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Hostiles Sites - Part 2
by Katja Verheul
2017, 7’40’
Presented at VISIO. European Identities. New Geographies in Artists’ Film and Video (2018)
Courtesy the artist
In London important sites and buildings are surrounded by fancy benches and flower pots. Though these sculptural objects are not there just for the eye. The so-called ‘hostile vehicle mitigations’ should protect buildings and sites of potentially destructive terrorist attacks. The film focuses on several hostile vehicle mitigations in the Ring of Steel in London and the influence they have on our daily lives. A couple of dancers move around and interact with the objects while performing suspicious behaviour and self-defence movements.
Katja Verheul is a filmmaker and researcher based in Maastricht. She graduated with a BFA in Audio-Visual Arts from Gerrit Rietveld Academie (NL) in 2012 and holds a MFA in Fine Arts from Goldsmiths University, London, in 2016. Her research and film projects evolve around performative realities, post-truth and power structures. Her film Hostiles Sites – Part 2 is focused on several hostile vehicle mitigations in the Ring of Steel in London, their ‘natural’ habitat and the influence they have on our daily lives. She is a resident at the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastrich,
from 2018-2019. She received the Young Talent Mondrian fund last year and has been exhibiting and part of film festivals in Germany, The Netherlands, UK and China. Including the New Wight Biennale and the International Short Film Festival in Hamburg.
from 2018-2019. She received the Young Talent Mondrian fund last year and has been exhibiting and part of film festivals in Germany, The Netherlands, UK and China. Including the New Wight Biennale and the International Short Film Festival in Hamburg.