Residue

Residue
Directed, edited and composited by Miška Mandić
6:00-7:30pm, 5 April, 2025
6:00pm doors open with refreshments
6:30pm screening starts

Residue is a 26 minute film centred around a series of domestic tableaux shot at different frame rates (including time-lapses shot over many months, and extreme slow-motion shooting at 1900 frames per second) which are then composited together, forming a single scene where Angela, played by Eora-based choreographer and dancer Angela Goh, interacts with decomposing still-lifes. The resulting composited images at first appear familiar and unified, but attentiveness to the slow shifts and gestures of the work exposes the juxtaposition of multiple unsettled temporalities.

In Residue, the overlooked mouldy time of fruit is brought into proximity with the disproportionately grandiose time of the human event, of Angela’s intimate preoccupations and anguish as she eventually drops and smashes her mobile phone. This film investigates the inescapable links between domestic and wider ecologies, de-escalating the accelerated all-absorbing ‘event’ status of the intimate preoccupations of the human character with the ’nothingness’ of slow movements, enmeshments, quiet seepages and residues of the surrounding assemblages.

In a recent PhD examination document, Elizabeth Povinelli, author of Geontologies: a requiem to late liberalism, 2016, and founding member of the Karrabing Film Collective, writes of this work that it provides a way “to link the space-time of the modern (colonial-capitalism) to the complicities of contemporary cinematic productions and to demonstrate another cinema whose spacetime is one of knots, folds, willy paths and other alternative forms could overcome the deadly metabolic rift of western space-time.”

Residue, HD video, 26min, colour, stereo
Starring Angela Goh
Directed, edited and composited by Miška Mandić
Cinematography by Petra Leslie
Timelapse cinematography by Miška Mandić
Sound design and music by Luke Bacon
Gaffer Remi Durrenberger
Phantom camera operator Andrew Collier
Camera assistant James Bartlett
Runner Eve Lande
Set hand Hugh Bennett