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Location:
1. Brooklyn Bridge Park
2. Cairns Queensland
3. Crown Heights Brower Park
4. Gansevoort Peninsula
5. Hudson River
6. New York
7. Paley Park
8. Taranna Tasmania
At the end of our street, at the bottom of the hill, is a narrow concrete footbridge. The bridge spans the Moonee Ponds Creek and Citylink Tollroad. In the classic 1984 neo-Western ‘Paris, Texas’ (Wim Wenders) the character of Travis, (Harry Stanton) crosses a footbridge above the LA traffic-scape while an unnamed character (Tom Farrell) delivers a disjointed soliloquy to the cars passing below. This film scene and this type of landscape are forever fused in my imagination, almost a synesthesia of film and landscape.
Location:
Footage from The Hope Street Footbridge across the Citylink Tollroad, connecting Brunswick West to Moonee Ponds, Australia
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Audio from ‘Paris Texas’ 1984, bridge scene shot at 13795 Balboa Blvd, Sylmar, CA 91342, USA
Bede is a Landscape Architect with an interest in and affinity for pigeons. Dean is an Artist who works on site-specific projects. They live directly across the road from each other and often collaborate on cooking dinner.