statement

As a key character in the ongoing narrative about the making of the film ‘The Lost’, Katy Freeway is the focus of three separate but interconnected bodies of work. Images and artefacts from the Millennium Panic Pictures Archives are presented in various forms - photographs, designs and textual/aural interpretation of the design of her Los Angeles apartment; an audio/visual visitor guide to the apartment itself; and a tabloid news story about her estrangement from her parents.

the apartment, the actress & the architect

"This large living space, designed in a pared down minimalist style, forms part of a penthouse apartment where the actress, Katy Freeway, lived for a period of time on first moving to Los Angeles. The minimal look, featuring recessed lighting, sparse sculptural furniture and large floor to ceiling windows, was very much the style of the times on the American West coast. The apartment was apparently an early domestic-space design by the same little known European architect who worked with the film director Martin MacAnally. However, the veracity of this claim is suspect when one notes that the very same architect worked on the MacAnally home, which is styled using a Eighteenth Century inspired design. The emphasis on pattern and decoration used on that project bares very little resemblance to the flat, unadorned, spacial quality seen here in the Freeway apartment. This disparity, has inadvertently misled several researchers at MPP Archives. This has led to several theories..."

Extract from the audio guide work 
"The Apartment, The Actress and the Architect"

katy freeway’s apartment - an orientation video

Acting as an 'orientation video' that visitors touring her now historically important home, would initially watch upon arrival, this single screen video work, discusses her work in the Martin MacAnally film 'The Lost', gives the viewer an insight into her personal life through the design of her Los Angeles apartment and examines her relationship to the mass media.

we love our daughter
(the actress, the media & her parents)

This two page tabloid newspaper spread about actress Katy Freeway and her estranged parents, is presented as a preserved item from the Millennium Panic Pictures archives.

At first glance, it seems to flesh out some of Katy's past history and introduce some new questions. Why is Katy not speaking to her parents? Is there a dark secret in the family? But on closer inspection of the accompanying labels, doubt is cast on the authenticity of the article's claim.