On the Screen, Dianne Tanzer Gallery + Projects

Making up with Annie Hall at 10%
2011, Digital Video, 3 minutes

Install Shot

On the screen: new video work by Catherine Connolly.


Exhibition text:
Catherine Connolly's video installation work is largely involved in examinations and reinterpretations of cinema. Fascinated by the images produced by classic cinema, the artist herself remains fixated in the uncanny repetition of the repeated behaviors, predicaments and attractions of her co-opted heroes and heroines. The works explore a variety of cinematic and artistic concerns from desire and screen, narrative and its subversion, the inertia from still to moving image and the inversion of tropes, particularly romance and horror. Making up with Annie Hall at 10% builds upon Connolly's utilisation of past cinematic moments. In this work the common scene of making up, drawn from Woody Allen's Annie Hall, is both drawn out to its most painful ambiguity, and extended out of it filmic origin slowly into painterly images. For this work Connolly was interested in not only the indefinite emotive concerns of the scene itself but the relationship between the still and moving image, and films relationship to painting.