Astrid Colours

In this short work, Sophie Michael films a nine year old girl Astrid (a young collaborator of hers over a number of films), as she makes her own experimental film through the simple process of colouring in film frames. Astrid Colours presents both the image of the young girl and the more abstract results of her exercise. Michael’s work resonates with the representation of formative experience of childhood activities, while both rendering and distorting her filmed subject.

— Isobel Harbison, curator

UK, 2010

16mm film, silent 1:1, 3’40

Work no.1 in the Astrid Series

Camera, edit by Sophie Michael

With special thanks to Astrid Everall and Brighid Lowe

Previous presentations

2015

SMOKE & MIRRORS, an Independent Cinema Office initiative at The Maltings, Berwick-Upon-Tweed; The Barn Cinema, Dartington Hall, Totnes, and kinokulture cinema, Oswestry

2014

L Before K, 30th Hamburg International Short Film Festival, curated by Anna Gritz

2013

Ericka Beckman: Image Games - Work in Context, Tate Modern, London, programmed by Isobel Harbison

2012

Astrid Colours, Fold Gallery, London (two screen installation version)

Installation view at Fold Gallery as part of inaugural two person show ‘Astrid Colours and Paradies’ with John Robertson, 2012