Monday, 28 December 2015

Morison and Straka / Madame and the Bastard


Madame Morrison, documentary for television profiling New Zealand artist Julia Morison, directed by Sonja de Friez
http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/madame-morison-2005 (cf. 4:45 for Madame & the Bastard)

Madame & the Bastard do black was a series of five 30 second films transmitted 63 times between September 2 – November 30 2000 on TV One (south island), during which was simultaneously shown in the KIOSK (corner High Street and Manchester Street) between 16 - 30 October 2000.

"Advertising for Art & Industry 2000 and short film were combined in ‘do black’ by Madame & the Bastard, orchestrated and conducted by Julia Morison and Heather Straka. ‘do black’ was an intensive, surreal short film screened in five acts on TV One, with different acts programmed into 30 second advertising time slots."
"All People 20+ Years – seen by 93% of the population at least once. (372,000) 74% of population saw them at least four times or more (296,000). 31% saw them at least 10 times or more (124,000)"

1 comment:

  1. Thanks for the introduction to Madame & the Bastard Clare!! The staged characters - only partially appearing but described through scenario and props - find a real parallel in our work. And the foley sounds and stop motion techniques are great in this Victorian style surrealism. "cunning and bizarre means", indeed!

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