A landscape work in three parts being, a train trip across Canada, Chicago street scenes and the media as contemporary landscape. A fourth part, being the Saskatchewan prairie remains incomplete. Shot in the late 1980s whilst touring experimental films throughout North America. Shot on Super 8mm film, edited on SVHS video and completed on a digital post-production format.
American Sketchbook Part 3 (1985)
Other works by Martin Rumsby
Martin Rumsby
Landscapism (2008)
An excerpt from Martin Rumsby's ongoing project Landscapism, which seeks to establish a New Zealand landscape film tradition.
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A selection of video works by New Zealand artists addressing our relationship to the United States.
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Symposium Interview #2: Martin Rumsby
Symposium Interview #2: Martin Rumsby
Interview
Before his presentation at the CIRCUIT symposium, Looking Back to the Future, Mark Williams spoke to experimental filmmaker Martin Rumsby.