Fictional Matters Gestures of love and violence

"Now, before your very senses, a subversive, dark-art will perform the transference of one body - to other bodies. It will bring about the unholy mixing of object, animal and human essences. It will produce shape-changing hybrids, that will try to trick you and to seduce you. You will feel things you know to be irrational. You will believe things you know to be false."

In this lecture-performance, Miranda Pennell draws upon her experiences as a dancer and as a filmmaker to consider the powers of corporeal presence and absence on screen and in the imagination, as she tests and explores aspects of projection – both psychic and cinematic.