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PROJECT

Moving Pictures 2022-24
The Zoroastrian Centre for Europe, London / Aziziye Mosque, London / Nanaksar Gurdwara Gursikh Temple Coventry

This RIBA-funded project examines the adaptive reuse of cinemas as places of worship in the diaspora. To understand the wider context, the team visited a selection of cinemas that have been reused as mosques, temples and black-majority churches across the UK. In each of the site visits the research explored encounters between heritage bodies, local communities and faith groups, examining intersections of the sacred and secular, assimilation and autonomy.


PROJECT

Virtual Assembly 2021-23
Old Kent Road Mosque, Online

Virtual Assembly is an interactive digital model of Old Kent Road Mosque and MANUK (Muslim Association of Nigeria UK) due to the demolition and redevelopment of their mosque on Old Kent Road in Southwark. Made in collaboration with the congregation this interactive model offers innovative ways to engage with the tangible and intangible cultural heritage of London’s oldest Nigerian community during a significant phase of their evolutionary journey.


PROJECT

Siting Cinema 2018-21
Rio Cinema, London / Regent Street Cinema, London
Siting Cinema visually explores the cinema space as ‘site’ through a series of film installations made in independent art cinemas across the UK.  Cinema has become an industry under threat and siting cinema celebrates this ‘social practice’ by drawing the audience’s attention to the physical space in which they are seated.  Siting cinema attempts to interrogate the physical and perceptual relationship to the cinema as site, where the cinema screen, the mechanical rig and by extension the position of the viewer are all part of that equation. The cinema audience is forced to actively look, engage and experience the site.


PROJECT

Assembly 2018-21
Brick Lane Mosque, London /
Old Kent Road Mosque / London / Harrow Central Mosque, London


Assembly is a series of site-specific installations that perform Islamic prayer spaces, made and exhibited in Brick Lane Mosque (2018 –19); and Old Kent Road Mosque (2019–20). The moving image installations are made in collaboration with each mosque community establishing clear guidelines for the filming process, ensuring an ethical, non-intrusive approach that respects the sacred moment of worship.


PROJECT

Screen Space 2016-18
Lokomotywownia, Krakow Poland / Winspit Quarry, Dorset / Space Gallery, Barcelona / The WYE, Berlin


Screen Space explores disused industrial heritage sites across Europe. The history of the region, its old technologies, its witness to the passing of time and the transient are brought back into conversation through the rediscovery and intervention of the site. Lokomotywownia is a site-specific installation located in a disused train repair depot in Krakow, Poland. The train’s previous life and its trajectory of motion are mimicked in the reciprocal motion of the iPads – they are alive, the train is now station


PROJECT

Moving Site / Sight 2016-18
MeetFactory Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague / The WYE, Berlin


Moving Site/Sight attempts to aid the connection between site and film, the original filming rig is used to reference the architectural site via a moving projector attached to where the camera had once been. This makes the viewer equally aware of both the filmic space and the physical space in which they are standing. The pre-recorded image and sound of the gallery are physically mapped in synchronised time with the site; the viewer’s position within the space is entirely mediated by the machine.


WORK

Checkpoint 300 2019
Bethlehem, West Bank


Checkpoint 300 is a site-specific film made within the main turnstile at terminal Checkpoint 300 in Bethlehem. The crossing in its current format was established in 2005 as part of Israel’s separation wall and thousands of Palestinians from the southern occupied West Bank must cross this barrier to work in occupied East Jerusalem.


WORK

Pestera 2018
Ialomitei Monastery, Romania


Working in collaboration with the monastic community a site-specific film was made and exhibited in the Ialomitei Monastery, an Orthodox Christian temple in Romania. Every inch of the ceiling dome is spectacularly decorated with paintings, and it was agreed that anything above the altar could be filmed during the Eucharist service.


WORK

To The Sea 2016
MOD Land, Dorset

To the Sea is a continuous, ‘real-time’ tracking shot from inside a disused quarry on military defence land to the edge of a cliff overlooking the sea. The 16mm film camera, suspended in a carriage, is mounted on an automated motorised rig based on land-measuring wheels.


WORK

Vagon Cuesta Brașov to Sibiu 2016
Romania


A documentary film, shot in one take, captures moments from the lives of passengers aboard a sleeper train travelling from Brașov to Sibiu in Romania. An automated camera rig and the track were built into the shell of the train carriage and travelled the entire length of the train, providing a glimpse into the lives of both locals and travellers.