Art Installation
Piece of work Dir: Anna Breckon 2022
Piece of Work takes the loop structure of the video work to explore live performance. While the film’s structure remains the same for each loop, the takes of the performance included in each loop are distinct. The use of various performance takes combines live repetition with mechanical. By including what is conventionally left unseen, discarded in the editing process of selection, Piece of Work emphasises the impact of the affective nuances of performance on storytelling, rhythm and form.
The Everyday Roy Wieland & Ross Turley 2021
The film shows the routine rituals that gather us together creating congestion, groups or crowds i.e the commute to work, going to school, a sports event, enjoying beaches, bars and restaurants. …. But this isn’t a normal day. This is a time of lockdown during covid-19. The roads are empty, so are the streets, beaches and stadiums. It is through the audio that we create the sense of a congested highway, a sold out stadium and a rowdy bar. This juxtaposition of audio and visual gives our audience an ambivalent blend of melancholy, pride and hope. We see what we have been through, we hear what we sacrificed and we know we have come through to the otherside better for it.
Rear View Dir: Anna Breckon 2018
Unlike mainstream cinema, Rear view is presented as a lengthy single take: performed in a studio by the actors in real time – bringing a liveness to the performance that belies its cinematic medium – set against previously recorded, rear-projected footage
On Record Dir: Anna Breckon 2023
Harold Holt’s disappearance at Cheviot Beach was the largest televised news event in Australian history. Operating under the guise of disembodied impartiality, the news apparatus orients experience through restrictive notions of knowledge, history and truth. The television news works to produce a spectacle out of an event, registering the political as something from a distance to be looked upon rather than a project of collective active participation. B & R reenact clips from this media archive, translating them through a campy cinematic style that emphasises the materiality of event, being and environment.
3 Scenes Dir: Anna Breckon 2019
A work about desire as mise en scene, rhythm and movement.
Each video depicts a specific fantasy space operating at the intersection of the experiential and the symbolic.
In contrast to melodramatic modes of expressive interiority, desire in this work is expressed through a manipulation of the surface aspects of performance and image, through minor movements, gesture, and rhythms.
Desire is explored as a rhythm, as movements in time that create a feeling experience. This model is distinct from object-oriented and identity-based conceptualisations.
