A film of One's Own

A Film of One's Own [Fugue Solos] (2005) from louise curham on Vimeo.


4 channel video installation developed for Reeldance video installation at Performance Space, Sydney 2005, subsequently exhibited at the NZ Film Archive, Wellington and Te Manawa Art Palmerston North, NZ 2006. This work distresses and reworks footage from the film 'Slipped' (1997). Credits for Slipped: director Louise Curham, choreography Sue Healey, producer Peter Kaufmann, cinematographer Mark Pugh, dancers Michelle Heaven, Phillip Adams, Belinda Saltmarsh and Michael O'Donoghue.


"Louise Curham is an artist and filmmaker, who sees “Film as art.” Sue Healey is a choreographer who is interested in translating dance onto film. Their collaboration resulted in this tribute exhibition of dance, interlaid and overlaid delicately with film fragments from live performance, outtakes and trims. Curham then applied her shtick, physically treating the film, applying surface scratches, paint and ink. The result is a beautifully moving series of image and dance; art come alive on the canvas, of which we walked into – a black room projecting the film off walls, columns and footstool sized black boxes."
text from article on ThreadNz by Sally Christie (2006)

Painting taking the form of film: shots cut/spliced together, film treated or scratched to give it different qualities, overlaying and placement of clips to create moving collages