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Sarah Forrest | UK | 2013 | 10' |

| IFFR 2014

Combination of domestic interiors with Orkney projected onto its walls and the artist’s voice narrating events. The film was produced as part of a Margaret Tait Residency and in the words of J. Brownrigg, it ‘reminds Tait’s ability to quietly capture surrealism and magic from the everyday and commonplace’.

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