Image Focus

Self Portrait Melissa Grey

Self Portrait is composed of one photograph presented 360 times, each iteration rotated one degree clockwise. The narration, following the tone of Proust’s questionnaire, is a series of questions without answers. Scored for two narrators, flute, harp and violin.

Mother Antti Savela

My mother loved birds. my mother had feeders of all sort throughout the yard. my mother filled the feeders threetimes a day. my mother is a bird now.

Familie coco Manuela Conti

From the dusty shelves of a flea-market, a box of old slides reappears; anonymous family images recompose in a story; an intense, sensual and crazy party from the shadows of a past Germany....

Roger 71-08 João Ricardo

"Roger 71-08" is a tribute to a late friend, responsible for bringing us (hugo olim and joão ricardo) together as the a/v duo pygar. Ironically, our friend never saw us perform live in the 7 years of our existence. This film was exhibited and performed live on the 26th of April 2008.

Study on human form and humanity #01 Lemeh Fourtytwo

This work has been first shot as a video performance on a theater stage, then it has been edited digitally. the title in fact refers to both the two phases of the work. as a recorded performance this work reflects on the human form. we have created a coreography based on the movements and positions of a sleeping body. when a body is asleep it turns around like it is attempting..

Man-made weather part 2 (lighthouse) Agnes Evon Szelag

This is the second part to a longer piece named "man - made weather". at the time i was struggling with the environmental issues of working in electronic media. i became fascinated with the juxtaposition of the human body (myself) and oil refineries. i wanted to see if it was possible to create meaning and beauty with these two completely different ideas as i transform the..

Hunter Alberto Damas Guerreiro

Trees dance with the wind and in the forest someone faces his fatal nature moments before a dramatic event occur in the woods. A short narrative visual essay focusing the dangers hided inside, among or surrounding us even in the most peaceful environments (an ode to peace). First movie of a new series of works entitled tiger stories: short tales about hunters and prey.

Confetti in Stereo Federico Acal

Confetti in stereo starts with the presentation of a scenario which is a loudspeaker, after that, and by two video channels, the scenes are introduced. the left video channel is linked to the left sound channel and the right video channel with the right sound channel. apparently, there is no argument or story behind, however there is a visual narrative, the acoustic pressure..

Oorlogswaan Emily Kocken

Een jongen ziet zijn eigen buurt veranderen in een oorlogsdecor. zijn waan wordt werkelijkheid. de film is gemaakt tijdens een project "spertijd" waarin de kunstenaar met buurtbewoners een vorm van spertijd instelde en op artistieke patrouille ging. feit en fictie mengde de filmmaker, in overleg met de buurtbewoners die als acteur meespeelden.

Les jeux d’enfants Muriel Montini

Children are playing with water. A study in behaviour.

Wings & Things Lisa Hutton

The video submitted here is from the series, "actions (after lewitt, baldessari, and kaprow)." inspired by the conceptual activities of these artists, this project considers the manner in which artistic labor can be integrated across two public environments--one in cyberspace and one in mission beach. the sentence by lewitt that informs this video is: "once the idea of the..

Hairdryer Wilfried de Agricola Cologne

The hairdryer becomes a symbol for desire.

The Understanding Siri Ekker Svendsen

"The Understanding" features an elephant being showered, chained in captivity. It reveals the ambigous relationship between the elephant and the keeper: The elephant enjoys the kind treatment, but nevertheless is placed there without her consent. I am interested in what happens when representatives of different species come together. When man and animal meet in modern..

Red Ella Emily Kocken

Moving digital painting about the feminine face captivated by the mirror. the short series of still images are repeated endlessly in a loop, emphasizing the pointlessness of the enterprize in preserving beauty. the film is part of an lonline installation, titled "(moe)". a tired woman tries to live a normal life in the isolation of her home. ( a slower version is also..

Black Ella Emily Kocken

A woman"s fight against gravity on a chair, leaving the kettle on. is part of an online installation, titeld "(moe)". a tired woman tries to live a normal life in the isolation of her home.

The Other Image Richard O’Sullivan

When we look at video, the act of perception can involve several other images apart from - and perhaps quite different to - the one we directly ‘see’ for ourselves. the other image attempts to isolate some of the different images that lead through to a moment of perception, and seeks to bring them into dramatic conflict. a tiny surveillance camera has been attached..

Smile Stuart Pound

Smile is both a noun and a verb. the noun is represented as a zoom out from what seems at first to be an abstract surface but becomes a tooth, a smile and then a smiling face. smile the verb is an invitation to the viewer to return the smile on the screen. made for the videodictionary , initiated by thevideoartfoundation.

Writing Behaviour Stuart Pound

Writing Behaviour is a poem set to images and sounds. the image foreground is made up of the lines, words and letters of the poem, floating and twisting in the light, as the incarcerated writer writes his escape.

Kissing in hats Stuart Pound

The poem "kissing in hats" is a villanelle, a verse form where the regular repetition of two key lines gives added urgency to what is being said. in the video, this effect is intensified by multiple tracking of the speaker"s voice, and a moving path scans a set of four drawings of world war two lovers, kissing in hats before the men must board their train.