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Matt's Gallery's first exhibition of 2019, Hail the new Etruscan #2 marks a new direction in Oona Grimes' practice as she presents, for the first time, a series of film works. In 2018 Grimes spent 8 months on a fellowship at The British School at Rome. As she worked, her thoughts kept returning to Italian Cinema - from the Neorealists to late Fellini. She took walks in the early morning to enjoy the city before the crowds; gradually the walks and the films got woven together in Grimes thoughts, dreams and work. Grimes began to make video recordings, not acting she says, but 'drawing the moment.' She began to focus on particular sequences with specific relevance to time and place. Singular actions are repeated in order to be inhabited and comprehended. The resulting works are playful, humorous and touching. Grimes makes visible the language of film鈥揵oth the learning and losing of it鈥搑evelling in the omissions, the discontinuity, the patches and the bad repairs.