Beginning in 2003, these three video projects were initiated by artist and curator Sandra Bridie, and premised on adherence to a set of formal constraints. The resultant works—Obscure (2003), Wait (2004), and Yards (2005)—followed from close collaboration with Bridie. One of the prescribed constraints was the length of the finished work. Other parameters concerned details of structure, and the inclusion of particular visual, sound or text motifs—for example, a soliloquy spoken on screen as part of Obscure, or 10 phrases to serve as intertitles for Wait. As site-specific projects, each was first screened in or as near as possible to the space in which filming took place. Yards was filmed in the Alumni Courtyard of RMIT University’;s City Campus, formerly the Old Melbourne Gaol Hospital Compound and Wardmen’s Yard (1865–1925), and the Victoria Police Garage (1925–1994). The script took its themes from the nineteenth-century phrase ‘liberty of the yard’.