Wake is a collaboration between myself, artist Jacqueline Cavallaro and musician Jamie Basic. It explores female sensuality and the Venus archetype, making special reference to Botticelli's The Birth of Venus (1482-1485). It is a movement based video work in dialogue with set design, costuming and sound composition. Tamara Elkins with Jaqueline...
Written: Tom Ellard, 1989Produced: Robert Racic, 1990 Designed and Directed: Garry Bradbury Actors: Garry as the bottle top welder, Richard as Ganesh, Robert as the hamburger, Tom as the centurion (and angel) Dancers: Katherine, Becky, Leah Sets and Costumes: John Bartholemew, Garry Bradbury, Simeon Steel Amiga 500 & 2500 graphics:...
Written: Tom Ellard, 1987Produced: Tom Ellard and Robert Racic, 1987 Enacted by Skank, Arms and Bud Direction: Garry BradburyWrestler: Tom Ellard Video Edit: Stephen Jones at Heuristic Video Concept, masks and contraptions by Garry Bradbury, Simeon Steel and Richard Bolton
This was a test of using the commodore 64 home computer as a video synthesiser in around 1985. The patterns are created by direct manipulation of the VIC display chip reading a paddle input. This followed on from a similar attack on a Vic20 home computer which...
Everybody starts somewhere. This is an excerpt from an overly long video piece I recorded from late 1984 into early 1985. I shot the footage on a VHS port-a-pak which I lugged around Sydney, Australia, looking for who knows what. I cut the scenes into small hypnogogic...
Lux Eterna’s work D U N E refers to infinite passages of time, the shifting earth and a bodily experience of the elements to meditate on a sense of disorder and lack of control inherent to all organic forms and matter. Bodyweather practices refine sensitivity in the body, muscles and...
