Yahna and Len Lye

I haven’t updated in quite some time. There’s lotsa catching up to do on here but for now here’s one from the vault.

https://vimeo.com/11830049

David Lynch competition

Check out The Invisible Hand’s entry for David Lynch’s music video competition:

http://genero.tv/watch-video/21426/

http://vimeo.com/18450007

And if you like it vote for us!

Congratulations Gus!

Cinematographer and friend, Angus Kemp has been nominated for an AFI Award for ‘Best Cinematography in a Documentary’ for his work on the film Strange Birds in Paradise. The film is an eye-opening look at the oppression of West Papuan people and their ways of life by the ruling Indonesian goverment. It has also been nominated for 3 other AFI awards including best feature length Documentary. I highly recommend that you see it.

Here is Gus shooting a couple of kids rolling down a sand dune for my Jessica Says video clip.

 

Some stills from the Invisible Hand

Show

at No No Gallery:

The Invisible Hand

3-6 November 2010

Opening Wednesday 3rd November 6-8pm

The Invisible Hand project is the first time collaboration between dancer Yahna Fookes and video artist Catherine Dwyer. The artists present a dance work  through the medium of screen dance. New choreographic possibilities are explored through the cuts and edits of the film. A dance partner is created through the use of rear projection . Here we see the dancer engaging with her double self, playing with both synchronicity and repetition. The uncanny effect of the dancer and her double creates a mesmerising set of possibilities for experiencing and creating dance on screen. Choreography and Performance: Yahna Fookes Director: Catherine Dwyer Cinematography: Angus Kemp Sound Design: Alex Akers Costume Design: Sheena-Lee Sexton

Shelly Love Workshop

Last week I was lucky enough to participate in Reeldance’s dance filmmaking workshop with UK artist Shelly Love. For 3 days we explored dance in relation to space; real, imagined, filmic or otherwise. And I got to explore my own interest in rear projection and synchronicity. Here are a couple of still’s from the workshop:

Check out the ReelDance Festival . Daniel Askill’s “We have decided not to die” on opening night was Amazing!

More projections

I threw together some suspenseful shots of computer screens, pigeons and 1 and 0s for the Data Pigeons website launch, and set it to an awesome disco mix from the DP website.  

http://vimeo.com/11918517

Prolifia now has video projections!

I have made some visual projections for Kirsten Law’s comedy show.
She is currently performing Thursday -Sunday at the Grace Darling.
Come check out the show!  Kirsten Law is a really funny performer and a brilliant writer.

To learn more about the show, go to the Prolifia website