Australian Video Art Archive

John A Douglas

 

Titles

Screen Test # 5 Australiana

00:01:44 2005

The work embodies a ravaged masculinity and self-destructive psychosis in the Australian landscape.

Screen Test # 4 Australiana

00:02:26 2006

Douglas reinterprets a scene from the 1971 Nicholas Roeg film, Walkabout

Screen Test (Australiana) - A Suicidal Synthesis

00:03:55; 00:04:17 2006

Douglas revives the  aesthetic of cheap Australian TV Dramas of the sixties and seventies  in an attempt to foreground the forgotten narratives that lay buried deep in the past.

Screen Test # 6 Australiana (AKA James Dean Jesus)

00:09:32 2007

This performance reconstructs the moment of transcendence within the context of the masculine mythology of the Australian outback and is lost to emptiness, desolation and ruin.