Artist Film · Arts Council Collection · Published 2013
Roger Hiorns: Seizure
A film about Roger Hiorns' transformation of a council flat into a blue crystal interior.
My role: Direction, Editor
Roger Hiorns filled an empty London council flat with copper sulphate solution, leaving blue crystals across its walls, floor and ceiling. Seizure turns an ordinary domestic space into something unfamiliar, with the traces of the former home still visible beneath the crystalline surface.
Commissioned by Arts Council Collection, the film introduces the work as it found a new home at Yorkshire Sculpture Park in 2013. The flat was extracted from its original building before demolition and preserved within a purpose-built enclosure.
Film stills
- Client Arts Council Collection / Southbank Centre
- Filmmaker Will Simpson
- Second Camera Casey Antwis
- Aerial Pilot Andre Ferreira
- Aerial Camera Simon Donnelly
- Production Omni Pictures
- Deconstruction footage Sam Blair, courtesy of Artangel
- Presented in collaboration with Yorkshire Sculpture Park
- Special thanks Roger Hiorns and Adam Khan
