Expose The Light
Time. June 2020
Place. Naarm, Victoria
Space. Poetic Documentary
All rights reserved Amanda Parkinson, 2020
The work acknowledges the traditional owners of the land, the Bunurong Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the Eastern Kulin Nation where this work was filmed and I reside. I acknowledge I am a visitor to these lands which are stolen and continue to be pillaged by colonialism. I pay my respect to Elders past, present and emerging. I actively use my position of privilege to work as an ally for a future where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people's land, culture, traditions and language is restored.
This work explores the limitations and rules of shutter speed within camera design, experimenting with artificial light it intentionally subverts common conventions to create in-camera techniques which emotionally affect the viewership. The acousmatic sound design was created from recordings made while making cups of tea and the voice over is an abstraction from a poetry reading.