An Unreachable Country. A Long Way To Go charts the production of the sculpture, Luna Park, in rural Serbia. The construction team of engineers, welders, assemblers and model makers are all ex-employees of the Zastava car factory that was the main employer of Kragujevac, making Yugo cars, before it closed. The political and social backdrop – alongside the process for making the sculpture in Serbia – reflects many of the references that oscillate through the Morison’s practice: in working away from perceived centres, nurturing an active engagement with the resources and inhabitants of the locale to inform and produce the work. The title of the film – taken from the seminal Chris Marker work La Jetée (1962) - reflects another area of interest for the artists: the difficult tenor of the times. The thirty-minute film cuts across factory activity, through the ritualistic preparation of a spit-roasted pig, to the lively conversations of the Serbian team. Often it lingers on the workers extended periods of inactivity within the exquisite, rural backdrop of the village – a metaphorical reflection on the social and environmental impact of the current global climate.
Hannah Firth, Curator, Chapter, Cardiff

Video

An Unreachable Country.
A Long Way To Go
2010
HD video
30 minutes

Commissioned by Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, UK