Travelling down the highways that carve through the unpeopled wilderness of New Zealand's South Island, we see a dark road in an animated movie which has been made by painting directly onto film.
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Lissa Mitchell

All my films were made in Wellington during the 1990s when I lived purely for 16mm film and noise music—day and night. For a film, if I had a good idea I just got on and made it – it was the best feeling—work for hours on it and then run it through a projector (hoping it wouldn't "chew it up") and see what it looked like. If it was good I'd keep going. I was in a band: Fever Hospital, we recorded a tingly soundtrack for my film, Bowl Me Over.  Recently I have been writing. My work includes chapters in the books: Brian Brake: Lens on the World (2010) and The Aotearoa Digital Arts Reader (2008) and essays in journals.

—Artist statement

    Lissa Mitchell on CIRCUIT · 2 works

    Rain
    Lissa Mitchell

    Rain (1998)

    A representation of raindrops falling onto a glass surface.

    Rain
    Bowl Me Over
    Lissa Mitchell

    Bowl Me Over (1995)

    An animated road-movie painted directly onto film.

    Bowl Me Over

    CIRCUIT projects featuring Lissa Mitchell

    A femme person in a pink dress smiles whilst singing at a pākehā guy who is playing a gutair. They are standing next to each other on what feels like a stage with a plain background.

    The Sound of Seeing

    ScreeningKiriata
    The Pyramid Club, Wellington · October 29, 2020 - November 12, 2020

    A series of three film screenings that present an alternative history of Aotearoa experimental music, seen through artists' film and video.

    The Sound of Seeing: sonic experiment in Aotearoa Artists' Film and Video 1973-2020
    Three military model figures are standing in the stony bottom of a fish tank. A landscape is suggested by a picture of a mountain in the background, and green oxygen weed in the mid-ground.

    To & Fro

    InstallationPuninga Toi
    Tauranga Art Gallery · February 7, 2016 - July 16, 2016

    A curated selection of works exhibited at the Tauranga Art Gallery, that explore travel, movement, and unusual modes of transport.

    To & Fro

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