Topologies: Documentary Project (working title)

InSeptember 2012 I was privileged to be invited to work as a stills photographer on location at a paleontology dig at Bucks Quarry, Emu Bay for Producer/Director Cathie Payne’s documentary project Topologies (working title). The images here are my favorite ‘out-takes’ of the paleontologists, fossils, documentary team and the lie of the land at the very special Emu Bay on Kangaroo Island.

About the Project | Synopsis Extract

‘The Topologies Documentary Project probes natural history, science and creative thought to ask the question – What is deep time and, why is it vital that we understand it? How can we understand the vastness of the geological record and make sense of the deep past? How do we see the world and is it possible to see it in new ways? It investigates our concepts and interpretations of nature and mind, space and time through interviews with palaeontologists, archivists, historians and bio-geographers and is woven with a sonorous and intricate visual and aural track. This documentary excavates our relationships to reality and the way we see and imagine the world around us, and things to come.‘ © Cathie Payne 2012

 Project Team

Cathie Payne – Producer/Director
Erika Addis – DOP/ Cinematographer
Helen Kundicevic – Photographic stills