Category Archives: documentary arts

KMA – ‘Flock’ in Liverpool

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‘Flock’ in Liverpool (2008, 152MB, 2:44 min)

How many times do you read artists’ descriptions of their own work
and think ‘naaaaa…’ totally failing to recognise their stated ambitions
in what appears to you to be, at best, somewhat pedestrian and at
worst, a total disconnect from what they write.
This is the complete opposite of that, utterly living up to the makers’
stated intentions, and an absolute spine tingler to watch even through
the distance of video documentation.
Check out the KMA site for a complete description of the piece,
an ‘interactive light installation’ based around Swan Lake,
but not until you’ve watched this beautiful bit of documentary.
Particularly touching is the genuine joy in participation it evokes.

Very hard to pull off and very moving to see.

Omer Fast – The Casting

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Omer Fast – The Casting (2008, 38 MB, 3:29 min)

Omer Fast, discusses his 2008 Whitney Biennial work, The Casting (2007),
a four-channel video featuring a young American army sergeant who recounts
two stories

Array – United Visual Artists

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Array (2008, 13MB, 2 min.)

“Array is a field of columns set in the courtyard of the Chuya Nakahara
Memorial Museum in Southern Japan. The columns create a field of
light and sound which gently shifts in response to the viewers

Tony Oursler – Studio: 7 Months of My Aesthetic Education (Plus Some)

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7 Months of My Aesthetic Education (2005, 14 MB, 1:45 min.)

Speed up documentation from Tony Oursler‘s installation, “Studio: Seven Months of My
Aesthetic Education (Plus Some)” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2005.
It combined video, sound, music and poetry to create environments that truly reflect the dissolving
boundaries of twenty-first-century culture. The work is inspired by Courbet

Omer Golan – Non-Linear Creation

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Non-Linear Creation (2010, 58 MB, 3:16 min.)

Installation at ‘Fresh Paint 3‘ in Old Jaffa Port, Israel. the project is based on a live
camera input where the video camera is mounted above a the projection screen.
“The thought behind “Non-Linear Creation” is to think about video as some sort
of a “streaming deck of cards” which I shuffled again and again in real time using
Cycling74’s Max. I collected in a memory buffer the latest 60 cards/video frames,
shuffled them and played the outcome in 30 frames per second. The result is a video in
which the viewer is in constant, unnatural, flickering present, as it is reflected in the video.”
By Omer Golan.

Nuit blanches 2010 Metz, France with DIEZ and paradigme

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Nuit blanches 2010 – DIEZ and paradigme (2010, 41 MB, 1:55 min.)

Collaboration of Video mapping, light and sound installation, done for
Nuit blanches 2010 Metz.
Audio Visual design by paradigme.
Scenography and video mapping by DIEZ.

Mapping Festival – Motomichi and Otto

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Mapping Festival – Motomichi and Otto (2010, 100 MB, 5:25 min.)

Mapping Festival is organized by Modul8, the most popular VJ software in the
market and the venue “Usine / le Zo” is their primary space.
Here is a great collaboration at the event. Video mixing by Motomichi and
music performance by Otto von Schirach.

Tony Oursler – Dispositifs at Jeu De Paume

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Dispositifs at Jeu De Paume (2005, 15 MB, 1:39 min.)

Documentation from Tony Oursler‘s retrospective exhibition ‘Dispositifs’
at the Jeu de Paume in Paris in 2005.

LCDblossom_Phospherescent Polyp – [dNASAb]

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LCDblossom_Phospherescent Polyp (2009, 8 MB, 25 sec.)

9″ LCD screen, hand-blown glass, fiber optics, plastics, resin,
enamel, acrylic, phospherescent silicon,12v led’s, custom audio/video dvd
Video sculpture by disney NASA borg.

Tony Oursler – "Spaced" at Margo Leavin Gallery

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Spaced (2006, 28 MB, 3:31 min.)

Documentation from Tony Oursler‘s exhibition at the Margo Leavin Gallery.
The works mixrs video and cialis professional physical objects, poetic texts and actual music
gleaned from the recordings of deep space by NASA.

Elodie Pong – ADN/ARN

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Trailer for ADN/ARN (2003, 8 MB, 4:04 min.)

“ADN/ARN was an interactive installation addressed to one person at the time,
filmed with 8 surveillance cameras, in which each visitor was invited to confide
and then contractually sell a personal secret. The initial system took place in
Lausanne at the Centre d’Arts sc

Tony Oursler – “Bell Deep” from “Fairy Tales Forever”

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Bell Deep (2005, 3 MB, 22 sec.)

Excerpt from Tony Oursler work from the group exhibition – “Fairy Tales Forever”
at the Aarhus Kunstmuseum museum in Denmark in 2005.
The exhibition was a tribute to Hans Christian Andersen
on the occasion of his 200th birthday.

Elodie Pong

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Secret 050 (2007, 2 MB, 1:03 min.)

And one more.
See original post for details.

“Double Fantasy” by Jennifer and Kevin McCoy

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Double Fantasy (2006, 3 MB, 1:27 min.)

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Double Fantasy (2006, 4 MB, 2 min.)

“Installation view and detail images of Double Fantasy 3 (Career) which was shown at the Armory Show in New York, March 2006. Each side of the sculpture has a model of a childhood career fantasy for each of us. Cameras project large scale images of it onto the wall, accompanied by a soundtrack.”
by Jennifer and Kevin McCoy.

Marina Abramovic & Ulay: Relation Work (1976 – 1979)

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Relation in Space (1976, 2 MB, 26 sec.)

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Expansion in Space (1977, 5 MB, 1:18 min.)

