Repetitions (2022)
Morgan Quaintance
Repetitions, Morgan Quaintance, England, 16mm > digital, 24 min, 2022
While Morgan Quaintance weaves together personal and historical narratives to lay out a rich, layered universe, his films always feel direct, bare, and immediate. Whether he’s sharing memories of his youth or exploring the echoes of history in race and class, he finds a way, by introducing an edit or a piece of music at the right moment, to tap into the senses.—The Museum of Modern Art
An exploration of recursive patterns, a series of repeated sequences, flickering images, and looping sounds. On the surface, Repetitions concentrates on inducing retinal excitement and states of anticipation, but telephone messages and speech provide a through line that speaks to physical labour, industrial work, and fragile bodies.
Streaming Details
This film is available to stream globally.
Program Partners
This film is co-presented with the Film Studies Center at the University of Chicago.
Image credits: all artworks, portraits and stills courtesy of the artist © Morgan Quaintance.
About the artist
Morgan Quaintance (England) is an artist, writer, musician, broadcaster, and curator born in London in 1979. His moving image artwork explores cultural, social, and political moments from the past that shape our collective present, with consistent interests in cult milieux and countercultures, ethnography, Afro-Caribbean, East Asian, and British histories, and the built environment. He received his BA in Sound Art and Design from the London College of Communications (2005), and his MA in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art (2011). His films have been widely exhibited at festivals, museums, and galleries internationally, including The Museum of Modern Art, BlackStar Film Festival, Open City Documentary Festival, Oslo National Academy of Arts, European Media Art Festival, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Alchemy Film and Arts Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Flaherty Film Seminar, Media City Film Festival, and the National Gallery of Art (London). He is the recipient of awards including UK Short Film Award, Open City Documentary Festival (2021); Jean Vigo Prize for Best Director, Punto de Vista Festival (2021); Best Experimental Film Award, Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival; and the New Vision Award, CPH:DOX (2020). His writing on contemporary art, aesthetics, and their socio-political contexts has appeared in Frieze, The Wire, The Guardian, and other publications. He is also a contributing editor to Art Agenda, a division of e-flux dedicated to contemporary art criticism. He is a 2024 MacDowell Fellow. He lives in London where he is a lecturer in Fine Art at Kingston University.