Ettore Siracusa

Ettore Siracusa has made several short films and video essays informed by a tradition of extra-realist cinema keen to bear witness to the more perplexing and strange in the everyday. I work with historical archives - film and photographic images, literary texts, and my own audio-visual documentation and writing - as interdependent material elements in ideas how cultural memory is reproduced as migratory objects and complex mediated constructions of fictions and facts. He is currently at work on a research art project at the University of Sydney, College of the Arts, Sydney. His most recent work includes: Museo Italiano (2011 10 mins video) Picture Palaces (2003, Video multi-screen installation at ACMI Federation Square) Shanghai Daily (2001, 20 mins, Video documentary) Jadi Jadian (1998, 50 mins, Video for stage projection); Lecce: locations for unmade film (1997, 25 mins, Video)