But once you put the camera down on the table, the ground or a tripod a whole different set of possibilities begin. Using a still camera as proscenium, there is really no capture and you can present to the camera. Working with groups this is a particularly exciting as a way of representing the groups. All of the videos I've been involved with have been made as A Constructed World, are largely authorless, and made with Jacqueline Riva, friends, children, social workers and therapists, disadvantaged, challenged, talented and others. This medium ha its own lustre and doesn't know any discrimination.
Some people look fantastic.
In fact I find people look spiritual or in grace or blessed or glowing in video. Recently we have been making a much larger or longer video work in the Whipstick forest near Bendigo. Even the most scrawled picture of a leaf, or horizon line seems to say more about being there, which, I guess is what interests me most. Nevertheless it is fast, about presence, fun, user friendly, largely authorless, cheap and rich. The first video we made was at the invitation of Kim Machan for ArtRage for the ABC and I thank her for that.