“Way My It Did I is a snapshot of an edgeland, Tilbury in Essex, at a particular time – that of the months leading to the Brexit deadline in March 2019. Maria Anastassiou works with a 16mm Bolex camera, which brings with it a certain aesthetic, a connection to a specific history of avant-garde filmmaking, filling with poetry the seemingly unpoetic sites that it documents.”
María Palacios Cruz, 2020 (excerpt from: In,Out,Out,In: Maria Anastassiou’s Way My It Did I)
Maria Anastassiou
Maria Anastassiou (b. Cyprus 1982) is an artist/filmmaker based in London, UK. She uses analogue and digital media in moving image, social practice, and curatorial projects. Her work is informed by experimental ethnographic approaches to documentary and structuralist film traditions. Many of her projects are collaborative and defined by an exchange with other artists and the public, across disciplines and presentational platforms. Selected shows and screenings include Dreamlands –, Immersive Cinema and Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, curated by Chrissie Isles, NYC USA, The Equilibrists, Benaki Museum Athens in collaboration with New Museum NYC and DESTE Foundation Athens, Negative Light curated by Simon Payne, Microscope Gallery, NYC USA, Film Movement in Light: A Contemporary Expression curated by Ben Pritchard, National Portrait Gallery London, UK.