Martin Rumsby

I read the news today (2019)

1 min 42 secSingle channel / Sound / transferred to Digital Video / 8mm / Colour / Sound

"Out in the world with a camera in Wicker Park - pretty much all in-camera footage. With music by the free wheeling local ensemble UPTIGHTY led by Leroy Bach, later of Wilco".

Artist Statement

Credits & notes

Shot in 1987, completed 2019.

Music: UPTIGHTY.

A Summer Poem written by Marvin Tate and performed by Tina Wright. Recorded with Brad Wood at Idful Music, Chicago. Mud Records mud CD 003.

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    American Sketchbook Part 3 (1985)

    A landscape work in three parts being, a train trip across Canada, Chicago street scenes and the media as contemporary landscape.

    American Sketchbook Part 3
    Driveway
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    Driveway (2006)

    Eighteen hours of activity in a house are condensed, and experienced aurally by the viewer.

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    For Dots
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    For Dots (2008)

    Part One of a document of African American street culture in Chicago.

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    Landscapism
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    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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    Martin Rumsby on CIRCUIT

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    leading voice
    for artist moving image
    practice
    in Aotearoa New Zealand,
    distributing works,
    critical review and
    dialogues
    which reflect our unique, contemporary
    South Pacific context.

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    mō ngā mahi toi kiriata
    o Aotearoa, e tuku
    atu ana i ngā mahi toi,
    i ngā arotakenga
    me ngā whakawhitinga
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    ngā āhuatanga
    motuhake o tō tātou noho i te ao hou ki
    Te Moananui-a-Kiwa.