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We rediscover the work of filmmaker Cecilia Stenbom, who featured in the Video, Installation & Performance strand of the Aesthetica Art Prize 2015 Longlist:
Media-saturated, consumer-driven everyday environments are the source material for Cecilia’s work, as well as a study of how human beings respond to them with regards to notions of identity, behaviour and interaction. Collective experiences are examined through moving image content that involves reinterpretation and appropriation, using narrative and plot as tools. She works predominately through film and installation, re-contextualising narrative for the gallery space or adapting it for the cinema screen. SYSTEM is a fictional work based on one-to-one interviews with members of the public about their experiences, routines and preferences within the framework of everyday situations in public space. The film, a psychological thriller, is set inside a shopping centre and follows the interactions between two women: one anxious about her personal safety, the other concerned with the invisible threat of infection. The sterile atmosphere of the environment becomes menacing as the women’s personal safety systems begin to fail.
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Credits
1. Cecilia Stenbom, SYSTEM, 2014. 10 minutes. Courtesy of the artist.
