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Night light

Behind the scenes

Ronnie van Hout's latest film, The creation of the world, is a nocturnal highlight on Worcester Boulevard at present.

Ronnie Van Hout The creation of the world 2011. Digital video. Collection of the artist, Melbourne, Australia

Ronnie Van Hout The creation of the world 2011. Digital video. Collection of the artist, Melbourne, Australia

Ronnie Van Hout The creation of the world 2011. Digital video. Collection of the artist, Melbourne, Australia

Ronnie Van Hout The creation of the world 2011. Digital video. Collection of the artist, Melbourne, Australia

Located directly across from the Gallery in an upstairs window in an all-but-abandoned house, it's well worth a visit if you are in town after dark.

I love the venue for this work – the domestic nature of the house appears disconcertingly out of place against the monolithic Civic Offices that rise directly beyond. It's a jarring sense of scale that mirrors the large Ronnie spewing forth a mini version of the artist. Some of Ronnie's earliest films were made here in Christchurch when he produced band videos during the early 1980s; videos for some of New Zealand's legendary post-punk bands including the Gordons, the Clean and the Pin Group.