Seems So Long Ago, Nancy

4 Windmill Street is proud to present the full UK premiere of Portuguese artist Tatiana Macedo's film debut Seems So Long Ago, Nancy (HDCAM | 45′ | 2012)

The screening is accompanied by a supporting photography exhibition from the same series and a limited edition selection of production stills.

Shot on location at Tate Modern and Tate Britain, London over the course of three months, the film fluctuates between the subject of gallery assistant and the neoclassical and  postmodern architectural spaces they occupy.

Outside of the curated programme surrounding the subject and the uniformed visitor-service role they are positioned to operate in, Seems So Long Ago, Nancy acts as a passive lens without 'countershot', or point of view shot: as if the gallery is looking from within.  This introspection is compounded by chasmic moments of reverberation in background chatter, met equally head on by instances of silence and contemplation.

Seems So Long Ago, Nancy premiered at international film festival Doclisboa, Portugal in October 2012.  Extracts have previously been screened at Tate Britain, London and the Stedelijk Museum Bureau Video Programme, Amsterdam (both 2012).

Tatiana Macedo (b.1981, Lisbon) studied at Central St Martins College of Art (BA Fine Arts) and the New University of Lisbon (MA Visual Anthropology).  Recent group exhibitions include Tegenboschvanvreden Gallery, Amsterdam (2011), and Carpe Diem Art & Research, Lisbon (2012).  Macedo has been awarded an experimental film grant from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (2012), a Young Creators bursary from the National Centre of Culture (2008/09) and a travel award by Lisbon's Orient Foundation (2008).  Her work is held in several international private collections.