John Conomos

Leftquote A roofer takes more risks than an intellectual. Rightquote
Sartre
Lake George (after Mark Rothko), 2007
24 minutes, Mini DV



An homage to Mark Rothko, and also in the long take cinema tradition (specifically Jean-Marie Straub and the late Daniele Huillet’s Too Early, Too Late [1982]), a landscape video about the ‘disappearing’ lake located outside Canberra, Australia. This work is in two versions; Installation and Essay (forthcoming).