CRITICAL
OVERVIEW:
The process by which my films are
made incorporates an active dialogue with my experience: grappling
with uncertainties, responding to difficult circumstances; frustration
with the nonsense of authority and the banality of convention;
and a strong commitment to broadening the expressive range of
media to allow for a more dynamic dialogue with our situation.
In my films, I am creating a complex entity that presents a dynamic
attitude to the audience and this attitude is born out of a committed
gesture to take things further. Making films is a way to make
a considered intervention into the fabric of discourses that impose
themselves on me every day.
One of the
most distinctive characteristics of the screened film is the unfolding
of events in time. This characteristic lends itself to the development
of a narrative flow by our tendency to attempt to draw an associative
principle between one shot and those following it (altogether,
this then leads to larger effects which override these individual
connections).
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Forgotten...
Lost in Thought
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An overriding
concern in all of my films has been to exploit the modal dynamics
of this relationship to create poetic effects in the operation
of the resulting displacements and the iconic power of the imagery.
Like a visual form of metaphysical poetry, each shot in my films
can be considered to be equivalent to a conceit in a poem.
Pushing for
the invention of unknown visions by juggling unconventional forms
- provoking uncertainties, mysteries and doubts. No resolution
or specific solution, movement for the sake of movement, how close
does one come to breaking off communication with the audience?
Heinz
Boeck, September 2003
FILMOGRAPHY:
Scraping
the Brain
(1981, 6 mins, 30 secs, Super 8)
Where
are you going? hurrying to get somewhere else (1983,
5 mins, Super 8)
Film
# 3 (1988, 18 mins, Super 8)
Grrr!
(1990, 2 mins, Super 8)
Dead Roads
(1991, 8 mins, Super 8)
Big Table
(1993, 6 mins, Super 8)
3 short
passages (1995, 11 mins, Super 8)
knitted
brow anthology (1996, 8 mins, Super 8)
Surface
Agent (1996, 6 mins, Super 8)
Through
the Open Gate (1998, 5 mins, Super 8)
Dungeness
Souvenir (1998, 5 mins, Super 8)
Kerbside
(1998, 3 mins, Super 8)
Forgotten.
Lost in Thought (1998, 10 mins, Super 8)
Brief
Encounters (1999, 10 mins, Super 8)
The Home
Yard (1999, 10 mins, Super 8)
ancient
maritime survey (2001, 13 mins, Super 8)
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Grrr! (1990, 2 mins) |
Dead Roads (1991, 8 mins) |
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3 short passages (1995, 11 mins) |
Although
still working in the moving image medium, I have been consolidating previous
film works, re-editing and converting them into digital format. Currently, I’m making
a new abstract film expanding ideas from my art practice and more particularly
my photographic and sculpture works. Find below a catalogue of more recent
exhibitions of my work.
(Heinz Boeck, August 2017)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016 Moreland Summer
Show, FACTIVISM, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick, December.
[submission: sculpture and poetry reading]
2016 Metanoia Theatre at the Mechanics Institute,
Brunswick, December- March 2017 [installation: digital
screening]
2016 Bonanza 2016, Yarra Sculpture
Gallery [sculpture}
2016 2016 Contemporary Sculptors Association Survey
Show, Yarra Sculpture Gallery
[submission: sculpture]
2015 Bonanza 2015, Yarra Sculpture
Gallery [submission: sculpture]
2015 Pixel, Yarra
Sculpture Gallery, September [submission: installation & artist’s talk]
2015 Entry
2015, Brunswick Arts, Brunswick, February [submission: digital print]
2014 Moreland Summer Show 2014,
Counihan Gallery
, Brunswick, December [submission: digital print, poetry]
2014 Entry
2014, Brunswick Arts, Brunswick, February [submission: digital print]
2013 Betwixt thorn and prow, Little Deer
Tracks Cafe, Coburg [submission:
digital prints]
2011 Nomadic Zoom, Gallery ARC Yinnar, Gippsland, [submission:
photography]
2000 on a planet not far from earth, Platform, Degraves St Subway, Melbourne [submission:
photography]
SCULPTURE WORKS
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Son of a Pirate |
The Blue House |
The Loaded Drawer |
SELECT
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
"The
Roundup" by Chris Windmill (includes a short review of Film
# 3), Melbourne Super 8 Film Group Newsletter,
Issue 29, September 1988.
"Some
notes pertaining to Dead Roads" by Heinz Boeck, Cantrills
Filmnotes #67-68; July 1992.
"The
German Romantic Spirit and 3 short passages" by Heinz
Boeck, Cantrills Filmnotes #79-80; November 1995.
"knitted
brow anthology - Some notes on my film" by Heinz Boeck,
Cantrills Filmnotes #83-84; December 1996.
"No
budget filmmaking in the raw" by Steven Ball (includes a
short review of knitted brow anthology), Real Time #16,
January 1997.
"Through
the Open Screening" by Bill Mousoulis (includes a review
of Through the Open Gate), Melbourne Super 8
Film Group Newsletter, Issue 133, March 1998.
"On
a planet not far from Earth" by Heinz Boeck, Cantrills
Filmnotes #93-100, December 1999.
©
Heinz Boeck, August 2017
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