Edition 24: 1–9 August, 2025

SHORT MATTERS

WHAT'S THE DAMAGE

United Kingdom
2017 — 7' / Color

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Synopsis

WHAT’S THE DAMAGE is a proposition and provocation, answering back to ongoing crises under white patriarchy, relaying and augmenting feelings and gestures of chronic unease, protest and dissent. Phillipson’s summons and riposte storms in via menstrual blood, rising up against leadership circle-jerks, weeping vortexes, seared orang utans, animal-fat banknotes, and advancing supermoons, pizzas and drones.

Directors' Biography

Heather Phillipson works across video, sculpture, music, drawing and text. Her current and upcoming projects include the Fourth Plinth, Trafalgar Square in 2020, a major commission for Art on the Underground’s flagship site at Gloucester Road, an online commission for the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and a solo show at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art (all 2018). Recent solo projects include: Screens Series, New Museum, New York; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Frieze Projects New York; 32nd São Paolo Biennale, Brazil; Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, the 14th Istanbul Biennial and Performa, New York.

Directors

Heather Phillipson

Producers

Heather Phillipson

Cinematographers

Heather Phillipson

Editors

Heather Phillipson

Sound

Heather Phillipson

Official Film Website

http://www.heatherphillipson.co.uk

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