Amie Siegel’s GENEALOGIES weaves an associative tissue of references, combining novels, films, images, advertising and soundtrack from multiple sources into a baroque invocation of image and artwork provenance, remake and copy. Extending from Jean-Luc Godard’s Le Mépris (Contempt), the film's famous location of the Villa Malaparte on Capri, and the figure of the female protagonist played by Brigitte Bardot, Siegel’s video traces the sculptural, gendered iconography of architecture and the female body, querying how these are visualised in cinema, and harnessed by advertising and music videos. From Wilhem Jensen’s novella Gradiva, to Freud, de Chirico, Rossellini, Curzio Malaparte, Resnais, Robbe-Grillet, Godard, Pink Floyd and the Beastie Boys to images by brands Hugo Boss and Persol, the work maps a broadly layered trajectory of ideas shared and reprised, speculating on homage, influence and originality, ultimately drawing together a genealogical lineage of adaptation, appropriation and recurrence.

PRODUCER: STUDIO AMIE SIEGEL
LINE PRODUCER: VANESSA FARINHA
CINEMATOGRAPHER: CHRISTINE A. MAIER
1st ASSISTANT CAMERA:GERHARD LEITNER
2nd ASSISTANT CAMERA: SIMEON GEYER
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT: ANDREW ORR
SOUND MIX: GISBURG SMIALEK