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Evidence of things unseen but heard

Evidence of things unseen but heard (2018) is an audiovisual collage conducted as an archaeological survey into the music scene of the city of Bristol,

Andropov’s Ears

A modernist monument in Tbilisi nicknamed Andropov’s Ears (after the then-head of the KGB, Yuri Andropov) has recently been demolished by the neoliberal Georgian government to be replaced by

Black Sea is really Black

Black Sea is really Black is a road movie of sorts, tracing Medoidze’s car journey from the Cave City of Vardzia in Eastern Georgia to

Questions and Answers

The Black Sea occupies a special place both of trauma and of pleasure in Medoidze’s video Questions and Answers. Combining the shots of Black sea

Xitana ხითანა

First film in Medoidze’s Tusheti Trilogy, Xitana is centred around a bareback horse race tradition in Tusheti mountains – a display of masculinity as much

Let us flow ვიდინოთ

For me the Tush people stand out for their dedication to their traditional way of life which is influenced by extreme weather conditions as much

MADOLI

The traditional celebration of Madoli – with rich mixture of pagan and early Christian symbolism – is held every summer in the mountains of Tusheti

Untitled

Directness. Bareness. Harshness. No fight left, no drama. A reduction, a kind of freedom. Words suggest a persons efforts to dissolve and minimise human contact,

Violence of Order

Violence of Order comprises a video projection landing on two delicate free standing pierced wood and copper wire structures. The wooden boards are cut, sliced

Two Billies

Featuring God Bless the Child by Billie Holiday and Bury a Friend by Billie Eilish 16mm Outtake from A Bunny Girl’s Tale 98 Billie EIlish

Qualities of Life: Living in the Radiant Cold

Featuring Daily Photos and Observational Photos (both, 2000–2007) by Horst Ademeit (1937–2010), and an extract from Hemlock (2022) by Leslie Thornton. Special thanks to Fatima

Midday

A hand moves across an indecipherable terrain, shrouded in striped shadows cast by a bamboo blind. The film cuts continuously between different shots, two frames

Late Cinema

The film depicts a woman from two sides at once: walking towards and, simultaneously, away from the camera. One moment at a time. Frame by

UNICA

UNICA is named after the writer and artist Unica Zürn (1916 – 1970), whose illustrated text The House of Illnesses (1958) figures her body and

Sixth Form Acid

The ‘Miniatures’ are an ongoing series of compact films Morgan Quaintance is continually producing. These short shorts are all under four minutes long and allow

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