Site Visit - Cockatoo Island

First steps in the making of a site specific project: visit the site and prepare the ground. We will only have one day to shoot, no time to be wasted in wandering around. This preliminary visit will prove to be vital. Which spaces shall we visit? How far will we be able to travel? Where shall we find protection from the rain if needed? What's the light like pending on the time of the day? How busy or silent will we find our shooting locations?

Start with a map and the rest will follow.

Testing the equipment. How many cameras will we bring? Where will we find power to recharge?

Our aim is to remain light.

Blown away.

The dog-leg tunnel will have to be part of our journey.

Not a soul in sight, this is promising.

We will be on a "field trip", hence a comprehensive risk assessment.

Industry and landscape wired together. This is Cockatoo Island.

We'd like to invite Wim Wenders and Pina Bausch here.

Noise: water, birds, tiny music from café, planes, cats. We will come back here.

Nature hasn't abandoned the Island. This could be a place for projected falls.

Great "hangar" huge scale. How will we fill this cathedral? Should we bring the stilts?

Gates will be locked in future times.

We'll never reach this window on shooting day, which in the end didn't matter, we had run out of time.

More to see than a day can swallow. The first editing exercise will be the selection of sites, no more than five.

Crouching under Building 150

Ship design Precinct

Outdoor corridor just after the stairs, 5mins from downstairs

Upstairs, very quiet with great acoustics

Western

Perfect geometry

Pacing the convict precinct

Exit the girls of Biloela

Reflective

Past long forgotten, we will shoot in the present moment.