Tear Down and Rebuild (2015)

Composed of various quotes - belonging to political speeches, debates and proclamations that extract and emphasize the iconoclasm of architecture, art and monuments - Tear Down and Rebuild creates an original conversation between four characters. Including words drawn from Regan's speech on the Berlin Wall, Prince Charles's 1984 address at RIBA and Isis bloggers' proclamation on the demolition of temples, the film's story-line uses language that endorses demolition and redesign, which were to aid the creation of new displays for ensuing nation- states or ideological positions throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. As the film's narrative unfolds, the viewer is a witness to the final decision to demolish the fictitious building, the image of which is constructed in the spectator's imagination through a collage of quotations on diverse, ideologically contrived and historically charged buildings, monuments, walls etc. that were to be or were knocked down - pointing to the universality and timelessness of the paradox of national and ideological representation and its icons.