MacBooties at Documenta 8
Work is a video production of the MacBooty Bros. (Eric Metcalfe and Hank Bull) at Documenta 8 in Kassel, Germany. Hank and Eric were invited,…
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Results filed under: Special Production
HP Video Show
The video production is an extension of The HP Radio Show, a weekly broadcast on Vancouver co-operative radio, CFRO_FM. It was intended as a pilot…
Urban Geography
A seven (or more) video monitor installation with variable arrangements. The twenty-seven minute video program depicts less celebrated sites in Vancouver as two women drive…
Breath
Dragu experimented with the abstract and painterly qualities of video in this study of the mysteries of breath, in particular, the working of the diaphragm.…
Backup
Special video production in which a smorgasbord of lifestyles (called modes) of two women intercut with a suspense murder drama that takes place in a…
Big Fat Slenderella
Special video production. The Big Fat Short is a first step in the editing of collected video material for a larger project, The Big Fat Feature.…
Pythagoras’ Ghost
A special audio production and the first Western Front CD recording release. Microtonal music based on the Table of Pythagoras, composed on the computer for…
Infermental VI
A special production with Gérrard Couty, Veruschka Bódy and Antoni Muntadas. Infermental, the brainchild of Gábor and Vera Bódy, was a magazine on videotape. Each…
A Propos la Peinture
Artist-in-residence. Special production. A collage of ideas about painting, movement, nature and the world.
TLC
A special production. Tender Loving Care takes as image source the blossoms and hues of spring. Breezes and gusts of wind generates movements. All of the…
Larry Dubin
Special production. A memorial documentary of performances by this extraordinary drummer, collected from four performances of the Canadian Creative Music Collective.
Canada Shadows
Special Production. The Canadian Shadow Players are a group of Vancouver Pataphysicians who specialize in the esoteric study of umbrology. This video is the translation…
Straight Jacket
“The straight jacket I designed and made out of hot pink acetate satin. (It was to be of silk but at $32.00 a yard what…
Tom’s Peep Show
Special Production. A three monitor installation. It is a live, simulated tape of a television program, with the director constantly giving instructions from the booth.…
Steel and Flesh
Special production. A fast moving dramatic pastiche of poker faces, puns, knives, flesh, and suspense based on grade-B murder mystery comics which Metcalfe drew as…
Girls’ Club Tea
Produced for The Gina Show by Hank Bull, with Marylin Burgess, Mary Ready, Janice Toulouse, Berenicci Hershorn, Carole Segal and others. Trolley Bus and I…
The HP Video Show
Special production. The tape is an extension of The HP Radio Show, a weekly broadcast on Vancouver co-operative radio, CFRO-FM. It was intended as a…