How can you document the elusive stuff myths are made of? That is what the furtive chalk graffiti on freight train wagons is, the fleeting consecration of their anonymous creators. The word “graffiti” stands for an art with schools and aspirations, very different from that other fleeting and legitimately popular art, which may bring to Argentinian minds the painted messages on the rocks of Mar del Plata. Bill Daniel pulls it off by getting onto those bare wagons with his camera, by traveling with those who load them and the tramps who use them.
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Early attempts at critical observation of television were conditioned by the development of the first recording technology. This is the context of this historic Nam June Paik piece, a document about the feedback relationship between video and television, and the ability of television to filter and pixilate information. 3 Mostra de Vídeo Independent de Barcelona 1996.
UntitledThe American paranoia, collective fears and media justification through a hallucinatory conspiracy in which Fidel Castro, the satanic forces and the aliens threaten America. 3 Mostra de Vídeo Independent de Barcelona 1996.
Third Known Nest brings together Kalin's witty and poignant "video diary" pieces with new interstitial material that thematically links the works with cogent literary quotes. Merging elements of music video, text, and intimate Super 8 "home movies," Kalin has created a personal and cultural chronicle of the 1990s. Tracing a trajectory that moves from stylized AIDS activist spots to alternative music videos and poems of love and loss, Kalin' video journal culminates in a performative self-portrait.
It is an erotic response on the Helms Law, the American government's refusal to subsidize the prevention and awareness on AIDS. Kalin writes: "They are lost to vision altogether acts as erotic retaliation on legislation such as the Supreme Court sodomy ruling — declaring the private bedroom as open target for the State — or the Helms Amendment — the U.S government's refusal to fund explicit AIDS prevention information for gay men, lesbians and IV drug users. An attempt to reclaim eroticism and to address the contradictions of sexuality and romance in the face of a monolithic and culturally compulsory heterosexuality, They are lost to vision altogether finds queer history where it can and invents the rest." 2 Mostra de Vídeo Independent de Barcelona 1994.
UntitledThe result of over five years of Super 8 and 16mm filming on New York City streets, Lost Book Found melds documentary and narrative approaches into a complex meditation on city life. The piece revolves around a mysterious notebook filled with obsessive lists of places, objects, and incidents. These lists serve as the key to a hidden city.
UntitledYear 2007, in a crater caused by an explosion nuclear in the outskirts of Las Vegas, a telepathic woman and her father, a technological delinquent organize..."Dear earthlings...". S.O.S is an activist science fiction collage about the Autonomous Resistance against globalization and the "New Electromagnetic Order". 6th Independent Vídeo & Interactive Phenomena Show
A surrealist meditation in which the religion of ancient Pharaonic Egypt and the Cinema coincide in their ardent, almost mystical desire to preserve life beyond the grave. 6th Independent Vídeo & Interactive Phenomena Show
From the tribal conflict to thermo-nuclear war.
Using a fragment of 1970's porn, nail polish and bleach, the filmmaker has worked frame by frame upon the film body. This erasure creates a new pornography, a film in which the woman exists only as an empty, animated hole.