Ghost Zone

Ghost Zone is an homage to Tarkovsky's “Stalker” (1979) that takes us on a journey to the original expedition into the ineffable aqueous “Zone” - where wishes may be granted, “the desire that has made you suffer most". This video crosses geographical and metaphysical boundaries. For example, the dream sequence is enacted on both a stream in Whanganui NZ, and the original site of the filming of the Stalker in Estonia on the Jägala River.

Bunkley stitches together his footage in such a way that the landscape and buildings resemble a magic realist post-apocalyptic wasteland. Photographic composites of the two rural locations have been made a lot easier with the use of drone-captured imagery in that they will accommodate points of view not accessible from the ground. From this data, he uses photogrammetry 3D scanning to create his eerie works as Tarkovsky’s “islands of memory” (Solaris).

By extracting these images, the buildings and landscape are divorced from their surroundings while the videos resemble chunks of architecture and landscape made from an indefinable material floating in black cyberspace.  Ultimately, they refer to eschatology - the “end of time”.