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Bondi, Paul Winkler, Australia Colour, 15 minutes, 1979

Fractured Fragments

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Part of Seeing Sound
Where State Library of Queensland. Brisbane, Australia.
Date Wednesday, 19 September 2007

Sound/image relations reconfigured, fractured and re-set at strange angles. Recombinations that divide audiovisual planes. De-conventionalising of social and cinematic space. Independent, outsider, autodidactic methodologies. Scored, scoured, scraped, scratched back, re-inscribed (cinema as a palimpsest), re-laid, mis-tessellated and overlapped (cinema as mosaic; images and sounds as tesserae…)

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