Attica

Made during a residency at the British School at Athens with objects from its collection, ‘Attica’ animates ancient Greek ceramics. Filming the vessels as they spin serves to liberate the patterns and glazes from the surface of the antiques. The designs become superimposed on the double exposed 16mm film footage and the layered forms dance together, accompanied by an audibly worn vinyl record of popular Greek music from the 1970s. Combining materials from both the distant and recent pasts, the film becomes an analogue time machine, a hypnotic pastiche of past-ness.

— Kate MacKay, film programmer

UK / GREECE, 2013

16mm film, Stereo, 1:1.33

13’30

Camera, edit by Sophie Michael

With special thanks to Robert Pitt, Catherine Morgan, Nicholas Salmon and the Fitch Laboratory at British School at Athens

Previous presentations

2021

20 Years of Artists at the British School at Athens, 12 Star Gallery, London

2015

Distressed Geometry, group exhibition curated by Clare Goodwin, Kunstraum Baden, Baden

2014

Film Program in Which There Appear Colour Bars, Greek Pop Songs, Didactic Eye Makeup, Etc, 27th Images Festival, Toronto 27th Images Festival, Toronto

Short Film Selection by Holly Antrum as part of exhibition Diffuse Citizen, Grand Union, Birmingham

2013

Attica, Seventeen Gallery, London (Split screen installation version)

Three films, British School at Athens, Athens

Analogue Recurring 2, Lo & Behold Recordings, London