All Films

Broadway

2004 • 11 min

A video which exudes a great deal of freshness, all of it in yellow/ black/white and possessing the flair of a research project, an undertaking which seems to demonstrate unfamiliarity with both conventions and norms, not to mention fashions. Occupied primarily with itself and all attention concentrated on it - how the setting will develop itself - a dance of symbols and sounds, refreshingly unintentional and without any kind of obligation to arrive at a predefined aesthetic goal. And to the extent that familiar paths are avoided, a fascinating dialogue between sounds and images is in a sense born of itself, from the material.

Norias

2004 • 12 min

Meanwhile norias have been turning and turning for centuries. They sing the stream of the Orontes river. From the banks of the Seine, a dialogue joins them.

Reflecting Pool

2004 • 9 min

Sometimes the smallest event can have the most profound repercussions. REFLECTING POOL creates a contemplative but highly charged visual and musical expedition through a cycle of chaos and recovery. The imagery consists of both animated and live action footage which have been transformed and layered in digital post production. The techniques used to create this multilayered work include: painting directly on film which has been hand-manipulated during digital rerecording, object animation, sand animation, and pixelated recordings of changing light reflections and movements of microscopic water creatures.

Hitler! (Revisited)

2004 • 13 min

What Seems To Be The Problem?

2004 • 45 min

Free jazz French horn player Richard Dunbar, takes fellow musicians on a musical journey between dreams, fantasy and reality as he interrogates his mental health and explores the relationship between jazz, spirituality and life.

La Belle Étoile

2004 • 14 min

Crossing a wave, drawings in the form of a maze, the games of a child with his mother, the bamboo forest, the races in the burnt grass, the snow in winter, the flowers in the light, the trees in bloom in spring, the walk under the trees, the sunrise, the clouds. After the Calculation of the subject and Oh oh oh! , this film is the third part of a filmed diary which follows, step by step, the seasons of a child.

Min kamp mot tiden - en film om Ulla Carin Lindqvist och ALS

2004 • 58 min

We follow Ulla-Carin through a few months at the end of her life. It depicts the disease ALS, with all its consequences and how a person deals with a condition that little by little breaks down his body.

Right Night / Larva Night

2004 • 8 min

Short film by Yang Fudong.

Globe Trekker: New Zealand

2004 • 60 min

New Zealand s Maori name is both romantic and apt - Aotearoa, meaning land of the long white cloud brings to mind unspoilt landscapes and immense natural beauty, and with its beautiful extremes of rainforests and reefs, glaciers and volcanoes, you won t be disappointed.

Test Run

2004 • 2 min

"Homage to suicidal revenge fantasies, the artist sinks below the surface of her bath in what seems to be a brief and futile attempt to drown herself." - Ana Finel Honigman via ArtNet

M.R. James: Supernatural Storyteller

2004 • 29 min

Ruth Rendell, Michael Cox, Lawrence Gordon Clark, Muriel Gray, Kim Newman, and Christopher Frayling are among the contributors in this appreciation of the influential ghost-story writer.

Drift

2004 • 7 min

The ubiquity of GPS (global positioning satellite) and other tracking technologies suggests that "being lost" may itself be an experience that is being lost. However, simply knowing one's geographical location as expressed in longitude and latitude coordinates has little bearing on one's personal sense of place or direction. "Drift" poses the age-old question "Where am I and where am I going?" in a contemporary moment in which spatial positioning and tracking technologies provide evermore precise, yet limited, answers to this question. The installation embraces the flow of wandering, the pleasure of disorientation, and the playful unpredictability of drifting as it relates to movement and translation.

Alien Nay/Shun

2004 • 36 min

Video collage of text and imagery exploring alienation, strangeness, homoerotics, resistance, and death.

I Can See My Way Home

2004 • 11 min • United Kingdom

In 2004 Picture This and South West Screen commissioned 'I Can See My Way Home' with Spacex Gallery, Exeter, as the second project in the 'Historic Sites' series. The work was originally a two-screen installation produced in response to two historic houses in Devon, Killerton House, a thriving National Trust homes, and Poltimore House, a ruin falling into a state of dilapidation. The caretaker and conservation expert emerges at Killerton, opening the closed shutters of the house, while a torch beam explores the devastated interior of Poltimore. This 11-minute extract is focused on the material Curran filmed inside of Poltimore House with an accompanying soundtrack.

It's just a little hole in my chest

2004 • 19 min • Spain

"I would say that the most obvious thread running through my work is to do with loss, disappearance, traces, scattering, spillage, the presence of what's denied, the perforated being and impossible congruence, the gap between language and what's visible."

Being Mammy (Mammy's Looks)

2004 • 10 min

In 2004 Picture This commissioned 'Being Mammy (Mammy's Looks)' as part of Ghosting, a long term initiative exploring themes of archive, memory, and ethnography. Being Mammy is the culmination of a research project that explored the world of the 'Mammy' caricature. Offeh examined the life and career of actress Hattie McDaniel, who famously played and won an Oscar for her role as 'Mammy' in Gone With The Wind. Offeh uses performance video works, along with a series of objects, including replica pre-cinema artefacts, posters, and other ephemera, to evoke the tragedy of the typecast actor doomed to recreate and replay the same role.

Diccionario-Día del Detenido-Desaparecido

2004 • 2 min

Diana Aisenberg reflects on the disappearances that happened during Argentina's Dirty War.

Lucioles

2004 • 33 min

Portraits of four women, born from immigrant ex colonies extract, aged from 25 years to 50, followed in their emotions and feelings confronted to racism and homophobia in France today. The poetry is an important matter of the movie, build like a musical and visual poem, though it speaks of hard lived situation, but in a positive way.

Éter

2004 • 5 min

Let's go on an adventure in nature! Wind and water lead the way.

University Library

2004 • 7 min

Shot in Glasgow University Library, this film explores how individuals use a communal space. It comprises interior footage of the library, contrasting deserted aisles and close-ups of shelves of books with shots of students engrossed in studying and using library facilities including computers, keyboards and lifts. By unobtrusively filming students and editing the film rhythmically like a piece of music, Nashashibi highlights the routines and patterns behind our everyday activities, which would usually go unnoticed. The film runs to around seven minutes long and has no dialogue or music, only background noise. - Nationalgalleries.org

Juniper Set

2004 • 3 min

A film loop of train seats with patterned upholstery, echoing the absent bodies, like sculptures of human beings side by side, with a corner of suburbia showing through the train window.

Park Ambassador

2004 • 5 min

The Park Ambassador is a figure of abstract authority. A totemic presence, he remains rooted while people pass and light changes dramatically around him. He seems to affect these changes by his powerful presence.

Losers of the Year

2004 • 36 min • United States of America

A documentary about 712 men...and 1 woman.

Jimi Hendrix: Until We Meet Again

2004 • 60 min

"The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye. The story of life is hello and goodbye, until we meet again" - Jimi Hendrix