Joer 1997 - 367

A man promises his girlfriend that he will be with her on her birthday which is two days later. Later in that evening while stopping for some drink at a bar, he gets kidnapped by mistake because he resembles to a millionaire’s son.

Pseudo-hyper-stereoscopic view of one tree over three years. Shimmering life in flexible time, an antenna alert to whose vibrations?

Variations on a theme from "Darwin in the Galapagos." A challenge to pre-attentive visual processing! An alchemical reflux!

Suspension is an early piece from 1997, my first solo video work investigating media imagery. 100 still images of various models and celebrities taken from magazines were videotaped at fixed intervals. This material was then distorted and broken down through a process of recording and re-recording, gradually corrupting the analog signal and causing the images to become interwoven and unstable. With an original score improvised in real time by Jason Kleidosty during the final pass of image processing.

Edinburgh’s Beltane fire festival is the spectacular recreation of a pagan celebration. Crowds of thousands watch the procession around Calton Hill, in the heart of the city, held annually on the eve of May Day. I didn’t get enough material at the first attempt so I went back the following year when I was more competent with the camera and less shy. It is a simplified, partial record of the event, squeezed into a 6 minute impression. This reworking echoes the reimagination of the ancient ritual. The film is a reconstruction of a reconstruction.

Graduate film by Takeshi Murata.

Folded projection (projection on a flat surface) or unfolded (concave / convex surface). This film is projected normally on a screen inflated by the wind. The viewer can move to either side of the concave / convex screen. When we perceive two images, the mind creates relationships of one to the other. This film plays on this ability of the gaze to build links between elements placed side by side. Filmic elements accumulated for some time took shape, gradually by juxtaposition. Material: two 16mm projectors - curved screen five meters long.

After restoring their Ceremony of Ancestral Spirits, the Atayal people of the Raisinay Village, Miaoli County, were distressed by the absence of their traditional garments. Yuma Taru, a researcher of Atayal folk costume, decided to trace back their history by conducting interviews with the elders, learning weaving techniques from them. This documentary captures the passing down of the weaving art, and the younger generation’s yearnings for revival of their traditional clothes.

The film is a documentary about Angola. It tells of the heavy cost of war to women. After ten years of struggle for independence, the war in Angola had continued for another twenty years. The film explores the motives of the combatants, including Cuba and South Africa's apartheid government. In this film, Folly lets women tell their own stories. She shows the women from mid- or close-range, forcing the viewer to focus on their faces rather than their bodies or surroundings, and takes the time to let them say what they have to say, giving a unique women's perspective of the conflict. Folly participates in the film through her voice-over, giving a subjective element. She admits that she is not familiar with Angola, and certainly is not an authority. The film thus becomes a record of Folly's own journey of discovery.

Recorded live in Melbourne, Australia, at the National Tennis Centre in November 1989, this concert film captures the Bee Gees’ “One for All World Tour,” celebrating their eighteenth studio album One. This fully restored, newly mixed and mastered show features the Gibb brothers performing tracks from as far back as their 1966 breakthrough hit “Spicks and Specks” as well as their classic seventies and eighties songs.

Based on a poem by R.M. Vaughan about the torture and murder of a Somalian teenager by members of the Canadian Airborne Regiment, this haunting work examines individual responsibility versus systemic corruption and the homophobic and racist elements central to the military enterprise.

SHUICHI INOHANA CONTEMPORARY ARTIST/Newly over exposed vail of sprit Ohmurasaki Butterfly

Multimedia artist Jiang Zhi's second video art film. It's been confirmed by Jiang Zhi to be a lost film.

"Frye's Meeting With Khrushchev is not an easy film to like, but repeated viewings reveal a work of immense weight, a moving combination of intense nostalgia and thoughtful meditation on the impossibility of ever completely understanding history [...] The longest 25 minutes of my life." -Edward Smith

Hollywood - Live At Whisky a Go Go (07.11.1997)

Performances recorded as part of the American Dance Festival, at the Pilobolus Dance Theatre. Interviewees: Charles Reinhart, Stephanie Reinhart, Alison Chase, Michael Tracy.