| Shot in a derelict drive in cinema in far north Queensland, Australia, the empty screen, turbulent clouds, overgrown weeds and tree-lined perimeter are presented here as a kind of cultural and social relic. The video footage discretely unwinds and rewinds back in on itself accompanied by Luigi Nono’s infamous, La Lontananza Nostalgica Utopica Futura. The work is informed by the decline of the drive-in cinema which came about not only by the financial difficulties encountered by these large blocks of real estate, but also the widespread adoption of ‘daylight savings’ or ‘summer time’ which subtracted an hour from their viewing time. From this the film prolongs the daylight to infinite proportions, refusing to let it enter the hours of darkness and thereby sending it into a spiral of tension without end. |
