Poetic-political inserts. Holzer uses the format and language of commercial advertising to interrupt the communication by kamikaze texts that are intended to stimulate thinking, raise your mood and a critical attitude among the passive audience. 3 Mostra de Vídeo Independent de Barcelona 1996.

A poetic route in the solitude of the journey.

Part three of a cycle of digital video works I'm beginning to call -after Bataille- "Theory of religion, theory of ecstasy." The other two parts are Mirror and The Zapruder Footage. This tape is inspired by the 11th century Sufi mystical text The Conference of the Birds. It is a text which explores transparency and opacity, multiplicity and unity, narrative and insight, the mundane and the ecstatic. I include a postscript from the text which I included at the end of the tape, and perhaps best responds to the attempt to phrase it: "Seek the trunk of the tree and do not worry whether the branches do or do not exist."

A man and a woman distanced, interact dynamically while coupled at a place of simple domesticity. In Stabilities seeks to locate the site of action in a context of shared relations. Bain collaborating with Finish dancer Mia Keinanen utilizes high speed digital videography and time lapse imaging to trace the trajectories of bodies in motion; slowing down and magnifying the subtle forms of interplay. At times this piece mimics a Keatonesque action all the while illuminating the kind of motion-space which connects us all.

“My spiritual journey had taken me from the land of Ahuramazda to the realm of Allah. I came to believe there is only one God, the God of light, goodness and joy. A God who abides not on the mountains or in the oceans, nor the cities or the sanctuaries, but in the human souls who worship there”. Aryana Farshad.

From a quote from Jane Bowles, this video-poem presents a collage of some aspects of contemporary life, people moving around, traces of inhumanity. Music by Brian Eno. Kalin's short video works, which use literary quotations as starting points, function both as visual poems and as alternative music videos. With their astute conjunctions of image, music and text, these tapes respond to issues of sexuality and human interaction in the 1990s, more than a decade into the AIDS crisis. 2 Mostra de Vídeo Independent de Barcelona 1994.