New Zealand Filmmaker Returns Home

New Zealand Filmmaker Returns Home

Melbourne-based, New Zealand video artist/filmmaker, SJ.Ramir returns home this October for a solo show at Auckland’s Orexart Gallery. The exhibition titled Journey’s…, will show Ramir’s latest video work The Passage – financed by the Screen Innovation Production Fund, along with two other videos; Our Voices Are Mute and Departure – both of which were screened at this years International Film Festival Rotterdam.

In his latest work The Passage, the movement of an anonymous, ghost-like figure through a remote and desolate geographical landscape (New Zealand’s Rangipo Desert) is used to explore the concept of intangible journeys that are made through metaphysical landscapes of the mind.

Ramir’s video work was recently described by European art curator, Tim Reed, as being “…a rich atmosphere of mystery and ambiguity”. His works are renowned for their haunting, and evocative qualities.

Last year Ramir was invited to screen five of his video art works at the Swedish art film biennale Internationell Konstfilm Utstallning - alongside internationally celebrated artists Bill Viola and VALIE EXPORT.

Alongside his video works showing at Orexart Gallery, Ramir will also be exhibiting a selection of prints from each video. The shows opening night is 28th October, 5pm -7pm. The exhibition runs through until 14th November.

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