Presented in its hand-cranked version, this dual slide-projection installation with a rotating disc pays tribute to the under-recognised women scientists of space stations. Archival photographs of women scientists, craters on the moon named after them and early 1900s photographic plates of stars examined by deaf astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt oscillate in concert with one another.
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Fossil Locomotion
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Between a Gaze and a Gesture
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Non-chronological History
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A Man Called Love
A poetic slide installation that intertwines psychic medium Francisco Candido Xavier, Brazil’s race and class relations and military dictatorshi
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Landscape Series #1
A series of mysterious photographs of people pointing into Vietnamese landscapes becomes a commentary on news events in this slide installation.
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Sedimentation of Memory
This installation examines the caves of Cannerberg, located on the Dutch-Belgian border, which bear traces of its layered history.
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Mneme
In Greek mythology, Mneme is memory personified. This installation is a projection onto a painting where textures are subtly combined.
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Recollections of Long Lost Memories
A present-day hippy finds his way into historical photographs that mark Malaysian history in this humorous slide installation.
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Srinagar
Conceived during a time of violent protests in Kashmir, this installation dwells on Srinagar’s cultural history and media representations of the
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Space Station: Rainbow Ihnfinity
A nod to Sun Ra’s obsession with rainbows, this installation places living plants, theatrical furniture and a rainbow mural in an ‘arkestr
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Film details
- Country of production
- UK
- Year
- 2014
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2019
- Length
- 0"
- Medium/Format
- 35mm
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