Alex Plumb

Golden Boy (2019)

12 min 29 secSingle channel / Digital Video / Colour / Sound

"Golden Boy is a dark, modern fairy tale about our desire to be noticed.

Set in a heightened everyday reality, the film is a single day journey in the life of David - a young man who feels the angst of a modern world and an expectation to be something greater." - Artist Statement

    Other works by Alex Plumb

    A split screen of a person on all fours on a lawn. The left hand shot is from underneath their body. The right is from above the lawn.
    Alex Plumb

    Hard Body (2014)

    A figure crouches over a lawn ripping out handfuls of grass.

    Hard Body
    3 images side by side of domestic scenes, the middle one of a man in a bath.
    Alex Plumb

    Havana Green (2014)

    Three scenes convey a haunting intensity; the sense that something bad has happened, or is about to happen.

    Havana Green
    A 3 screen image of domestic scenes, 2 are inside dark living rooms. The middle of someones legs standing on a lawn.
    Alex Plumb

    Ivy Blue (2014)

    Psychological interplay between the subject depicted, the site of performance, and how the work unfolds in interaction with the viewer.

    Ivy Blue
    An elderly woman wearing a pink fluffy shawl lies in a bed of fake roses.
    Alex Plumb

    Elena (2017)

    In a series of tableaux, scenes of fantasy, domesticity and religion overlap.

    Elena
    Alex Plumb on CIRCUIT

    Related essay

    Two people face each other in an underground club dimly lit by blue light

    Alex Plumb: from rapture to rupture

    Essay
    By Fred Small · November 15, 2022

    In Alex Plumb's moving image works, fact, fantasy and sonic detail imagine what reality might be.

    Alex Plumb rapture to rupture

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