Filmic Memorials: Films 12, 13, 17, 19-20

<p dir="ltr">Research Background </p><p dir="ltr">International developments in video art have reflected a questioning of the world through the language of memory and social device. While this research recognises the significance of such implications, the film study Filmic Memorials moves into a research question that interrogates how memory can be poetically used beyond this framework to visually represent reverie as a device through place in reflecting social narratives in art. </p><p dir="ltr">Research Contribution </p><p dir="ltr">The contributions are attested to four factors. First, demonstrate how a long term creative practice investigation can develop a methodology which engaged innovation in the way it defined digital cinematic practices in video art by using a topographical analysis of screen affect in its context and premise; second, contribute a broader international discussion about memory and screen places through current practice, especially since the narratives of the recent 2024 Venice Biennale exhibition ‘Sites of Memory, Sites of Amnesia’; third, contribute to a new way of thinking about memory and screen places through video art practice, and fourth, test how this premise of memory in screen places impacts on the design of the moving image through both practice to find a new reference point to understand the impact of reverie on the perception of the places we see on screen and challenges the barriers to visually experiencing the implications of memory through place to further our understanding of designed moving image visual narratives. </p><p dir="ltr">Research Significance </p><p dir="ltr">Significance is attested to four factors: first, the work was peer reviewed by the Melbourne Arts Precinct and the Digital Facade programmer and curator; second, the work was screened at Digital Facade, a high impact and high profile public screen venue in Melbourne with a projected 2 million visitors annually, third, the calibre and reputation of the venue is world class which attracts major events such as the Melbourne International Film Festival, Melbourne Music Week, and Rising Festival; fourth, the work was part of a peer-reviewed published paper ‘Filmic Memorials: a long-term study of place and domestic cinema’, in volume 9 of Screen Thought Journal.</p>