Repeats is a slide show film set to a soundtrack of answering-machine messages, accompanied by sequenced photographs that repeat and re-stage images from film history. Eleven narratives make up the work, each featuring the person who left the corresponding voice message. The work takes many of its cues from Chris Marker’s La Jetée (1962), the landmark experimental film composed almost entirely of still images — and one of several films ripped off here. Made in 2000, Repeats is itself a sequel — or repeat — of Daniel Mudie Cunningham’s earlier work The Ballad of Technological Dependency (1998), which was heavily indebted to the photography of Nan Goldin and William Yang, who appears in Repeats.
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| WWilliam YangNot listed | Not listed |
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| AAmanda CunninghamNot listed | Not listed |
| DDrew BickfordNot listed | Not listed |
| VVictoria SpenceNot listed | Not listed |
| JJulianne PierceNot listed | Not listed |
| MMark HughesNot listed | Not listed |
| CCatherine WhiteNot listed | Not listed |
| KKen CrozierNot listed | Not listed |
| DDon CameronNot listed | Not listed |
| SSarah HockingNot listed | Not listed |
| GGiles MortonNot listed | Not listed |
| TTim HiltonNot listed | Not listed |
| HHerbert NgNot listed | Not listed |
| EErna LiljeNot listed | Not listed |
| CChris CaoNot listed | Not listed |
| RRicardo PeachNot listed | Not listed |
| IIsabella ReichNot listed | Not listed |
| TToby MoreyNot listed | Not listed |