It is the end of the day. It is that tragic twilight moment when the brightness of the sky has to surrender to the yellow neon of the street lamps. Outside on the street, in the quiet industrial landscape of the city outskirts, a woman sings and a man plays the saxophone. Tonight they feel there is something special in the air. The city has send to each of them an invitation to take their time. Following their own paths and coming from opposite directions they encounter one another and have that last one explanation that could end it all up or make it starts all over again. The Billie Melo Show plays along with the classical notion of narrative. Based on the concept of repetition and variation of a single performance, the video explores the different aspects of a given situation.
3 Mostra de Vídeo Independent de Barcelona 1996.
Simulating the advertising genre, "The Bible Belt" is an advertisement for the "Bible Belt", a normal belt which includes a small portable Bible. This video is part of a global project also called "The Bible Belt" which questions the use of religion in the media spectacle. 2 Mostra de Vídeo Independent de Barcelona 1994.
UntitledNine comic and scary movies, classic gender-orientation of social behavior, testimony to the postwar crusade to instill traditional values to Americans, in the style of the 50s.
Basra is Iraq's economy - its Rumeila oil fields tap one of the largest pools of petroleum in the world, and without its revenues the central government in Baghdad would collapse. This wealth makes Basra the site of a battle for political control between the three largest Shiite parties in Iraq: al-Hakim's SIIC, Moqtada al-Sadr's ‘Sadrist Current' and the Islamic Virtue Party, which controls the Basra governorate and is linked to the Oil Workers' Union.
The bath House Is a filmed a re-imagination of ‘The Bathhouse', a 1930's Russian Constructivist play written by Vladimir Mayakovsky and directed by Vesevolod Meyerhold, Mayakovsky's "drama in six acts with a circus and fireworks" was a satire on state bureaucracy, featuring a time machine rather than a bathhouse. Meyerhold used the play to display whole gamut of styles of theatre, from naturalism through dance to agitprop. Each served as an attraction in itself, but as a sequence became a stinging challenge to critical / ideological / political complacency. The Bath House video was commissioned by Collective Gallery and produced to mark a closure of the Royal Commonwealth Pool in Edinburgh. The Commonwealth Pool, designed by Edinburgh architects RMJM in the 1960s, is a classic piece of Scottish modernist architecture. Halonen was struck by the similarity of the building's interior, particularly its platforms and diving boards, to the set used for The Bathhouse, staged in 1930. The group mostly affected by the closure, the Edinburgh Diving Club's Junior members perform as actors creating their own demonstration against the closure. Half way through the original Maykovsky's The Bathhouse the actors rebel and take control of the direction, this process is paralleled in this re-imagination.
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Everyone knows about the concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz. But have you heard of a small Polish town named Oswiecim? A young team of filmmakers arrives at this site, where a bizarre conflict between Polish and Jewish memories of the Holocaust is taking place.