Repeats

A hypnotic, fragmented slide show that feels like sifting through someone else's memories and answering-machine confessions.

Directed by

Daniel Mudie Cunningham

Starring

Deborah Mailman, Janneke Williamson, William Yang

Overview

Repeats is a slide show film set to a soundtrack of answering-machine messages, accompanied by sequenced photographs that repeat and re-stage images from film history. Eleven narratives make up the work, each featuring the person who left the corresponding voice message. The work takes many of its cues from Chris Marker’s La Jetée (1962), the landmark experimental film composed almost entirely of still images — and one of several films ripped off here. Made in 2000, Repeats is itself a sequel — or repeat — of Daniel Mudie Cunningham’s earlier work The Ballad of Technological Dependency (1998), which was heavily indebted to the photography of Nan Goldin and William Yang, who appears in Repeats.

How it feels

Eerie, melancholic, satirical and absurd. Slow-burning and demanding.

About

Memory, identity, art, media

Content

Mild sexual content and language. No violence or gore.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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