Ulysses Italian Cinema

The image in Ulysses Italian Cinema is taken during a train journey in Italy from Pordenone to Venice. Accompanying the objective edited/unedited image of the landscape is a soundtrack of semi coherent voice comprising the artist’s directions to actors whilst dubbing previous videos, music from two European singing divas, Edith Piaf and Maria Callas, plus a re-reading of an interview with Michelangelo Antonioni from 1968 concerning Blow Up, The Red Desert and the future of a cinematic language. The fluid image and disjointed audio converge and diverge, creating a journey through Italy, through cinema, through image technology, through history, through time, and through the artist’s process of making a video.