Liz Wendelbo Work from (primarily) Optiks. “Her filmmaking predicates resistance to cinema as a virtual medium – this resistance in film is what she refers to as Cold Cinema. It is a sentiment and a philosophy which places the artist in a position of resistance, akin to a soldier in a bunker, or Plato’s imaginary [...]
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Eric White
Friday, 29 October 2010
Eric White Work from Morphology. “…new way of looking at landscape. That new way involves looking at photographs of landscapes that do not necessarily read to the eye as photographs. Stripped of any indication that we are viewing traditional color or black-and-white photographic images, we are instead left to read visual elements whose variables might [...]
Regina de Miguel
Saturday, 23 October 2010
Regina de Miguel Work from Report (Informe). “These images propose a series of scenarios regarding symbolic constructions not purely illustrative but subject to an interpretation, in terms of its futuristic and theatrical nature allusive of a type of cinematographic and literary science fiction (La Jetée, THX 1138, Solaris, Alphaville…). Focused on an estrangement before the [...]
Hollis Frampton
Sunday, 17 October 2010
Hollis Frampton Work from his oeuvre. “Hollis Frampton was born in Ohio, United States, on March 11, 1936, towards the end of the Machine Age. Educated (that is, programmed: taught table manners, the use of the semicolon, and so forth) in Ohio and Massachusetts. The process resulted in satisfaction for no one. Studied (sat around [...]
Gary Beydler
Tuesday, 28 September 2010
Gary Beydler Work from Hand Held Day. “”Beydler’s magical Hand Held Day is his most unabashedly beautiful film, but it’s no less complex than his other works. The filming approach is simple, yet incredibly rich with possibilities, as Beydler collapses the time and space of a full day in the Arizona desert via time-lapse photography [...]
Adam Sajkowski
Saturday, 21 August 2010
Adam Sajkowski Work from Les 400 Clicks. To really appreciate this work, you must visit the website. “Les 400 Clicks is a multimedia project referencing Francois Truffaut’s 1959 French New Wave classic, Les 400 Coups (The 400 Blows). The original film has been reduced to 400 still frames taken arbitrarily from throughout the entire film, which [...]
Richard Mosse
Tuesday, 27 July 2010
Richard Mosse Work from Quick. “…His work from Eastern Congo, a part of the world largely overlooked by mainstream media, is no exception. Mosse used Aerochrome, an obsolete technology, to create an alternative image of the complex social and political dynamics of the country. The film, designed in connection with the United States military during [...]
Keith Telfeyan
Friday, 30 April 2010
Keith Telfeyan Work from his oeuvre. “I believe in the freedom of things, and the energy that moves around and through the world like wind. I create as an act of expression, to assert my pulse, to live. The things I create enter the world as transformed energy, and exist freely. I make pictures that [...]
Tom Smith
Friday, 22 January 2010
Tom Smith Work from CocoaGL film stills. “CocoaGL is a bespoke computer program designed to break down a film into its constituent frames. If a short film is made up of 100 frames, CocoaGL will split the screen into 100 vertical/horizontal lines or 100 concentric squares. As the film plays the 1st 100th of the [...]
Sara Angelucci
Thursday, 31 December 2009
Sara Angelucci Work from Regular 8. “For the past ten years, my practice has encompassed photography and video, examining vernacular archival materials, including snapshots and home movies. Investigating the relationship between the still and moving image, my work has considered the limits of indexical media to translate lived experience, underlining the fragmented, ephemeral nature of [...]
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