Experimental - 1st edition
This work was a collaboration between Benjamin Bellas and three other artists: Reed Barrow, Justin Cooper, and Clinton King The Merger is the culmination of four works that together are entitled Middle Management. Middle Management showcases four distinct personalities..
The storytelling [in Futuristic Toys] aims to be a reprise of a certain futuristic representation, a grotesque tale of the lack of psychology in this type of dramatic scenes, and which would spark a sense of loss and amazement in the viewer, still remaining in a..
London Onion is inspired by Kurt Schwitters' text-sound poem and by my friend Jerome Rothenberg's reading of same.
The videos explore the nature of contemporary western society, juxtaposing the sights and experiences of the everyday within a single plane. I create a new superreality by collapsing the conscious and subconscious.
A day at the beach
Once when I was a child my mother took me to the beach for the first time. I have a defective eye condition since childhood that obstructs me from seeing the world with clarity. My idea for this video was to recreate the smudged and "out of focus"..
Miss you Francis is a postcard-tribute to the great Francis Bacon.
The world is everything that is the showcase.
Living in a globalized world - a case study. (loosely based on Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus logico-philosophicus, sentence no.1)
Someone standing on his head in the woods, surrounded by trees. Suddenly there are two, no three, no four (!) images of the same person standing upside down!?
Room I is a surrealistic animation of a serries of calligraphies by Ge-Suk Yeo. The video's goal was to create an antipole to the soundtrack by using just simple lines, white on black background, in extremely slow movements. All the video effects are created by..
Kiki Petratou (Greece, 1971) is an artist based in Rotterdam. She studied Fine Arts at the Athens School of Fine Art (1993-99, GR) and obtained her Masters in Art at the Piet Zwart Institute (NL) and Plymouth University (UK) (2001-04).
Somebody gets out for working. Somebody gets out for shopping. Somebody's not going to get out at all, and gets self-closed at home. A dumb mood slides besides awakening, a tiny noise suddenly frightens. Visions brought to life in the daytime. Outside and inside,..
History about oppositions in a life and the nature.
The video tells the story of the human desire to be as close to truth as possible. But who ever will succeed while living a life dominated by the fast running time and endless searching? If there is any paradise, then monks or people really resting within themselves..
All is not what it seems...
Nur ein Baum kann mich noch retten was a serious attempt to find that meaningful application of the image. The title refers to that. Inspired by pre-cubistic work of George Braque I hoped filming trees could possibly show me a valuable content. But it left me with..
My video explores time in temporal human experience, and how it affects our perceptions and feelings. Through images of mundane everyday events such as walking through a..
A strong cosmic connection exists between Japanese writing and transcendental meditation. A connection that traces the bonds between…
Infinte Trajectory is an audiovisual essay about living spaces, spaces of transit and information, globalization, visibility and presence, inspired by a text of the French Philosopher Jean Baudrillard. The video interweaves elements of different genres: documentary,..
CALIFORNIA:EXCURSIONS explores the relationships between synthetic materials and the natural landscape, focusing on how everyday objects and materials can interact with their surroundings to create tension, pleasure, suspense, and an altered space.
A digital object is animated, as an effect of organizing, tuning or intentionally covering a sonorous or graphic space. this object, with no precise meaning, is named krestanatz. each krestanatz is linked to another krestanatz in order to create a broken film.
Be open minded. Don’t pin your self to an ideology or you miss out.
In a film that captures Wall Street at a point between deconstruction (the shrouded Deutsche Bank) reconstruction (7 World Trade Center) and destruction (the absent Trade Towers), the phrases "I will always wait" and "It will never be" make possible a lamentation for..
Where do you think of when you say delicious? What is delicious differs per persons. What I think is delicious doesn't necessarily means that you like it as well. These people got the assignment to look into the camera for five seconds and to think of something..
Pangaea arises from a reflection on physical forces, machines and corporeality and Bateson's notion of seeking the patterns that connect Technical Statement: The animation for Pangaea was created on my home computer using consumer software and the sound was..
A boy living on the remote Caribbean island of Colon, Panama. He built (copied from pictures) hundreds of airplanes out of just paper. To escape from daily life he flies ‘off’ the island, to all destinations... Up to that moment he never really flew in a real..
De film vervolgt met een dag uit het leven van bewoners in Bahia, in het noord oosten van Brazilie.
An alien invasion strikes Amsterdam!
Tyrants from Afar is a homage to science fiction films of the past in the shape of a dramatic filmtrailer, the Dutch way.
Bouquet Final is an experiment on harmony, based on Igor Stravinsky’s Fantasy for Orchestra, entitled Fireworks (1908) . In this video, twenty members of an orchestra were recorded separately in their own homes, each playing their part of the score at their own..
Reel is a digital video about film and its obsolescence as a representational technology.
I like to work quickly on suddenly apprehended ideas, and often use video as a parallel activity to drawing. Many of my shorter video pieces have a lot in common with..
Cycle is a raw reflection of the Cycles we go through in life. It is meant to be projected or screened in a public space, and create different reactions to it's audience which will be directly linked to the environment in which they are viewing it.
What happens if a dead body lies around in the kitchen for a few weeks?
Animated color bars and the sound of horses. An ode to a logical collapse...
In Alku_E pictures reacts to sounds, making different compositions. 80Juan80 uses his own method to create movement and compositions.
