2024 - AFF/Samstag Expand Moving Image Commission
Adelaide Film Festival & Samstag 2024 Expand Moving Image Commission / 11 October 2024 - 6 December 2024
Image: Emmaline ZANELLI, I take care of what’s mine (Expand Moving Image Commission), 2024. Two channel video with sound, 25 min 45 sec. Commissioned by Samstag and the Adelaide Film Festival. Still from video, courtesy the artist and Samstag Museum of Art.
Samstag Galleries 2 & 3
Susan Norrie (NSW) / Matthew Thorne (SA) / Emmaline Zanelli (SA)
The inaugural Expand commission is a series of experimental docu-fiction moving image works by artists Susan Norrie (NSW), Matthew Thorne (SA) and Emmaline Zanelli (SA). In three chapters, they follow the narrative threads of mining in Australia, focusing on fly-in-fly-out workers, their families, environmental impacts and the complex relationship experienced by First Nation custodians of the land on which resource extraction takes place. Together they offer counterperspectives to frequently cliched assumptions, excavating a more nuanced and in-depth understanding of this underrepresented but critical sector of contemporary Australia.
This collaborative project originates from the 2022 Adelaide Film Festival (AFF) EXPAND Lab.
Catalogue essay by Anna Zagala.
Emmaline ZANELLI, I take care of what’s mine (Expand Moving Image Commission), 2024. Installation view at Samstag Museum of Art, University of South Australia. Photography Sia Duff.
Matthew THORNE, Extraction (Expand Moving Image Commission), 2024. Still from video, single channel video with sound, 61 min. Commissioned by Samstag and the Adelaide Film Festival. Still courtesy the artist.
Susan NORRIE, FALLOUT (Expand Moving Image Commission), 2024. Still from video, single channel video with sound, 30 min 51 sec. Commissioned by Samstag and the Adelaide Film Festival. Still courtesy the artist.
