Eclipse

A program of film and video art curated by Barbara Campbell and Andrew Frost. Presented by Sydney Intermedia Network in association with the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences.

OPEN THE KINGDOM
Andrew Frost
6 mins. 1988. Produced on Super 8. Screening on VHS

The inspiration for Open the Kingdom came from seeing a number of classic Minimalist paintings by Barnett Newman and a series of I.K.B. monochromes by Yves Klein. I began to contemplate the idea of making a film that gestured towards the absolute reduction of image, towards a very basic pictorial space, whilst retaining the tension and purity of Minimalist painting.

OPTIC YOUTH
Nick Ostrovskis
7 mills. 1990. Produced on Super 8. Silent.

Optic youth is a mixture of several techniques I have used over the years -animation and rephotography of photographs, slides and negatives, dissolves, rapid editing, timelapse etc.

ECjSTATIC
Toula Anastas. Music and sound design by Simon Hunt; Production assistance by Anne Rutherford and Greg Fitzgerald.

8 mins. 1988. Produced on Super 8. Screening on Umatic.
"In a certain sense each medium (Photography and Cinema) is seen as empowered to disclose a secret of the other: Cinema, that the photograph, however mutable and unstable its frame of reference, is always (at least latently) discursive; Photography, that the temporal flow of a film is founded on a series of sequential pauses, is constructed from images wrested from a time other than the time of the text If the "truth" of the image is guaranteed by neither form over against the other, truth of a kind is illwninated, and a critical lever forged, at the point of the friction where photography checks cinema and cinema traverses photography."Charles Wolfe Wide Angle Vol 9 No 1

SAVING DAYLIGHT
Virginia Hilyard. Sound assistance by Gary Warner.
6 mills. 1984. Produced on Super 8.

A transformation, slow like the phases of the moon, painful
like the sting of a wasp, Saving Daylight is in three parts
the first of circular dizziness, heightening virtigo, moving
mountains; the second occupyLTlg real time and the third
walking tall, surfacing for air.

THE JAR
Colleen Cruise
10 mills. 1987. Produced on Video 8 and Betacam. Screening
on Umatic.

An old man and his net begin the journey in the li1e of a lepidopterist. The Jar explores the notions of science and nature. The videc is based on patriarchy and authority, beauty, the divine spirit, the femilline and death. Wrinkled hands are caught in a mystical haze created by the slowly transforming black and white imagery.

OPTIC YOUTH
Nick Ostrovskis
7 mills. 1990. Produced on Super 8. Silent.

Optic youth is a mixture of several techniques I have used over the years -animation and rephotography of photographs, slides and negatives, dissolves, rapid editing, timelapse etc.

BANNER
Barbara Campbell
4 mills. 1990. Produced on Super 8.
Working backwards, the distinctive red stripes of Sydney's Coca Cola sign and Reagan's Star Wars policy must have inspired that original star-spangled banner worked out by Betsy

TRANSLATION ... (of a ghost story, told me by Wassily shortly before his demise)
Richard de Souza and Gary Warner
7 mills. 1985. Produced on Super 8.
"Abstract art, abstract art"
Lucy Lippard, 1981.

URANUS
M. T. Hill
11 mills. 1990. Produced on Super VHS. Screening on Umatic.
Among other things, Uranus rules anything in wave formation. Hence radio, television, X-rays, permed hair, the spectrum of light crinkle-cut chips, the tides, ribbed condoms, oscilloscopes, radium, plutonium, gravity waves, waterbeds, Mexican waves, the movement of reptiles, information from satellites, corrugated iron and the Queen's right hand.