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Miranda Pennell is a London-based artist-filmmaker whose work uses images from British state archives to reflect on the legacies of imperialism. Her films emphasise the role of the imagination in the interpretation of historical documents, most recently drawing on genre fiction as a way of engaging with troubled histories.
Her award-winning films have been screened internationally in cinemas, galleries and on broadcast TV. Her recent work has screened at major international film festivals that include London, Rotterdam, Berlin, New York, and Vienna.
After training as a dancer in the 1980s, Miranda Pennell shifted her practice from dance and live choreography to filmmaking, going on to create numerous films based around performance and choreography in everyday life. In 2010, she enrolled at Goldsmiths College to study for an MA in Visual Anthropology, after which she undertook a PhD at the Centre for Research in Education in Arts and Media at University of Westminster. She received her PhD in 2016 for her feature-length film THE HOST and her thesis Film as an Archive for Colonial Photographs: Activating the Past in the Present. THE HOST, based on the visual archive of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, subsequently toured the UK with the Independent Cinema Office.
Selected screenings include one-person programmes Strange Objects (2023) at Close-Up Film Centre, London, retrospectives at Stuttgart FilmWinter Festival for Expanded Media (2019), Choreography and Archives for UnderDox at the Filmmuseum Munich (2017), Photofilm: Sampling the Archive, Institut Français, Budapest (2017), Choreocinema: Siobhan Davies & Miranda Pennell, Barbican, London (2017), Irish Film Institute, Dublin (2016), retrospectives at Glasgow Short Film Festival (2011), Vienna International Shorts (2011), Tampere Short Film Festival (2009) Oberhausen Short Film Festival (2006).
Group exhibitions include "Evil Eye: the parallel histories of ballistics and optics" (2023) at Tabakalera Centre for Contemporary Culture, San Sebastian; "Intersectional Geographies" (2022) Martin Parr Foundation, Bristol, Tanzbilder, New Museum for Art and Design, Nuremberg (2019), Lahore Biennale 02 (2018), "All Systems Go", Cooper Gallery, Dundee (2016), "Europe – The Future of History", Kunsthaus Zurich (2015), and "The World Turned Upside Down", Mead Gallery (2013).
Miranda leads the "Politics and Poetics of Archival Filmmaking" course for UCL‘s Open City Documentary Festival. In 2022-2023 she was artist-in-residence at the School of Law, Birkbeck College, London.
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MAN NUMBER 4
2024 / HD / color / sound / single screen / 9' 48 / 44 € distribution: DCP on server or Digital file on server |
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TROUBLE
2023 / HD / color-b&w / sound / single screen / 33' 15 / 126 € distribution: Digital file on USB stick |
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STRANGE OBJECT
2020 / HD / color-b&w / sound / single screen / 15' 20 / 65 € distribution: Digital file on server |
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THE HOST
2015 / HD / color-b&w / sound / single screen / 60' 00 / 198 € distribution: Digital file on USB stick |
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WHY COLONEL BUNNY WAS KILLED
2010 / HD / b&w / sound / single screen / 27' 21 / 108 € distribution: Digital file on USB stick |