ELOISE MAREE Anamneses
Single channel video, 12 min 16 sec 2021-22
Director / Writer / Director of Photography / Editor: Eloise Maree
Sound Mixer & Masterer: Clint Watts
Digital Cameraperson: Paul Mosig
Non-digital Cameraperson: Eloise Maree
Colourist: Dhanushka Gayashan
Sound Designers: Alexis Cross and Eloise Maree
Composer: Alexis Cross
Poet: Caitlin Aloisio Shearer
Sound Recordists: Dylan Barfield, Alexis Cross, Jon Flood & Eloise Maree
With thanks to: Dylan Barfield, Scott Brinckley, Alexis Cross, Jon Flood, Rebecca Waterstone, and Modern Art Projects Blue Mountains
Shot at Sugarloaf, on Gundungurrra Country
Screened as part of Lumière at Mt Vic Flicks vintage cinema, and Rhomboid Studio, Mt Victoria
Anamneses: the ability to recall past events : recollection (Collins English Dictionary)
Anamneses is a visual and audial exploration of photography’s relationship with land. Eloise uses cinema and wet plate photography to explore the liminalities and dynamism of landscapes, as well as field recordings and piano to expand on these landscapes' histories and beauty, and their fraught relationships to photo-taking.
This slow, steady and dreamlike confluence encourages reflection on the complex dualities of historiography, undeveloped and developed landscapes, erasure and trace, forgetting and remembering.
An archive of natural and historic tensions, Anamneses is an act of memory-making unearthing multiple, layered identities of place, revealing the landscape anew, and as seen through a feminine and feminist lens. Anamneses aspires to be a thought-provoking and arresting film, with its reflections on the complexities of photo-taking, memory making and place identity serving as springboards for discussion.
Companion Pieces :
Installation: Main Salon of Mount Victoria Manor (Hotel Etico), Anamneses, framed tintype.
Rhomboid Studio, 24th April: Projection accompanied by a pre-recorded prose poem response, written and read by Caitlin Aloisio Shearer, part of ‘Lumière @ Rhomboid’. TICKETS (SOLD OUT)
Eloise Maree is an artist and arts worker privileged to be working on, and with Gundungurra and Wiradjuri land. Eloise unpacks and repackages the past and its relationship to the present using wet -plate photographic processes, popularised in Australia in the 1850s (the ambrotype (on glass) in 1854 and the tintype (on metal) in 1858). Eloise’s camera-original ambrotypes, tintypes and glass-plate negatives are both historical (hand-sensitised using a silver nitrate solution) and contemporary (shot using modern lenses, and/or lighting). This locates Eloise’s art in the past as well as the present, and this co-location enables revisionings of history and historiography. Eloise is an experienced photographic artist by way of Craig Tuffin and Ellie Young of Gold Street Studios, and possesses a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours) from Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, and a Master of Museum Studies from the University of Sydney.
