Alex Kershaw – Director/Producer
Scott Otto Anderson – Creative Collaborator
Gail Priest – Sound Design
8 channel video installation
DVCPRO / DVD

A Lake Without Water was filmed on location at Weereewa, the dry Lake George in the Southern Tablelands of NSW, Australia. The project became a vehicle for revealing the psychogeography's of people that live and work around the lake. Weereewa becomes a theatre with farmers, an auctioneer and surveyors cast as its actors. The video pieces utilise the lake as a stage for instigating acts of play—documenting performances that act as circuit breakers within the daily routines of work in and around the lake.

A quiet activism pervades the project as it examines the contentious issue of land ownership and exploitation. Surveyors, auctioneers, and farmers are involved in the reduction of landscape into exchangeable symbolic forms such as maps, law and currency. In A Lake Without Water however, they are recast in slapstick style performances, ludic monologues, and uncanny documents—a meditation on propriety, planning, speculation and the mythopoeia of struggle in the Australian landscape.