Fine Arts senior lecturer’s short film “Ritornello#1” on display

John Chrisstoffels has a video work included in an exhibition ‘Anaerobic Video’ during May (2nd-31st) in the Great Hall in the Art Centre.

“My short film Ritornello#1, was originally screened in Wellington in 2018-19 and also screened online by the Christchurch Art Gallery during lockdown in 2020.

In keeping with the anaerobic theme of the show,  my experimental film plays with the possibility of overtaking oneself on the stairs and is based  in part on an a poem by William H Mearns Antigonish (1899).

Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn’t there!
He wasn’t there again today,
Oh how I wish he’d go away!”