Two 16mm films simultaneously project images of Le Corbusier’s iconic white Villa Savoye outside Paris, and its doppelgänger, a black copy located in Canberra, Australia. Each film has been printed on 16mm stock as a negative image, or polarity print, thus reversing light and dark. The Antipodean black Villa Savoye is, in fact, an ethnographic institute, dedicated now to the digital duplication of its extensive collections of anthropological films, photographs, slides and sound recordings, as Siegel reveals in a high definition colour video. The work enacts the infinite loop of recorded artefacts—the urgency to document and record “vanishing” rituals and cultural practices becomes instead the contemporary archival impulse to copy vanishing media formats to digital. These concatenated elements extend the artist’s engagement with architecture as a foil, enacting and revealing across constellation-like works, layered sociological and aesthetic concerns.
Re-Cut
Horror, Thriller
6.6
The Women
Comedy, Drama
7.0
The Outsider
Action, Crime, Thriller
6.9
Grande, grosso e Verdone
Comedy
5.9
Return to Innocence
Drama
6.8
The Ladykillers
Comedy, Crime
7.3
Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia
Comedy, Adventure
7.3
The Petrified Forest
Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
7.0
Harper
Mystery, Crime, Thriller
6.7
Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?
Drama
7.4
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
Crime, Thriller, Mystery
7.1
Shame
War, Drama
7.5
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance
Drama
7.0
Darkland: The Return
Thriller, Action
6.4
An Autumn Afternoon
Drama
7.8
Faces
Drama
7.2
Street of Shame
Drama
7.7
The Big Clock
Crime, Thriller
7.3
Scarlet Street
Drama, Crime
7.6
Perdiamoci di vista
Comedy
6.1
Kissed
Romance, Drama
6.4
Open Window
Drama
5.1
Peter Bell II: The Hunt for the Czar Crown
Family
5.4
The Indian
Adventure, Family
6.3
Sleepover LA
Drama, Music
1.0
The Heart of Loisaida
Documentary
0.0
One Foot Under
Comedy, Drama
4.6
The Devil's Arithmetic
TV Movie, Drama, Thriller, Fantasy
6.8
Dear, Dearest, Beloved, Unique...
Drama
3.3
I See the Sun
Drama, Romance, War
5.1
When Almonds Blossomed
Romance, Drama
3.8
Some Interviews on Personal Matters
Drama, Romance
4.6
The Little Incident
Drama, Music, Family, Romance
4.0
Birds at Sunrise
3.0
Mê Thao: Once Upon a Time
Romance, Drama
2.8
The Building
Horror, Thriller
0.0
Breathe
Drama
7.1
Insecure
Drama
5.6
Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem
Drama
7.6
The Domino Effect
Documentary
5.6