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FILMIC MEMORIALS

Exploring place and domestic cinema through long durational video art.

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A collection of twenty feature-length video artworks comprised of vintage home movies that were filmed in Standard 8mm film throughout Germany, Netherlands, UK, USA, the Pacific, Guam, and Australia between 1956-1986 by my grandfather Tony Barbone and in Super 8mm film throughout Victoria, Australia by my father Peter Wilson between 1974-1988. 

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The project produced video artworks of these journeys by exploring the relationship of place as a central character to and within the films asking how can a topographical analysis of place be situated within the films and their reconstructed other?

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PLACE

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Research Form: peer reviewed art film

Licence: public domain film

Completed: 2005

Published: 01-10-2005 

Publisher: Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI)

Author: Shaun Wilson

Duration: 60 mins

ISAN: 

IMDB: tt37845561

WONDERLANDIC

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Research Form: peer reviewed art film

Licence: public domain film

Completed: 2005

Published: 01-09-2005

Publisher: Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA)

Essay: Jeff Malpas
Author: Shaun Wilson

Duration: 60 mins

ISAN: 

IMDB: tt37845572​​

COMMUNION

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Research Form: peer reviewed art film

Licence: public domain film

Completed: 2005

Published: 01-10-2005

Publisher: Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI)

Author: Shaun Wilson

Duration: 60 mins

ISAN: 

IMDB: tt37845592​​

HARVEST

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Research Form: peer reviewed art film

Licence: public domain film

Completed: 2005

Published: 01-10-2005

Publisher: Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI)

Authors: Shaun Wilson

Duration: 60 mins

ISAN: 

IMDB: /tt37845599​

GEELONG

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Research Form: peer reviewed art film

Licence: public domain film

Completed: 2005

Published: 01-10-2005

Publisher: Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI)

Author: Shaun Wilson

Duration: 60 mins

ISAN: 

IMDB: tbc​​

KINDERGARTEN

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Research Form: peer reviewed art film

Licence: public domain film

Completed: 2005

Published: 01-10-2005

Publisher: Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI)

Author: Shaun Wilson

Duration: 60 mins

ISAN: 

IMDB: tt37845609​​

THE BRIDGE

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Research Form: peer reviewed art film

Licence: public domain film

Completed: 2005
Published: 23-10-2006

Publisher: NeMe Cyprus, Museum of Contemporary Art Fenosa Union, Spain

Author: Shaun Wilson

Duration: 60 mins
ISAN: 

IMDB: tt37876073​​

1975

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Research Form: peer reviewed art film

Licence: public domain film

Completed: 2006
Published: 14-03-2006

Publisher: Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA)
Curator: Juliana Enberg

Essay: Malcom Bywaters

Author: Shaun Wilson

Duration: 60 mins (video here is a 10 minute extract)

Catalogue here
Article here
ISAN: 

IMDB: tt37876137​​

AIRBASE

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Research Form: peer reviewed art film

Licence: public domain film

Completed: 2016
Published: 

Publisher: 

Author: Shaun Wilson

Duration: 60 mins

ISAN: 

IMDB: tbc​​

THE RIVER

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Research Form: peer reviewed art film

Licence: public domain film

Completed: 2008
Published: 

Publisher: 

Author: Shaun Wilson

Duration: 60 mins

ISAN: 

IMDB: tbc​

GUAM

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Research Form: peer reviewed art film

Licence: public domain film

Completed: 2009
Published: 

Publisher: 

Author: Shaun Wilson

Duration: 60 mins

ISAN: 

IMDB: tbc​

THE FIELD

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Research Form: peer reviewed art film

Licence: public domain film

Completed: 2011
Published: 16-08-2025

Publisher: Federation Square, Melbourne

Author: Shaun Wilson

Duration: 60 mins

ISAN: 

IMDB: tbc​

JOURNEY

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Research Form: peer reviewed art film

Licence: public domain film

Completed: 2014
Published: 09-08-2025

Publisher: Federation Square, Melbourne

Author: Shaun Wilson

Duration: 60 mins

ISAN: 

IMDB: tt37876139​

SCHEVENINGEN

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Research Form: peer reviewed art film

Licence: public domain film

Completed: 2016
Published: 

Publisher: 

Author: Shaun Wilson

Duration: 60 mins

ISAN: 

IMDB: tbc​

PICNIC

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Research Form: peer reviewed art film

Licence: public domain film

Completed: 2017
Published: 

Publisher: 

Author: Shaun Wilson

Duration: 60 mins

ISAN: 

IMDB: tbc​

GARMISCH

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Research Form: peer reviewed art film

Licence: public domain film

Completed: 2019
Published: 

Publisher: 

Author: Shaun Wilson

Duration: 60 mins

ISAN: 

IMDB: tbc​

THE BEACH

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Research Form: peer reviewed art film

Licence: public domain film

Completed: 2021
Published: 09-08-2025

Publisher: Federation Square, Melbourne

Author: Shaun Wilson

Duration: 60 mins

ISAN: 

IMDB: tt37876140​

TOWN

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Research Form: peer reviewed art film

Licence: public domain film

Completed: 2022
Published: 16-08-2025

Publisher: Federation Square, Melbourne

Author: Shaun Wilson

Duration: 60 mins

ISAN: 

IMDB: tbc​

THROUGH MY FATHER'S EYES

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Research Form: peer reviewed art film

Licence: public domain film

Completed: 2024
Published: 

Publisher: 

Author: Shaun Wilson

Duration: 60 mins

ISAN: 

IMDB: tbc​

THE SEA

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Research Form: peer reviewed art film

Licence: public domain film

Completed: 2025
Published: 16-08-2025

Publisher: Federation Square, Melbourne

Author: Shaun Wilson

Duration: 60 mins

ISAN: 

IMDB: tbc​

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