Visual installation: Film that will end in Death
An artist friend Trevor has a new exhibition on at the moment as part of the Next Wave festival. The show is titled Film that will end in Death and is on from the 8th to the 31st of May. There is also a Q&A session with Trevor on the 25th of May.
The exhibition explores risk in life through stunning visuals and documentary style footage. From a firefighter to a rock-climber, the characters featured in the documentary footage all have a degree of danger present in their lives that Trevor explores with intense curiosity.
The sociologist in me found what Trevor captured on film extraordinary, in terms of the way people make sense of their own lives. Some of the amazing documentary footage he also admitted was pure luck. I might have to go back one afternoon to sit and listen to the full narrative, which I was unable to on opening night.
2 comments:
Sounds fascinating - I'm sure luck plays some small part. I'm also missing an SBS2 doco on Robert Kennedy right now thanks to my family's love of Master Chef. I didn't see things turning out this way, you know.
That is what makes documentaries so enthralling. The script is enhanced by the action of an event that happens and the film is then a mirror of reality.
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