From Here to Eternity

Oscar, S

From Here to Eternity

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dc.contributor.author	Oscar, S https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0543-0811	en_US
dc.date	2015-08-24	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	From Here to Eternity	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/122255
dc.description.abstract	E6 slide projection of film stills from Hollywood cinema	en_US
dc.format	E6 slide projection	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	From Here to Eternity	en_US
dc.title	From Here to Eternity	en_US
dc.type	Exhibition
utslib.location	Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne	en_US
utslib.for	1203 Design Practice and Management	en_US
utslib.for	1905 Visual Arts and Crafts	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building/School of Design
utslib.copyright.status	closed_access
pubs.consider-herdc	true	en_US
pubs.finish-date	2015-06-28	en_US
pubs.place-of-publication	Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne	en_US
pubs.start-date	2015-08-24	en_US
pubs.rights-statement	RESEARCH BACKGROUND The digitisation of historical celluloid films has created an archive of cinematic styles, narratives and censorship, often revealing tropes used in films to represent scenes which were suppressed by censors. While the availability of archived films allows representation and censored images to become visible, the implicit language used within these films is often overlooked when compared to the explicit presentation of sexuality in the contemporary era. This work seeks to understand whether this outmoded imagery can be deployed as a critical tool in conceptual photographic practice. RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION In From Here to Eternity, still images are taken from Hollywood films spanning between the heavily censored golden age of cinema in the early twentieth century to the 1960s era of sexual liberation. The images are created from digitised films and they distil scenes of sexual ruination which would ordinarily disappear in the flow of the filmic narrative. The work uses the photographic typology to classify the scenes that mobilise analogy to communicate sexual ruination through inanimate objects, interiors and landscapes. The still images are transformed from digital files to transparency film and presented on an outmoded slide projector. What became apparent through the transformation of cinematic to static imagery was that the outmoded representation of sexual representation was returned from censored suppression and took on its own narrative of delay, deferral and ruin. The analogies employed to signify sexual ruination themselves become motifs for ruination and return. RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE This work was curated into the exhibition Breathing Room at MOP Projects and written about in the exhibition catalogue by Dr Georgina Cole in 2013. The work was then selected for a solo exhibition at the Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne.	en_US
pubs.rights-statement	The digitisation of historical celluloid films has created an archive of cinematic styles, narratives and censorship. The availability of archived films allows representation and censored images to become visible. This work seeks to understand whether this outmoded imagery can be deployed as a critical tool in conceptual photographic practice. In From Here to Eternity, still images are taken from Hollywood films between the heavily censored golden age of cinema in the early twentieth century to the 1960s era of sexual liberation. The work uses the photographic typology to classify the scenes that communicate sexual ruination through inanimate objects, interiors and landscapes. The still images are transformed from digital files to transparency film and presented on an outmoded slide projector. What became apparent through the transformation of cinematic to static imagery was that the outmoded representation of sexuality was returned from censored suppression and took on its own narrative of delay, deferral and ruin. This work was curated into the exhibition Breathing Room at MOP Projects and written about in the exhibition catalogue by Dr Georgina Cole in 2013. The work was then selected for a solo exhibition at the Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne.	en_US

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E6 slide projection of film stills from Hollywood cinema

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