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.
Fetish
10.0
Rheme Maining Sources
Documentary
7.0
Six Weeks to Twelve Years
Comedy, Drama
6.1
Hello
Animation, Music
6.1
People
8.3
Little Britain Comic Relief
Comedy
8.5
Hello
Comedy
6.1
When the Bough Breaks
Crime, Drama, Thriller, TV Movie
5.5
Miss brill
7.0
People
6.6
Behemoth - Philharmonie de Paris
Music
8.0
Fuera de la ley
5.0
Llorar a Óbito
Drama
9.0
Love in 3-D
Comedy
3.6
Song Sung Blue
Documentary, Music
8.0
Hello
Crime, Thriller
5.9
Extreme der Tiefsee - Abysses
Documentary
8.0
The Alibi
Romance, Comedy, Drama
5.7
Tumbleweed!
Comedy, Drama
4.7
My Life Without Me
Drama, Romance
6.0
Open Hearts
Drama, Romance
6.9
Italian for Beginners
Comedy, Drama, Romance
6.3
The Secret Life of Words
Romance, Drama
7.0
Baroud
Action, Romance
4.0
Franz Schubert's Last Three Piano Sonatas
Documentary, Music
0.0
Lost in Translation
Drama, Romance
7.4
Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself
Comedy, Drama, Romance
6.6
Rust Creek
Thriller, Drama, Action, Crime
6.4
The Deliverance of Elaine
Drama, Thriller, TV Movie
4.5
Île de beauté
0.0
The Scape of the Monkey Woman
Adventure, Music
5.0
De Novo
0.0
Belle comme le jour
0.0
My Millennial Life
Documentary
0.0
Call Her Applebroog
0.0
Bruising for Besos
Drama
0.5
My Ancestors Were Rogues and Murderers
Documentary
0.0
The Scary of Sixty-First
Horror, Mystery, Thriller
5.7
Repare Bem
Documentary
0.0