Road Movie (part 1)
9 min video, 4.1 or stereo sound, 2008

Road Movie (part 1) is part of the 4 channel video and sound installation, Road Movie. The installation Road Movie incorporates Road Movie (Part 1) 2008, Lost 2008, The Parramatta Road Project 2011 and The Park 2013. Each component can also be screened separately.

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Thus the film engages in a kind of self-cancelling, a perverse annulment of its whole raison d'être, since it is a road movie about about the repudiation of the very thing essential to it, the car.

Adam Geczy, Art Monthly

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Gillies' road movie is a meditation on the efficacy of individual resolve against looming end-of-world scenarios.                  Pedro de Almeida, Excavation 2012

The protagonist of Road Movie acts alone. But Road Movie also disrupts the internal logics of this popular cinematic genre. As the road opens up for the lone protagonist, as the constant loud noise and frenetic pace of the city is displaced by quietness and stillness, the narrative departs from the generic script and stages an unexpected and absurd dead‐end.

 Therese Davis, 'A Road Movie by John Gillies' in Video Logic, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2008

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