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Variant Video: Video Art The Midnight of the Decade
Variant Video: Pilot
Where the Crow Flies Backwards
Variant Video: Workers City
The Burning
Doppelganger (1979-81)
Edition of 5 as installation with period monitor and plinth specification. Link to the video
This video work from the late 1970s has been recovered and digitised by REWIND and forms part of the REWIND Collection. This work is one of only two remaining video pieces from a series started in 1974. Three other works were exhibited at the Video Show, Serpentine Gallery in May 1975: Conflict; …
Women Soldiers (1982)
Women Soldiers addresses several feminist issues. The main theme of the video is the role of women in the military forces but it is also a starting point for Shemilt to widen her prospective to a more general critique of how women are represented by media and society and their role and status.
The viewer is guided in this reflection by several voice-over traces. The first is a script pillaged by Shemilt from a military recruitment campaign and read by her friend the artist June Raby, …
Dance Improvisation Workshop
Biddick Farm Performance
Documentation and recording of footage from performance at Biddick Farm 1978. Peter Donebauer- Videokalos, Richard Monkhouse – Pattern Generator, Simon Desorgher – Flute & Synth, Brian Hoey – Guitar …
She Talks to Herself Often