Catalogue > Un extrait vidéo au hasard

Newly built high-rise buildings in multiple areas of accelerated regeneration across London are abstracted in a series of free-falling motions. Through this abstraction comes an attempted reclamation of London’s skyline.

Syd Farrington is an artist and filmmaker living and working in London. His work has been shown internationally at International Film Festival Rotterdam, London Short Film Festival and Kasseler Dokfest, among others. Working with film, his work explores the physical effect of contemporary capitalism on the changing landscape of London. Often using place and landscape as a starting point, He navigates the interrelation of personal and shared experience, drawing from the vast history of cinema and modes of structural filmmaking.