MIŠKA MANDIĆ
’RESIDUE’
PREMIERING AT VERGE: 26 MAY – 6 JUNE, 2025
SCREENING ONLINE: 10 JUNE – 10 SEPTEMBER, 2025

Screening and artist Q&A: Thursday 29 May, 6pm

Miška Mandić, Residue, 2024, video still. Image courtesy of the artist.

ARTIST STATEMENT

In Residue, the geological time held by all the minerals inside a mobile phone is visualised alongside the fruiting, sporing and decomposing time of fungi and soil. This is a troubled sense of stillness — the iPhone, like the lemon, like Angela, like the film crew, collide with people, animals, geological and tectonic movements, cameras, computers, ideologies, and visions of nationhood and time. Residue reconsiders what is regarded as important in the cinematic traditions of Western modernity and how in the gaps of its vision there are textures worth noticing.  

ABOUT MIŠKA MANDIĆ 

Miška Mandić is an artist, filmmaker and educator born in SFR Yugoslavia, living on Gadigal and Wangal Land. Through a cinematic and photographic practice, her works explore the interrelated relationship between cinema, colonial-capitalism and a structuring of time. Miška’s works have been shown at Firstdraft, Composite Moving Image, Pari Ari, Airspace, Sydenham International, and her video installations The Fold (2022) and Residue (2024) have been finalists in the Fisher’s Ghost award at Campbelltown Art Center. Miška Is a lecturer in screen production at UNSW. 

Screening online: 10 June – 10 September

Residue is a Verge Digital project