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Weed Killer

Inspired by artist-writer Catherine Lord’s memoir The Summer of Her Baldness (2004), a moving and irreverent account of the author’s experience of cancer. At the

Eustatic Drift

“once we were plankton slouched in the oceanbut now we are code,surfaced and held in the laminae of rock like open scores ”This narrative voice

x comme x

x comme x is a text-based film which imagines cross-temporalities that extend from the contemporaneous, in which we hear incarnate words speak to the deep

A Boi is…

A Boi is . . . offers a humorous take on the educational programs watched during childhood. Formed as part of a hypothetical series the

An image of black women in white voluminous dresses with frills and colorful headpieces is projected onto a white wall and a glittery curtain drape.

She Was A Full Body Speaker

This video combines found footage from the artist’s personal archive and that of Liverpool based filmmaker Sandi Hughes (Rewind/Fast Forward). It explores cycles of trauma,

Correspondência um

Correspondência um. is a collaboration with dance artist Susanne Mayer, taking its title from a year long correspondence and studio practice. The choreography for this

They Parlaient Idéale

They Parlaient Idéale reflects on what it means to be a citizen of a nation, especially when one’s identity is rather ambiguous. A cross-generational and

Another Decade

Another Decade combines archive footage from the 1990s with newly shot 16mm film and standard definition video. Starting from testimonies and statements made by artists

The Cure of Folly

English; speech from memory; figures of ‘osmotic’ learning and ‘learning by wrote’ are placed in relation to one another, in a response to Hieronymous Bosch’s painting

To the microphone, please (with Mrs Soprano)

This film was made in collaboration with artist Rose O’Gallivan: To the microphone please (with Mrs Soprano) contains the dramaturgy of a press release in two languages posing

Lourdes

Lourdes is a new work developed from a residency in Tepito, Mexico, centring upon a discussion with a market trader called Lourdes. Interviewed about her

Poemfield No.3

The series is called POEMFIELD. All of these films explore variations of poems, computer graphics, and in some cases combine live action images and animation

Poemfield No. 1

The series is called POEMFIELD. All of these films explore variations of poems, computer graphics, and in some cases combine live action images and animation

Mic Drop

When Obama dropped the microphone, he knew what he was doing: this gesture remains a powerful way of underlining some final words. Derived from the

Resonating Surfaces

Screams of death open Resonating Surfaces on a whitened and scratched film. It is upon that bearer of images where no image is to be

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