Strange Object

Miranda Pennell’s films reworks images from colonial archives to reflect on contemporary issues. Her work underscores the role that imagination plays in interpreting historical documents.
Having trained as a dancer, Miranda Pennell took the leap into film directing and made numerous films dealing with performance and choreography in everyday life. She would later study visual anthropology, where she took an interest in colonial archival images, a subject she deals with in her most recent work.
Miranda Pennell’s films have been exhibited at prestigious venues such as the New York Film Festival, FIDMarseille, Viennale, and the Open City Documentary Festival and the collective exhibition Evil Eye: The parallel history of optics and ballistics at the Tabakalera International Centre for Contemporary Culture in San Sebastián. Her feature film The Host won the 2017 Best Film Award at the Punto de Vista Film Festival.
Resident in London, she is currently in the process of developing a new film for the Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam. Her writing has been featured in Found Footage & Collage Films: The Artist's Voice.