Riley Harmon, ‘Passengers (Never let me go)’ (2010-2013)
For the ‘Passenger’ series, Harmon inserted himself into movie scenes.
Tag Archives: movies
Thom Andersen
Scene about modernist California homes from ‘Los Angeles plays itself’ (2003) by Thom Andersen
‘Los Angeles plays itself’ is a video essay, finished in 2003, exploring the way Los Angeles has been presented in movies.
Jonathan Minard
‘Archive’ (2013) by Jonathan Minard
A documentary focused on the future of long-term digital storage, the history of the Internet and attempts to preserve its contents on a massive scale.
Part one features Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive and his colleagues Robert Miller, director of books, and Alexis Rossi, director of web collections. On a mission to create universal access to all knowledge, the Internet Archive’s staff have built the world’s largest online library, offering 10 petabytes of archived websites, books, movies, music, and television broadcasts.
The video includes a tour of the Internet Archive’s headquarters in San Francisco, the book scanning center, and the book storage facilities in Richmond, California.
Marjolijn Dijkman
“The landscape was a mixture of the strange and the beautiful..”
“Well, I don’t know about the treasure, but I’m sure there is fever there.”
“There was no evidence that man had ever sat foot here before”
Marjolijn Dijkman, stills from ‘Surviving new land’ (2009)
A video shot for Portscapes, a series of art projects along the coast of the Maasvlakte, near Rotterdam.
Dijkman shot the video from a boat circling a newly created island. This video was eventually dubbed with audio excerpts from moviescenes where people are entering land from the water.
Lo-res video here
Below is an interview with Dijkman about the project
and the moral of the story is…
Seen yesterday at Witte de With‘s 24-hour film program ‘and the moral of the story is…’;
‘Wall Street’, by Oliver Stone
‘Enron, the smartest guys in the room’, by Alex Gibney
A combination that put both films in a different perspective. The documentary on the rise and fall of this American super-company was completely sickening..
More films at WdW today until midnight!
