“Desert Veils” is a personal exploration of images of women filmed in the Chihuahua Desert of north-east Mexico. I was part of a film crew documenting the daily activities of an archeological dinosaur dig; when I wasn’t working with the film crew I was shooting my own images, looking beyond the disarticulated fossils and apparent structures, searching for what seemed elusive, hidden from me in my initial encounters with the women I met in Mexico. Given the cultural differences and structures that existed around me, my original images made me feel no closer to what I was seeing. It is through the re-working of the images that I found a way to reveal more closely what was originally veiled from me. (Louise Lebeau)
Filter Films
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A layered tapestry of trains and underwater footage exploring the realms of fear death and transience, this film places the traces of human voices amidst the flickering light and shadows of empty passenger cars.
Fallen Flags
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v=d/t is the physics formula which calculates velocity by dividing the distance traveled by the time required to travel that distance. This film explores the possibility of measuring distances between loved ones through time zones. The sound track is comprised of personal and tragic phone messages left on voicemail when individuals could not connect due to great time zone differences, while the visual elements present simple and contemplative images of antique telephones.
v=d/t
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A stop-motion animated film that illustrates the artistic journey of a capricious camera and the personal discovery of its true potential. The camera character discovers a magical flash, which to its surprise can bring any inanimate object to life. Using the newly found magical wand the camera character acts as a movie making maestro by recruiting objects in the house as cast and crew before creating a film. Saturated with stunning visuals and supported by a swinging score, “Midnight Matinee” is sure to stimulate the senses.
Midnight Matinee
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The striped pattern of the municipal bus shelters in San Francisco becomes a fixed foreground behind which the city passes. Spatial oscillations provide a constantly permutating play of figure, ground and space, imaging the possibility of being two places at once.
Simultaneous Contrast
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In “Penumbra” the camera strategy, and shooting scheme, are rigidly determined by the film’s subject, a grid of off-white bathroom tiles. The work is formed as a continuously evolving image. In other words it has neither cuts nor dissolves, both of which affect the transition from one shot to another, but exists as a single fixed shot made with a static camera. “Penumbra” ‘s spatio-temporal grid structure parallels the structure of the film strip, which is similarly grid-like: spatial in its actual physical form, spatio-temporal in its manner of operation.
Penumbra
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“Object Studies” is organised around a colour scheme based loosely on the hues of the colour temperature scale; brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, white. Time-lapse, interlaced, single-frame sequences and lap-dissolves were deployed to explore density, translucency and the interactions of different kinds of cast-shadows. The space between the camera and its subject is also explored. Space is flattened, collapsed, expanded and bridged in diverse ways.
Object Studies
