Set on a commercial freighter mysteriously marooned within touching distance of land, Paul Rooney’s seven-minute handheld travelling shot, restlessly circling round the deck of the boat, evokes a state of personal limbo, whose rising anxieties are reflected in an elegantly dissonant Brecht/Weill-influenced soundtrack and in a half-whispered, half-sung monologue haunted by memory and history.
Dust
Paul Rooney
Single Channel Video, 8 minutes, 3 seconds, 2006
Project Overview
Showing on FVU Watch from 22 April 2021
Commissioned as part of Single Shot. Funded by Arts Council England and the UK Film Council’s New Cinema Fund.
Curated, promoted and toured by Film and Video Umbrella and managed by Film and Video Umbrella and Maya Vision International.