Michael Mazière is an artist and filmmaker living in London. He has lectured and exhibited his film/video works worldwide, commissioned and curated artists' work and published critical writings for major arts publications. Recently, he was artist in residence at BANFF, Canada and Research Fellow at Central St Martins School of Art and Design. He is currently Gallery Curator and Researcher at the University of Westminster, London. His films and videos have been shown internationally at major festivals, film venues, galleries and on broadcast television. He has shown work at the Tate, London and MOMA, New York, and his films are the collections of the Musee National d’Art Moderne, Paris, the Museum of Modern Art of Japan and the National Collection of Australia. He has completed an anthology of writing on artists film and video for Wallflower Press, London. His last solo show 'Delirium' toured the UK through the Arts Council National Touring Programme.

The figure of the assassin dominates contemporary media and cultural history. Assassin explores the seductive spectacle of crime as manifested in cinema through the subjective depiction of the archetypal character of the assassin. Assassin takes as it starting point the plotting of a murder of a couple in love. Using a mosaic of film fragments - clips, music, subtitles, dialogue from French cinema - Assassin creates a new text in which the binding effects of narrative have been dissolved. Part picture puzzle, part fragmented image-sequence the film operates as a form of inner speech, often disconnected and incomplete. By reworking the image and dialogue of these cinematic meta-narratives Assassin restores a singularity to notions of collective memory.