CRITICAL
OVERVIEW:
Erin
is a film artist with a reputation for working in the space between art and
cinema.
Her works traverse genre and platform with themes of feminisms, human
rights, heritage, time, memory and death. Known for her use of muses, she
creates fabulism (a term coined by Mark Twain to define the mixing of fact and
fantasy). She explores the idea that joy expressed is a way to protect our
freedoms
She
is the author of transmedia project Luxville about the faded glory of a fictional
city, Luxville (2015, series). Inspired by The Wizard of Oz and Alice in
Wonderland the multilayered arts project uses film, photo and word reflected in
projection, audience engagements (called Photoplay), written story and live
performance all with still and moving image.
A
pivotal work Do Not Go Gentle (2018, 30 mins) with composer collaborator
Christine Tammer, received critical acclaim. A recent work Carnival As Life (2020, 6 mins) recently played to a packed house in Cinema One at the Regent
Cinema Ballarat.
Her
work regularly plays film festivals, art festivals with engagement that arrive
and depart like a country carnival. Erin’s work has been reviewed as ‘intriguing,
mesmeric’, ‘a curiousity that gently transforms in close focus’ and
‘transcendent immersion’.
See also Artist Statement (with pics)
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CIVIC Pride (2019, 1 min) |
Silver Rememberings (2016, 11 mins) |
FILMOGRAPHY:
Precious Fragments (2022, 23
mins, Digital)
Intimacy in Isolation (2021, 4 mins, Digital)
Film Flourish (2021,
4 x 15secs, Archival Digital)
Carnival As Life (2020, 6
mins, Digitised Super 8 & 16mm)
Large As Life (2020, 6 mins, Digitised Super 8 & 16mm)
Hello Foto (2019,
5 mins, HDV)
Civic Queen (2019,
1 min, HDV) Part 3 of Civic Series
Civic Pride (2019,
1 min, HDV) Part 2 of Civic Series
Civic Participation (2019, 1 min, HDV) Part 1 of Civic Series
Luxville Episode 6 (2018, 4 mins, HDV & archival footage) Part 4 of Luxville
Random Number Generator (2018, 15 mins, HDV) Written by Christine Tammer
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An Indelicate Performance
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Luxville The Story So Far (2017, 4 mins, HDV & archival footage) Part 3 of Luxville series
Twirl de Lux (2017,
5 mins, HDV & archival footage)
An Indelicate Performance (2017, 4 mins, HDV)
Do Not Go Gentle (2017,
30 mins, HDV & archival footage) with Christine Tammer
Arising (2017,
4 mins, HDV & archival footage) with Christine Tammer
Silver Rememberings (2016, 11 mins, Digitised Super 8)
Yaya’s House (2015,
11 mins, HDV & archival footage) Part 2 of Luxville series
Luxville Prologue (2015,
8 mins, HDV & archival footage) Part 1 of Luxville series
Women of Eureka (2014,
6 x 3 mins, HDV & archival footage)
Irresistible Frocks (2014, 13 mins, HDV)
Blood On Ballarat (2014,
10 x 2 mins, HDV)
Hawk Man (2014,
4 mins, HDV)
Ta Phin [A Hard Life Easy to Live] (2013, 14 mins, HDV)
The Inside Story (2013,
32 mins, HDV & archival footage)
Deb’s Story (2012,
12 mins, HDV)
MIFFTales (2011,
12 x 6 mins, HDV)
Normal (2010,
30 mins, HDV)
Sanctuary (2009,
30 mins, HDV & archival footage)
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Said She Found Stars On The Floor
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PROCEED With Caution (2009, 1 min, HDV) Part 4 of Semaphore Series
What U Doing? (2009,
1 min, HDV) Part 3 of Semaphore Series
Where U Going? (2009,
1 min, HDV) Part 2 of Semaphore Series
Signal (2009,
1 min, HDV) Part 1 of Semaphore Series
Said She Found Stars On The Floor (2000, 3 mins, Super 8)
Look At The Balloons (2000, 30 mins, VHS)
Love U (1999 1
min, 16mm)
Der Bug (1999,
1 min, Super 8)
Download PDF of full CV (May 2023)
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Do Not Go Gentle Excerpt (2017, 3 mins) |
Arising (2017, 4 mins) |
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An Indelicate Performance (2017, 4 mins) |
SELECT
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Reviews
of Do Not Go Gentle
Random
Number Generator
“A
Heart for Muses”- THE BALLARAT COURIER
Luxville a Love Letter - THE BALLARAT COURIER
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