16mm — woodnutt

I first picked up a Bolex camera in 2015 while living temporarily in the desert of Morocco. I was hooked. The tactile process of working with film enables so many possibilites that escapes digital. The lenses are unique, the image glows. Being hand wound, the Bolex camera doesn’t require power or batteries and can work in extreme locations, I’ve been able to shoot in -30ºC in the Yukon territory, icy wet and windy northern Iceland, sand swept Morocco, and in the heavy humidity of North Queensland, Australia.

All 16mm film works are shot on a Bolex camera, hand processed, and hand printed from negatives to positives via contact printer or optical printer.
For private viewings please visit the studio.

Heimþrá Eða Nostalgía, 16mm film | 7'20" | Colour | 2026 | Music by ØjeRum | Film by Melody Woodnutt | Shown at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), Melbourne, 2026.
"...the melancholic was in fact a utopian dreamer who had high hopes for humanity."
"...Like the doctors before them, poets and philosophers failed to find a precise location for nostalgia...a metaphorical journey seemed like a homeopathic treatment for human longing...".
– Svetlana Boym, The Future of Nostalgia

The Last Seaport of Limerance | 16mm live dual projection in the round | Colour | 2025
Music: Ophir, by Ora Clementi
Shown as 16mm dual projection on 24 Jan, 2025 at Brunswick Mechanics Institute, Melbourne (AU).
Part of 'Finite Eyes' presented with the curatorial vision of Anorak, based in Berlin.

Above, film still from Velvet Gloves,not yet released to public. Project info here.

Celestial Bodies, screened alongside a Kenneth Anger retrospective, 2023. And at the Australian Centre for Moving Image (ACMI), Art+Film programme, 2024.

Galaxies [a love letter], screened for the Event Horizon sympsium (2020) and the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) Film + Art program, 2022, and Latrobe Regional Gallery, (2022).

The Moment of Air Before a Whisper, screened for The Wandering Room ARI and Melbourne Fringe Festival.

Love and Other Ecologies, screened for Cinematica (2021), and Melbourne Music Week with live score by The Scrapes (2019).

The Word for World is Forest, filmclip for Tilman Robinson’s album, Cultureside on the Bedroom Community label.

Window (Bird) exhibited online for AFW (2020) and LaTrobe Regional Gallery (2022)

Echo Chamber, screened with Artist FIlm Workshop and Material As Memory, National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) and Melbourne Design Week (2018)

Resonant Incantations - commisioned by Speak Percussion and selected for Oberhausen Film Festival, 2020.

A small film about my dog, Loppa Bowie Laglínudóttir.