JOSHUA TREE AND ALL OF EVERYTHING
Joshua Tree and All of Everything is a single-shot, minimalist experimental film about time, consciousness, and climate change. It is about the experience of time, the movement of time, and the growing sense of being-out-of-time. It is also about a rhythm between waking consciousness and dreaming, where surreal and mystical experiences occur. Further, it is building off of evolving themes of the Anthropocene by directly witnessing landscapes at risk of annihilation, acting as an archive, a memorial. It examines a contribution art could have on shifting and attuning human understanding to something so massive and distributed across time as climate change—that stars no one, that is long in the making, and attritional. All of these ideas were in play when making this work.
Gary James Joynes
Gary James Joynes (aka Clinker) is an award-winning visual and sound artist that has been active in the international live audio-visual and experimental music performance community for many years. He blends the beauty and physicality of sounds auditory and visual elements in Live Cinema AV performances and in rigorous and emotional photo and video installation works.
Brad Necyk
Brad Necyk is an artist and writer in Canada whose practice engages with issues of medicine, mental health, and precarious populations and subjects. He recently completed a research-creation Ph.D. in Psychiatry at the University of Alberta and his doctoral research was awarded the Governor General’s Gold Medal. His works include drawings and paintings, still and motion film, sculpture, 3D-rendered films, virtual reality, performance, and narrative writing. His first book, Telling Stories Otherwise: Illness, Art, and Healing, will be published in 2021.