The Cantrills might be said to have invented Expanded Cinema (at least in Australia) – in which the production and particularly the projection of films is not seen as a single screen form but one in which all kinds of things, from manipulation of the colour during the processing of...
Kurt Brereton still from Aus-Land or The Other Country, screened at Foreign Bodies Semiotic Conference Sydney Uni with George Alexander – live performance
Backwards To You, (1979), 8mm, col/sound, 20mins. In collaboration with the Polish performance artist Piotr Olszanski. An anti-sports culture comedy sketch on the Sydney City to Surf marathon. Olszanki runs backwards from finish to start and meets race 100 metres from the end before being swallowed up in the...
Super 8 film, colour Shown at the 8th Sydney Super 8 Film Festival held at the Chauvel Cinema, 26 November 1987. An experimental film work made during a Super 8 workshop led by Geoff Weary at Tin Sheds Art Workshops, University of Sydney. The main ‘techniques’ employed were in-camera slow motion and coloured...
colour, sound, Super 8 Banner is described as "A compressed history of US expansionism by way of some well-known cultural icons."1 "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 Ross and George Washington...
"Madame Tussaud learnt her skills of wax modelling during the French Revolution. The Terror provided her with models more often dead than alive. The story of Madame Tussaud is woven around the great portrait machine of the revolution - the guillotine. Descriptions of its awesome efficiency and her gruesome task...
Super 8 film, Dual projection, colourSound by Michelle Andringa This work had two iterations. In its initial form, it was the title given to a live performance that employed film loops as part of its visual material, and also used the gallery’s ‘cottage’ architecture and exterior plantings. Performed at:Australian Centre for Contemporary Art,...
“a short comic murder film playing with rear projection illusions featuring Sheona White and Duncan McLay.” - http://www.kurtbrereton.com/coalclifffilm.html Sheona White - until recently worked at the AGNSW as an administrator Duncan McLay became a Hare Krishna devotee and later an industrial designer.
Alma & Ena: 5 minutes 2 sisters. 2 variations. Together 195 years of experiences. Performers: Rachelle Hickson & Nalina Wait Cinematographer: Mark Pugh Editor: Sue Healey Premiered Singapore Arts festival 2012
Presented at Inhibodress as Trans Art 1: Idea Demonstrations.
Mad Mesh was made by photographing disturbed mesh patterns from a television camera tube. An Image Orthicon camera in the Federal Engineering section of the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation at Gore Hill, Sydney) had developed a fault with the mesh in the pick-up tube that could be moved around with...
With Tjebbe van Tijen.
Documentary, 27 minutes XDCAM EX 16:9 Anamorphic Widescreen Dolby Stereo
A major work for fulldome digital planetariums by acclaimed artist Lynette Wallworth. An extraordinary journey into a mysterious realm of fluorescent coral reefs, bioluminescent sea creatures and rare marine life, revealing a complex community living in the oceans most threatened by climate change. Artist's statement: "Imagine global co-operation for a...
