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Beatrice Vorster and Yasmin Vardi are artists. We have worked together since 2020, primarily making experimental films. 

Our practice centres on decoding cinematic archetypes, particularly of horror cinema, often parodying structural and narrative conventions of specific subgenres in the horror canon. We are motivated by understanding cinema as a construction of our realities and identities. We believe this understanding is key to examining our current political moment which is both determined by - and saturated in - audiovisual media.


Latest work:











BAD APPLES 


2024

single-channel video, 7 mins 




BAD APPLES deploys the iconography of the ‘apple’ as an actor caught in the cross-section of power and desire. It examines the rationalisation of the ‘bad apple’ which removes institutional responsibility while subtle gestures negotiate the technologies of power and subordination. 














screened at 
Coals Drop Yard Bridge, London, 2024.
VHS The horror show, TACO!, London, 2024.



a woman runs away from something


2024

single channel video, 20 mins



a woman runs away from something is a home-invasion movie that takes the skeleton of the horror subgenre and reimagines it. By distilling the narrative to pure format, the film decodes cinematic archetypes. Often parodying structural and narrative conventions, the work plays with the mechanisms of tension through use of cliches and moments of vulnerability. It flirts with the power of suggestion, reaching towards what is hidden through humorous techniques of absenting and remaking.

Starring Fergus Robinson, Elli Antoniou, Amelie Mckee and Ammonite. 









screened at 
SPRYTE, London, 2024.
with live score at TACO! London, 2024.  



bootleg vampire


2023

single channel video, 15 mins




the onscreen vampire is a dataset; a composite formed through the production-line output of thousands of adaptations which spans audiovisual culture. Duplication is written into the fabric of the vampire as a figure of the undead - grave robbing is part of the narrative, accelerating the expansion of this hoard into online spaces.


Starring Amelie Mckee. 









screened at 
PureGold Festival, London, 2023. 



stories


2023

single channel video, 2 mins











six feet under


2022

single channel video, 16 mins
exhibited at 
CDA, Holon, 2022.





exhibited at 
CDA, Holon, 2022.






SWEAT!


2022

single channel video, 19 mins

SWEAT! departs from the process of perspiration (sweat) -  an internal process that manifests stress, modifying temperature, as well as an intimate manifestation of effort and pleasure. The work deals with information trade and body and emotions as commerce highlighting the intricate enmeshment of technology with bodies, exploitation, violence and labor. The video uses actuarial tables,  a discipline that applies mathematical and statistical methods to assess risk in insurance, finance, and other industries and professions. More generally, actuaries apply rigorous mathematics to model matters of uncertainty.




exhibited at 
Sweatshop, YV solo show, Generation & Display, London, 2022.


proxy.mp4


2022

single channel video, 8 mins








1. exhibited at 
i <3 your output, greengrassi, London, 2022. 














2. screened at
iklectik artlab, London, 2022.





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