stephen connolly // films

 

Two Coronations, 17' video 2010

Two Coronations reworks material from a family archive, using as a temporal guide the two coronations of British monarchs in 1937 and 1953. The activity of ’procession’, for the camera, as part of public and private occasions, features strongly in the archive.

By cinematic montage, notions of social collectivity and a relation to the display of power are placed in question. A short introduction reworks the tale of Sleeping Beauty as suggested by Walter Benjamin.

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