No image from camera B: The Personal Cinema of Gloria Chung
curated by Joe Wakeman and Ari-Duong Nguyen
The screening is accompanied by an exhibition of live-broadcasted camera feeds on display in the Millennium Gallery. These feeds from satellite cameras form an important aspect of Gloria’s work - these are images made for knowledge of the existent world, environmental documents - records of the earth in its moment of flux, passively witnessed from above.
FILMS:
The Photoplay Obeys the Laws of the Mind Gloria Chung 2020 8 min
True Places Gloria Chung 2022 7 min
MEMORY IX Utopos/Dystopos Gloria Chung 2019 8 min
River Moon Black Birds Gloria Chung 2015 7 min
Krakatau Gloria Chung 2023 11 min
Make Sure the Sea Is Still There Gloria Chung 2021 7.5 min
curated by Joe Wakeman and Ari-Duong Nguyen
The screening is accompanied by an exhibition of live-broadcasted camera feeds on display in the Millennium Gallery. These feeds from satellite cameras form an important aspect of Gloria’s work - these are images made for knowledge of the existent world, environmental documents - records of the earth in its moment of flux, passively witnessed from above.
FILMS:
The Photoplay Obeys the Laws of the Mind Gloria Chung 2020 8 min
True Places Gloria Chung 2022 7 min
MEMORY IX Utopos/Dystopos Gloria Chung 2019 8 min
River Moon Black Birds Gloria Chung 2015 7 min
Krakatau Gloria Chung 2023 11 min
Make Sure the Sea Is Still There Gloria Chung 2021 7.5 min
Filmic
travelogs as cautionary tales, told through images of sublime nature -
Gloria Chung reflects on the human experience in the time of unfolding
climate crisis.
Found footage from traffic webcams and news
reports accompany diaristic snippets captured in transit, the camera
gaze slipping out of human operation. In Gloria Chung’s honest
exploration of this world that entrances her, nostalgia and anxiety for a
disintegrating futurity is palpable, like a veil that wraps us in. Yet,
Gloria’s films are infectiously calm, the sensorial drama of
awe-inspiring nature unfolds like poetry…
Found footage from traffic webcams and news reports accompany diaristic snippets captured in transit, the camera gaze slipping out of human operation. In Gloria Chung’s honest exploration of this world that entrances her, nostalgia and anxiety for a disintegrating futurity is palpable, like a veil that wraps us in. Yet, Gloria’s films are infectiously calm, the sensorial drama of awe-inspiring nature unfolds like poetry…