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Written by Carolyn Black   
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This video short is part of a three-part video installation "Panoptic Machine", shown earlier this year as part of the 'workplace' exhibition in Bristol. The body of work is a response to Templar House, the building in which it was installed. A concrete block of corridors and staircases housing a range of offices and light industrial units, it evokes a constant sense of being watched. This film was shown alongside a live relay of the viewer looking through a peephole, only to be confronted by the eye blinking at them and the profile of their own eye looking through the hole. Another film, seen through another peephole, showed surveillance-type footage of the empty building with voice and text alluding to the uncomfortable atmosphere of the site.

The Morse code soundtrack translates to 'access denied'.

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