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Image credit: The Invisible Hippo of Grief: An Adoption Story, by Donna Szoke (2026)
This videotape titled F I L M evolved from an initial impulse to download film noir sequences without characters in the footage. My PIXABAY search instead yielded sequences of almost completely black (or almost completely white) film stocks. I decided to combine the specks and scratches of film footage with moving images of… ⊕
Land Marks is a video work consisting of twenty-four drawings. Twelve drawings are of the number twenty-seven and the other twelve of the number seventy-two. These are mirrored or reversible numbers. The sequence of drawings occurs thrice. Therefore there are seventy-two numbered drawings, followed by abstracted images which… ⊕
2019, 59:58 minutes, colour
tapecode 109.35
A derelict abandoned settler-house, perched on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean, is the subject of The Quoddy Fold. For the period of a year Phillips engaged in an ontological dialogue with the disintegrating house. Progressing to a dramatic and inevitable conclusion, The Quoddy Fold contemplates dwelling, human detritus and the… ⊕
2008, 10:26 minutes, colour
tapecode 109.24
Premiering at the Tate Modern on May 08, 2008, Marnie's Handbag was commissioned for London Fashion Week. The video uses appropriated clips from over 50 films that span Hollywood cinema from 1935 to 2007. The "behavioural paradox" in Marnie's Handbag is centred on the signals and signs that are… ⊕
Monster Tree plays the minute off the enormous to explore a post-human landscape through the cinematic use of a telescopic lens. In Monster Tree attention is focused on a humble-faced burl growing on the side of a tree and juxtaposes it against the massively sublime power of Niagara Falls. This cheeky-faced… ⊕