Astrid Colours
All the fun of watching your own child scribble in a messy room, but without the pain of having to pretend to enjoy it so they won't cheap out on...
Sophie Michael
Sophie Michael (born 1985) is a London based artist working across film, photography and installation. She studied at Slade School of Fine Art and the Royal Academy Schools, and received The Arts Bursary of the British School at Athens 2012-13. Michael is represented by Seventeen Gallery in London.
[bio courtesy of the filmmaker]
Filmography
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Attica
ATTICA opens with a close-up of a series of 8th century BCE geometric pots spinning on a wheel, to the sound of a 1973 Greek "laïka" record by Giorgos Dalaras and Haris Alexiou. As the crackling record turns, the close up patterns painted on the surface of vases animate the frame in multiple...Watch Movie
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Morning
A table top play using bronze votive figurines (6th century BC) from the collection of the British School at Athens Museum, to the sound of school children reciting the morning prayer at Marasleio Didaskaleio of Primary Education, Athens (a field recording taken over the walls of the British...Watch Movie
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Chapters One to Five
The penultimate in a series of four films featuring Astrid, which document her in different constructed spaces over the ages of seven to ten. A 16mm film that documents an ambiguous place and set of events, where color plays as much the leading role as the nine year old...Watch Movie
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99 Clerkenwell Road
Filmed in an empty shop, the remaining features of the space are used to create a kaleidoscopic light film. Ceiling lamps become coloured spheres and circles that sweep across the frame. Pillars provide wipes and fades, window shutters are hole punched stencils, passing buses...Watch Movie
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Untitled (Christmas)
The second in a series of four films featuring Astrid, which document her in different constructed spaces over the ages of seven to ten. Shot on Super Eight film at Christmas time, the hand held camerawork is shared between the artist and eight year old Astrid. Like a...Watch Movie
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Carousel
Continuing a line of experimentation established in UNTITLED (OBJECTS 3), 2008, Sophie Michael's CAROUSEL fuses an interest in form and color with a neatly circular structure which posits three interlinked "rotations," each in a different dimension. A leaflet-dispensing carousel rotates for the...Watch Movie
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Untitled (Objects 3)
A pink paper shape is examined through the clear plastic of a cassette case in a series of combinations of found objects held up together in front of the camera. Colors and transparencies pose as gels and lenses until the sequence shifts making materials behave unnaturally,...Watch Movie
Recent Reviews
Untitled (Objects 3)
ASMR triggers meet colourful compositions and tricks with multiple exposures. Delightful and mesmerizing. Sophie Michael is a magician.
99 Clerkenwell Road
Hypnotic... Spherical fields of colour float, intersect and are eclipsed by planes of black. Would be especially captivating on a large screen or in a gallery setting.
Astrid Colours
Might be some joy here for a non-relative if one were to see this as a conceptual film documenting the arrogance of a parent editing the artistic attempts of their...
Untitled (Objects 3)
Wish I'd seen the film the description promised.