Bartholomeu Dias I: The São Cristóvão anchors
2009
In situ photograph, Mosselbay
Photo credit: Xanelé van Rensburg
Pigment Print on Archival Cotton Rag paper
700 x 500 mm

Bartholomeu Dias II: Treading upon an unshod shore
2009
In situ photograph, Mosselbay
Photo credit: Xanelé́ van Rensburg
Pigment Print on Archival Cotton Rag paper
700 x 500 mm

Bartholomeu Dias III: The vindication of Adamastor
2009
In situ photograph, Mosselbay
Photo credit: Sharon de Swardt
Pigment Print on Archival Cotton Rag paper
700 x 500 mm

Bartholomeu Dias Tropical: Terra Incognito (Bermuda Triangle)
2009
Photo credit: Xanelé van Rensburg
Pigment Print on Archival Cotton Rag paper
700 x 1050 mm

Melt
2009
DV Video
04'56 min

Sources in order Film (Director, Director of Photography): 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, Geoffrey Unsworth BSC), A Beautiful Mind (Ron Howard, Roger Deakins ASC, BSC), Apocalypto (Mel Gibson, Dean Semler ASC, ACS), As it is in Heaven (Kay Pollak, Harold Gunner Paalgard), Atonement (Joe Wright, Seamus McGarvey BSC), Babel (Alejandro González Iñárritu, Rodrigo Prieto ASC, AMC), Batman: The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan, Wally Pfister ASC), BBC Planet Earth: Fresh Water, Ocean Deep and Shallow Seas (Alastair Fothergill, Michael Kelem et al.), Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón, Emmanuel Lubezki ASC, AMC), James Bond: Quantum of Solace (Marc Forster, Roberto Schaefer ASC), Into the Wild (Sean Penn, Eric Gautier AFC), No Country for Old Men (Joel & Ethan Coen, Roger Deakins ASC, BSC), Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes, Roger Deakins ASC, BSC), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (David Fincher, Claudio Miranda), The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson, Robert Yeoman ASC), The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Julian Schnabel, Janusz Kaminski), The Hours (Stephen Daldry, Seamus McGarvey BSC), The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson, Robert Yeoman ASC), The Science of Sleep (Michel Gondry, Jean-Louis Bompoint), The Truman Show (Peter Weir, Peter Biziou BSC) and There will be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, Robert Elswit ASC).

Phoenix: Baptism
2009
Pigment Print on Archival Cotton Rag paper
350 x 500mm

Leda: The Annunciation / The Bride stripped bare by her bachelors (after Millais)
2009
Pigment Print on Archival Cotton Rag paper
600 x 360 mm

Walk on Water
2009, 2011
DV Projection and mirrors
06'24 min

Cast
Narcissus: Johan van der Merwe
Ophelia: Lanél van der Kolff
Marat: Adriaan Dedericks
Pilgrims: Andrea Burger, Ruan Cornelissen, Eva du Preez, Grace Kim, Pascal Pienaar, Louise Robertson, Danie Stander, and Carmen Uys

Production team
Luami Calitz and Ruann Coleman, with Marianne Bellstedt, Jacolene Benadé, Adriaan Dedericks, Larita Engelbrecht, Amy-Jean Prentice, Mareleen Smit, Danie Stander, Amori Stols, and Gussie van der Merwe

Filmed at Aan de Braak Theatre, with thanks to Christina Falck and Stellenbosch University Drama Department

Installation view To Walk on Water, blank projects, Cape Town, 11 May – 11 June 2011

Walk on Water
2009, 2011
DV Projection and mirrors
06'24 min

Installation view To Walk on Water, blank projects, Cape Town, 11 May – 11 June 2011