Confessions of a Statue 2020
The films of Helga Dorothea play out as dreamlike images in which fiction and reality meet, meanings shift, and the past and present fuse. Time and memory always play a key role. She is influenced by the sublime, the unknown, the surreal, the fleeting, the obsolete, the lost, the found, the meaningful and the whimsical.
Read MoreX Anniversary
Four locals in a UK seaside town remember their ex on four very different anniversaries. The same actor fluidly plays all characters as one personal story flows into the next, exploring themes of change, grief, regret, LGBTQIA+, wants and desires.
Read MoreIn SHE abstract found beauty imagery, text, and audio ASMR beauty routines are combined with the artist’s own footage of private, ritualised actions. It is presented as a cult like obsession with the ultimate secret that unlocks the potential for the idealistic and objectified body which is, in itself, trapped in representational means. Through depicting ritual and gossip as myth making in film and performance, a new narrative is created which can influence, destabilise, and manipulate our perception of the ideal body
Read More“Mind is an ethereal sea, which ebbs and flows; which surges and washes hither and thither, carrying its whole virtue into every creek and inlet which it bathes. To this sea every human house has a waterfront. But this force-creating nature, visiting whom it will, withdrawing from whom it will, is no fee or property of any man or angel. It is as the light, public and entire to each, and on the same terms.” Emerson.
Read MoreYou Are Whole
Set in Herne Bay and Margate and starring Fred Melamed, You Are Whole is an offbeat comedy about a North American spiritualist missionary who becomes mistaken for a serial killer on the Kentish coast.
Read MoreCrow Feathers
In this highly creative and experimental work, fast-paced images alternate between the artist’s home and exterior locations such Rye, Hythe and Sissinghurst.
Read MoreSet against the sweeping landscapes of Margate, a father haunted by the loss of his daughter, decides to visit the man with whom she shared her last connection
Read MoreA deeply personal poetic film about being the daughter of a Holocaust survivor
Read MoreEmotional Distancing Conceived and filmed in a time of isolation and lockdown, this piece remembers how we can unintentionally distance ourselves within relationships due to our actions, pride and selfishnes
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