you can’t see speed
“Polyphonic choral voices, sonorous flugelhorns, the braaaps of Cassar’s dirt bike revs” - Amy Stuart and Chelsea Hopper, Memo Review
Tina Stefanou, You Can't See Speed, 8mm, 16mm, digital colour film, single-channel, 17-channel sound, installation, Commissioned by Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 17:39 min loop.
Video credits
Artist/Director: Tina Stefanou
Creative Producer/Dramaturg /1st AD: Anna Nalpantidis
Director of Photography: Petra Leslie
Performer/Collaborator/Rider: Matthew Cassar
Composer/Sound Designer: Joseph Franklin
Production Designer: Romanie Harper
Second Camera Operator: Wil Normyle
Gaffer: Hamish Palmer
Editor: Zac Millner Cretney
Colourist: Daniel Stonehouse (We Are Crayon)
Recording Engineer (Creative Vocal Captions): Timothy Harvey
Sound Spatialisation and Installation Mix: Alistair McLean
AV Technologist: Steve Berrick
Equine Performer and Collaborator: Buster
Horse Worker: Tina Stefanou
Equine Specialist: Sacajawea
Riding Coach: Wayne Sullivan
Bike Rider (Field Recording): Scott McConnachie
Artist Assistant/Runner: Tom Goodman
Camera Assistants: Sarah Walker, Tom Denize, and Otis Filley
16mm film processing: Werner Winklemann
16mm scanning: MemoryLab
8mm film processing and scanning: Richard Tuohy
Presented by: ACCA
Supported by: Arts House and Creative Australia
Music Credits
Hymn to the Dirt Bike Rider, 2025
Composer/Vocals: Tina Stefanou
Additional Vocals: Lisa Salvo
Recording: Timothy Harvey
Mixing: Joseph Franklin
Brass Orchestration: Joseph Franklin
Flugelhorn/Trumpet: Callum G’Froerer
Additional Recording: Callum G’Froerer
Exhausted Vocalities, 2025
Composer/Vocalist: Tina Stefanou
a thousand tiny mutinies, 2023 (obscured)
Composer/Contrabass Guitar and Artefacts: Joseph Franklin
Recording: Timothy Harvey
Mixing: Timothy Harvey and Joseph Franklin
Mastering: Magnus Lindberg
Label: Nice Music
Music: an incomplete history of the art of the solo violin, 2024 (excerpt)
Composer: Joseph Franklin
Violin: Miranda Cucks
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body, Arts House through the CultureLAB creative development program, and is presented in partnership with West Space.