Voices of Orchid Island focuses on the Yami community on Orchid Island, a small island located 45 miles off the southeast coast of Taiwan in the Pacific Ocean. The film explores the complex and often troubled relationship between the Yami and the outside world by looking at three different cases of “invasion.”
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Various permutations and combinations of Abraham Zapruder's 8mm home movie footage of the assassination of JFK. My work is intended as an investigation of the footage as a visual, experiential, and cultural document. In the United States this footage is both notorious and invisible; seldom actually seen, it is very well known; when seen, it remains opaque. This work is intended to add a level of "transparency" to the original. It is set to Jajouka music in order to bring to the foreground the ritual aspects of this visual, mechanical, and media historical event. 6th Independent Vídeo & Interactive Phenomena Show
UntitledThe author of the video is hired as a marketing assistant by Columbia House. His only credential for the job is his status as a Nirvana fan, but circumstances soon lead him to a central position in the grunge catalogue of the multinational record distributor. Chris manages to create a personal diary of corporate America, its hierarchies and the ladder to the top, day-to-day life in a business community. 6th Independent Vídeo & Interactive Phenomena Show
UntitledRCA's corporate history of pre-1956 developments in television. 6th Independent Vídeo & Interactive Phenomena Show
The meta-fiction is as follows: in a second Mexican/American war, Mexico wins. The USA collapses and the former states fragment into a myriad of micro-republics controlled by a multiracial junta led by the Prime Minister Gran Vato. Spanglish is the official language. The anglo militias desperately attempt to re-establish the old order. 6th Independent Vídeo & Interactive Phenomena Show
UntitledAll the images included in this piece, even those that don't deal with the subject, come from gay erotica produced in Eastern Europe since the introduction of capitalism. Above all, this is a portrait of young men trapped in a system which only considers them cheap labor. This video doesn't deal with the transgressions typical of pornography, but with the real pornography of human exploitation. 6th Independent Vídeo & Interactive Phenomena Show
Suburbia, and all it promises, has become the American Dream. But as we enter the 21st century, serious questions are beginning to emerge about the sustainability of this way of life. With brutal honesty and a touch of irony, The End of Suburbia explores the American Way of Life and its prospects as the planet approaches a critical era, as global demand for fossil fuels begins to outstrip supply. Are today's suburbs destined to become the slums of tomorrow?
UntitledThe Art of Free Cooperation is a book and a feature-length film collage, narrated by Tony Conrad, illustrating the principles of Free Cooperation through the visual language of science fiction movies, additional texts, interviews and highlights from the international “Free Cooperation” conference, organized by the editors.
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