FOSSIL

FOSSIL is a 16mm film shot over three years in the studios of the Royal Academy Schools London. The film explores the Royal Academy’s extraordinary collection of historic architectural casts, copies of antique columns, capitals and friezes, previously hidden behind temporary studio walls for 50 years. The film combines intense close-ups of the casts – optically printed as negative sequences and hand coloured when projected – with verité style footage that records the precarious revealing of the casts and their ungainly demounting.Commissioned by Royal Academy Schools, Weston Studios.