Cassandra聽forms part of the four-part聽Firewall聽project, exploring the concept of doors.
Typically doors are viewed as human inventions. However they precede and transcend the human world. Not only do they appear in the natural world, amongst animals and insects, but they are also found in the physical world of the atmosphere. It is the interrelationship between their human and non-human occurrence that is the focus of聽Firewall. The term聽Firewall聽characterises one function of a door, namely its immunological qualities, keeping danger at bay while protecting the contents. It explores this through an imaginary descent from heights of the atmosphere through a layer of doors down to ground level.
Cassandra聽explores the concept of doors using the image of a labyrinth as a door, a door that conceals by revealing. Shot in an underground laboratory, it adapts recent philosophical commentary on doors.
Displayed inside a small and deep box, viewers are able to see it by peering through its dark portico.
- Overview
- Exhibition
- Credits
Project Director:听Dennis Del Favero
Project Funding:聽Australia Council for the Arts
2014
Single channel video installation
Video. 3.30 minutes. BW. Stereo.
Firewall, William Wrights Artists Projects, Sydney, 2014
Director and Designer:聽Dennis Del Favero
Cinematography:聽Dennis Del Favero
Assistant Cinematographer:聽Jessica Dawkins
Script:聽Stephen Sewell & Dennis Del Favero
Music:聽Kate Moore
Costume Design:聽Karla Urizar
Actress:聽Judy Wilson
Voice-Over:聽Sacha Horler
Plinth:聽Graphic Art Mount