PUNTO [2013]

Single-channel digital video projection | 00:01:26 | Black & White | Silent | 4:3 | installation dimensions: variable

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VIEW: https://vimeo.com/108955096

INSTALLATION VIEW: https://vimeo.com/240456147

             

PUNTO appropriates a scene from Pier Paolo Pasolini’s film Accattone (1961) where the protagonist stares into the camera lens and then unexpectedly spits in the direction of the viewer. This transgressive act is slowed down into single-frames that are slowly dissolved into each other offering a visceral and haptic experience of the photographic image.

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PUNTO is part of the PASOLINI PROJECT - a project inspired by Italian filmmaker and poet Pier Paolo Pasolini.

 

SHOWN
British School at Rome Gallery (Rome)

SCA Galleries (Sydney)
 

WRITING

Gary Sangster, 'In Theory', Bandiera Nera. SCA Galleries, Sydney, 2015

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REVIEW

Frederico Camera, 'John Di Stefano’s Bandiera Nera'. Australasia Journal of Popular Culture, 2015

Aleksandr A. Wansbrough, “Archaeological Journeys: John Di Stefano’s Bandiera Nera”. Alphaville - Journal of Film & Screen Media, 2016

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INSTALLATION VIEW: SCA Galleries (Sydney)