Blanche, As Could Be (2009) projects onto smoke a 3D video animation of Tatlin's Monument to the Third International accompanied by a soundtrack made of diverse people talking about work and its meaning today. In Touché (2008), Phillips traps two magnetized books in an 'embrace' in a metal cage. "One book hovers over the other repelled by its negative energy field." The books are Le Corbusier's The Poetics of Metaphor and Caroline Constance's Eileen Gray. In this way, Phillips dramatizes discord in the designer and the architect's relationship. Shell (2008) a half-hour film about the derelict house E.1027 built by Gray in 1927 in Cap Martin, France, suggests "an association between domestic architecture and the uncanny." Phillips was commissioned by Fashion Week London to make Marnie's Handbag (2008), a 10-minute video about film noir fashion that premiered at the Tate Modern. In 2008, the Tatton Park Biennale commissioned Phillips to make an installation titled The Walking Ferns, which consisted of a herd of robotic ferns walking in the Victorian Rose Garden. In 2003, the Images Festival awarded Phillips the Marian McMahon Award for her curatorial project Do The Wrong Thing, featuring the work of Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Miranda July, Aïda Ruilova and Rita Myers among others. Early history As an artist working in film, video and performance in the 1980s, Phillips and Geoffrey Shea directed the video Work (1989), which features a soundtrack by Fifth Column and American writer Paul Bowles. In 1984, Phillips founded United Media Arts Studies with Geoffrey Shea, Christian Morrison, Ed Lam and Dimitrije Martinovic. UMAS published the first video essay VHS magazine called Diderot. The film Lockjaw (1992), a deconstruction of psychoanalytic theory, is available in university libraries across Canada. In the 1990s Phillips worked in theatre writing and directing the experimental performance installations Under the Influence at the Factory Theatre Lab (1992) and Controlling Interest (1995) at the Theatre Passe Muraille. Phillips shared a Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best Female Performance with Tracy Wright, Nadia Ross, Ali Riley, Valerie Buhagiar, Caroline Gillis and Maria Vacratsis for their work in the Lorca Play, directed by Daniel MacIvor and Daniel Brooks for the Festival of the Americas. Selected publications Les Lendermains d'hier, Lesley Johnstone, Musee d'art contemporain de Montreal(2010) Practical Dreamers, Conversations with Movie Artists (2007) Explorations Narratives (2007) Catalogue de l'exposition Lisa Klapstock Paulette Phillips (2007) Repatriating the Ark (2006) Rezonancia-Resonance Electromagnetic Bodies (2005) Caught