Mean Time

Director: Karen Cunningham

Year: 2016

Filmed over a number of years both in Alberta, Canada, and Glasgow, UK 'Movable Type: Under Erasure' features various forms of communication technology, cultural re-enactment sites, and a petroglyph of a car at ‘Writing-on Stone’ or Áísínai'pi, which in the language of the Blackfoot nation means “it is pictured” or “it is written". This specific petroglyph was identified as ‘graffiti’ attributed to European settlers until a photograph was discovered in 1998 and the provenance of the carving was confirmed. The title refers to both the ‘movable type’ of the printing press and to Jacques Derrida’s concept of ‘sous rature’ which he developed (following Heidegger) in his book Of Grammatology (1967). The monologue was written, and voiced, by the theorist Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak who translated 'Of Grammatology' into English in 1976. The first screening of 'Movable Type: Under Erasure' was at The Showroom, London.

Director: Karen Cunningham

Year: 2013

'Fib' is the Pictish name for the contemporary Scottish region known as The Kingdom of 'Fife'. It also means a trivial or white lie. Filmed at locations in Fife, the film focuses on two census takers and considers the resulting information and actions as ‘factish’. The filmmaker and writer Alex Hertherington wrote of 'Fib' in his essay, 'A Poetic Measurement' , "Karen Cunningham stages her work in the temporal and the travelogue, 'indexes of time' on aspects of landscape -its images, objects, scale and extremes." Commissioned by LUX and Collective Gallery.

Director: Karen Cunningham

Year: 2012

Filmed at the Sighthill Stone Circle, built in 1979, Glasgow "Like slow breathing, it seemed to emanate from inside the walls" LUX Salon, Erik Martinson (2016) "An Endless Theatre: the convergence of contemporary art and anthropology in observational cinema" University of Edinburgh (2013) Tramway, Glasgow (2012).