BOXedOUT
BOXedOUT was supported by the City of Melbourne Arts Grants Program ($11,000) and by MPavillion 2024 ($2,000)
2023
00:25:00 min
This dance film project was spearheaded by Gilda in collaboration with the following practitioners: Amber McCartney (choreographer/dancer), Kyall Shanks (Dancer), Ruby Willis (Music producer)
and Gracie Dephoff (Cinematographer).
The film invites viewers on a mesmerizing journey through a high-intensity dance duet unfolding within a boxing ring, seamlessly blending the grace and precision of dance with the raw energy of a fight, thus transcending traditional boundaries of movement and art.The screening occurred at the 2023 MPavilion, designed by Tadao Ando, utilising multiple screens, each representing a distinct 'round'
of the boxing match.Drawing a connection to Tadao Ando's personal journey from professional boxer to architect, the artistic presentation gains added depth through this synergy, offering an immersive experience where viewers can appreciate the fusion of movement, space, and storytelling.
Image credit: Giulia Giannini McGauran
Connecting the Dots by Garry Emery 2023
This project is now a part of the permanent collection of MA-g (The Museum of Avant-garde)
Presented here are a series of animations crafted in collaboration with graphic designer Garry Emery. These animations were conceived to promote his recently published book, ‘Connecting the Dots’. Garry and Gilda commenced with a static graphic as our foundation and embarked on a journey to infuse it with emotion and humor. The process was highly organic, marked by extensive experimentation and the ultimate aim was singular: to captivate the audience and prompt them to interact with the distinct shapes and elements of the static design in novel ways.
Thinking of You: Projects by MGS Architects 2023
Presented at The Melbourne School of Design, Dulux Gallery 18 Jul - 25 Aug 2023
Engaged by MGS Architects to create a series of short documentary films for their exhibition ‘Thinking of You’: Projects by MGS Architects. This process involved filming and interviewing inhabitants of the firm's projects, embedding these interviews among stills and footage of the designed spaces.
‘This exhibition asks: ‘what happens after a project is turned over to the people who use it?’ It asks us to be in solidarity with those people; foregrounding their voices through resident interviews and other interactive displays giving visitors an insight into the collaborative, process-driven approach of the practice.
’’Key projects […] include innovative community housing, education and urban precinct redesign. These demonstrate the practice’s commitment to creating places that meet the demands of living well and living sustainably, coupled with the desire for individual expression and the need for community.’
Image credit: John Gollings
The blot
‘The blot’ was featured as part of the 2025
Robin Boyd Foundation ‘House Show’ and QDOS Gallery’s ‘2B or not 2B: On the periphery of architectural thought.
Garry Emery, Gilda Jones and Jane Mooney
2024
00:03:23 min
The blot is a short 'tongue-in-cheek' film, a comment on 'sense of place', a topic concerning constructed and landscape environments, of particular relevance to urban designers, architects and landscape architects as well as interested others, such as the authors of this film.
This whimsical film touches on (and elaborates) the insightful observations about 'placeness' made by writer Gertrude Stein and artist Richard Artschwager. The makers of the film offer a potential solution to an absence of 'sense of place' by re-defining Artschwager's 'blp' (a simple graphic place marker). The intention of the ‘blp’ and the ‘blot’ is to function as a counter to places that are devoid of substance, identity and differentiation.