Try again. Fail again. Fail better. 
The Absent Sea is a seven-minute essay video shot with a Red Epic camera and was made in homage to the late Allan Sekula and Noel Burch’s recent documentary The Forgotten Space (2013).
This is a personal essay documentary about my mother coming to Australia in the early 1940s as a teenager. The film’s title with its overtones of Margeurite Duras is emblematic of the subject’s ancestral and mythic roots (Piraeus and Kythera, Greece) and her migration to Australia to work in country NSW cafes for her uncles and aunts. This ‘letter chain’ mode of migration was the major form of migrating from Greece to Australia back then.
Miro On the Beach is a major performance video shot with a Red Epic camera and a movie crane and it depicts the artist writing the expression ‘camera stylio’ into the sand of a local Sydney beach.
The Nocturnal Bench is a meditative essay performance video that was primarily inspired by Bill Brandt’s post-black and white photography and American film noir. In particular, Brandt’s photograph of the writer Elias Canetti sitting on a park bench at Hampstead Heath has haunted me for years.
The video is a distillation of many of the themes, motifs and concerns that characterise the artist’s oeuvre in general. And in particular, it is autobiographically inflected like his prize winning video of 1997 Autumn Song.
Documentation of The Spiral of Time exhibition at The Australian Centre for Photograph, 2013.
It kept looking at me. This owl perched on the window still. It was night. And I was in my cot as a toddler looking back at it through the bars of the cot’s wall. Unless I am mistaken this is the first memory I have of my childhood in Wauchope in 1947.
Paging Mr Hitchcock is a performance video shot with a Red Epic camera in a studio, where the artist addresses Alfred Hitchcock and the decisive impact his cinema had on him.
Shipwreck is one of Conomos’ most overtly existential works. The title comes from Orson Welles and Charles de Gaulle. Welles quoted de Gaulle’s remark on old age in an interview recorded shortly before Welles’ death.
The Bells of Toledo is a passionate cinephile’s idiosyncratic homage to the great Spanish film maker Luis Buñuel. Best known perhaps for his scathing, surrealistic satires of middle class mores in films such as ‘The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie’ and The Exterminating Angel, Buñuel was a savage critic of…
A 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).
An homage to Nam June Paik TV Buddha series, this video sculpture represents Ned Kelly as Australia’s first ‘cyborg’ outlaw.
French film-maker, Robert Bresson died in December, 1999 at the age of 92. Although he left behind only twenty hours of screen time, Bresson created one of the most distinctive bodies of work in world cinema. An enigmatic, solitary presence who became a figure of awe and …
Smoke in the Woods is an autobiographical meditation on exile, memory and time. This lyrical sound collage deals with the author’s ‘milk-bar childhood’ memories of 50s Sydney and of the Greek island of Kythera – whose inhabitants have travelled to Australia since the nineteenth century.
A three-channel video photo and neon installation dealing with the Diasporic Greek reflections on his childhood, cinema and the visual arts.
Autobiographical performance about the artist’s childhood in a milk bar at Tempe and his ancestral forbearers from the Greek Island of Kythera.
