SCREEN WORKS

Out of Phase (2024)

A short experimental dance film that moves through surrealist dreamscapes.
Blurring the line between reality and fantasy, it explores the ambiguity between platonic and romantic relationships.
This film focuses specifically on female relationships but can be related to any variation of gender partnerships.

Director: Lizzie Johnstone

Cast: Serra Kosebay, Madeleine Winn 

Crew: Lauren Heckler, Marie Williamson, Alexia Kerwat, Lydia de Matos, Eloise Frey

Composer: David Johnstone

Spoken Word: Megan Kenna

Vocals: Belle Richardson

Edit Assist: Cat Caruncho

Length: 9’07”

Still Photos by Eloise Frey

Filmed at Hamstead Heath

'blue' (2024)

blue blurs in and out of the subconscious.

Trickles of nostalgia flow through her as she tries to navigate the full spectrum of humanness.

Every moment becomes a memory.

Director: Lizzie Johnstone

Cast: Blue Ka Wing

Still Photographer: Eloïse Frey

Sound: Lizzie Johnstone

Filmed at the Barbican Centre, London.

Length: 4’17’’

'Chaos, baby' (2020)

CHAOS, baby is an experimental dance film created for the third year subject, Screendance at the Victorian College of the Arts.

Filmed during the COVID-19 pandemic, the film explores the themes of corporate and political power and how it can transform and corrupt people who put their own needs ahead of those they purport to serve.

Director: Lizzie Johnstone

Dancer: Bethany Reece

Sound: David Johnstone

Length: 2′ 51”

Filmed at the Glenorchy Art and Sculpture Park (GASP) in Hobart, Tasmania.

It was curated by the Ian Potter Museum of Art in September 2020, alongside two other works:

'Checkmate' (2020)

Checkmate is an independent project created in response to the second wave of COVID-19 that swept through Melbourne, impacting our ability to proceed with on campus study for our final year of our Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance).

 

Director: Lizzie Johnstone

Dancer: Lizzie Johnstone

Sound: David Johnstone

Featured Artists: Sarah Saxon, Ashley Veitch, Tina Moss and Jessica Taylor.

Length: 9′ 06”

Filmed in Hobart, Tasmania.