Movies: James Clayden

James Clayden's audiovisual collage is a meditation in image and sound on Shakespeare's Hamlet. It is as haunting and atmospheric work employing a symphonic structure....

Sally visits her brother Martin, the hour before he is due to be hanged for murder. What is the hold these two have on each other physically and emotionally?...

Filmed on location in Melbourne this is a tale of justice and revenge when two cops decide that the court system has failed and it is now up to them to take the law into their own hands. Cast includes Ian Scott, Elizabeth Huntley, Jan Friedl, James C...

A dense collection of images that evokes the sensation of recalling or imagining a journey: bright street shots of famous cities, quiet moments in hotel rooms, and brief glimpses of a dream-like figure emerging from the darkness....

James Clayden's Ghost Paintings series, produced over the past 17 years, represents a bold and unique synthesis of film and video art. Carefully layered textures, colours and sounds become a sort of visual poetry that defies rational analysis, but th...

James Clayden's Ghost Paintings series, produced over the past 17 years, represents a bold and unique synthesis of film and video art. Carefully layered textures, colours and sounds become a sort of visual poetry that defies rational analysis, but th...

James Clayden's Ghost Paintings series, produced over the past 17 years, represents a bold and unique synthesis of film and video art. Carefully layered textures, colours and sounds become a sort of visual poetry that defies rational analysis, but th...

The first instalment in a series of four short works - each able to stand alone. Intense explorations, fragmented encounters. Characters seem trapped in space in existential dilemmas....

An experimental film with no narrative but the presentation of images and sequences of the Australian landscape interspersed with some interiors. The human figure is present to some degree, being seen in black flitting through certain scenes and in s...

A mysterious mix of loss and longing that investigates a man's imaginings, taking him to the edge of the abyss before he discovers what it is he needs most. Experimenting with a host of strange phenomena including phantoms from his past and present, ...