Reinventing the Wheel
​2014, HD video, stereo, 3:15
Reinventing the Wheel is a stop motion animation in which a poem plays out on a gameboard such as seen on TV’s Wheel of Fortune. As the contestants guess at phrases (and prizes), the doll-like hostess who turns their guessed letters becomes a medium for her own message to the host and all you viewers at home.​

Reinventing the Wheel is part of a suite of works plotting and re-staging the finite gestural vocabulary of hostesses across a range of genres, periods and cultures.
Screenings/Exhibitions
Best of Zebra Poetry Film Festival, Goethe Institut Montréal, Canada 2021
International Video Poetry Festival, Athens 2018
Dublin Feminist Film Festival, Ireland 2017
Off the Wall, Arts + Literature Laboratory, Madison, Wisconsin 2016
FemFlix: Contemporary Art and Feminism, SCA Galleries, Sydney 2016
Screenspace, Melbourne 2015
Runway: Australian Experimental Art, Issue 28 Movement 2015
Beyond Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, UNSW Galleries, Sydney 2015
Zebra Poetry Film Festival, Berlin 2014
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Credits
Animation: Campbell Drummond 
Music: Lindsay Webb

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