El Gringo

Francis Alÿs 

2003, 4:12 min, color, sound

In El Gringo, viewers experience the discomfort of being an outsider when the camera is confronted by a pack of snarling dogs. Point Of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image is a DVD series that features eleven leading artists from different generations and cultural perspectives, who are among the most important artists working in film, video, and digital imagery today: Francis Alys, David Claerbout, Douglas Gordon, Gary Hill, Pierre Huyghe, Joan Jonas, Isaac Julien, William Kentridge, Paul McCarthy, Pipilotti Rist and Anri Sala.

Le Moment

David Claerbout

2003, 2:44 min, color, sound

Note: This work is available for purchase only as part of Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image.

Claerbout uses cinematic techniques to create a suspenseful journey through a dimly lit forest that reaches an unexpected conclusion. The DVD includes an interview with the artist...

Over My Shoulder

Douglas Gordon

2003, 13:48 min, color, sound

Note: This work is only available for purchase as part of Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image.

In Over My Shoulder, Gordon uses hand gesticulations against a white sheet to communicate both violent and sensual emotions. The DVD includes an interview by Hans-Ulrich...

Blind Spot

Gary Hill

2003, 12:27 min, color, sound

Note: This work is available for purchase only as part of Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image.

A short encounter between the artist and a man on a North African street is slowed down, forcing the viewer into an intimate relationship with the subject and the shifting emotion...

I JEDI

Pierre Huyghe

2003, 5 min, color, sound

Note: This work is only available for purchase as part of Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image.

Jediism, a movement devoted to establishing an internationally recognized faith, was born in 1977, shortly after the release of George Lucas's first Star Wars film. Huyghe's film...

Waltz

Joan Jonas 

2003, 7:03 min, color, sound

Note: This work is only available for purchase as part of Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image.

Jonas's performance piece, an homage to 18th-century French outdoor theater, incorporates mythology as well as spontaneously occurring events into the narrative. The DVD includes an...

Encore

Isaac Julien

2003, 4:38 min, color, sound

Note: This work is only available for purchase as part of Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image.

The stunning, color-saturated images that make up Julien's work refer to the African Diaspora and the quest to find roots in a New World. The DVD includes an interview by Dan...

Automatic Writing

William Kentridge

2003, 2:38 min, b&w, sound

Note: This work is available for purchase only as part of Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image.

Kentridge's hauntingly beautiful series of animated black and white drawings brings viewers into the artist's unconscious. The DVD includes an interview with the artist by Dan...

WGG Test

Paul McCarthy

2003, 5:20 min, color, sound

Note: This work is only available for purchase as part of Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image.

Depicting a sailing party gone wrong, McCarthy questions the effects that violence and mutilation, both real and simulated, have on the viewer in contemporary culture. The DVD...

I Want to See How You See (or a portrait of Cornelia Providoli)

Pipilotti Rist

2003, 4:48 min, color, sound

Note: This work is available for purchase only as part of Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image.

Rist explores the macrocosm of humanity in a video, art and music collaboration. A lyrical tale of a witch's coven is played over images of a person where each body part symbolically...

Time After Time

Anri Sala

2003, 5:22 min, color, sound

Note: This work is available for purchase only as part of Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image.

Literally depicting Point of View, Sala stimulates the viewers' senses of sight and sound by forcing them to concentrate on a single puzzling image until it is revealed in a...