Videos

Poet, director and camera wrangler John Bennett and John Laidler, musician (Okapi Guitar Band), editor & sound engineer (www.cutsnakestudio.com).

 

Perfecting the Art of Levitation

Our lives revolve around habitual activities. When watching fish jumping, the contingencies of existence becomes hard to ignore. A quartet of 3’30” chapters explore the drama of an estuary using text and voice over.

Margins – Eastern Curlew, The Overwintering Project

An Eastern Curlew paces slowly, a wise old bird from an ancient kingdom, sure of her place in the most ancient lineage of waders.

 

This is Where ~ Three Days in October

‘The bush’ is a mythic strategy of white Australia belonging

 

Taming the Volcano

 

Baligin, a video commissioned in September, 2016.

 

Amber – a very short song!

The Bund

In 1980-81 I snuck into China. The streets of Shanghai were sticky with mud, the Bund dilapidated, its mercantile buildings from heroic Gothic to flash Art Deco requisitioned as flats. Washing flapped from the filthy balconies and windows in the Huangpu River’s breeze.

Tracking the Tank Stream

For perhaps 40,000 years people camped here
I’m looking for a single weed
We are exiled from the earth
I’m looking for signs of life.

 

Memorial – from Camperdown, Sydney to World War 1

My great uncle died on the first day of Passchendaele
avoiding the worst fighting of the whole war. I’m only here
because his fiancé married his younger brother John.

Sisyphus surfing, NSW

Deep Creek, Valla on a full moon

 

Conoiseuer of Dawn, Dawn chorus Blue poles, with poem

 

Song Starting with Air, haiku with William Barton on didgeridoo

Harmony with the Breeze – Kinetic sculpture

Kozo Nishino, from Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi (2008), with kestrel and poem informed by the myth of Icarus.

 

The Art of Breakfast

The nature of art and everyday practice, Suzhou