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Aikaterini Gegisian

Third Person (Plural)

Doc. expérimental | mov | couleur et n&b | 65:47 | Grèce, Royaume-Uni | 2023

Third Person (Plural) is a collage essay film based on a collection of 200 postwar USA informational films and newsreels from the Library of Congress and the American National Archives. Originating as a quest to source documents of the early European integration processes, the film offers a snapshot of the post-war American newsreel film history, and a visual reminder of the crystallisation of the cold war rhetoric. Composed of 8 episodes, the film unfolds into an expansive feminist re-reading of this hegemonic imperial masculine gaze, while paying tribute to the ‘unseen’ glances, making visible a collective ‘third person’.

Aikaterini Gegisian [b. Thessaloniki, Greece] is an artist, filmmaker and researcher whose filmic and photographic collages, drawing on diverse image histories, interweave documentary, archive and found material, in examining the production of cultural and national identities. Five years in the making, Third Person (Plural) (2023) is her first feature length film based on archival research at the Library of Congress. Her short films have been exhibited internationally including International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, IFF Innsbruck, Videoformes, Kasseller Documentary Film Festival, Beirut Art Center, 8th Brighton Photo Biennale, Tallin Photomonth among others. In 2016, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art organised the first survey of her moving image practice. She has received several awards including First Prize, Nagoya University of Arts, Japan & the Golden Lion for best national pavilion for her participation at the group show Armenity at the Armenian Pavilion, 56th Venice Biennale. Further recent shows include International Center of Photography (ICP), New York (2023); MOMus-Museum of Modern Art, Greece (2023); Halle 14 Centre of Contemporary Art, Leipzig (2021); The Institut Valencià d’Art Modern (2020); The Whitworth, Manchester (2019); National Arts Museum of China (2018); The Jewish Museum, Moscow (2018); Kunsthalle Osnabruck (2017); BALTIC, Newcastle (2017); among others. She lives between London and Thessaloniki and teaches at London Metropolitan University.