Aerial Bodies2022

Earlier on this year I was asked to help Lily Ford with some background information on the roles played by women in the various

balloon barrage squadrons. She produced this interesting short video.

Aerial Bodies2022
"This film examines the moment when women operated barrage balloons during the Second World War.

Ever since I watched a Pathé newsreel passing judgement on the bodies of servicewomen on balloon sites, I have been interested in how both

the balloons and their operators were represented as strange objects.

I made it for the MK Gallery and Paul Mellon Centre conference on the painter Laura Knight, The Show was on January 202).

Thanks to historian Peter Garwood for his help." Lily Ford

Click on this link to see the video https://vimeo.com/670385908