Movie Details
Original Language:English
Skin Shade Night Day
"A 4 video-channel, 12 audio-channel installation with shadecloth"Movie
DirectorAllison Chhorn
45 min
Plot
Skin Shade Night Day explores the daily routine and rituals practised by the artist’s Cambodian-Australian family, which are reperformed and documented through a process of embodied empathy. Acts of service, such as gardening and cooking, play out as echoes from the past across a sound and image installation displayed in a shadehouse. Spectres, shadows and aural textures conjure up impressions of a place that remembers how its inhabitants once lived.
