Title: 2.5 Kilometre Mono Action for a Mirage
Year: 2011
Length: 03:29
Format: 35mm, Dolby 5.1 xfer to HD
Credits: Director: Alex Monteith
DOP: Duncan Cole
Sound Recordist: Jeffery Holdaway
Dolby Digital Mix: Park Road Post
35mm Print: Weta Digital
Artist Cinema Commissions
Mark Williams
In association with Creative New Zealand & The University of Auckland Elam School of Fine Arts
Flux, balance, illusion. A Moto-X rider pulls a continuous wheelie over 2.5 kilometres of coast-line north of Muriwai in Aotearoa New Zealand. The wheelie is one of the most delicately balanced longer durations stunts for a MX rider. The action was conceived specifically for the hazy atmospheric conditions of the Aotearoa coast and takes place on the hard sand revealed only at low tide.
Alex Monteith was born Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1977 and moved to Palmerston North, New Zealand in 1987 with family. She currently lives and works in Auckland. Monteith completed BFA in Photography in 2001, MFA in Intermedia and the time based arts and DocFA at the Elam School of Fine Arts, The University of Auckland. Between 1999 and 2012 Monteith was actively involved in art discourse through exhibition, panel discussions and gallery floor talks (art galleries, film festivals, TV and radio both nationally (NZ) and internationally).
Monteith also was a competitive surfer for 6 years, she was the Irish National Women’s champ in 2001 and represented Ireland in both the 2002 ISA world surfing games in Durban, S.A. and the European Surfing Championships in 2001 in addition to competing on the NZ national circuit.