Object Interviews

Object Interviews is a series of three films in which specialists from various fields interpret and discuss a range of film props. Part I features a keeper of Egyptian Artefacts from the British Museum deconstructing their historical significance while Part II features a cultural theorist uncovering the unconscious impact of a prop on the viewer through the framework of psychoanalysis. Part III considers the perspective of two prop makers, discussing the objects in relation craft, construction and the continuous overlap between the objects represented history and its own history as an object, used and reused in multiple productions. Within these films the prop takes center stage as an object in some ways more powerful and significant than the “original” historical artifact, opening up a space for fiction to become part of our understanding of history.

Object Interviews (Part I)
Single Channel HD Video, 2013
6:07 min.
 
Object Interviews (Part II)
Single Channel HD Video, 2013
05:15 min.

Object Interviews (Part III)
Single Channel HD Video, 2013
05:56 min.