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Recent Acquisitions
Centered around a family’s pre-war life in Leipzig and the experience of their flight path to the Caribbean, Remaking Edgware is a video artwork that aims to rediscover and reimagine a history made quiet by time, diaspora and trauma.Remaking Edgware is grounded in the exploration of cultural and historical documents from… ⊕
Sometimes, escapism can become the very thing you're running from. You Suffer (2021) is a short pseudo-psychological experimental film indulging both my angst and my most nerdy desires. Going back to a middle-school method, I chronicle my semi descent into madness through machinima as I muse over my escapist obsession with the… ⊕
2022, 11:45 minutes, colour
tapecode 734.08
Magic in Plain Sight is a portrait of self-taught seamstress Brenna Bezanson, a change-maker in her own right, who challenges capitalist and patriarchal ideals in her creation of custom women's clothing. Brenna takes us through her wardrobe of hand-made garments, each a journal entry, talisman, and bit of magic she wears out… ⊕
Sisters run wild when an incident unveils how their paths will diverge. This ethereal film, created using archival footage, composes a fresh narrative that eerily subverts past expectations.
Change is the only constant in life.INVERSE/THE FUTURE IS OFTEN A STEP BEHIND is a multi-part experimental documentary project that weaves together the lives of a diverse group of people who celebrate difference through gender nonconformity, non-traditional relationships, radical sex practices, activism, politics, and… ⊕