The 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.

Review of patent files, their carers, their dangers. Music by Henryk Gorecki Music by Bill Frisell

There is a glut of wealthy in the city of Saba. Everyone has more than enough. Even the bath stokers wear gold belts. Huge grape clusters hang down on every street and brush the faces of the citizens.

William Burroughs giving thanks for the goods that will be consumed on Thanksgiving day:  "Thank you for conspiracies and hypocrisies, thank you for a world where it is forbidden to talk, thank you for the turkey destined to be digested by American stomachs, thank you for a blessed nation".

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.

“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.

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.

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."