Tattoo
Miranda Pennell
Soldiers march in unison across a wide-open stretch of land. Director Miranda Pennell’s Tattoo acts as an overview of the severe conformity and geometric precision inherent to any army regiment and reveals the senseless beauty of military drill.
Film programme An Excess of Order
Miranda Pennell
Miranda Pennell, born 1963, originally trained in contemporary dance before later studying visual anthropology. She has made award-winning films and video works that explore various forms of collective performance. Showings and exhibitions of Pennell’s work include mixed programmes and group shows at Tate Britain (2014), Whitechapel Gallery (2015), the mumok museum for modern art in Vienna (2012) and the Kunsthaus Zurich art museum (2015). Pennell lives and works in London.
Films by Miranda Pennell
Strange Object 2020 | The Host 2015 | Why Colonel Bunny Was Killed 2010 | Drum Room 2007 | You Made Me Love You 2005 | Fisticuffs 2004 | Magnetic North 2003 | Tattoo 2001 | Lounge 1995
