SARAH PIRRIE + MATTHEW VAN RODEN, POST-PRODUCTION

Post-production is a term for the editing phase of filmmaking where raw footage is cut together and audio/soundtracks/effects are included and mixed. As part of a workflow, post-production is the final phase of making a film. Post-production as a phase in the filmmaking process implies a production phase as well as a pre-production phase (Connelly2011), each phase designating specific tasks along a linear timeline with the goal of a final product, the film.This three-phase workflow can be overlaid on any project where planning, producing and editing are key components for a final outcome.

Within multi/trans/inter/intra-disciplinary arts practices, particularly ones that include digital processes and outputs, this three-phase workflow is bifurcated. Digital media components include their own post-production phase and then re-turn through a production and post-production editing phase within the broader context of their inclusion as part of an installation, body of work or exhibition/presentation.

ForPost-production, an open-studio event following a miro-residency at Pirrie Space(Darwin). Artists Sarah Pirrie and Matthew van Roden focus on the concept of post-production as a lens through which to understand the resonances, overlaps, and new creative ground within and between their respective practices. Focussing on the productive element of post-production (the production of the after),Pirrie and van Roden ask questions of process, time, movement, telos, screen and territorialisation.