Confused: Sexual Views
Benefit screening to contribute to Paul Wong’s legal costs in his battle with the Vancouver Art Gallery regarding their cancellation of his video installation. Confused screened…
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Results filed under: single-channel video
Video Nite
Screenings of three new tapes produced using the computer graphics studio. Hot Chicks on T.V. by Elizabeth Vander Zaag, 666 O’Clock News by Patrick Hughes and…
Private Eyes
A special production. “Privatization has become trendy” reads the text which underscores the tape’s storyline: the Canadian Gallery of Art is being taken over by…
666 O’Clock News
A special production. A computer generated animation (Cubi-Comp computer) of a bad news broadcast, with channel changes featuring James Bond type music, cowboys and Indians,…
Ma
A special production. Mysterious stairways carved in stone leading to the heavens at the ancient temple site of Mamalapuram in Tamil Nadu, the prayer wheels…
Between the Frames
A special production. A series of eight chapters examining the people and institutions located between the artist and the audience. Editing The Dealers and The Gallery was…
Hot Chicks on TV
The excitement and traumas of two young girls turns into sixty seconds of huffing and puffing. Computer animated explosion blithely represent the hectic pace of…
Peep Show
An animated fantasy of a time when only animals are left searching through the burnt out ruins of human culture for the secret of language.…
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…
Homelands
A special production. In collaboration with On Edge. This tape illustrates the corruption and other problems related to the continuing erosion of the British Isles…
J’aurai dit Glenn Gould
A special production. L’écoute, essentiellement. J’aurais dit Glenn Gould est un essai visuel qui veut aller vers Glenn Gould. C’est un essai sur le style.…
Inner Landscape – Insight Image
A special production. “A deep silence came up from inside of my womb. Nobody could reach it, except for him, and it is still a…
Bruja
Artist-in-residence. Special production. Sand. Earth. A goddess floats in the jungle. From the breathing soil a hand beckons and we are drawn through the arcades…
So Much I Want to Say
Special production. Performed live for Wiencouver IV. A series of still images unfold (one every 8 seconds), revealing the face of a woman with male…
Wiencouver IV
Artist-in-residence. Live sound and image (telecommunications) exchange between Vancouver and Vienna, with Hank Bull, Bill Bartlett, Mona Hatoum, David Kelln. Live music by Trevor Arntzen,…
Confused
Artists-in-residence. Private screening. Special Production. A view of 20th century multi-sexual ideologies and practices. The work drew on aspects of the late 60′s sexual revolution and…
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…
Soap and Water
Artist-in-residence. Special production. “What to say about a work which grew from so many chance occurrences and coincidences at every stage. Looking back, now in…