The viewer is invited to watch an odyssey-like animated movie studio tour and audition led by celebrity action figures found in Newtown op shops and bargain stores.
The construction of a micro-cinema environment acknowledges Heynes’ love-hate relationship with Hollywood and Wellywood’s marketing, merchandising, and special effects.
A dystopian travel diary. A point of view tour through a recently deserted city.
This work assumes the existence of aliens without ray guns and proposes that they are no real threat.
An exploration of the work of pioneering Hollywood animation studios: Disney, MGM, and Warner Bros.
Summer Reading Series #3: On Mike Heynes: video art, animation, and activist critique
What might Heynes’ Dr. Frankenstein-style hybrid zombie remixes of our ancient nightmares and utopian dreams of the future tell us today?
