest 2011 in Australia nationally, Sydney Domain
Behind every photograph is a story. Is it the photographer’s story to tell? What is Tom willing to risk to tell Julie’s story?
Directed by Natlie Saleeba
DOP Marcus O’Brien
Location Sound Clare Andreallo
Stills photographer: Richard C Bell
2010
Screened Next Wave Festival 2010, Melbourne
Sound Desginer
On festival circuit; video not available.
© Sarah-Mace Dennis 2010.
“Set in a surreal world at the edges of logical comprehension, Mondo Ghillies is a dance film about the way we give volume to our surroundings through our perceptual awareness. The film explores notions of subjectivity, investigating what it means to be in the world as a ‘subject in process’ always changing because our brains, and the neurological conditions that determine how we act, feel and see, are always changing. Gesturing toward ideas about how both external and internal worlds are defined through the shifting shape of our movement, subjectivities and desires, the work suggests that the world around us isn’t always completely logical, understood through notions of time that are constructed through linear comprehension, but often belongs to another state of consciousness: a mode of feeling evoked by those indefinable pockets of our minds that are experienced and sensed, but not always able to be defined through scientific, rational explanation.” (Sarah Mace Dennis, Writer and Director of Mondo Ghillies, 2010)
This is a video I worked on early in 2007. The brief stated that the video was to be about scale. I thought it would be interesting to look at the golden ratio and the idea of the frame and reality. I guess my primary aim was to deconstruct the frame through the use of new media video production, digital editing.
It is a non-narrative video which is completly silent, designed to be exhibited in a gallery. In terms of the audience I wanted them to study the video images as if historical document I thought this tied in well with the conceptual concerns of the video work.
You can view the work here or look at some stills from the video here.
It was selected by Fabian Astore as one of his best videos
