In production (16mm, colour, sound)

Shot on location in Genoa, New Museum is a 16mm film based on the radical, modernist exhibition designs of Italian post-war architect Franco Albini. Albini’s desire was to literally ‘float’ art in the museum and the film focuses on Albini’s unprecedented and extraordinary hydraulic lifting and rotating support for Giovanni Pisano’s 'Fragment from the Tomb of Margaret Of Brabant' (1313). This device now looks utterly eccentric. It was in fact adapted from a ‘found’ hydraulic car hoist, and was installed in the Palazzo Bianco, Genoa, in 1951 as part of the post-war reconstruction of the museum. It was subsequently de-installed and put into storage in the early 1970s.

See also: interview with Lucy Reynolds on the LUX website.