Sam Hamilton
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Shot on 16mm celluloid across parts of New Zealand and Samoa, interdisciplinary artist Sam Hamilton’s ten-part experimental magnum opus makes thought-provoking connections between life on Earth and the cosmos, and, ultimately, art and science. Structured around the ten most significant celestial bodies of the Milky Way, Apple Pie’s inquiry begins with the furthest point in our solar system, Pluto, as a lens back towards our home planet and the ‘mechanisms by which certain aspects of scientific knowledge are digested, appropriated and subsequently manifest within the general human complex’. Christopher Francis Schiel’s dry, functional narration brings a network of ideas about our existence into focus, while Hamilton’s visual tableaux, as an extension of his multifaceted practice, veer imaginatively between psychedelic imagery and performance art.
Apple Pie
Hollywood movie transformed through digital intervention.
Pixel Dust
Shot on Eagina Island, Greece
The Dirty History of Laundry
A lone figure stands in a desert holding a stack of books. Using the books as stepping stones he walks towards a distant mountain range. Shot in the Alvord Desert, OR, USA.
Performance Piece for Super 8 film, a desert and some books
A film by Sam Hamilton
Sovereignism
A film by Sam Hamilton
Domestication Ritual #1
A film by Sam Hamilton