Film Categories: art & artists

  • memento mori

    A meditation on (im)mortality, mediated by a lifetime’s compendium of images, memento mori is a layered time-lapse exploration of the total photographs captured over the course of the filmmaker’s life – over 120,000 in total. This all-seeing archive is blended into permutations and combinations of subjects, objects, percepts, dreams, and experiences, to form an encyclopedic index of the possibilities of sight. “A man sets out to draw the world. As the years go by, he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, instruments, stars, horses, and individuals. A short time before he dies,…

  • Sister Drag

    Sister Drag is a part of an ongoing work about the invisible labour of women; “I can’t hear the sound of your sewing machine anymore” is a tribute to my mother, grandmother and to all the women who suffer from a constant bad conscience for not being good enough.

  • 13 Related Sewing Machines

    Synopsis Why can’t I hear the sound of sewing machines anymore? A meeting with my family and the history of all their sewing machines. German: Warum hören wir den Klang von Nähmaschinen nicht mehr? In dem Film 13 Related Sewing Machines stiften wir Bekanntschaft mit einer Familie, in der die Nähmaschine immer zugegen war. Der Film ist dritter Teil eines fortwährenden Projekts über unsichtbare Frauenarbeit. I can´t hear the sound of your sewing machine anymore ist eine Hommage an meine Mutter und meine Großmutter und an alle die Frauen, die ständig ein schlechtes Gewissen haben, nicht auszureichen.

  • Cum Pane

    It’s physically demanding and sweaty. Grandma’s hands are gnarled from years of pain and hard work. Hands knead the dough. She works with rolling-pins, brushes and older baking utensils. She deftly places the bread on a peel and sets it in the stone oven. Grandpa takes care of the wood-burning , watches over it, blows life into it, again and again. He moves the bread around on the hot hearth. They work noiselessly. Close to each other. Crackling and pounding, scratching and clouds of flour. It is hot. The fire blazes. The smell of wood. The aroma of freshly baked…

  • Densen

    Synopsis: A musical voyage through photographs from Tokyo, St. Petersburg, Barcelona, Milan and Buenos Aires. The word for power line in Japanese is densen. Music by the Swedish group Tape. French: Inspiré du mot japonais signifiant « ligne à haute tension », le film Densen est un voyage musical à travers des photos prises à Tokyo, St Petersbourg, Barcelone, Milan et Buenos Aires. Spanish: Un viaje musical a través de fotografías de Tokyo, St Petersburgo, Barcelona, 
Milano y Buenos Aires. La palabra japonesa Densen significa conducto de corriente. Musica del grupo Tape de Suécia.        German: Eine musikalische Reise aus…

  • Doorway for Natalie Kalmus

    ‘Doorway for Natalie Kalmus’ is a film centred around the use of colour in moving image technology, exploring the disorienting technicolour prismatic effects of the lamp house of a 35mm colour film printer. Through minute shifts across an abstract colour spectrum, punctuated by a mechanical soundtrack, the film evokes kaleidoscopic perceptual after-images (bringing to mind Paul Sharits, Dario Argento and the Wizard of Oz). Natalie Kalmus was the ex-wife of technicolour inventor Herbert Kalmus, and was the colour consultant for hundreds of colour films, including The Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind, the Red Shoes, Black Narcissus and many…

  • Nude Descending

    A video reconstruction of Marcel Duchamp’s 1912 painting, “Nu descendant un escalier n° 2”, that updates the work’s inter-media and temporal concerns into a contemporary frame, one century later.

  • Variations on a Theme

    Just / faintly / a corner / was / seen there / trying / to look / like an edge.

  • Christian’s Curtains

    This video was created in response to Christian Lebrat’s installation “R1R2R3R4 (Who’s Afraid Of…)”. Through rapid camera movement, the installation’s panels are converted into flickering colourful textures reminiscent of Lebrat’s film Holon (1981).

  • (I Know Your) Face

    Exploration of memory and diversity across gender, ethnic, sexuality and socio-economic boundaries as the hero Rose reflects on the many faces she has encountered, seducing, influencing, informing and challenging her perspective, now faded and blended over time, distance, and recreational drug usage.