Leave sth in your wake

As the wave of demolition and construction continues its unrelenting sweep across Sydney, its population, wise to the shenanigans of politicians and developers, knows too well that this physical transformation is the measure of a society increasingly polarised racially, religiously and economically. To stake a claim in the midst of change is to seize fragments of and piece together moving imagery that responds to the visual clutter disseminated by a city in transmutation.

  • David Anthony Sant
    Director
  • Felix Blume
    Sound
  • David Anthony Sant
    Video Footage
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short
  • Runtime:
    3 minutes 52 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    March 31, 2015
  • Country of Origin:
    Australia
  • Country of Filming:
    Australia
  • Shooting Format:
    digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • ‘Festival Internacional de Videoarte de Camagüey’ (7th edition)
    Camagüey
    Cuba
    April 4, 2017
    Cuban premiere
  • ‘The Projection Room’
    London
    United Kingdom
    September 15, 2016
  • 'Exploding Cinema'
    London
    United Kingdom
    July 23, 2016
    U.K. premiere
  • ‘Festival Images Contre Nature’ (16th edition)
    Marseille
    France
    July 6, 2016
  • ‘WUFF’ Wellington Underground Film Festival (4th edition)
    Wellington
    New Zealand
    May 27, 2016
    New Zealand premiere
  • L'Œild'Oodaaq ‘Video/Bar’(4th edition)
    Nantes
    France
    April 1, 2016
    French premiere
  • ‘The Streaming Festival’
    Hague
    Netherlands
    December 11, 2015
    Dutch premiere
  • Nowwemakeourowntv “TV has attacked us all our lives, now we fight back. Now we make our own TV/Nam June Paik”:
    Odessa
    Ukraine
    November 7, 2015
    Ukraine premiere
  • ‘TUTTI FRUTTI HABITAT’ premio arte Rugabella 2015 (5th edition):
    Milan
    Italy
    October 24, 2015
    Italian premiere
  • ‘BEAMS arts festival’ (4th edition)
    Sydney
    Australia
    September 19, 2015
  • ‘The 13th edition of flEXiff 2002-2022’
    Sydney
    Australia
    September 18, 2015
    Australian premiere
Director Biography - David Anthony Sant

Born in Sydney, Australia. David Anthony Sant is an educator and maker of artist films. His film making achievements are recognised by the significant number of international film festivals and film making collectives who have screened his work over a time span of more than twenty years.

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Director Statement

I attempt to explore the visual language of the moving image with every film I create. A subject that re-occurs in many of my films is the passage of the urban experience within urban localities.