Centrifuge, 2025 10 minutes; is an auto-fictional work that combines a meandering narrative about illness, Covid, Kubrick and my grandmother’s anecdotes of her time in the resistance during WWII. Inspired by Stanley Kubrick's centrifugal film set created for ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’; where the set and the camera were tracking the same circular motion, I designed a miniature version animating soft-fabric film sets underwater. Architecture, creatures and costumes were created through dyeing and heat-shaping fabric through experimental Shibori fabric manipulation methods and filmed underwater attached to the rotating device. This analogue self-animating Soft-robotic simulator is a reference to the malleability of memory and anecdote and celebrates the physicality of special effect techniques and slow making.

The work offers storytelling as an important technique by developing humour and engaging imagery to deal with awareness of sexual education, racism and to celebrate the heroism of women in wartime.

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/39515