Screening 3

Village, silenced
2012, video, black and white, sound, 7 mins

In Order Not To Be Here
2002, 16 mm, colour, sound, 33 mins

Hacked Circuit
2014, digital, colour, sound, 15 mins

The Illinois Parables
2016, 16 mm, colour, sound, 60 mins

Here, we have four landscapes subject to social control and surveillance. In Order Not To Be Here presents bleak suburban landscapes, revealing a contemporary void born of our collective faith in security and technology. Re-editing a film by Humphrey Jennings where Welsh miners reenact the invasion of a Czech village by the Nazis, Village, silenced displays sound as a mode of social control. Hacked Circuit creates a mise en abyme by means of a circular sequence shot showing the dubbing of the famous final scene of Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation. The eleven vignettes that comprise The Illinois Parables tell stories of colonization, expulsion, technological breakthroughs, violence, messianism, and resistance in the Midwestern American state.