Victoria Etc.

Victoria Etcetera is a unique meditation on London’s Victorian and imperial legacies, made as a collaboration between photographer Gori and graphic designer Facetti. Facetti is most famous for his time as head of design at Penguin Books in the 1960s, but he also appeared in Chris Marker’s short La Jetee (1962) – another film composed of still images.

The film combines stills of Victorian friezes and statuary from around London with images from Gustave Dore’s nineteenth century engravings of the city, while the soundtrack is a collage of readings from contemporary sources including Rudyard Kipling, Lewis Mumford, Hippolyte Taine and Victorian newspapers.