In Still artists have produced work using a video camera in a fixed point of view.

Wide ranging in scope, from the formal and minimal to political documentary, the exhibition includes performance made for video works that consciously critique the cinematic or photographic record, and works by photographers who might instinctively use the video camera in this way.

Recording people and places, these artists’ projects model strikingly different documentary approaches, offering viewers a provocative opportunity to ask what it means when a camera is used to capture a subject, both in the moment and for posterity.

Links:

New Zealand International Festival of the Arts

The Adam Art Gallery

The selected artists range from established iconic figures - David Cook, Ann Shelton, Ans Westra - within national and international photographic discourses to more emerging artists - Edith Amituanai, John Lake, Janet Lilo, Ant Low.

Documentaries, mounted at St Paul St Gallery Three, runs alongside the Expanding Documentary conference jointly hosted by AUT and Auckland University.

As well as contributing photographs to the project I oversaw the development of the site.

Also involved were Anne Noble, Deidra Sullivan, Olivia Taylor, Shaun Waugh, Thomas McQuillan, Em Davidson, Simon Mark, Helen Mitchell, John Williams, Daniel Betham and Melissa Irving.

Link: Off The Pitch

Shot in an afternoon around the south coast of Wellington and in her lounge

Link: Little Bark

Street portrait from a series for Wellington's Fish Head magazine on Hutt Valley's High Street.

Filmed in Lower Hutt at Secret Level in May.

Extending the collaboration between So So Modern's album art and the exhibition the first music video for Crude Futures features a recreation of the zombie roller disco orginally photographed in October. Though this time with the band playing in the centre.