An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Sussex

Inspired by Georges Perec's experiment in pure observation, a Super 8 camera records everything that passes through a single place in Sussex until the place itself becomes a character.

A charming, quietly absurd Super 8 study of ordinary English life that makes you see the everyday anew.

London-based director Jessica Bishopp’s latest film drew inspiration from French avant-garde writer Georges Perec’s experimental novel, An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris (1975). Perec, who was a member of the not

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