Impression is a response to Impressionist painting, the work of Monet and in particular his Nymphéas series. It is said that the camera freed painters from the need to represent, allowing greater expression leading to abstraction while the photograph became the depicter of reality (truth).

This film references environments similar to those that inspired Monet’s great works and uses the camera and modern technology to explore ideas of the real.

Sound track sampled from Debussy’s “La Mer”.

About Mark Graver

Mark Graver (b. St.Albans, England in 1964) moved to Kerikeri, New Zealand in 2003.

His current practice involves working with printmaking, digital video and sound with interest concentrated at the point where these approaches meet and cross.