In “Relation in Space” (1976) Marina Abramovic & Ulay ran around the room – two
bodies repeatedly move past each other. They collide at great speed like two planets,
mixing male and female energy into a third component called

Julianne Swartz – Installations

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Deep Storage (2002, 10 MB, 2:03 min.)

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Transfer (2001, 7 MB, 1:28 min.)

A couple of documentaries of site specific installations by
“boundlessness” artist – Julianne Swartz.

Elodie Pong – Secrets For Sale (048)

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Secret 048 (2007, 27 MB, 10:57 min.)

And another…
See original post for details.

Tony Oursler – EVOL 1984

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EVOL (1984, 25 MB, 2:36 min.)

“Tony Oursler is known for his fractured-narrative handmade video tapes including
The Loner, 1980 and EVOL 1984. These works involve elaborate sound tracks,
painted sets, stop-action animation and optical special effects created by the artist.
The early videotapes have been exhibited extensively in alternative spaces and museums..
His early installation works are immersive dark-room environments with video, sound,
and language mixed with colorful constructed sculptural elements. In these projects,
Oursler experimented with methods of removing the moving image from the video monitor
using reflections in water, mirrors, glass and other devices..” – from wikipedia

“Eternal Return” by Jennifer and Kevin McCoy

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Eternal Return (2006, 4 MB, 1:54 min.)

“Eternal Return” installed at the exhibition Stop Motion at the Edith Russ Haus,
is a remake of a scene from the musical movie The Gay Divorcee.
The piece was reworked to allow a large video projection for the exhibition.”
by – Jennifer and Kevin McCoy.

Elodie Pong

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Secret 044 (2007, 10 MB, 4:27 min.)

Another secret.
See original post for details.

Suzon Fuks – RINGS from #1 to #6

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RINGS from #1 to #6 (2009, 24 MB, 6:35 min.)

An ongoing series (now numbering six) of one-minute unedited shots which
can each stands alone. Improvised choreography multi-reprojected on body parts,
with James Cunningham, Helen Varley Jamieson, Scotia Monkivitch and Suzon Fuks.
Text by Fernand Shirren.

By Suzon Fuks.

Elodie Pong

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Secret 040 (2006, 3 MB, 1:16 min.)

Secret from “Secrets For Sale”, a film which reveals the radical
ADN/ARN experience, an interactive installation addressed to one
person at the time, in which each visitor was invited to confide and
then contractually sell a personal secret.
Project by Elodie Pong.

The Possible Ties Between Illness and Success – Carlo Zanni

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The Possible Ties (2006-07, 119 MB, 2:15 min.)

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“Dream Sequence” by Jennifer and Kevin McCoy

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Dream Sequence (2006, 5 MB, 2:31 min.)

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Dream Sequence (2006, 7 MB, 3:20 min.)

“Installation view and detail images of Dream Sequence from the solo exhibition
‘Directed Dreaming’ at Postmasters, New York, March 2006.
Two parallel discs feature images from dreams that rotate slowly while the camera
remains fixed. Our sleeping selves are superimposed by way of a mirror, and the
resulting dream sequences are projected onto the wall.”

by – Jennifer and Kevin McCoy.

Sans Verre – Brad Tinmouth and Kaitlin Till-Landry

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Sans Verre (2008, 7.3 MB, 1 min)

A documentation of a performance made with Lili Huston-Herterich.
By Brad Tinmouth and Kaitlin Till-Landry.

Dan Graham – Beyond

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Dan Graham – Beyond (2009, 40 MB, 3:02 min)

Narrated by Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz and Curator Chrissie Iles, artist
Dan Graham discusses Heart Pavilion (1991), Public Space,
Two Audiences (1976), and Opposing Mirror and Video Monitors (1974).
All were on view in Dan Graham: Beyond at the Whitney Museum in 2009.

Produced by the Whitney Museum.

Lynda Benglis – Contraband

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Lynda Benglis – Contraband (2008, 26 MB, 2:20 min)

Artist Lynda Benglis discusses the process of creating Contraband
by pigmenting rubber latex and pouring it on the floor of her studio.
First recognized for

Omar Souleyman – Music Video for ‘Leh Jani’

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Leh-Jani (2007?, 10 MB, 3:22 min)

Omar Souleyman being the performer not the video maker,
whose name unfortunately I can’t find.
[STOP PRESS: Mark Gergis has got in touch to say he made the video.
Googling him has unravelled an interesting trail of audio & video work
which we hope to follow further in future]
Anyway the wonderful video ( & it is wonderful -even the cheesy ‘boxy’
effect which is used once & in exactly the right place –
& edit & pacing are pretty much perfect)
serves performer -what a voice!- & song admirably…couple of minutes
of sheer cool & utter exhilaration somehow
paradoxically delivered in the same package.
This is fast shaping up to be my favourite ever music vid,
and the album from Sublime Frequencies (they say they’re sold
out, but a little searching secured me a copy elsewhere) is as good
as this promises.
More to be found on Y**T***.

Studio Banana TV Interviews Pablo Valbuena

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Interview with Pablo Valbuena (2009, 43 MB, 3:46 min)

Studio Banana TV interviews visual artist and architect Pablo Valbuena.
After working in digital media designing virtual architectures for videogames,
he currently looks for new ways of using light to introduce the dimensions of
time and movement in urban spaces, altering the perception of physical space
through projected virtual realities.

Stan Douglas – Win, Place or Show

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Win, Place or Show (clip) (1998, 1.6 MB, 47 sec.)

Two men are having a discussion in a small apartment. The scene,
lasting only six minutes, is filmed from twenty camera positions.
A computer program then produces some 200,000 possible combinations
of images and sounds, so the viewer always sees a different version of the story.
Win, Place or Show questions our conditioned viewing behaviour.
video installation by Stan Douglas.
from ZKM Videosammlung.