Scene from ‘The Wayward Cloud‘ (2005) directed by Ming-Liang Tsai.
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Pierre Bismuth
‘Following the Right Hand of Audrey Hepburn in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”’ (2007) by Pierre Bismuth.
Daniel Cockburn
Trailer for ‘You are here’, Daniel Cockburn‘s first feature film.
Daniel Cockburn will be showing his video ‘Metronome’ in our upcoming screening programme Sorry for not standing still, opening Friday November 23.
Thanks to Vtape Toronto
Candice Breitz
‘The Character’ (2011) by Candice Breitz.
Fifteen children were each asked to watch a Bollywood movie prominently featuring a child character. During the shoot that followed, each child was asked to verbally portray the child character in the movie that s/he had watched, to describe the role and plight of that character within the movie’s narrative.
Alex van Warmerdam
Alex van Warmerdam, ‘De Noorderlingen’ (‘The Northerners’) (1992)
A surreal black comedy set in a decrepit 1960’s housing development. When his mother is drawn into sainthood and the resulting frustrations of his father become too difficult to manage, Thomas, a young boy, becomes obsessed with events on the broadcast news. The liberation of the Belgian Congo is taking place and Thomas becomes Lumumba, one of the contenders as the Congo’s new leader. He is encouraged in this escapism by Plagge, the postman who reads all the mail and knows all of the bizzarre and intimate secrets of the eccentric inhabitants of the estate.
Gregor Schneider
Gregor Schneider, ‘Die Familie Schneider’ (2004)
Die Familie Schneider took place in neighbouring, identical houses – 14 and 16 Walden Street, London. The houses were open by appointment only and visitors – always two at a time – collected the front door keys from a small office on the same street. One visitor entered 14 Walden Street alone, whilst the other entered the neighbouring house.
In each was an identical woman, perpetually washing the same dishes; in each was a child, or a child-like person – wrapped placidly within a plastic bag; and in each was a man in a shower, engaged in a stark and lonely act of masturbation. After a period of ten minutes, the visitors emerged, exchanged keys and entered the second house.
At no time was there ever more than one visitor in each house.
Lindsay Lawson
Lindsay Lawson, ‘Das Ding’ (2010)
This video mimics the famous pottery scene from the movie Ghost when Patrick Swayze (who is a ghost for most of the movie) flirtatiously helps Demi Moore as she throws clay into a vase while the song Unchained Melody plays in the background.
Watch video here
Gareth Long
Gareth Long, ‘Live subtitles’ (2005)
The installation used voice recognition software to cull the voices of the spectators, turning their speech into live captions superimposed on a live video feed.
Full text here
Louise Lawler
‘A Movie Will Be Shown Without the Picture’ (1979) by Louise Lawler.
In 1979 Louise Lawler screened the 1951 John Houston film The Misfits at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica. She played only the audio portion of the film, leaving the screen blank for the duration.
