7 minutes 31 seconds / HD / colour / sound / UK / 2016
Plasma Vista was originally the name of a business concept to create a sales, distribution and exhibition platform that would showcase collaborative and episodic art, design products, furniture and fashion. Rejecting the brief, hijacking the commercial frame and seizing the business name for its own, the original concept had eaten itself, pushed back, self-rendered dysfunctional and reformed into an independent experimental piece of moving image. Plasma Vista centres around inquiries into the performativity of self-discovery, economies of creative productive collaboration and mythologies around the feminine.
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Credits
a film by
SARAH COCKINGS AND HARRIET FLEURIOT
Starring
MISS CAIRO
Director of Photography
ED TUCKER
Sound + Music
LUKE FRASER
Miss Cairo Body Double
Editors
1st Assistant Director
HOLLIE MILLER
SARA FAULKNER
ROSIE LAKIN
HARRIET FLEURIOT
SARAH COCKINGS
CHRISTOPHER LANE
Make-up and Hair
Coiffed by
LESLEY VYE
CAIRO
Styling
Hair Suit
Additional Hair Suit Styling
Additional Costume
SARAH COCKINGS
GREG DENNIS
OLIVIA PIETRONI
MARIE FRANCE
CESCA DVORAK
1st Assistant Camera
2nd Assistant Camera
Gaffer
Spark
Storyboards
Set Photography
Shop Photography
ANNETTE REMLER
JAN VACEANU
MAX HALSTEAD
ADRIAN ATKINSON
DUNCAN MCGONIGLE
RACHEL KING
MAX MCCLURE
Credit Design
Driver
Runners
Catering
HANNAH MONTAGUE
GARETH ROUTLEDGE
TOM BRIMSON
SHEENA PATEL
RUNYARARO MAPFUMO
JENNA FINCH
NORA SILVA
Set Build
Art Department
Special Effects Supervisor
Colourist
Visual Effects
LAURENCE SYMONDS
ALANNAH BYRNE
BRIN FROST
BEN ROWLEY
JOSEPH BICKNELL
DANIEL HAWKINS
Thanks
KAT ANDERSON
ELIZABETH DAY
CLAPHAM ROAD STUDIOS
BRUCE JACKSON
ELAINE BRITTON
STEVE ROSER
JAMES CLARKE
ALICE HODGE
SPEADE
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Featured Designs
XIAOYAN TAN
Visor
KATIE ROBERTS-WOOD
Synch Sleeves
DANIEL RAMOS OBREGÓN
Artefact #2 Fingers
PETER POPPS
Circle Shoes
MARLOES TEN BHOMER
NoHeelShoe
KEELY HUNTER
Silver Mirror Hat
KEELY HUNTER
Alpine Hat
Tenderflix
WINNER
Hamilton Film Festival
BEST SHORT FILM
Blowup Film Festival
BEST EXPERIMENTAL (INTERNATIONAL)
Eindhovens Film Festival
BEST EXPERIMENTAL
Eindhovens Film Festival
BEST ART DIRECTION
ÉCU FILM FESTIVAL
BEST EUROPEAN EXPERIMENTAL FILM
Awards
Nominated Awards
London Short Film Festival BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Underwire Film Festival BEST DIRECTING
Short Waves unxpctd.mov
Athens Film Festival BEST EXPERIMENTAL
Screenings
Selected 9 UK Tour, Whitechapel Gallery, 27 June 2019, London, UK
Selected 9 UK Tour, CCA Glasgow, 26 June 2019, Glasgow, UK
Selected 9 UK Tour, Nottingham Contemporary, 25 June 2019, Nottingham, UK
Selected 9 UK Tour, Spike Island, 20 June 2019, Bristol, UK
Selected 9 UK Tour, Fabrica, 13 June 2019, Brighton, UK
Selected 9 UK Tour, Jill Craigie Cinema (with Uni of Plymouth), 2 May 2019, Plymouth, UK
Bozeman Film Festival June 2018, Bozeman, Montana, United States
ÉCU Film Festival 5 May 2018 Paris, France
Malmö Queer Film Festival 29 April 2018 Malmö, Sweden
Eindhovens Film Festival 9 December 2017 Eindhoven, Holland
Festival Internacional de Cine Animado y Experimental VideoBabel 1 December 2017 Cusco, Peru
Underwire Film Festival 24 November 2017 London, UK
Interfilm Festival 20 – 26 November 2017 Berlin, Germany
Blowup Film Festival 12 November 2017 Chicago, USA
Aesthetica Film Festival 8, 10, 12 November 2017 York, UK
WRO On Tour #6 8 November 2017 Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland
Hamilton Film Festival 7 November 2017 Hamilton, Canada
Paris International Lesbian & Feminist Film Festival 3 November 2017 Paris, France
Queersicht 3, 4 November 2017 Bern, Switzerland
LesGaiCineMad Festival Internacional de Cine LGBT de Madrid 2 & 4 November Madrid, Spain
Another Hole in the Head 28 October 2017 San Francisco, USA
TransNation Festival 2017 13 October 2017 Los Angeles, USA
CMG Shorts 8 October 2017 Los Angeles, USA
