Biennale Of Sydney 2002

BIENNALE OF SYDNEY 2002 VIDEO PROGRAM

Don Bury (Canada)
Don Bury presents Top Gun
4min 20sec
Bury re-interprets the Tom Cruise classic. He edits and arranges scenes like a scratch VJ, re-eroticising footage that we may have overlooked. You'll never see this jet-fighter flick movie in the same light again.

Stuart Croft (United Kingdom)
Point X
6min30sec
Two stories. One village. Connections appear at Point X. Croft cleverly intertwines a crime reconstruction and corporate video, to unexpected results.

Tiago Carnerio de Cunha (Brazil)
Low Attention Span / High Curosity Rate. Portrait of Peter Elliot
7min
One of a handful of highly specialized animal actors, Peter Elliot goes through a session of ape behaviour without costume or make up. This results in a fascinating look at primate body language executed to perfection by a professional actor.

Sera Furvneaux (United Kingdom)
Kissing
3min
A record of a light hearted interactive installation for the video documentation and presentation of the act of kissing! The footage is captured from the artist’s own Photo/Kissing booth. Private acts made public.

Shaun Gladwell (Australia)
360 sequences
3min
Street culture meets classical architecture in this piece where Gladwell adroitly executes 360's on his skateboard, breaking up the traditional postcard views of landmark sites.

Emil Goh (Australia)
Cell
30sec
The silence of an empty minimal designer apartment is broken with the shrill of an electronic tone. A mysterious silhouetted object in the foreground ‘awakes’ and we soon realize what this familiar item is. A simple story told in under a minute.

Karolyn Hatton (United States of America)
Rockchick
5min
A living room homage to legendary air guitar classics from Hendrix et al with a twist. With it's home video aesthetic Hatton exposes an unexpected side of a private obsessions and secret acts.

Laresa Kosloff (Australia)
Stock Market
3m30s
A gentle silent piece shot on black & white SUPER 8 in a glass elevator at the stock market offices that metaphorically connects camera movement and subject matter.

Angelica Mesiti (Australia)
Men's Club by the King Pins
3mins21sec
Based on the original song by Tito Riveria & the Pearl Birds, this retro 80’s style rock clip uses hardcore urban imagery to reflect the working class origins of Oz Rock. This piece gives an unexpected twist to machismo associations.

Miyako Narita (Japan)
It's a Dog's Life
3min
Uncanny parallels between the human and the canine world are seen in this split screen work. Behaviour in one species is mirrored in the other in this provocative piece.

Joao Onofre (Portugal)
Untitled
2min
A couple suffering explosive bouts of magnetic attraction is the subject of Onofre’s work.

Daniel von Sturmer (Australia)
Selected videos 2000 - 2001
7min
The fascination with materials and basic camera techniques is infectious in this video where everyday items behave in the most delightful fashion. Sturmer’s lo-fi set ups have us looking at the world in a different way.

THE SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE BIENNALE OF SYDNEY 2002

Robert Sutherland (Australia)
The Inside Story 85min
Robert Sutherland's debut feature, winner of the 2000 Australian Writers Guild award for Best Feature Film Screenplay, is a twisted tale, combining mystery, the supernatural, a contemporary romance and some pretty inventive fun. Starring Charles "Bud" Tingwell, plus newcomers Kate Oliver and Andrew Curry, The Inside Story sees Dean Olsen (Curry) finding a mysterious book in the cellar of his uncle's (Tingwell) old house. The book records the entire history of the universe, revealing to its readers anything they wish to know. Despite dire warnings from his uncle, Dean is seduced by the book's knowledge. And well...all hell breaks loose Plus Australian short film Neon Moon.

SCREENS DENDY OPERA QUAYS
Monday 10 June 4.05pm
Wednesday 12 June 2pm

SEE ALSO...

Margaret Wertheim (Australia)
It's Jim's World...we just live in it
An intimate, poetic, biographical narrative, this is the story of a life in which science becomes not just a system for comprehending the world, but a new foundation for creative expression. Thought provoking, visually intense, almost dreamlike in its stylistic approach, It's Jim's World reveals the power of science to enchant our conceptual landscape.

Monday and Fridays at 3pm, Art Gallery of NSW, Domain Theatre

Ann Sofi-Sidén (Sweden)
QM, I think I call her QM
Tragedy and other dark and frightening themes assume another dimension in Ann-Sofi Sidén's constructed world. A female psychiatrist discovers a mud-covered being, QM, in her apartment and becomes obsessed with this creature which refuses to be either identified or dominated.

Everyday at 11am and 3pm at the Art Gallery of NSW, Auditorium

Jeffrey Vallance
The Virgin of Guadalupe, 2000
Wax, plexi, cloth, gold-plated silver pin
Dimensions variable
Courtesy Lehmann Maupin, New York