Russell Adam Morton
Dark.S03E03.1080p.HEVC.x265-MeGusta.mp4
Video / 2:00 mins
ABOUT THE WORK
This film was derived and reinterpreted from footage I shot during a residency in Hong Kong in 2018. Revisiting a project that took place before this lockdown, travel ban and a political revolution in Hong Kong, the footage encapsulates a time capsule that I was able to travel to. Revisiting decisions I’ve made, reminiscing a time when we could travel and reimagine alternate realities. Similar to the Netflix TV series ‘dark’, where a soundbite was used in some parts of this film.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Russell Adam Morton makes films, performances and is a professional cinematographer. He is a graduate from the Puttnam School of Film, LASALLE College of the Arts (2010) and obtained an MA in Fine Arts from Camberwell College of the Arts, UAL (2012).
His first film, The Silent Dialogue of All Artworks was screened at the National Museum of Singapore’s 10th Singapore Short Cuts, the Substation’s 4th Experimental Film Forum and the Thai Short Film & Video Festival 2014. The film went on to win Best Experimental Film at the 5th Singapore Short Film Awards. His second film, The Forest of Copper Columns won the Cinematic Achievement Award at the Thessaloniki Short Film Festival 2016 and was selected for several festivals including the Thai Short Film & Video Festival, Jogja Netpac Asian Film Festival, SEAShorts and Short Shorts Film Festival 2017. Russell was also the director of photography for Ang Song Ming’s Recorder Rewrite, Singapore’s entry to the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019. In 2020, the Asian Film Archive commissioned Russell to make Saudade, a short film set against the exultant Eurasian imaginations about the loss and displacement of the community's language, Kristang.