The Grand Bizarre

The Grand Bizarre uses time lapse footage and stop-gap animation of various brightly coloured, patterned fabrics in locations around the world. The effect is nearly a full hour of constant strobing, which actually began to make me sick. From a nearly sold-out start, there was a continuous string of walkouts as people realised that yes,…

Erased,____Ascent of the Invisible

Erased,____Ascent of the Invisible is as much activist art as it is a documentary. It examines the legacy of the disappeared during the Lebanese Civil War (a part of history I am woefully ignorant about). It looks at how the photographs used to find the missing became part of a conglomerate whole, and the search…

No Home Movie

Just saw No Home Movie which I loved! It a narrative-less peephole view of the director’s mother and their relationship. It radiated love. As anyone who knows me will know, despite my pretensions, I actually get bored during long shots of “nothing happening”; after thinking, “Yes, pretty”, I think about where I’m itchy, how full…