Anywhere Chairs
Posted by: 'Pong in Movies, Photography, Shorts, Sydneyscape, tags: Metro Screen, Movies, Photography, Shorts, Sydney Songlines, SydneyscapeI 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.



July 2nd, 2007 at 9:13 am - Edit
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July 10th, 2007 at 10:08 pm - Edit
Loved it!!! Shame bout Stils voiceover!!! LOL
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