Repeats

The story

Repeats is a slide show film set to a soundtrack of answering-machine messages, accompanied by sequenced photographs that repeat and re-stage images from film history. Eleven narratives make up the work, each featuring the person who left the corresponding voice message. The work takes many of its cues from Chris Marker’s La Jetée (1962), the landmark experimental film composed almost entirely of still images — and one of several films ripped off here. Made in 2000, Repeats is itself a sequel — or repeat — of Daniel Mudie Cunningham’s earlier work The Ballad of Technological Dependency (1998), which was heavily indebted to the photography of Nan Goldin and William Yang, who appears in Repeats.

Cast

D Deborah Mailman J Janneke Williamson W William Yang D Daniel Mudie Cunningham A Amanda Cunningham D Drew Bickford V Victoria Spence J Julianne Pierce M Mark Hughes C Catherine White K Ken Crozier D Don Cameron

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S Sarah Hocking G Giles Morton T Tim Hilton H Herbert Ng E Erna Lilje C Chris Cao R Ricardo Peach I Isabella Reich T Toby Morey