The words presented in this performance-based video are taken from the title of an early Elvis song. In keeping with McMillan’s interest in endurance, melancholy and the dichotomy of speed alongside slowness, this work comprises an hour-long performance sped-up by splicing to one minute. The video shows the artist mouthing...
After many promises, Barack Obama has still not made a visit to Australia and Absence responds to this in a most simple but provocative way. To a soundtrack of Obama’s voice we see empty Canberra streets instead of the President’s motorcade and the House of Representatives devoid of human presence....
This experimental video rearranges the same sentence 22 times: ‘A famous filmmaker said: “Cinema is the history of men filming women”’, while deconstructing the video image of a woman bathing in a waterfall.
A black comedy featuring an experimental graphic style. Contemporary Case Studies takes a bleak look at the confused nature of love and relationships in Sydney at the turn of the new century.
Music Video for the Australian band The Plug Uglies.
Direction, camera, edit - Janet MerewetherConcept - Yuji Sone and Janet MerewetherVoices - Yuji Sone, Eric Dorfman and Janet Merewether A collaboration between performance artist Yuji Sone and film/video maker Janet Merewether, this short video, based around a language lesson structure, intends to teach the language of Japanese intimacy in five easy steps. The subtleties...
When filmmaker Janet Merewether could no longer ignore her loudly ticking biological clock, she chose to have a child on her own.
Images of architecture and street life shot in Palermo in 1999 are edited as a mock-documentary to suggest a century of history, and to examine issues of authenticity in the period film.
Director's statement, September 2013 "Jonas Mekas once wrote that 8mm home movies would be the folk art of the 20th century. Short Before The Movie takes us on a quick trip to the crossroads of cinema, where film as commodity, artform, home movie and cultural document meet.
A meditation on the conquest of machine over landscape, of nature as incomprehensible 'other'.
Tourette's Tics is a short experimental mock-documentary which explodes the myth of the 'hysterical woman', a myth perpetuated by Sigmund Freud, who has been described by some as 'a reckless cocaine addict, guilty of mass plagarism. Tourette's Tics questions the authority of the 'expert in the white coat', and transforms hysteria into the hysterical.
Curator: Blair FrenchArtists: Angelica Mesiti, Kate Murphy, Elena Näsänen, Mel O'Callaghan
Curated by Blair FrenchArtists: Richard Grayson, Angelica Mesiti Video Spell was the umbrella title for a program of four exhibitions presented by Performance Space during 2003 and 2004. This program was conceived in response to the extraordinary currency of video within contemporary visual arts practices,...
