United Kingdom (Great Britain)
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A piece about isolation and solitude in daily life. In an atmosphere of complete alienation, the solitary worlds of the workers in an office building are shown: managers, cleaning ladies...Contrasts the bright and glamorous hyper-real world with the internal darkness of its inhabitants. OVNI 2000 Community 6th Independent Vídeo & Interactive Phenomena Show
Joyful self-hate in the recent snow.
Joyful self-hate in the recent snow.
Ode creates a portrait of neighbouring midland towns, through the recollections of a family split by divorce between the two regions. The age-old rivalry of the towns mimic this new tension, remembrances of by-gone days highlighting the fluxuating structure of the modern day family. The syntax is irregular and poetic like the ramblings of a dream, as memories spanning the generations interweave to create a poignant story of community and how the decline of local industries has impacted on this institution. Vast shoots of landscapes allow the narrative to develop an unforced voice with a Proustain quality.
Today's aggressive management techniques and the cult of outsourcing and speed have spawned new monster-companies, proud of those very values they had been criticized for. One of them is Office Tiger, a transnational hybrid specializing in document-processing for big enterprises. As with the bubble of start-up dotcoms, there comes a time when work itself takes second place and what matters is the staff's attitude – in part ambition, in part a heroic, self-punishing sense of dedication.
UntitledA 70-year old man living in a remote part of Scotland has been obsessed with 'trying to really understand' Darwin's book for many years. Alongside this passion, he's been constantly working on small inventions for making his life easier. The film investigates someone profoundly interested in human beings, but who has decided to live separately from the majority of them.
Fragmented childhood memories with striking images, to capture a feeling of awe and a sense of timelessness. The silence of the landscape is broken only by a voice, whose reminiscences conjure up the child's clear yet disturbing vision of the world. 3 Mostra de Vídeo Independent de Barcelona 1996.
A provocative montage of eyewitness images from the streets of Athens, sourced from youtube, is performatively revoiced by the artist using just the sounds ph- and p-, creating a close-up personal response to a highly mediated event, as well as a focus on certain key sounds in that situation beyond/nearer than the general crowd and sirens. The Greek character ?(phi) represents the so-called 'golden ratio' and is a neverending ideal. By constant voicing of this letter, the soundtrack of the video highlights the concept of constant movement in the context of direct action and social change, as well as the shadow side of that - the state doctrine of ceaseless linear progress and 'civilization'. There is also reference to Atrocity Exhibition, considering how we experience and interpret 'riots' in the highly mediated present, to explore and complicate 'moral' responses to street violence.
UntitledSampat Pal is the leader of the Gubai Gang, a group of women vigilantes from Northern India who wear bright pink saris as a distinctive sign that stands out, like cry in the multitude, to denounce and fight the treatment of women a slaves by a very sexist and classicist society.