All Films

Cercle de nuages

2004 • 9 min • France

The Clouds are at the same time first image/light/screen/depth to the modulations, to the ceaseless mutations, dynamic, open and fluid. The rectangle of sight, and projection, returns to the cut operated in time and space. Time and space stretched, without limits, accentuated by the soundtrack. White, infinite...

Valise

2004 • 15 min

"My most comprehensive working through of who this Deep Sea Diver figure is that has periodically haunted my collage animations from the first one I ever created through the last two decades. A mythic investigation of the outsider in American culture. Created as a complimentary counterweight to the series’ title film and finale, Daylight Moon." - Lewis Klahr

Hard Green

2004 • 5 min

An tactile exploration of World War 2 comic books through the abstraction afforded by a magnifying glass.

Lock Again

2004 • 4 min

Two young men wear the uniform of 70’s policeman, sometimes they look like runaway criminal. They want to escape reality which is impossible to cast off. They yearn for the bright sunshine life, expecting the time to be captured, to exchange for a calmness of the heart.

1982, estuvimos ahí

2004 • 58 min • Argentina

Carlos, a 19-year-old soldier with only a few months of military service, waits in his trench for an enemy he doesn't know, along with José and Pedro, who help him face very difficult moments of loneliness and fear. There, Carlos learns not only to fight the enemy but also to appreciate things he'd never considered before. Furthermore, a pilot must execute one of the most important missions in Argentine aviation, Operation Invincible. This is a joint operation between the Navy and the Air Force. He and five other pilots target the aircraft carrier "Invincible," one of the most protected ships of the British Crown.

The Mashin' of the Christ

2004 • 5 min

"The Mashin' of the Christ" was/is Negativland's top-secret-not-for-viewing video response to the number one film in America. Negativland decrypted, downloaded and mashed up the most violent religious film ever made along with over 27 other Hollywood portrayals of Jesus to create their own vision of the last moments of Christ's life... all in four minutes and 14 seconds. Is Christianity still stupid? Is Communism still good? Negativland hoped that no one would ever find out for sure. - from Negativland's website

Beach Boys

2004 • 6 min

In this short film the director shares with us the attraction of his local beach. Only these attractions are shirtless young men casually out for a day in the sun.

A Small Film for Stan Brakhage and Larry Jordan

2004 • 4 min

Shot on Super 8 film. Edited in camera.

Out of the Ether

2004 • 11 min

Out of the Ether re-assembles disquieting images from decades-old hygiene and science films, merging them with the filmmaker’s own Bolex camerawork. It was re-photographed on the optical printer, toned and tinted to bring out pulsating hues of oozing greens and yellows.

Potty Power

2004 • 30 min

All the info a toddler needs to use the potty like a big kid!

Commericial

2004 • 6 min

Commerciale, taking the form of a still sequence shot, could at first sight be mistaken for video surveillance footage of the entrance to a shopping centre. People walk in and out, pushing the glass panels of the revolving door of one of these temples of consumption that invade every suburban area worldwide. Alone, in couples, wandering past or rushing in, trolleys empty or full, mothers and children, hundreds of people push this revolving door day in, day out in an unrelenting and dizzying ballet. The effects of superimposition and transparency applied to the video heighten this sensation of a ghostly, indifferent and endless flow.

Marry Me: Stories from the San Francisco Weddings

2004 • 58 min

A documentary that reveals the emotional tale behind four gay couples who married in San Francisco in 2004, as told in their own words. The relationships, emotions of marrying, and love stories of these couples come alive in this snapshot of a historic moment.

