Martin Rumsby

Landscapism (2008)

4 min 17 sec (excerpt)Single channel / Digital Video / Colour / Sound

An excerpt from Martin Rumsby's ongoing project Landscapism, which seeks to establish a New Zealand landscape film tradition analogous to the landscape tradition in New Zealand painting.

    Other works by Martin Rumsby

    American Sketchbook Part 3
    Martin Rumsby

    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
    Martin Rumsby

    Driveway (2006)

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

    Driveway
    For Dots
    Martin Rumsby

    For Dots (2008)

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

    For Dots
    Two people sit outside a bakery on a grey day.
    Martin Rumsby

    Eye I Aye (2014)

    While the camera observes a public bench, the artist describes two local people who live outside of societal convention.

    Eye I Aye
    Martin Rumsby on CIRCUIT

    Related essay

    Looking out a wet window to the footpath

    Summer Reading Series #2: Seeing Eye to Eye

    Essay
    By Dirk de Bruyn · February 8, 2016

    In the second essay of 2016's Summer Reading Series, Dirk de Bruyn looks at where Martin Rumsby's work Eye I Aye sits in the history of experimental film.

    Summer Reading Series #2 Seeing Eye to Eye

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