english: Programme

Lounge

Miranda Pennell // England // 1995 // 06:00 min

The patterns of daily routines and gestures are transformed through rhythm, choreographed movement and altered film speed.

Habit

Miranda Pennell // England // 1996 // 04:00 min

The inscription on a grave-stone in a London cemetary reads "on the 12th of December 1786 Elizabeth Pickett died after her dress caught fire the preceeding evening". A modern-day woman with flame red hair is haunted by the image of the dress, or 'habit', that caught fire. In collaboration with poet Michael Donaghy.

Tattoo

Miranda Pennell // England // 2001 // 09:00 min

Trees, insects and birds look on as the countryside is invaded by a lost regiment of soldiers engaged in a repetitive display. The senseless beauty of military drill dwarfed by the landscape, is by turns absurd and disturbing.

Human Radio

Miranda Pennell // England // 2002 // 09:00 min

People dance in private moments of personal abandon across London in the summer of 2001. The film is the result of the director’s work with respondents to a local newspaper advertisement that she placed seeking ‘living-room dancers’ - people who love to dance behind closed doors.

Magnetic North

Miranda Pennell // England // 2003 // 08:28 min

short fiction

Adolescent rituals are played out across the wintry landscapes of Northern Finnland. A teenage girl skates on a frozen lake, while a teenage boy poses with a guitar in his room; this Magnetic Northern landscape evokes the enigmatic world of adolescent fantasy and yearning.