Cosmetic Emergency explores the idea of beauty through a collage of live action and lyrical animations.

With the launch of Sputnik in 1957 the Soviet Union achieved an unexpected success in the space-race; it threw the West, and especially the USA, into a veritable crisis. Socialism seemed – at least at the level of science – to have made a significant advance.

In Secret Machine, the protagonist encounters an antagonist that is studying her, measuring her body and comparing her to units of space and time.

A film by British artist duo Mirza/Butler following a series of visits to Karachi, Pakistan: subjective impressions and experiences regarding the collaboration with many different local professionals as well as a critique of the complex role of international and local media as crucial ideological mediators.