For me, film has come to serve as a container, allowing serial images, techniques and experiments to exist as a single entity, acting as a container for performance, prints, drawings and collage.
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The cost: a stop motion animation.
Using a mix of receipt printer and a laser,
images were thermally printed onto receipts.
Made in 2021 during a COVID lockdown.
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Stills from 'Protest', laser etching onto hand-coloured 16mm film.
During 2021–22 I had a residency at the Australian National University Makerspace and had access to a laser, amongst other equipment.
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Stills from 'Travelling home',
drawn on top of footage taken
from the windows of a train.
drawn on top of footage taken
from the windows of a train.