Steven Ball – Direct Language

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Direct Language 2.4 (2006, 6.5 MB, 2:55 min)

Direct Language 4.5
Direct Language 4.5 (2007, 7.5 MB, 1:20 min)

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Direct Language 3.0 (2006, 1.5 MB, 52 sec, silent)

Strange fragments of worked over reality which
lodge in the unconscious like splinters.
From Steven Ball’s excellent Direct Language
project – well worth spending some time there.

More recent work from him soon.

Annie Abrahams – Squad

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Squad (2009, 32 MB, 3:18 min)

Utterly bonkers* & totally splendid video documentation of a performance
by Annie Abrahams, Colette Tron et Emmanuelle Delafraye.
Annie Abrahams performs the movements whilst the others
read texts on the subject of fear, garnered, I believe, from the internet.

* in a good way; committed, unafraid, vulnerable, generous.

Grrrridwave – EXYZT and Boris Edelstein

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Grrrridwave (2006, 60 MB, 4:26 min.)

Collaborative installation between EXYZT and Boris Edelstein
of team Modul8 as part of the METAVILLA project
at the Architectural Biennale in Venice 2006.

Song of the Sandias Mtns by Derek Larson

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Song of the Sandias Mtns (2009, 50MB, 58 sec.)

“Shot in the Sandias Mountains of New Mexico, this was
inspired by the myth of the West, the loss of an era of
decadent travel, joblessness and death.”

By Derek Larson.

Brantley Jones – Dead Plants

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Dead Plants (2009, 36 MB, 1:24 min)

Another from the seemingly inexhaustible (but always pleasantly individual)
film seam at the School of Athens.
This is a lovely understated little study of ..er..dead plants, which fuses quirk,
a certain menace and a strange found beauty into something very satisfying.
Brantley Jones seems to live a double life – his website contains much more
“well made” stuff.
It will be interesting to see where he heads, eventually.

PS Also, how can you not warm to someone who lists the late great
David Foster Wallace as inspiration?

Mark Napier at [DAM]Berlin Gallery

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Venus 2.0 (2009, 8 MB, 30 sec.)

[DAM]Berlin Gallery will exhibit new software works by artist
Mark Napier from 5th of December 2009 to 27th of January 2010.

‘Text Rain’ by Camille Utterback and Romy Achituv

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Text Rain (1999, 12 MB, 2:34 min.)

‘Text Rain’ is an interactive installation in which participants
lift and play with falling letters in real time. The falling letters
form lines of a poem about bodies and language.

By Camille Utterback and Romy Achituv.

For Little Girls

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Beauty Kit (2005, 4.2MB, 2:16 min.)

This is a very dark take on advertising and cult of beauty
made by the talented video makers at Pleix.

By Mica Scalin.

Dieter Roth

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Dot (1960, 223KB, 40 sec.)

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Letter (1962, 1MB, 26 sec.)

Two films by the late Dieter Roth.

Eileen Maxson – Tonite (Reprise)

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Tonite (Reprise) (2009, 13 MB, 3:16 min)

By Eileen Maxson. Exhibited at video_dumbo 2009.