Screen Tests: Facing It
In this combined programme
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Location Interviews
A female interviewer questions five women about their origin. But they have scarcely started to explain when the questioner interrupts them and ask
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Britton, South Dakota
A found footage film from the mid-20th-century heartland. Vanessa Renwick has resituated cinematic snapshots as an eerie, anonymous parade of child
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Une grammaire de temps
This video simply consists of a face of Kurtag’s grandmother, her father’s music (the composer György Kurtag), some barely perceptible
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Roz
Working with performer Rosalynde LeBlanc, Burt Barr has created a music video which overturns the rapid-fire schizophrenia of the genre: he limits
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Taxonomy (Death Stories)
People pose before the camera. At the same time an off-screen voice murmurs some ‘vital’ information. The video presents a ‘pick
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Living A Beautiful Life
An attractive married couple reports in turns from their stylish villa in Los Angeles about their perfect life: how they are, what they have –
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Solo mit Chor
A face remains in the picture for a total of six minutes. Only the colors and the mood of the lighting change. Like a photograph in a developing ba
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Folk Music and Documentary
Like Warhol’s screen tests, Seth Price subjects a symbolic segment of his own generation to the ‘portrait test’. Will this imagin
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Reckless Eyeballing
Taking its name from the Jim Crow-era of black criminals staring at white women, this hand-processed, optically-printed amalgam reframes desire by
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