Antimatter [Media Art] October 2017 Victoria, Canada
BIDEODROMO 2017 12 – 28 September 2017 Bilbao, Spain
Busho September 2017 Budapest, Hungary
Kansk Film Festival 26 Aug/2 Sep 2017 Kansk/Moscow, Russia
Outfest Los Angeles 15 July 2017 Los Angeles, USA
Rio Festival de G & S no Cinema 6 - 8 July 2017 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
WRO on Tour #2 23 June 2017 Wroclaw, Poland
Mostra FIRE!! 17 June 2017 Barcelona, Spain
Lovers Film Festival 16 June 2017 Turin, Italy
Leiden International Short Film Experience (LISFE) 9 May 2017 Leiden, Netherlands
CineAutopsia 2 May 2017 Bogotá, Columbia
Imagine Film Festival with Berlin Fashion Film Festival 16 & 19 April 2017 Amsterdam, Netherlands
Athens International Film & Video Festival 8 April 2017 Athens, Ohio, USA
The River Bend Film Festival 6 - 8 April 2017 Goshen, Indiana, USA
Short Waves 25 March 2017 Poznan, Poland
Mecal Pro 24 March 2017 Barcelona, Spain
BFI FLARE 23 March 2017 London, UK
Zoom Zbliżenia 24 February 2017 Jenelia Góra, Poland
London Short Film Festival 12 & 15 January 2017 - London, UK
Pink Life QueerFest 12 & 13 January 2017 Ankara, Turkey
Signes Des Nuits 27 November 2016 Paris, France
Tenderflix 2016 25 November 2016 London, UK
Exhibitions
I woke with a marble head in my hands
9 August - 8 September 2019, K-Gold Contemporary, Lesvos, Greece
The Lotus Eaters
15 Nov - 7 Dec 2018, Aindrea Contemporary, London, UK
Bloomberg New Contemporaries
29 Sep - 26 Nov 2017, BALTIC, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
27 Jan - 3 Mar 2018, Block 336, London, UK.
WRO Draft Systems Biennale 2017
17-21 May 2017 Wroclaw, Poland
Special Events
Fashion Adventures in the Sonic Landscape with LCF and LSFF
16 January 2017 ICA London, UK
Reviews
“This feeling of being sent to another world is even more apparent in Harriet Fleuriot and Sarah Cockings’ installation. Based on Plasma Vista – a film that was first shown at Tenderflix – the pair has created an immersive concept-store like alcove, where objects used in the film are available to be purchased. Plasma Vista is a surreal, Stanley-Kubrick-like film, which plays in the background of Fleuriot and Cockings’ shop. In it, a blonde woman plays with strange liquids in curved glass vessels. It is a bizarre movie, as is the high-end store they have created. The space is filled with plants, beds, balloons, glass vessels, and even a yeti-like suit, which hangs from the ceiling. The whole set is a comment on desire and consumerism. The work is separated into pieces, which you can buy individually, but not as a whole. Just like the desire to purchase, there is always something else that can be bought, but you will never have the whole thing.”
The Lotus Eaters @ Aindrea Contemporary, Lizzy Vartanian Collier, Gallery Girl
"This slick, latex-slathered slice of video sensuality is great.
Like a glossy, unctuous high-end perfume ad."
Go see these future art super stars at Bloomberg New Contemporaries, TimeOut
"Surreal..."
10 Best Things To Do This Week, The Guardian
"The ear is principally receptive to the eerie sound of ‘Plasma Vista’ (2016) by Sarah Cockings and Harriet Fleuriot,
whose video is obscured behind a wall so as to encapsulate the viewer in a sensory deluge.
The mutating forms, gelatinous masses and human disembodiment keep one wholly transfixed,
despite the dearth of comprehension as to context or subject matter."
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2017 - review, Corridor 8
"By merging performance, objects and sculptures the creators succeed
in making a crystal clear film, deserving of a place in a museum."
Eindhoven Film Festival Jury
"QVC for queer robots?"
BFI Flare LGBTQ+ Film Festival
"An ice cold and dazzling Wunderkammer, where The Neon Demon by Nicolas Winding Refn
meets David La Chapelle's pop interpretation of reality."
Lovers Film Festival
"One of the standouts for me was an obtuse film by Sarah Cockings & Harriet Fleuriot.
It was fun and a bit of light relief from the dullness."
Bob Bicknell-Knight