In September, Adelaide Festival Centre's Moving Image Program is exhibiting "On Film" by Emma Hough and "The Last Climber Alive Must Keep Herself Fit and Ready" by Erin Coates on our King William Road digital screens.
Emma Hough Hobbs (SA), On Film, moving image, 5:25 mins
Emma (she/they) is a queer artist from South Australia. She's an emerging filmmaker, animator and production designer. Her animated short On Film was selected for competition at SXSW Sydney 2023. It is an experimental animated-doc that explores the allure of shooting on film that captures filmmakers to this day. It's animated digitally and then lovingly transferred to 16mm. As the film progresses the processing methods change; from lab processed, to hand processed and finally the film itself is coloured in with ink by hand.
On Film is presented with support from Adelaide Festival Centre Foundation.
Erin Coates, The Last Climber Alive Must Keep Herself Fit and Ready, moving image, 5:41 mins
Image: Image credit: Erin Coates, The Last Climber Alive Must Keep Herself Fit and Ready, moving image (still), 5:41 mins
‘Erin Coates' video practice has long been concerned with sci-fi literature, cinema and post-apocalyptic landscapes. The Last Climber Alive Must Keep Herself Fit and Ready, is set amidst a desolate megalopolis within which roams a lone female athlete on infinite loop. We watch her stretch, train, accrue muscle and strength in preparation for a battle with an unknown assailant who may never arrive to test the power of this lean and agile urban warrior. The set is the largest architectural model in the world, a miniature replica on a 1:1750 scale of the city of Beijing, housed in the Beijing Urban Planning Museum in China.’ Leigh Robb, Erin Coates: kinesphere, 2014
Erin Coates is a Boorloo Perth based artist who works across drawing, sculpture and film. The process of creating her art regularly involves physical interactions with submerged, enclosed and elevated spaces. The works that are produced examine humanity’s relationships with the natural world, physical thresholds and the essence of transformed bodies – both human and non-human. Coates’ practice draws from her background as a climber and freediver as well as her deep interest in biology and genre cinema. In creating her screen-based works, Coates often collaborates with others, including composers, percussionists, scuba divers and performers.
composer: Stuart James
climber: Shevaun Cooley