Old Men Trilogy
Glasgow-based artists John Beagles & Graham Ramsay use the content of TV comedy shows, pop music lyrics, and junk food marketing ploys as ‘fodder’ for their work in video, text, installation and performance. With a
refreshing combination of wry humor and serious commentary that follows in the footsteps of ‘duos’ such as British 1960s/70s TV comedians Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise, Beagles and Ramsay present a highly idiosyncratic view of the world. In You Got the Look, two old men present what the
artists call ‘bleak geriatric monologues of lost desire” through a painfully dead-pan recital of lyrics that were meant to be sexy. Burgerheaven, in comparison, presents a commentary on mass consumer culture through a combination of video and performance, in its almost ludicrous ‘replication’ of a fast food restaurant.
Also in this combined programme
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Blame
One of the first presentations of this new work by artist David Krippendorf, who explores the connection between glamour and power, eroticism and political ideology.… -
A PLace to Live
Jonathan Calm combines video, animation, sound, sculpture and drawing to create his own narratives around the architectural and psychological spaces of New York. Reflecting the… -
Light Park #1
Masakatsu’s mesmeric Light Park #1 and #2 derive as much from his interest in the medium of video as in that of music, for which… -
Oh Mein Papa
Zilla Leutenegger references the aesthetics of video games and animation, creating often slow-moving, other-worldly ‘narratives’ such as Oh Mein Papa and Peak. Evoking the power… -
The Oral Thing
Drawing on the often inane and repetitive nature of daytime television, Melhus creates complex, almost surreal scenarios that parody the formats of TV religious programs,…
Film details
- Country of production
- United Kingdom
- Year
- 2000
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2003
- Length
- 3'
- Medium/Format
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