During our final visit to Stradbroke Island, Queensland where we had filmed in the early sixties, we were appalled at the impact of laissez-faire tourism on the landscape (terrorism against nature) and the sand mining in the dunes. We directed the camera it to sea and kept it there.
Ocean at Point Lookout begins with single frame frozen moments of the ocean surface building up to full ocean movement, a suggestion of the evolution of the ocean from 'atoms' of light. Several strategies are then used which are explored in the following films including the use of long expanses of image and soundtrack durations, the manipulation of the relationship between a particular image and sound, or silence, 'testing' the sounds against an image and playing with the expectations that a viewer brings to a film, in this regard. Moods of the sea, storms, calm days, sunsets, night, are related to the changing image quality, achieved by shooting on a variety of film stocks. Given scenes are viewed through three standard camera lenses to observe the different information contributed by each lens. The camera repeatedly returns to the horizon as a constant element in the changing conditions of weather and light.
