Category: hand made 16mm and super 8
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2026 Dark Matter PhotoAccess resident artist
In 2026, Louise is working on solarising 16mm and super 8 film, making a 16mm by torch printing and using a pin hole camera.
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Works in group show in the Canberra Art Biennial 2024
Two hand made films show in an exhibition in the Canberra Art Biennial in 2024.
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Stills life | moving fragments – exhibition with Jo Law, 2012
An exhibition of moving image art focused on attentiveness to every day objects, the exhibition showed at Belconnen Arts Centre and Tin Sheds Gallery. It featured work by Louise Curham and Jo Law. Jo used video and animation, Louise used super 8 film and hand processing.
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Pararaha
A 16mm film made on the west coast of Auckland, Tamaki Makaurau, New Zealand Aotearoa at Pararaha near Kare Kare
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Two Screen film
This was one of the first hand made super 8 films I completed. It was used in performances from 2005 for about ten years. It changed and evolved as the film was destroyed. It was part of several NowNow events and some SoundOut events.
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Waiting To Turn Into Puzzles
This was an extraordinary performance featuring a film, a score made from the film, an amazing composition and incredible musicians. Composer David Young and I both love Georges Perec and this work drew inspiration from Life a User’s Manual and it used a lot of the footage I created during my residency at BankArt 1929…
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Conimbla
A super8 and 16mm film shot in western New South Wales in Conimbla National Park used for the performance Val Camonica Pieces 2007 and as a stand alone film with audio from that work for a film in 2009.
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Moving Still Life, a projection project shown in Melbourne and Sydney 1998-2004
This work occupied me from about 1998 to the mid 2000s. I sewed 2 litre milk bottles together, mostly by hand. The idea was to get away from the square on the wall, to embed the image in the projection surface and to take the projection surface out of the black space of the cinema.…
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