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Drafting Season - about the work.

On the football field, a group of twenty-some things gather in a cluster. Bright and edgy, their AFL inspired clothing has the same colour scheme as the uniforms worn by the Gold Coast suns. Gangs of New York meets Aussie Rules football, it might seem as if the group standing on the field are in a gang. They begin to move in choreographed dance sequences that echo the moves used in Aussie rules football. A man dressed in official clothing studies them from the sidelines.

Two more officials wait in the stands. These men, who are dressed in forties style gangster clothing are watching the movement that unravels inside the stadium.

In the middle of a room upstairs, the artist is painting. She is using the same techniques as Jackson Pollock, who used to lean above the canvas a drop paint on to it from above. We see close ups of her hands and facial gestures as well as close up slow motion images of paint flying through the air toward the floor. The sequence of the artist painting is intercut with imagery of dancers on the field. As if the shot of the dancers is a canvas that the artist is throwing paint on to, paint begins to fall on top of their moving bodies. As the paint falls, we understand that the woman is throwing paint in the same configurations as the dancers moving across the field.

After a short while the camera zooms up and hovers above the dancer's bodies, watching as they collapse on to the field. Emerging from the sidelines, the officials come and pick two players. They are taken upstairs where are the confronted by the artists' blank stare. She throws a football at their feet, and paint starts to fall from the ceiling. She smiles as the dancers become covered in paint.