This work tries to explore how influential film and other forms of mass media are in shaping our collective understanding of history. In the same way things like textbooks, news clippings and memory represent what we believe to be historical truth, films also inform us with their own interpretation of history.

The drawings in this series are based on still shots taken from the 2006 film The Queen, depicting the series of events that lead to Lady Diana’s death. Although the images appear to be taken from file footage of the actual event, the booklet presented in front of the drawings presents a series of information about the personal life and career of Laurence Burg, the actress who played Diana in the film. There is then a distrust that occurs between the viewers and the images, as well as a potential distrust of the assumed truth of historical representation and filmic conventions.