June 8, 2009

Working Fire

A short visual poem based upon the work of Australian potter, Ben Richardson. Shot in southern Tasmania, this video accompanies the exhibition, ‘Working Fire’, currently showing at the Carnegie Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania. Direction Glen Dunn and Ben Richardson, Camera and Editing Glen Dunn, Music and Sound Jethro Woodward. 7.5 minutes.

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  1. Deron Bauman on June 9th, 2009 at 7:43 am

    damn. that is gorgeous.

  2. Kelsey Parker on June 9th, 2009 at 8:31 am

    My thoughts exactly.

  3. Andrew Simone on June 9th, 2009 at 10:26 am

    ye gods.

  4. Glen Dunn on June 9th, 2009 at 11:48 pm

    Hi Kelsey,

    I be the guy who made Working Fire. Thanks for linking my film to your buddies. Feel free to leave a comment on the Working Fire Feature at Vimeo!

    Best

    Glen Dunn

  5. Meg on June 10th, 2009 at 6:14 am

    So, so beautiful.

  6. Kelsey Parker on June 15th, 2009 at 11:26 pm

    I wrote to Glen earlier, asking about the score by Jethro, and he’s agreed to let me share the story here with you:

    J is a recent graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia. His music was commissioned specifically for the film. My only direction to J was for orchestration… Cello, viola, violin, guitar and piano, with some tuned percussion. The rest is all J and I love what he did. It’s so beautifully spare… Even dangerously so in parts. The counter-point during the kiln packing sequence is amazing and the single, long held, cello note that accompanies the opening of the ‘fire’ sequence is just sublime. I loved also the way J used the piano as ‘tuned percussion’ which, of course, as an instrument, it is.

    The really cool thing is the way J and I collaborated. To this day we have not met each other. All was achieved over the net. (I love the Internet!) J and I did this (almost) non verbally. I would send him some visuals, he would respond sonically, I would respond visually and so on. Our conversation was via the media we best communicate… Sound and vision. There was a brief telephone convo right near the end about editing some gamelan strikes. And voila! It was done!

  7. Mary Jeys on June 15th, 2009 at 11:51 pm

    “Don’t you wonder sometiiiiiiiiiimes…”

  8. patrick jones on June 16th, 2009 at 1:28 am

    such good work glen! hooray for digital media as physical embodiment ; film participating in what it represents; digital ecologies as art exchange; freely downloadable – rare technology that doesn’t exploit and destroy but gives and keeps on giving.

  9. Glen Dunn on June 15th, 2010 at 4:57 pm

    Hi Mary Jeys.

    One year to the day after your comment on this wee film, it came to me. Would the rest of your comment read, “… Of sound and vision”?

    Just a thought.

    G.

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