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Dunye employs home movies, old film clips and her own spare visuals to sketch an oblique portrait of her older brother. The soundtrack, built around memory and anecdotes, grapples with the difficulties of portraiture while also revealing, almost as asides, pointed moments from Dunye's family...
Drawing from Paik's earliest experiments with video synthesizers, Analogue Assemblage employs current technology to create a multilayered montage that references both the old and the new. An eerie electronic score from 1969 floats over ghostly processed images; the result is a paean to the way the future was.
Ant Farm's Dirty Dishes is a freewheeling portapak time capsule that captures the collective spirit of Ant Farm's life and work in California in the early 1970s. The artists use the early portable camera as an interactive sketchbook. Writes Chip Lord: "It's an anthology of clips from the first year of living with a Portapak and it gives a fairly good representation of the way we lived in those days - collectively, loosely, improvisationally."
Antiques of Advertising
Alexander Kluge
1988, 15 min, b&w and color, sound, German with English subtitles.
Ads for defunct and foreign products are interspersed with newsreel and documentary footage. The result is a distanced view of the link between desire and commodities. For instance, footage of the Hitler youth with "S" shirts performing a swastika is overlaid with an ad for "Stabil." Products...
Anxious Automation, taped at Windsor Total Video in New York City, is set up such that two camerapeople, standing slightly apart, zoom in and out on Joan Jonas, who is lying on her back performing a series of four movements that range from slow to quick. There are six variations on the zoom...
Commissioned by ISSUE Project Room for their series of “Isolated Field Recordings” streamed online during the global COVID-19 pandemic, April was shot toward the start of quarantine conditions in the US. The video's premiere, which helped raise money for ERASE Racism, took place shortly after...
“Shot in the Peruvian convent of Santa Catalina, Arequipa analogizes the building blocks of film (frames, color and black and white stocks, negative reversal, superimpositions) to the frames of architecture (doorways, windows, walls, corridors). The confinement of the frame, the convent, changed...
In each of these four related films, the artist applies a successive layer of colored makeup (white, pink, green, and finally black) to his face and upper torso. While he masks himself literally, the title implies that in so doing he also creates himself, "makes himself up." Initially the films...
Video compiled from editing together the most random results for contemporary art related searches on Youtube & performed with live voice over @ Art In General, 2008.
