2012. Documentary, HDV, 30:35 min. Commissioned by AP Valletta, 2012
CITY GATE is a video project commissioned by Architecture Project, Malta. The documentary shows the successive demolition of the old Valletta City Gate prior to construction of a new one. Falling stones, dust, workers, concrete, onlookers, pigeons, machines, tourists, and loads of rubble: watching the demolition became a meditative practice.
The machines, like humanoid monsters, worked their way through layers of construction of former times, making space for a new construction, maybe even a new vision, which was best epitomized by the pigeons: having lost their roost in the gate, the birds had been turned into homeless fragments of the city’s history.
2013. Series of 10 Photographs, Archival Inkjet Print on ACP. 52x29cm.