Archive
INTERNATIONAL DOX: SHORTS
Strange Object
Director
Miranda Pennell
Producer
Miranda Pennell
Cinematographer
archive-based film
Editor
Miranda Pennell
Sound
Miranda Pennell
Website
2020
United Kingdom
15 min
Color
A photo album bound in red leather. It contains black-and-white aerial photographs, taken at a time when colonial powers ruled and dictated the way things should be interpreted. How can the signs of that time be read today? An exploration of imperial image production and destruction.
Directors' Biography
Born in London, the UK in 1963, she originally trained in contemporary dance and made videos exploring choreography in everyday life. In 2010, she completed a master’s degree in visual anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London. In 2016, she was awarded a doctorate for her research on approaches to activating images from colonial archives.
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I See Red
Listen To the Beat of our Images
My Uncle Tudor
Naya - Der Wald hat tausend Augen
Some Kind of Intimacy
Son of Sodom
Spirits and Rocks: an Azorean Myth
Still Processing
Sunsets, everyday
The Rifleman
The White Death of the Black Wizard
Timkat
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