Anywhere Chairs

06.30.2007 | Author: 'Pong | Posted in Movies, Photography, Shorts, Sydneyscape


Anywhere Chairs from ApostrophePong on Vimeo.

I have been photographing abandoned chairs on the streets and in piles of junks to be collected by the Councils around Sydney with a camera phone for sometime. Although it seems dreary when capturing remains of broken furniture, what I see is the beauty of social interaction between the residents. In their short life cycles on the streets, they are dumped, offered, overlooked, moved, scattered, rearranged and finally picked up. We do not see whose actions to those chairs as if everyone is working together to create this Sydney’s urban responsive living.The film is part of Sydney Songlines workshop, sponsored by the City of Sydney at Metro Screen. I learn a lot from the process. Thanks Stilgherrian for the great narration and rafiralfiro for the wonderful music.

10 Responses

  1. Stilgherrian · ’Pong’s “Anywhere Chairs” online! July 2nd, 2007 at 9:13 am

    [...] done! ’Pong has completed his short film Anywhere Chairs, which he made as part of the Sydney Songlines project. You have to put up with my narration, [...]

  2. 'Pong July 2nd, 2007 at 12:12 pm

    For those who visit this page but cannot see the embedded video, you can see it on YouTube.
    Or alternatively, see QuickTime video here.

  3. Out to Space » Blog Archive » Primo Italiano July 4th, 2007 at 1:10 am

    [...] 30.06 Anywhere Chairs [...]

  4. Shez July 10th, 2007 at 10:08 pm

    Loved it!!! Shame bout Stils voiceover!!! LOL

  5. Out to Space » Blog Archive » Anywhere Chairs DVD July 17th, 2007 at 4:40 pm

    [...] is pretty much the last bit of Anywhere Chairs project, making DVDs. Because I was working with my own tools not the school’s facilities, [...]

  6. Stilgherrian · Sydney Life: living in fear October 9th, 2007 at 8:09 am

    [...] why I liked it when the City of Sydney selected ’Pong’s Anywhere Chairs project, and why I like this photo winning the $10,000 prizemoney and public viewing by half a [...]

  7. Out to Space » Moments in 2007 January 5th, 2008 at 7:32 am

    [...] Sydney Songlines. Another on-going project is documenting abandoned chairs and dumped stuff on the streets of Sydney. This project of Metro Screen guided me to produce Anywhere Chairs. [...]

  8. Out to Space » 10 November 2007 March 23rd, 2008 at 11:55 am

    [...] this is only abandoned chair I found in Bangkok in my Thailand trip last year. No wonder why I was amazed by dumped furniture on [...]

  9. Out to Space » Anywhere Chairs on Metro Screen June 26th, 2008 at 1:29 pm

    [...] a quick note that Metro Screen has put Anywhere Chairs on their site along side with other shorts in the Sydney Songlines Project. It the first year [...]

  10. Out to Space » So Long Cathy September 7th, 2008 at 6:18 pm

    [...] loop project. It is about a year when I first one of the series in the workshop with Metro Screen, Anywhere Chairs and then [...]

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