I Go Down to the Shore (2025)
At the same time every morning, on the same small stretch of beach, the Cremorne Ocean Dippers submerge themselves in the icy waters off the south-east coast of Lutruwita (Tasmania). With my mother being one of these cold water swimmers, I have witnessed, and partaken, in the quiet wonder of this daily ritual. ‘I go down to the shore’ is a love letter to this daily practice and the people who enact it.
Director: Georgia Spain
Editing: Oscar Lush & Georgia Spain
Sound design & score: Oscar Lush (featuring Oliver Barrett)
Double Take (2024)
An ongoing collaborative 16mm film project with visual artist Georgia Spain. Mattes and in-camera double exposures were used to explore how the collaging and layering of images can act as a non-linear storytelling device. The compositional process for the first film mirrored this collaged approach, stitched together from an archive of voice memos taken on my phone over a four year period. The second composition involved the use of hocketing-like arrangements, and experimentation with diegetic sound, to highlight the sharp duality of the stereo-field and mirror, in sound, the film’s split-screen composition.
Time is the Thing a Body Moves Through (2022)
Georgia Spain discusses her exhibition 'Time is the Thing a Body Moves Through' (October, 2022, at Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne).
'Georgia Spain is capturing one of painting’s great subjects: time. As still as you are right now, time is a thing that is happening to you. Alongside Botox and cryogenics, painting is one way to fight the battle. It’s like Spain has pressed pause on a film — which makes it so striking, such a testament to Spain as a painter, how the movement of her subjects still feel so alive.' – Tiarney Miekus, excerpt from the 'Time is the thing a body moves through' exhibition essay 2022