2023 – 30′ – UK
a film by Michelle Williams Gamaker.
premiered at South London Gallery
More info here.
2022 – AT
a video by Katharina Swoboda.
2021 – 18′ – NL/UK
a project by Dan Walwin for David Dale Gallery
Like clock is a work made up of multiple borrowed and familiar aspects, assembled on its own terms. The essential premise would seem to be about staging a gathering-together in a place that appears to have its own rules.
Supported by Mondriaan Fund, Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst, the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Creative Scotland.
Selected for and supported by Glasgow International 2021 Across the City.
2021 – 8′ – AT
a video by Katharina Swoboda.
2021 – 9′ – AT
a project by Katharina Swoboda.
“In 1976, the last woman to compete in a Formula 1 race steps down: In the “Austrian Grand Prix”, Italian racer Leila Lombardi was the last to hit the finish line, but at least she reached it. Her fastest lap time was 1:42,25 – this is also the length of the planned video installation. Composed of tracking shots as well as static shots of the Red Bull Ring and a performer representing Lella Lombardi, the so far last female Formula 1 driver is honored in the ambience of the “Spielberg-Ring”.” (by k. s.)
2020 – 10′ – UK
a project by Michelle Williams Gamaker.
producers: Lara Goodband (RAMM, Exeter) and Teresa Grimes (Tintype, London).
The Silver Wave is a 10-minute film based on an Iñupiak woman named Ada Blackjack who was the only surviving member of an ill-fated mission to Wrangel Island in 1921. Themes of ecology, the precarity of the environment we live in and what isolation feels like will be recounted through the diaries of Ada Blackjack. Her words echo our current experiences of being faced with long-term isolation and social distancing.
a project by Katharina Swoboda and Kamen Stoyanov
a short-fiction and exhibition
“A film about an unusual encounter in front of the Monument to Alyosha on the Bunardzhika hill in Plovdiv and some archival photographs. Through the means of the song, the film shows two different points of view on the monument, its prehistory and how mythologies are born. The main characters Vasil and Katarina respond to the Alyosha song, created in 1966 and enjoying great popularity, with the Alexey Skurlatov song, specially composed for the film.”
Please visit the project’s website. Trailer below.
2017 – 14′ – AT
A project by Katharina Swoboda.
“”Marguerite’s Desires” is a video work about French Feminist Marguerite Durand (1864-1936). The work makes a connection between two places founded by Durand: the pet cemetery Cimetière des Chiens and the Bibliothèque Marguerite Durand in Paris. Durand, a former actress at Comédie-Française, became interested in politics after the Congrès féministe international in 1896. She then founded the journal “La Fronde” (The Sling), a journal solely written and edited by women. Marguerite had a lion, which she lovingly called tiger and which brought her also publicity for her political campaign. In 1899 she founded the pet cemetery Cimetière des chiens in Asnières-sur-Seine, close to Paris. Although an animal lover, she founded the cemetery for purely hygienic reasons. In 1932, she donated her extensive collection of journals and literature to the government, and the Bibliothèque Marguerite Durand was founded. It was the very same place where Durand died in 1936 of a heart attack.” (by k. s.)
2017 – 14′ – UK
A film by Michelle Williams Gamaker.
Shot on 16 mm. Sound design by me.
Premiered at BFI London Film Festival, this film was purchased for the national Arts Council Collection and contributed to Williams-Gamaker’s joint-win of the Film London Artist Moving Image Jarman Award in 2020.
2016 – 10′ – AT
A video by Katharina Swoboda, sound design by me.