First Move: 2 minute 15 second moving image loop with sound, montaging found postcard and video documentation of a construction site.
Studies for First Move: Collages of found postcards and C-type prints.
First Move is the first station of a lost city, a thought held in the mind, an action suspended, a splicing of time, an aspiration lost, a dream about to begin.
Use of the black and white photographic still Relaying the James Caird by Frank Hurley from the Imperial Trans Antarctic Expedition, led by Sir Ernest Shackleton, 1914-1916 courtesy of the Royal Geographical Society.
Exhibited / screened: Sydney International Architecture Festival, Sydney, 2010, Crosstalk Video Art Festival, Budapest, 2010, ‘Design Cinema Works’ ITU, Istanbul, 2008, ‘Directors Lounge, Urban Film Programme’, 58th International Festival, Berlin, 2008.
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