Artist: Marr Grounds,
Filmmakers: Jim Dale, Colin Hawke,
Production: University of Sydney TV Service

A study in (social) evolution beginning with the moment when amphibious creatures (vertebrates) came out of the water (here, to mate). A mirror in the intertidal zone of the mangroves bank, where they slither their way over the mud, reflects their image back to them. Does this trigger cognition? Self-recognition? Cut to a man (naked) entering from the mangrove forest, he stops and we zoom in to see only his feet; pulling back he is clothed and walks back from whence he came. Cut. Feet walking along the mangrove shore and man arrives at a table set for two with a Greek column beside it, to place him. A woman arrives and she pours the tea (nothing really has changed). She sits opposite the man, they look at each other and the camera zooms into the table setting finishing on a teapot and two cups and saucers. [SJ]

[Handwriiten note in MCA artist's file] environmental artwork done in mangroves on Hawkesbury. With professional actor Robin Ramsay, shown in Film Festival.