The patterns of daily routines and gestures are transformed through rhythm, choreographed movement and altered film speeds.

Performers Gaby Agis, Barnaby Stone, Des and Eileen McIntyre, Louis Thistlethwaite, Phoebe Lovett.

Camera Seamus McGarvey

Editor Tina Hetherington

MusicAleks Kolkowski and Ian Hill

Production Monsieur X Productions
Anne Beresford, MJW Productions 

Funded by Arts Council England

AwardsGrand Prix International Video Danse 1996, Fr. Best Experimental Film, Cinewomen Festival 1996, UK. First Prize, Festival  L'Etrange 1997, Paris

"In Lounge Miranda Pennell choreographs, colourises and exoticises a day in the life of the family next door…Dance film frequently uses choreography as a way of rendering banal routines and gestures as ritualising, pre-ordained and possessed of a special logic….Pennell, who choreographs as well as directs, uses different film speeds to create a work which abstracts movement – through the formalised steps of modern and Latin choreography also in the specifically filmic manipulation of movement, through pixelation and other techniques. This is the lounge imagined as a domestic space of self-expression and ritual restraint. Every dream home should have one."
Chris Darke, “The Raw and the Cooked” ICA Biennal of Independent Film and Video 1997

"Miranda Pennell (...) fuses the performative with the visual, using film as a trompe l’oeuil to baffle and charm the audience. (She) dislodges the proscenium from its usual site and plays with and within the space that opens up in its place. Ordinary movements are transformed into extraordinary gestures, dance-like, dream-like, disarranged by the addition or subtraction of elements utilised out of place or out of order. "
B. Ruby Rich “The Raw and the Cooked” ICA Biennal of Independent Film and Video 1997