Delirium | Delusion


Film and Painting Installation 1986 - 1988
DELIRIUM animation – 16mm MONO 1:33
1987 by Kathy Smith 4 minutes-color-sound

An attempt to document a psychosomatic experience using sound and image metamorphosis. Delirium is based on a true story about the death of six people traveling between Elliott and Darwin in the Northern Territory of Australia.

Oil paint on paper, approximately 2000 individual oil paintings make up this animation. Nine oil paintings on linen canvas - varying sizes -see installation images and paintings make up the installation component.

Exhibited as an Installation. All artwork sound and animation created by the artist 1986 – 1988


Selected Exhibitions and Collections

2014Scanline New Media Art since the 1960s archive
1995SACI Retrospective Exhibition of 40 works presented in the Florence Palazzo Italy
1990Eat Carpet SBS Television
1990Exhibited at Window Gallery Sydney
1988Exhibited at SACI Gallery Florence Italy
1988Australian Shorts SBS television Australia
Melbourne Film Festival
Nominated for Best Experimental Short Film at the Australian Film Institute Awards

For full List of Exhibitions, Screenings and Collections see CV