She Dolls With Dollies

Portraits appropriated from old films and magazines become anonymized: radiant tulips and spiky cacti whir behind cut-out mattes of people’s heads. Fragments flash up reporting on the proliferation of heroin that took place in the 1970s, amidst densely woven layers of glamorous cinema and pop culture. The images are accompanied by a composition by Anna Clementi and Thomas Stern based on Kurt Schwitters’ 1944 poem Sie Puppt mit Puppen (She Dolls With Dollies). It is fragmented from the get go, with lines tumbling to and fro until the words break down and dissolve into an electronic beatbox carpet of sound.