Janet Merewether

  • Artist
creator of
Off, Thank-You, Enough
Medium
Screen
URL
http://scanlines.net/node/2799
 
http://archive.dlux.org.au/index.php?page=artworks&id=800
 
creator of
Orbital Cathode Ray Tube
Medium
Screen
URL
http://scanlines.net/node/2800
 
http://archive.dlux.org.au/index.php?page=artworks&id=801
 
creator of
Maverick Mother
Date
Medium
Screen
URL
http://scanlines.net/node/4649
 
http://aso.gov.au/titles/documentaries/maverick-mother/
 
http://www.maverickmother.net/

When filmmaker Janet Merewether could no longer ignore her loudly ticking biological clock, she chose to have a child on her own.

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creator of
Jabe Babe: A Heightened Life
Date
URL
http://scanlines.net/node/4648
 
http://aso.gov.au/titles/documentaries/jabe-babe-a-heightened-life/
 
http://gogirlproductions.com.au/jbhome.html

A tall girl with a tall story, 31 year old Jabe Babe measures six foot two inches (188cm), works as a dominatrix and has a life threatening genetic condition called Marfan Syndrome …

 
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creator of
Palermo: ‘History’ Standing Still
Date
Medium
Screen
URL
http://scanlines.net/node/2975
 
http://archive.dlux.org.au/index.php?page=artworks&id=980
 
http://aso.gov.au/titles/shorts/palermo-history-standing-still/

Images of architecture and street life shot in Palermo in 1999 are edited as a mock-documentary to suggest a century of history, and to examine issues of authenticity in the period film.

 
creator of
Knit-Face
Date
Medium
Video
URL
http://scanlines.net/node/4652
 
http://www.acmi.net.au/knitface.aspx
 
http://gogirlproductions.com.au/knithome.html

Made for the ARTV Series commissioned by SBS Independent & ACMI
Knit-Face is a video which 'toys’ with the idea of the portrait in a pluralist society …

 
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creator of
Short Before The Movie
Date
Medium
Screen
URL
http://scanlines.net/node/2968
 
http://archive.dlux.org.au/index.php?page=artworks&id=972
 
http://gogirlproductions.com.au/sbmhome.html

Jonas Mekas wrote that 8mm home movies would be the folk art of the 20th century …

 
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creator of
Contemporary Case Studies
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Medium
Screen
URL
http://scanlines.net/node/2884
 
http://archive.dlux.org.au/index.php?page=artworks&id=887

A black comedy featuring an experimental graphic style …

 
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creator of
Cheap Blonde
Date
Medium
Screen
URL
http://scanlines.net/node/2349
 
http://archive.dlux.org.au/index.php?page=artworks&id=301
 
http://aso.gov.au/titles/shorts/cheap-blonde/

This experimental video rearranges the same sentence 22 times: ‘A famous filmmaker said: “Cinema is the history of men filming women”’, while deconstructing the video image of a woman bathing in a waterfall.
“Curiously interactive, seductively simple, Janet Merewether’s five minute video Cheap Blonde lures its audience into playing along with no hands-on and not a mouse in sight …

 
creator of
Taking Her for a Spin
Date
Medium
Video
URL
http://scanlines.net/node/4654
 
http://gogirlproductions.com.au/spinhome.html

A meditation on the conquest of machine over landscape, of nature as incomprehensible 'other’.

 
creator of
Making Out In Japan
Date
Medium
Screen
URL
http://scanlines.net/node/2313
 
http://archive.dlux.org.au/index.php?page=artworks&id=248
 
http://gogirlproductions.com.au/japhome.html

Direction, camera, edit - Janet MerewetherConcept - Yuji Sone and Janet MerewetherVoices - Yuji Sone, Eric Dorfman and Janet Merewether
A collaboration between performance artist Yuji Sone and film/video maker Janet Merewether, this short video, based around a language lesson structure, intends to teach the language of Japanese intimacy in five easy steps …

 
creator of
Tourette's Tics
Date
Medium
Screen
URL
http://scanlines.net/node/4653
 
http://gogirlproductions.com.au/tourhome.html

Tourette’s Tics is a short experimental mock-documentary which explodes the myth of the 'hysterical woman’, a myth perpetuated by Sigmund Freud, who has been described by some as 'a reckless cocaine addict, guilty of mass plagarism. Tourette’s Tics questions the authority of the 'expert in the white coat’, and transforms hysteria into the hysterical.

 
creator of
A Slice Of Life Or The Crumbs Of Existence
Date
Medium
Screen
URL
http://scanlines.net/node/2293
 
http://archive.dlux.org.au/index.php?page=artworks&id=228
 
creator of
Dispomania
Date
Medium
Video
URL
http://scanlines.net/node/4655
 
http://gogirlproductions.com.au/dipsohome.html

Music Video for the Australian band The Plug Uglies.