Carroll House video is a contemplative video work developed over months of observation from my apartment window. The façade of Carroll House—a typical 1980s London residential building—became the central subject of this visual and conceptual inquiry. Its modernist, utilitarian architecture reflects the ideologies of functionality and efficiency embedded in late-capitalist urban planning.
Originally framed by two large trees, the façade was partially hidden until one day, returning from a vacation, I discovered the trees had been severely pruned. This small intervention revealed a hauntingly exposed scene: a grey concrete matrix of repetitive corridors and doorways, animated by a quiet choreography of human motion. Residents moved in and out with efficiency, rarely interacting, in a flattened performance of contemporary life.
Carroll House video captures this spectacle of disciplined bodies operating in a space designed to suppress spontaneity. The Carroll House façade functioned like a grid—housing activity without intimacy, life without disruption. Rare moments of visual interruption came only from pigeons darting across the frame, breaking the pattern of purposeful human movement. These scenes, when edited, formed a new vocabulary of gestures, sounds, and interactions—a body-language archive of modern efficiency.
Inspired by thinkers like Baudrillard and Langdon Winner, the work draws attention to the political nature of built environments and how architecture becomes an agent of social control. Winner’s notion that “artifacts have politics” resonates strongly here: Carroll House is not a neutral backdrop but a structure that inscribes ideology onto its occupants through its very design.
The editing process became an act of meaning-making—assembling fragments into a reflection on how order, discipline, and isolation are architecturally reinforced. The viewers are invited not only to observe, but to adjust their tempo to the film’s—slowing down to meet the work on its terms, and in doing so, question the rhythm of their own daily performance

Video | 12:17 min

Video editing Dor Even Chen
Sound Daniel Meir
This work is part of my doctoral research funded by UKRI, AHRC, and SWWDTP.