Lamassu Flats, 2014. Multi-channel video with stereo sound, 25minutes. Installation view Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania, 2015.

Lamassu Flats, 2014 is a multi channel video installation that explores the ways and means by which we move through space. A motorcyclist wearing a greens-screen costume moves through a transformative environment. The gleaming images superimposed onto the rider’s body are juxtaposed against the mundane, networked space through which they travel. Referencing cinematic history, and using architecture and infrastructure as keys, Lamassu Flats navigates a latticework of physical action and perceptual phenomena. A metropolis on the verge of abstraction, a CGI render of Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon Gate, and a surreal railroad ritual - in which three figures consume bread peppered with railway aggregate - evoke a sense of cinematic displacement and highlight the cyclical effect of representational space on the body. Lamassu Flats was commissioned by Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva for the Biennale of Moving Image in Geneva and at the Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania, respectively.

Film Credits:

Written, Directed and Edited by - Felix Melia

Cinematography - Joe Williams

Sound Recordist - Joseph June Bond

Performers - Esme Toler, Joe Roberts & Joshua Howell

CGI Animation- Nico Vascellari