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frame src="//www.youtube.com/embed/ago1YZKnYbE?rel=0" height="506" width="900" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0"> Germiston (2008) HD-Video, Colour, 12’00

"Germiston was filmed very early in the morning in the identically named district in the Northeast of Glasgow. The video shows the demolition of one of the two highrises at Forge Place. Caused by the detonation a huge dust cloud moves with the wind across the urban landscape in the morning light. After a while the underlying rubble is uncovered. This piece was filmed in the attempt to capture a very simple event, enclosed in a certain timeframe, undistracted by side activites and essential or archetypical in style. This video was the first of a few works along these lines."