Archive for the ‘Shorts’ Category

Waif

This work is pretty much the same content as Red Sofa, exhibited on Marrickville Art Prize 2007, but different medium. When the print was commented at the opening night that it cried out loud to be a moving image, I could not agree more. I am happy to take that on board. And here we [...]

Anywhere Chairs DVD

Anywhere Chairs DVD

This 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, the first two DVDs with various of compressed file formats were made as the masters for Metro Screen and myself. They are in cases with printed covers. “It’s about the presentation” I told them while handing one of the masters. This new batch of five is given to other associates:

Anywhere Chairs

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 [...]

Sydney Songlines: the Construction

I am relieved to a certain degree. I’ve just finished the script for Sydney Songlines workshop. This is significant in many ways:

The first script since moving to Sydney.
The first screenplay since Uni.
The first piece I have written in English ever.

Junk Pile project is set to some direction. I very much enjoy this creative process. [...]

Sydney Songlines: the Beginning

Exciting news! Starting this week, I will be in an intensive workshop, Sydney Songlines, supported by the City of Sydney at Metro Screen. I have been working on junk pile series for sometime. Anywhere Chairs is one of the projects. I believe this workshop will help me shaping up the project and directing me to [...]