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Pātea, The Project

This 15 minute documentary considers lived experience and spaces in the small town of Pātea, concentrating primarily on the residues of the Freezing Works (it was once the main source of income for the residents of the town) that occupied a body of land flanking the Pātea river. It opens in darkness with the sound of waves. Over this we hear the voice of a worker talking about memory and the eyesore that the factory became to him. Fragments of his opinions flicker typographically across the vacant fields where parts of the factory once stood. The paddocks are brown now; the soil damaged and the vegetation sparse. The desaturated pallet, inspired by my experiments with mdf board and old metal, creates continuity between imagery of the coast and the sand dunes that mark Pātea’s western perimeter. In this segment my narration connects the nature of the study and my background as a working-class labourer. As we move into a discussion of Pātea’s history I begin to reframe and texture footage so it leads us into archive photographs of the old factory and the town. In this section sound is more palimpsestic with subtle layers of singing, work sirens and the sound of an old film projector. These elements are layered across and dissolved into each other. We leave the historical narrative with a digitally constructed time lapse that shows how type has appeared on, and disappeared from, the factory walls. The palette at the close of this segment returns us to more contemporary colouring.