In conversation with: The Woodcutters 2008

Film: duration 3:58

In the film In conversation with: The Woodcutters we witness the artist as he swings an axe, supposedly performing the labour of the woodcutter to which the title refers. Shot in the dark, his spot-lit body becomes a theatrical spectre, simultaneously alluring us to the violence of his action and questioning its own ambiguous existence. A series of subtitles that appear throughout the film, documenting a conversation between the artist (A) and the cameraman (C) about how to set up the film-shoot, further invites us to acknowledge the staged nature of the act being recorded.