Piercing Brightness
2013, HD video, 77:00
Piercing Brightness is a science fiction feature length film directed by Shezad Dawood. The film utilizes science fiction as a backdrop from which to contest fixed notions of race, migration and identity.
A young Chinese couple are sent to the UK to retrieve the ‘Glorious 100’ – alien agents who landed on earth a thousand years ago in order to study and observe the planet but who have become corrupted and influenced by their adopted home.
Directed by
Shezad Dawood
Produced by
Kate Parker
Commissioned / Supported by
Outset Contemporary Art Fund, Picturehouse Cinemas, Modern Art Oxford, Abandon Normal Devices Festival, Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Arts Council of England, Preston City Council
Exhibited / Screened at
CPH:DOX (Copenhagen) 2017
Pera Film (Istanbul), 2016
MoMA, (New York), 2015
Floating Cinema, (London), 2015
Nitehawk Cinema, (Brooklyn), 2015
Aspen Art Museum, 2014
ICA (London), 2013
FACT Liverpool, 2013
Manchester Conerhouse, 2013
Sheffield Showroom, 2013
Arnolfini, (Bristol) 2013
Cambridge Picturehouse, 2013
Oxford Picturehouse, 2013
Hackney Picturehouse, 2013
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