Tuesday April 2nd 7PM at the Crocodile Bar
Crocodile Dreams. 10 mins colour sound
In the early afternoon a cool breeze, raises white caps on the ocean before rushing busily inland. The palm trees respond with broad circular gestures, and their lower branches echo this wave like rhythm, by turn, revealing and concealing, the cool shade and patches of sunlight below the forest canopy. Light escaping from a perfect blue sky, sends sharp shadows flickering from branch to branch as patches of ragged sunlight chase each other back and forth across this delicate web of tropical plant life.
Meanwhile, a short distance away, a crocodile is dozing in the hot afternoon sun. She is completely still but, from time to time, her heavily armoured eyelids blink open and, just as quickly shut. In that instant, the light reflected from the precarious world about us is lost in a tunnel of reptilian darkness stretching from this moment back to the beginning of time.
Tree Again. 10mins colour sound
This is not a movie about a palm tree it was made in close collaboration with a palm tree. The camera was strapped to a branch on a windy day. The camera records the motion of the tree as the branches sway in the ocean breeze. This includes the motion of the branch it is attached to. I like to think of this project as a self-portrait of the tree. I provided the camera, I attached it to one of the trees’ lower branches and pressed the go button. The wind did the rest.
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