Strange Object

The Z Unit’s operation in a world far from our own was an experiment of sorts, a test. And this place, inhabited by beings different from ourselves, served as a laboratory. An investigation into imperial image-making, and destruction.

“In her tactical deconstruction of colonial images, Miranda Pennell skilfully reveals the manipulative power of visual as well as verbal presentation.” Cinemagicon, June 2021 

“Just like Chris Marker’s enchanting La Jetée (1962), Miranda Pennell’s Strange Object consists only of still images, its soundtrack an important vehicle for the storytelling, and a fictional Other is created to reflect upon the Self. (…) In this short, wounded history of a coloniser and their Other, the narrator gives us a disordered alphabet of war. Around her an audible story unfolds of people quietly pacing hallways, ruffling through pages, in search of truth, right where it might be in its most inaccessible form.” Camilla Peeters, ultradogme.com