All Films

The work that i made whilst at college had an end result being film / video art. This was where the combination of many disciplines, for me, became one , from the initial drafting of ideas - making things - environments - creating an atmosphere with paint and light, developing a story board or event, then filming it with out of date super 8 film, editing and inventing a soundtrack. all fine under the cozy umbrella of youth, and blind collaboration with the many talented friends around. These films by hook or by crook, mainly by crook, were made into a video collection of work, released by ikon / factory records in 1985 titled "Flickering Shadows".

From the day a stranger falls from a building and brings a stranger with him, the protagonist's house is covered with grass and trees and turns into a jungle.

Documentary that narrates the origins and acts of the Shining Path and the injustices committed by the Armed Forces at the time of the internal armed conflict in Peru. The acts of the former will be seen in Lima and Ayacucho, and the latter mostly in Ayacucho.

Conceived as a political pamphlet, developed in a rhetorically grotesque vein, the film deals with the activity and the shameful end of the traitor organization of Balli Kombetar during WW2 in Albania.

A short film by Toney Merritt

Filmed ten years after the flood, Buffalo Creek Revisited looks at the second disaster on Buffalo Creek, in which the survivors’ efforts to rebuild the communities shattered by the flood are thwarted by government insensitivity and a century-old pattern of corporate control of the region’s land and resources. Through the statements of survivors, planners, politicians, psychologists, and community activists, the film explores the psychology of disaster, the importance of community, and the paradox of a poor people living in a rich land.

The first documentary to portray the Swedish religious group Livets Ord.

35mm experimental short film.

Short film.

A movie about chickens and kids. The film was made in 1985, but screened only in 1990 for reasons that even Communist censors found hard to explain. A chicken farm that was very modern for its time included a kindergarten reserved for the employees’ children. The film uses the parallel between raising chicken and human babies as the starting point for a meditation on human nature.

Life and paintings of the Uruguayan artist during his American period in New York.

JoAnn Elam plants collards.

Haitians make up the largest black community in Quebec: there are over 40,000 of them, the vast majority of them living on the island of Montreal, where they are often the target of prejudice, hostility, and contempt.

An elephant wishes she was a different color.

Film by Jochen Gerz.

Snow Search finds four performers searching for each other, each carrying one quarter of a photographic portrait of Michael Snow. A lyrical exploration through the city and an homage to Michael Snow.

Documentary about Vadym Yakovych Boyko, Ukrainian writer, novelist, prisoner of Auschwitz.

A pair of lovers, separated for a decade, meet in a parking lot on the transit route through East Germany.

Short animation movie by Valerie Swanson on Charley Booker's song "Charley's Boogie Woogie"

An aerobics instructional video that is pure 1980s.

Presented at the Marconi Studio in March 1985 during the "Limitrofie" exhibition, the starting idea is a box where unexpressed memories are kept folded. It is a garden where a landscape of memory, impalpable, constantly changing as the face of the world we want to rebuild is constantly changing, a world that has no limits other than those of the availability and perception of the individual.

Film by Abbott Meader and Walter Easton 16mm, 20:18 minutes, color, sound, 1983-1985

In Sue Ford’s radical short film Egami, Melbourne’s imposing Shrine of Remembrance is rebadged the “New Settlers’ Temple of Wars” by the artist’s intergalactic visitor, who observes from a spaceship. The Shrine is one of many familiar Melbourne landmarks rendered as totalitarian monuments, which have usurped the lands of ‘the Dreaming People’, of which there is no sign left except in Swanston St souvenir stores. In Egami, fashion mannequins are interpreted as women for sale, statues are erected for white men and war, and Hamer Hall is a survival bunker, in a work that’s exploration of Australian identity and feminism is still relevant today. — ACMI

After a somewhat disappointing season, West German Walter Rohrl bounced back to give the Audi team a welcome boost to morale with a devastating victory in the San Remo Rally in Italy. It had been thought Timo Salonen would lead the Peugeot team to another win. However, he was eclipsed by a brilliant drive from the former world champion. Nevertheless, Salonen and the Peugeot are established as the champions for 1985. This video graphically illustrates the hazards the drivers had to face, not least being the huge clouds of dust and the almost suicidally reckless spectators who were nearly as dangerous as the notorious crowds in Portugal. The Lancias made a welcome comeback and added colour to an event, which turned out more a test of stamina than predicted. Rohrl can be seen hurling the big Quattro through the mountains sometimes defying the laws of gravity in his urgency to see off the little French turbos. On the gravel or tarmac, San Remo belonged to Rohrl. See how he did it.