In this video, Richard Tipping plays two tunes on jaw harp: Waltzing Matilda and a kind of Scottish jig. Recorded as a part of his poetry performances in Germany in 1985, including the city of Wuppertal and its famous university.
Richard Tipping performs his poem Mangoes. Mangoes is a funny and sexy take on eating mangoes as a sensual experience.
A visit to a chicken ‘processing’ factory, where live white birds are converted into frozen carcasses. This film shows the whole process, and the migrant women working on the production line.
Committee is a short film in an Expressionist style which pictures the dictatorship hiding behind a committee. Set in the main meeting room on the campus at Flinders University, which is empty. The shadow of a door handle. A frightened student hides in a corner. A leather-clad man with sunglasses and shaved head appears, sitting in the high-backed leader’s chair, then lying on the huge table. The film ends with a close up of a large painting hanging in the room which shows people in a state of terror. The soundtrack of two voices echoing through variations of words beginning with the letters ‘con’, like convene, convert, condemn …
Made by Scott Hicks and Richard Tipping when they were studying at …
An experimental film, one minute long. Showing multiple portraits of people framed ambiguously in front of a glass door reflecting sky and clouds. Shot in 1973 on 16mm film, using a Bolex Reflex H16 camera. Written and directed by Richard Tipping.