with Radha May (Elisa Giardina Papa, Bathsheba Okwenje & Nupur Mathur)

This research based art project contemplates questions of hidden histories and hidden narratives and the fears that underpin gestures of concealment and censorship.  The work investigates the censored representation of women, femininity, and sexuality in Italian post-war cinema. It compiles and reveals hundreds of archival documents and film scenes that were removed from publicly screened cinema in Italy in the 1950s and 1960s. By editing together scenes that were removed from films such as La Notte and Zabriskie Point by Michelangelo Antonioni, or Brink of Life by Ingmar Bergman, When The Towel Drops Vol 1 I Italy traces a history of the institutional regimentation of the female body and desire.

35mm Film Installation (2015)35mm portable film projector, custom designed looper and balance apparatus, customed designed rollers, aluminium, plexi glass // size variable

Using a custom designed, motorized mechanism, the 35 millimeter film installation ran over three floors of the exhibition space culminating in a single, miniature projection.