'Two Shanks' is originally a play written by Daniel Keene. Artist Catherine Bainbridge, inspired by the play, created artworks to be shown in her Melbourne exhibition, probing the abstract visual ideas circulating around the words of the script, their written appearance, and spoken meaning. This short film features excerpts from the play powerfully interpreted by Marco Chiappi in the role, which was originally performed by the late Lewis Fiander. All these media - the powerful writing, the stirring artwork, the performance and the B&W photographs of Lewis Fiander (by Jeff Busby) - combine into a moving short film directed, filmed and edited by Philippe Charluet, which forms part of and is screened within Catherine's exhibition titled '...of script and facture...' which was shown at the Fortyfivedownstairs gallery in Melbourne CBD in late 2018.
—Philippe Charluet