awards
HP Graphics Canada Digital Art Competion Award, 2003
reviews
GARY MICHAEL DAULT, Life's a Beach and Then You Exhibit, The Globe and Mail, Saturday July 9, 2005.
Excerpt: Especially enjoyable is the seven-minute video by Catherine Lathwell and Paul Grajauskas called Jetty, wherein a toy bulldozer builds a tiny, muddy, shore-side, toy-like model of the famous Spiral Jetty of the legendary American sculptor Robert Smithson (1938- 1973)...
GUY DIXON, Getting Clued into Queen Street West, The Globe and Mail, Saturday July 24, 2004.
Excerpt: Perhaps the most subtly ingenious project, though, is Marginalia, by Catherine Lathwell and Andy Davis. The prototype is deceptively basic. It just shows three people recorded on video, reading monologues on a barren theatre stage. One monologue is about sprinter Ben Johnson. Another is the experience of a Jamaican-Canadian filmmaker. And the third is the history of Lathwell’s great-grandmother and her experience running foot races for prize money in Saskatchewan at the turn of the 20th century.
There are thematic ties between the stories, and with the basic DVD technology — which on an ordinary DVD allows the choice of watching a movie or selecting a clip — a viewer of Marginalia can repeatedly flip from one monologue to another. This requires the stories to allow for this kind of continual flipping back and forth and to interrelate meaningfully. It’s like putting the remote control function into the script itself. “We constructed the stories so they have the same story arc,” that is, similar introductions, conflicts and resolutions in each monologue, “which allows you to make sense of them without having to get every bit of each story,” said Lathwell, who is a painter with a background of more than 20 years in computer programming.
Note to Marginalia’s creators: Contact British director Peter Greenaway about this idea. He and others on the cutting edge, trying to expand filmmaking into interactive media, are struggling to come up with what you seem to have already accomplished.
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