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Gilly Booth is an artist who works with moving image and sound and is the co-director of hijack film production. Her films and installations have been exhibited within International film festivals, ICA London, Pompidou Centre Paris, Museum of Modern Art Tokyo, MOMA New York, The Museum of the Forgotten Zurich, Venice Architecture Art Biennale Italy and H.Q. im Loop Zurich. She has received commissions and awards from; Lottery Arts Council Wales, Arts Humanities Research Council, International Development Arts Council Fund, NESTA and the Sasakawa Foundation.

Booth’s films/installations have connected modernist architecture, the settings of 1960s European film and environments with new inhabitants and histories. Her documentary techniques interrogate lived encounters between reality and fiction, and translate them across geographical locations and linguistic boundaries. The films/installations re-visit abandoned sites, landscapes, images, archives, interviews, text and found footage which are then re-mediated within a cinematic or installation context.

Her current work ‘The Seaweed Exchange’, situated across UK and Japan; investigates the relationship of seaweed to cultural memory and environmental information: how bio-feedback may be translated into sound, choral orchestration and visual representation.