Julien Film Pairs Gwendoline Christie & Cyborg Starfish
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- Isaac Julien creates a 25‑minute immersive film for the Cosmic House, displayed on a single screen surrounded by standing mirrors.
- Gwendoline Christie stars as a sci‑fi deity alongside Sheila Atim, navigating a Renaissance palazzo and a modernist glass home.
- Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower supplies key textual snippets that shape the film’s script.
- Victoria Miro gallery previously presented the work in a five‑screen installation, which was described as aggressively bombastic.
- Cosmic House features a 52‑step solar stair designed by Charles Jencks and Maggie Keswick, embodying post‑modern cosmic order.
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