SHORT SHORTS
EAI Summer Screening
SHORT SHORTS
EAI Summer Screening
535 West 22nd Street, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10011
SHORT SHORTS
EAI Summer Screening
535 West 22nd Street, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10011
SHORT SHORTS
EAI Summer Screening
535 West 22nd Street, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10011
Works
"Prestype on clear film measuring tape, 10ft. length. No camera. At the end of every foot of film numbers appear, 1, 2, etc to 10."
"Wake up and smell the hole in the wall!" — Stuart Sherman
Europe's enchantment with American consumer culture is depicted, as well-known European architectural landmarks. The Eiffel Tower, the Acropolis, and London Bridge are reflected in the glossy surface of a 1960's Cadillac convertible, the ultimate symbol of the "golden age" of American consumerism.
A chilling cautionary tale, Amnesia is a stark and uncompromising portrayal of the escalation of xenophobic sentiment in the current neo-conservative climate of both France and the U.S.
The artist fixes a hole in a brief case, only to turn it around and reveal that it is missing one side.
"In this video the artist states that it is a public freehold work which demonstrates what could be art within his responsibility. Like Beached it was also shot in a marshy area near the sea and in sequences that are separated by dissolves. One sees five different actions that are related to...
Hill's investigations into sign system—particularly as enunciated in the form of spoken language—join with his early concerns with montage and the idea of the cut, to produce a concise performance on the nature of television.
Produced by the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Smith's short video parodies the sort of cultural and educational programming interlude that one might see on European or American public television. Smith drolly recites the bon mots of Henri Matisse, in French, and then executes Matisse's suggestions with hilarious literalism.
Using the Spectacolor Sign in Times Square, In Case of Nuclear Attack flashes ironic safety tips on what to do in the event of a nuclear attack.
These deftly edited video spots were produced by Gran Fury, an AIDS activist collective of which Kalin was a founding member. Kissing couples promote safer sex in these public service announcements, which pump the medium with a purposely propagandistic message: "Kissing Doesn't Kill: Greed and...
Writes Thornton: "I am interested in the parallels between the calculated use of the media by Hitler, his theatrical training, and the cynical deployment of the mass media in waging present day politics and warfare. The image of Hitler is always horrifying. Observing him rehearse his dramatics for the camera is chilling because we know that is what is happening today."
In his works from the late 1970s, Hill continues to construct a dialogue of sound and image, devising analogies between linguistics and electronic phenomena. In Mouthpiece, the gyrations of an electronic red mouth on a blue background affect the rolling of the image.
Produced for an Artbreak segment on MTV Network, this dynamic "thirty-second spot" presents an abbreviated history of animation according to the representation of women, from the cell imagery of Max Fleischer's Out of the Inkwell series to the contemporary digital effects of television.
In this new video work, Rosler presents a short but incisive statement. A mechanical toy figure dressed as an American soldier plays "God Bless America" on a trumpet. The camera pans down, revealing that the toy's camouflage-clad trouser leg has been rolled up to uncover a mechanism that looks uncannily like a prosthetic limb.
In this scene from Linzy's first Conversations Wit De Churen series, Ramone is rebuked at an inconvenient hour.
"Pages from Sears catalogue, single frame exp."
"Shifted From the Side is stylistically similar to To And Fro. Fro And To. And To And Fro. And Fro and To, and was probably made the same afternoon, in the back of the Leo Castelli Gallery. The object used to demonstrate five possibilities (of what could, but not necessarily should, be the work) is a pack of Lucky Strike cigarettes. As in the first tape, the camera is static. The pack is on the right side of the screen; as the work and text are spoken the pack is slid (shifted) back and forth. The hand leaves the object each time an act is completed before sliding it (from side to side) across the table." — Alice Weiner
The artist packs a suitcase, only to reveal that it has large holes cut into both sides.
Armed with a paint-filled squeeze bottle around her waist, Donegan targets the art historical myth of male creative prowess.
Times Square Show is a promotion for the controversial exhibition, held in an abandoned building near Times Square in 1980, that introduced influential work by new artists.
"An ashtray is used to demonstrate five different actions related to the work. With the camera static, the video opens with the ashtray in the center of the screen. A hand approaches it from above and slides the object up and down, then back up and back down. A voice states the work, the conditions relevant to the art. Each time an act is completed, the hand lifts off the object, making a separation from the next 'possibility.' The acts (or movements) are identical and mimic the language (e.g. to and fro?) as it is spoken." — Alice Weiner
Touch Cinema is a document of VALIE EXPORT's famous street performance, in which the public was invited to touch her inside a curtained box attached to the artist's upper torso. The work is a witty and confrontational comment on the objectification of women's bodies.
Video Created to Fix Stuck Pixels in Computer Monitors Recast (with Soundtrack and Sunset) as Video to Fix Your Stuck Mind
Michael Bell-Smith
2005, 45 sec, color, sound
In this work, Bell-Smith combines three found elements: an industrial video designed to fix stuck pixels in computer monitors, an animation of a sunset and a New Age soundtrack. In doing so Bell-Smith interrogates the purported transcendence of psychedelia and New Age techno-hippie-dom, while bringing into play the history of brainwashing videos and seizure-inducing strobe effects.
"What's so sneaky about sneakers anyway? (Walk on by!)" — Stuart Sherman
Ken Jacobs writes: "Early stereograph of dancers at rest. One leans forward to display her bosom. The stereo-camera preserves their youthful presence forever."
The first installment in the multi-part Whispering Pines series, this unsettling video introduces Cynthia, the silent, somewhat confused protagonist played by Moulton. In these wryly humorous narratives, Cynthia's interactions with her everyday world mix the mundane and the surreal. A portrait of anxiety set in a generic supermarket, this work foregrounds Moulton's concerns with how people are at once estranged from and invested in consumer goods.
The artist reconfigures a wine rack to accommodate a large jug.
"Various gestures of hand held razorblade, single frame exposures."
