Bridget Mary Chappell, Fresh Waterfalls
accompanying film/animation
full project details:
Commissioned by the City of Melbourne
Vinyl released on Heavy Machinery Records
https://heavymachineryrecords.bandcamp.com/album/undertow
30/10/2020
~ The accompanying video serves as an extension to the critical story telling of Undertow. This compositional extract, Bridget’s accompanying text, and the film’s direction speaks on the exploitative history of the Birrarung River through colonisation and how this force is still ongoing. The film continues Bridget’s process of data abstraction and subversion with a focus on Colonial cartographic iconography, illustration, and image creation. The bridge between past and present colonial efforts is represented with the evolving motif of the ornamental frame - a seemingly illustrative branding and beautification of settler cartography. Through this frame, we can see distortions (perhaps devolution) to the fidelity of it’s material and the geographical images it attempts to neutrally portray. ~