Lines of Regard

Stephen Burstow, Lines of Regard, 2018, UHD video, colour, sound, 5 min 58 sec.

Selected: Cinematheque: Contemporary work for the screen. dLux Media Arts 2018.

Lines of Regard presents a sampler of screen-based looking. The gaze of the performer, or sometimes its absence, implicates the viewer’s own gaze as an act of exchange and world creation.

The performances were developed through task-based improvisation. The performer, Nicholas Hope, began his screen career with the role of Bubby in Rolf de Heer’s Bad Boy Bubby (1993). He has continued to investigate the physicality of performance through screen and theatre acting and directing, and also through research that led to a PhD in Performance Studies (University of Sydney).

Performer: Nicholas Hope   Cinematographer: Simeon Bryan