Ottica TV - October

'Anastrophic Monday'
Ever had one of those days when everything goes right?
No matter how hard you try, events conspire to deposit you in the lap on the Gods. All your efforts to elicit sympathy from friends and relatives fall on stony ground and those tears just will not flow.
Well this is the day and this day is a Monday. You do not need to go to work as money will fall from a golden sky. Far more productive to ship the oars and float downstream on your newly found cushion of good fortune. Enjoy.
On every side we are beleaguered with portents of catastrophe and worse...it is all our fault! Not any more. By your action in viewing these movies everything will come right and be truely anastrophic.
Augury, extispicy, spontaneous divination, omens, sortilege, expensive consultant fees,...and the like, are consigned to the dustbin of history as, quite simply, things just cannot go wrong.

Ottica TV was set up in 2008 as a platform for contemporary art based movie content. It is an offshoot of A2 Arts, a South East London independant artist group that has been engaged in international artist exchanges on the internet since 1996

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Chimney (9:10, 2008) - Alexander Bates

Alexander Bates is inspired by the human desire to create order out of disorder. His practice can be seen as both a reflection of this need and also through the use of scale, materials and context in individual pieces, a way of undermining and rebelling against this..

Chat (6:59, 2006) - Alexandra Dementieva

Chat explores the condition where the borders between the real and imaginary lose their reason to exist. By its very nature digital technology offers the ideal entrance point to the in-between state. Film hero finds herself more and more surrounded by sound landscape..

Opposite (3:22, 2008) - Alma Tischler Wood

Originally an eight hour long film material shot after a long day of working on an abstract painting during a residency at the CAC in Manchester. It is an observational piece filming a busy street late at night until early hours of the day from inside across the..

AM Variations (1:00, 2009) - Debra Fear

As a consequence of her digital audiovisual sketches –‘AM Variations’ is a playful piece using speech inversion as its jump-off point, manipulating two text phrases: ‘let me in’ and ‘be in I’. Interwoven into sentences that start with ‘Mondays’-..

Selfportrait (1:04, 2008) - Gianluca Ferrari

One of the most interesting things about this artistic research is the continual discernment between the work and space that surrounds it. This discernment allows it to obtain a powerful and effective reaction from the viewers. In fact, the viewer is not a passive..

Haus (5:59, 2003) - Jonathan Gildersleeves

A film taken from an image, text and audio based installation. The film, which features a piglet exploring the interior of an abandoned warehouse, is one of three shown as part of an audiovisual installation that took place inside a shipping unit. The work explores..

RQV2 (2:38, 2007) - Jonathan Moss

A place between the Mediterranean and the mountains, just a few miles from Perpignan, on the edge of a motorway. A place left to remind us of the Holocaust. From this camp in Rivesaltes thousands were sent to Auschwitz and on this land thousands were abandoned to die...

Stripping whilst avoiding detection by a security light (10:06, 2007) - Kianoosh Motallebi

Fundamentally my work deals with how man can obtain knowledge and gain experience from his environment. Within my practice this ‘environment’ is interpreted in broad and flexible terms resulting in explorations in my surroundings through video work; or as I tap..

Streetgumming (4:31, 2008) - Léopoldine Roux

With Pink Fountains, the big sweating colours, painting with birds, paintings for the sky... Léopoldine Roux is acting like Alice in Wonderland, colours are sweating from her actions. Streetgumming is the encounter between the film maker Thomas Gillon and the..

A Little Night Music (11:38, 2008) - Marianna and Daniel O’Reilly

A Little Night Music

Frontier (4:33, 2009) - Marlena Novak and Jay Alan Yim

In keeping with the intrinsically unstable nature of ‘uncharted terrain’, Frontier maintains an atmosphere where the viewer is left to ask where and when this uninhabited space is situated. Fractured space and time gives way to the diastrophic restructuring of..

Soundings, Pett Level, Sussex (3:00, 9) - Nicola Rae

During this acoustic experiment microphones were placed against a breakwater at Pett Level, as the waves were crashing against this wood structure. The microphones were buried under layers of stones, which allowed the sound vibrations of the waves to travel along the..

The Way I See It (3:54, 2008) - Olga Koroleva

The Way I See It as shown here is a fragment of a three-part piece. Like a lot of Olga’s work it plays with the idea of what a work of art is and isn’t. The viewer is invited to wonder about the technical construction of the work as well as the details of..

Aphrodite Urania (9:59, 2008) - Paul Malone

A cosmological conceit re-visiting Venus, Velikovsky and planetary orbits. Encompassing a journey to explore that planet as a metaphorical waterworld and anastrophic imperative. As in life there is no return ticket, just transcendence....in this case through the agency..

Empathy with Trees (3:19, 2008) - Seraphina Samet

‘Empathy with Trees’ is a commentary on the filmmaker’s experience of school, and being a tree in the school play: “Ive always thought Id be a natural on stage- even though I never got given a good part at school. Its true, when it came to auditions, Id..

The Write Stuff (5:15, 2009) - Tom Sands

Louis Ludlum is a frustrated writer. After destroying his work in a rage, he realises that he cannot write anything new. It is only when he journeys inwards that he can see any possibility of inspiration.

You and Me (0:23, 2009) - Tom Walker

My video works reference the Youtube generations desire for short, fast, pithy entertainment. They endeavor to undermine the quick-fix notion of such video works with an initially humorous but ultimately sinister take on the day-to-day routines of fatherhood and family..