PORTFOLIO - FILMS

MARK AITKEN

Current (in process)

Presence of Absence \ 2021 -

Perpetual Films

Brent Aitken

Silver gelatin prints/Animation, UK, 1984/2024

Beyond Reach

HD video. South Africa, 2021

Past

Neighbourhood of Infinity \ 2021

HD video, 25', Spain, 2021 - (Trailer)

Birds colonise an urban neighbourhood. People rediscover vital animal instincts. Together they show how confinement might be the ultimate measure of freedom.

Dead when I got here \ 2015

HD Video, 71', UK, Mexico, 2015 - (Trailer)

A man is discovered by his estranged daughter managing a Mexican mental asylum run by patients.

Forest of Crocodiles \ 2010

HD Video, 52', UK, South Africa, 2010 - (Trailer)

Fear stifles the lives of rural white South Africans just as others find ways to transcend it.