Manipulations

2004 • 7 min

Manipulations is a video inspired by the famous game of logic Rubik’s cube. It is a succession of close-ups of varying intensity showing a pair of hands manipulating a cube with colored faces, to a soundtrack of a regular and insistent beat, the clicking of the cubes combining at times with strident acoustic distortions. As the resolution of the logic game progresses, cubes with black faces that weren’t initially present appear, progressively replacing the colored cubes until the brainteaser becomes completely black, with the exception of a row of cubes with a white line. Meanwhile, the hands tirelessly continue their manipulations while images of the Kaaba are overlaid on those of the hands moving around and being progressively covered in black. This piece is part of a larger body of work initiated in 2004 that also comprises a series of photographs, a sculpture and a video game.

Wade

2004 • 17 min

A short documentary about Wade Atkinson, made after he was hit by an SUV while working as a bike messenger in Seattle.

Stalls

2004 • 3 min

How to beat the long lines to the women’s restroom in three easy steps.

Hit Explosion

2004 • 53 min

1. Joe Jackson - Steppin´out, Level 42 - Lessons In Love, Lighthouse Family - Lifted, 10cc - Dreadlock Holiday. Joe Jackson - It´s Different For Girls. Lloyd Cole And The Commotions - Perfect Skin, Wet Wet Wet - Love Is All Around, Squeeze - Cool For Cats, Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax, The Style Council - Walls Come Tumbling Down, Cameo - Word Up, Extreme - More Than Words

In Search of the Temple

2004 • 10 min • France

You are, no doubt, already familiar with such literary quotations as "In search of lost time" (A la recherche du temps perdu) or "Those living pillars which gaze at us", as per Napoleon Bonaparte, when faced with the famous pyramids of Egypt?

Strewnpackedcinderwhateverlight

2004 • 8 min

After night night, winter and summer storms of torment, the like-arrow stillness of weather fine, their court, without, held interference. Had (listening there any been to listen one), the, from rooms upper empty, the only house chaos gigantic lighting streaked with have, could, heard, been tossing and tumbling: the wind as the waves themselves disported, amorphous, like the bulks whose leviathans are brows pierced by light no reason of; mounted and on one another top and plunged, lunged darkness in the daylight or (night for day and, month year and shapelessly together ran) in games idiot, it, until seemed if as universe#the battling#were tumbling confusion, in brute want and lust itself aimlessly by.

Asyl

2004 • 12 min • Kyrgyz Republic

A film presented by university students of a boy, Asyl who delivers beef and mutton to meat markets in the early morning, then dons his good clothes and goes to school.

Civil War Gold

2004 • 56 min

Join a team of explorers as they brave the Atlantic Ocean, on a search for the 140-year old steamship S.S. Republic, and its massive treasure of artifacts and gold and silver coins.

The Nightwatch

2004 • 7 min

The Nightwatch documents an action realised by Alÿs in 2004 in which he released a fox into London’s National Portrait Gallery in the middle of the night and used the museum’s CCTV system to follow its movements. The institution was chosen because unlike other institutions it does not conceal its CCTV cameras.

a/k/a Mrs. George Gilbert.

2004 • 31 min

Multidisciplinary artist Coco Fusco chronicles public obsession with and depictions of Angela Davis. In 1970, after the state of California issued a warrant for Davis’s arrest and she was subsequently placed on the FBI’s most-wanted list, she went into hiding. In her public absence, her image was endlessly reproduced and disseminated as she was stalked by the State. Using archival imagery and fictionalized first-person accounts of the FBI agent who pursued her, Fusco’s formally inventive, sardonic, and fantastical short is a send-up of the surveillance state and weaponized imagery.

The German War Files - Stug III & IV Assault Guns

2004 • 52 min • United States of America

Originally ordered as an armoured infantry support vehicle, the Assault Gun or 'Sturmgeschutz' (Stug) was increasingly employed from 1942 onwards as a tank destroyer. It was responsible for the destruction of around 20,000 allied tanks. This is the story of Stug III and IV.

Skin for Life

2004 • 6 min • Canada

"Skin for Life" is an experimental video poem that reveals the thoughts and fears of a body that imagines its existence as being foreign. An exploration of the visual and psychic layers of skin.