In this centennial tribute to the Brooklyn Bridge, the artist combines computer and analog processed visuals with an interconnected meld of the sounds of the bridge with clarinet and synthesized music. Elements of light and heavy materials contrast in both the visual and sonic tracks, greatly enhancing the grace of this piece.
Political hyperbole and media rhetoric are the focus of This is the Truth, in which Hall confronts the calculated platitudes and contrived gestures that signify "truth" in a media-saturated society. In a characterization that is part dictator and part preacher, Hall, flanked by emblematic red banners, recites a litany of clichés: "Mind your superiors... Obey the laws... Leave politics to the politicians..." The monotonous repetition of these aphorisms imbues them with a sinister, Orwellian ambiguity. Through theatricality and spectacle, this work continues Hall's investigation of the manipulation of images and language as signs of power.
‘Bob & Jill’ forms a collage of several, seemingly separate, narrative strands: naturalistic interviews with art students reflecting on the reception of their work; a faux interview with the artist acting the part of a successful businessman; scenes of a man making breakfast; and a text about a bourgeois couple whose complex problems are conveniently solved.
Aubrey Beardsley, the influential 1890s illustrator who died at the age of 25, returns to life in the late 20th century.
After The Indian Spielberg, Joëlle and Catherine meet up at the top of « L’Aiguille du Midi ». They take a series of photos. Six months later, in Lille, one of these pictures is thrown at the ground and shot randomly as Joëlle is walking by. These pictures, shot again frame by frame, generate the film : with a repetitive music background, we can see glimpses of storytelling, a story that is setting up, with constant feedback of « L’Aiguille du Midi ».
Dégringolade (TUMBLE) - was produced in the pixilation technique. This process allows alive characters and real objects to achieve absolutely unrealizable movements in reality. Everything becomes possible with the stop motion technique. This film shows an imaginary and frenetic world where it slides, runs, falls, flies, jumps, fidgets, leaps, rolls, bolts, and boozes; it is a wild weird world.
At fifty, Helle and Louis thought they were done with the couple when they met. When this great love suddenly comes to threaten everything. They are afraid of this new happiness, that of being together.
A poetic picture story of everyday life in Berlin, supplemented, contrasted and broken up by text quotes from Christa Wolf and Bertolt Brecht.
A documentary film about a "village of huts" that was erected in a section of forest near Frankfurt am Main in 1980 to demonstrate against the planned construction of Runway West. It was built by a large number of Frankfurt citizens together with various citizens' movements.
Spring tides at Ynys Llanddwyn at the full and new moon are compared to the filmmaker’s own ‘body tides’ from dark to light and back again. Like other films by Judith Noble (formerly Higginbottom), The Red Sea is concerned with the menstrual cycle, and its relationship to lunar cycle. Higginbottom and other feminist artists such as Catherine Elwes, Carolee Schneemann and Judy Clark were trying to reclaim menstruation from its negative image and assert it as a source of creative energy. The Red Sea is made of 16mm film and 35mm still images, re-worked and over-printed.
A short video art piece done in a single shot, depicting a large felt curtain being mechanically raised to reveal a gymnasium. As the curtain is raised, another on the opposite side of the room is dropped.
A video art film which shows various arrangements of wooden planks into precarious, non-functional arrangements. The artist then attempts to disrupt the arrangements into toppling and, through repeat editing, emphasizes the acoustic quality of the wood pieces collapsing.
Beautiful washerwoman Tinette manages to get the upper hand time and again with cunning, leading the covetous men around by the nose in order to finally catch the dyer Taschereau and become the respectable Madame Taschereau.
A school bus driver explains to an interested elementary student the different ways to evacuate a school bus.
Mysteries is a photomontage film, shot at Penmon, Anglesey and Whiteknights Farm, Hampshire. Beginning with a quotation from a dream, it becomes the filmmaker's interpretation of the harvest and the old mystic theme of the Mysteries: “The women are celebrating the Mysteries on the beach at Penmon... No-one is watching... The sound of the general waves crashing against the bank of pebbles; the sound of the barley waving... Someone holds out her hand, holds it open against the sea. Perhaps it is my hand, the hand holds three ears of barley...”.
Features master painters Hughie Lee-Smith and Jacob Lawrence. In addition to visual sequences of the artist's work, the program includes an inside look at a class taught by Lee-Smith at New York's prestigious Art Students League; both artists working in their studios; a trip by ferry to an island in Puget Sound where Lawrence works on a commissioned mural; and an animation of the illustrations from Lawrence's children's book "Harriet and the Promised Land". From the collection of the Black Resource Center at the County of Los Angeles Public Library. https://archive.org/details/portraitoftwoartistscompton
Inspired by Steve Reich’s music, a cube rotates with the same dimensions as the film frame.
A grandfather and granddaughter with their fairy-tale theater travel to an enchanted city to make its inhabitants laugh and free them from witchcraft. Baba Yaga and her assistants try in every possible way to prevent this, but having failed, they join the fairy-tale theater.
