Shot during the ‘2000 Yankees Ticker Tape Parade’, nearly one year before the catastrophic events of 9/11, Current became a prescient document of the collective fantasy of destruction that permeates much of American culture.
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To Bear
Daily observations are sewn together into a mesmerising procession of mysteries. Huybrechts evokes a special form of neurosis, with in the centre the image of… -
(tongue tongue stone) G.W. Leibnitz
In this video, the viewer follows a trail of associations: surfaces of unusual rocks, flowers and fabrics, the ringing of sonorous stones, a man who… -
Hors-champ
A measuring rod underneath a fixed camera measures the distance of several objects in space relative to the steady camera image. This action is repeated… -
Kritik an Reiner’s Vernunft
Processed television images from a contest for young Austrian accordion players. -
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Portal
Portal] unfolds a comforting space where you can drop your guard: a rhythmic, geometric space built of shapes and sounds whispering; here you are never… -
Regard de Pierre
PierreYves Cruaud: ‘Minor observations, confused and unconscious, run parallel to the perception of the whole. A sentence from Leibniz that defines my artistic trajectory.’ -
Vegetative States: An Attempt to Instill and Measure Altered
The complete title is: Vegetative States: An Attempt to Instill and Measure Altered States of Consciousness in Household Plants. And that is what the video… -
La pause
La pause deals with those rare and everyday moments that shall never return. The whole is a poem that bends under the weight of loneliness… -
Falling
A story of how a minor slip up leads to a serious situation. Nothing dangerous happens and the protagonists in the story can just carry… -
Bears
The ‘armchair film maker’, inspired by the many nature documentaries and wildlife films, explores desolate territory by means of a PC to look for the…
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2001
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2003
- Length
- 6'
- Medium/Format
- Betacam SP PAL
