Projects supported through SIGNAL Screen Commissions in 2024 are:
Chelsea Chua
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OADING, PLEASE WAIT interrogates how people who identify as Culturally and Racially Marginalised carry the load of ‘otherness’ in their everyday lives. Fusing interpretative dance movement, film, animation and visual design, this video work will explore what it means as an individual and community to not only ‘load’, but ‘unload’, share the load, and ‘reload’.
Image credit: Chelsea Chua, Boxed In
Neve Curnow
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eve’s project is an immersive video art project that transports viewers into a realm where fantasy and reality converge. Drawing inspiration from low-fi horror cinema and the rural gothic, the work explores the real horrors of colonialism and reflects on feelings of otherness within these rural spaces, using meticulously created miniature sets of real places to unravel layers of horror and fantasy.
Image credit: Neve Curnow, Spotlight, 2022
Rubyanna Edwards
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ill Thinking is a rumination on time and space, which encompasses aspects of drawing, digital and installation practices. Bodily and gestural, it is an abstract work full of frequently changing lines and shapes, animated to explore ideas around artmaking, image processing and technology through their relationship to urban space.
Image credit: Untitled, 2023
Emma Lyn Winkler
It’s All Soup In The End is an absurd hand-painted stop-motion animation that explores death and anxiety. Informed by Winkler’s experiences of mental health conditions and encounters with death, the animation uses the visceral texture of oil paint to depict cartoon figures decomposing and transforming to explore the distress generated by death and the futility of fixating on the inevitable.
Image credit; Emma Lyn Winkler, Open Head 2021
Applications are now closed and will reopen in 2025.