Films

Domestic (2012)
Black and white High-Definition video. Duration: 6 minutes, 48 seconds (looped)
Warning: The video contains flashing / strobing

Exhibited on gallery monitor:

  • Eastern Approaches // St Albans Museum, Hertfordshire (2013)

Exhibited on a DVD player placed in a found mirrored box with additional inner mirror. Dimensions variable.

  • Fragments - University of Westminster MA Art and Media Practice Course Graduate Show // Ambika P3, London (2012)

  • Like Home // Space2 Gallery, Watford Museum, Watford, Hertfordshire (2012)

  • Ghost IV // St John on Bethnal Green, London (2012)

Exhibited as a large-scale video projection:

  • Toride International Video Projection Contest 2014 // Toride, Japan (2014)

  • Surreal Reality // Liebig 12 gallery, Berlin, Germany (2022)

With Me Now (2011)
Digital video, colour, stereo sound. Duration 3 minutes, 41 seconds

Exhibited:

  • MA Art and Media Practice Interim show, London Gallery West, University of Westminster, London (2011)

Father’s Ghost Stories I (2010)
Digital video, colour, stereo sound with subtitles. Duration 2 minutes, 07 seconds

Father’s Ghost Stories II (2010)
Digital video, colour, stereo sound with subtitles. Duration 2 minutes, 12 seconds

Father’s Ghost Stories III (2010)
Digital video, colour, stereo sound with subtitles. Duration 3 minutes, 42 seconds

Father’s Ghost Stories IV (2010)
Digital video, colour, stereo sound with subtitles. Duration 1 minute, 26 seconds

My father, Emmanuel Vella, recalls his childhood in Valletta, Malta and the ghosts his family encountered in The Mandragg and Marsamxett areas of the Maltese capital. Recorded as part of my project, The Living And The Dead, for the City Lit Fine Art Course exhibition in London, July 2010.

Mother’s Ghost Stories (2010)
Digital video, colour, stereo sound with subtitles. Duration 1 minute, 27 seconds

My mother, Mary Vella, tells ghost stories told to her by her mother based on her experiences living in the Maltese city of Cospicua (Bormla). Recorded as part of my project, The Living And The Dead, for the City Lit Fine Art Course exhibition in London, July 2010.