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The Glass Booth

The Glass Booth casts a cinematic spotlight on the role of the interpreter, revealing their complex role as both witness and mediator. First employed prominently

In a dimly lit room, a white woman with blonde hair covers her face with her hands. Her eyes appear to be closed tightly; it's unclear if she's laughing or crying. A caption at the bottom of the image reads: “laughter.”

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[Image Description: In a dimly lit room, a white woman with blonde hair covers her face with her hands. Her eyes appear to be closed

A passage in an art gallery in-between exhibitions shows a white wall with a sheet of white plywood leaning against it, lit by a single light, with industrial-looking columns running down the center of the passage and along the opposite edge from the wall. On the image is a caption over a black bar that reads: on the on that on that wood or whatever that is, that metal.

Expressions

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Soldiers lower to the ground, doing a training exercise in a green space in a park, framed by a black border. Beneath the image there’s a caption that reads: “Or another way of saying it is: how these images are put to work.”

An All-Around Feel Good

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Pitcture of a person in a grey dress hunched over writing something on a piece of paper with one hand and holding a sweater.

The Fist

An intimate portrait of modernist style factory Guinness Brewery located in Ikeja, Nigeria.

Empty Rider

““But how can we be certain about an AI’s period of infancy?”” In this science fiction short, the sentient self-driving car Vanguard-3181 stands trial for

Glass Factory (Stekliani, 1972, Everyday)

‘After the factory closure, most of Vasily’s archives were destroyed by the looters. Only one can of film did survived – it was buried deep

Farsight Corporation (Launch Trailer)

Farsight Corporation is a fictional AI conglomerate that first appears in Lek’s 2017 film ‘Geomancer’, which is set in the year 2065. Employing the idea

Berlin Mirror (2042 Retrospective)

Berlin Mirror (2042 Retrospective) is Chapter 10 of Lawrence Lek’s Bonus Levels (2013-2016), a series of site-specific video games based on alternate versions of real

Pyramid Schemes

“Pyramid Schemes” is a powerful treatise on architecture in eleven chapters. Narrated by a computer-simulated voice, the video opens with the premise that “architecture is

Play Station

Play Station™. Funemployment, Forever. Farsight Corporation welcomes you to Play Station™, our new range of automated workplaces! Enjoy the 9 to 5 life of leisure

QE3

QE3 forms Chapter 11 of Lawrence Lek’s Bonus Levels (2013-2016), a series of site-specific video games based on alternate versions of real places. Conceived as

Thieves

In the second instalment of Critical Affection Trilogy, and Williams Gamaker’s first film in Fictional Revenge, Thieves is a fantasy adventure retelling of the 1924

The Silver Wave

The Silver Wave was an ‘Untold Stories’ commission for the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter. Inspired by objects from the Arctic region in RAMM’s collection,

The Bang Straws

The Bang Straws is an aesthetically invigorating reworking of the casting process of Sidney Franklin’s The Good Earth (1937) a film notorious for a white

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