Video projection for Lawrence English live performance work The Visitors.
Rework of various segments of Night of the Living Dead (1968) combined and manipulated at various speeds to appear like a single original scene slowed 100 times its original speed.
The Visitors is a 50 minute audio visual homage to Romero’s remarkable film. It is a mediation on the zombie as cultural phenomena. Using one of the iconic zombie montages from the original film, which is drawn out from a few seconds to 50 minutes; the images on screen shift from objects of horror to a dreamlike light play. The faces and bodies of the undead become a focus of attention, something to be explored rather than shunned. Their on screen presence shifts from fear and disgust to a kind of glacial beauty. Matched with an embodied soundtrack of low frequency vibration and harmonic echoes, The Visitors is a work that celebrates Romero’s criticisms of modern systems of economy and power and recognises the role and value of the body as more than just flesh for consumption.
– FONOMO
Past screenings:
- Premiered 17 June 2017 at Borderlands, Dark Mofo, Hobart
- FONOMO, Bydgoszcz, Poland
- Austrian Film Museum on-location at the Gartenbaukino, Vienna
- Cinémathèque Live at the Gallery of Modern Art