All Films

Mango Ceylon

2004 • 3 min

J'ai vomi dans mes cornflakes

2004 • 4 min • France

A short film is about a man's life, from childhood to adulthood, comparing his hopes with reality.

Infinite Melancholy

2004 • 4 min

Moving at speed over a receding white planar surface defined by rows and rows of identical black letters that spell out, again and again, ‘CHRISTOPHER REEVE', to the sound of etude-like pieces for piano played with a certain hesitance.

F*stop

2004 • 10 min

Cyanne is a photographer too unsure of herself to be a success. When Risa offers her the world, Cyanne chooses fun. But a gang of bikers teaches her what courage, and art, are really about. Open up... live dark, dream of light.

Snow White: My Confidential Drawers

2004 • 16 min

The real story about Snow White that they never wanted us to know.

Novela, Novela

2004 • 30 min

A documentary about the making of 'Sexto Sentido' that looks at how such a groundbreaking series made it to the air in Nicaragua, and how the creators, writers, actors and viewers have grappled with controversial themes like domestic violence and homophobia in this impoverished country so heavily influenced by the Catholic Church.

Transazioni

2004 • 28 min

Firts Italian documentary on the subject of transexuality and intersexuality. Includes interviews with FTM transexuals that were born women and became anatomically correct men.

Hommes a Femmes (Michel Debrane)

2004 • 38 min

Single channel video projection, which documents an attempt to dramatically re-enact a 1977 interview conducted between the French intellectual Jean-Paul Sartre, and journalist Catherine Chaîne, which was published in 'Le Nouvel Observateur' journal. The project develops from a number of previous projects Byrne has realised, each of which similarly engage a collective amnesia about our shifting cultural history, through dramatic re-enactments of culturally loaded conversations and interviews gleaned from discarded popular magazines. With Homme à Femmes (Michel Debrane) Byrne focuses on a generically candid encounter with Sartre, which discusses his relationship with women throughout his life, at a moment towards the end of that life.

Working Process

2004 • 10 min

The main idea of this video essay is to reinterpret the process of working with found film footage and the interpretative possibilities. The footage originates from former socialist Czechoslovakia and the artist here attempts to depict, by revealing the creative process, how this epoch may be read. Non-traditional instruments are used here, such as, for instance, randomness. Its impact on the form of the subsequent description of socialism highlights the thought processes and their certain salience as a template.

Cercle de nuages

2004 • 9 min • France

The Clouds are at the same time first image/light/screen/depth to the modulations, to the ceaseless mutations, dynamic, open and fluid. The rectangle of sight, and projection, returns to the cut operated in time and space. Time and space stretched, without limits, accentuated by the soundtrack. White, infinite...

Valise

2004 • 15 min

"My most comprehensive working through of who this Deep Sea Diver figure is that has periodically haunted my collage animations from the first one I ever created through the last two decades. A mythic investigation of the outsider in American culture. Created as a complimentary counterweight to the series’ title film and finale, Daylight Moon." - Lewis Klahr

Hard Green

2004 • 5 min

An tactile exploration of World War 2 comic books through the abstraction afforded by a magnifying glass.

Lock Again

2004 • 4 min

Two young men wear the uniform of 70’s policeman, sometimes they look like runaway criminal. They want to escape reality which is impossible to cast off. They yearn for the bright sunshine life, expecting the time to be captured, to exchange for a calmness of the heart.

1982, estuvimos ahí

2004 • 58 min • Argentina

Carlos, a 19-year-old soldier with only a few months of military service, waits in his trench for an enemy he doesn't know, along with José and Pedro, who help him face very difficult moments of loneliness and fear. There, Carlos learns not only to fight the enemy but also to appreciate things he'd never considered before. Furthermore, a pilot must execute one of the most important missions in Argentine aviation, Operation Invincible. This is a joint operation between the Navy and the Air Force. He and five other pilots target the aircraft carrier "Invincible," one of the most protected ships of the British Crown.

The Mashin' of the Christ

2004 • 5 min

"The Mashin' of the Christ" was/is Negativland's top-secret-not-for-viewing video response to the number one film in America. Negativland decrypted, downloaded and mashed up the most violent religious film ever made along with over 27 other Hollywood portrayals of Jesus to create their own vision of the last moments of Christ's life... all in four minutes and 14 seconds. Is Christianity still stupid? Is Communism still good? Negativland hoped that no one would ever find out for sure. - from Negativland's website

Beach Boys

2004 • 6 min

In this short film the director shares with us the attraction of his local beach. Only these attractions are shirtless young men casually out for a day in the sun.

A Small Film for Stan Brakhage and Larry Jordan

2004 • 4 min

Shot on Super 8 film. Edited in camera.

Out of the Ether

2004 • 11 min

Out of the Ether re-assembles disquieting images from decades-old hygiene and science films, merging them with the filmmaker’s own Bolex camerawork. It was re-photographed on the optical printer, toned and tinted to bring out pulsating hues of oozing greens and yellows.

Potty Power

2004 • 30 min

All the info a toddler needs to use the potty like a big kid!

Commericial

2004 • 6 min

Commerciale, taking the form of a still sequence shot, could at first sight be mistaken for video surveillance footage of the entrance to a shopping centre. People walk in and out, pushing the glass panels of the revolving door of one of these temples of consumption that invade every suburban area worldwide. Alone, in couples, wandering past or rushing in, trolleys empty or full, mothers and children, hundreds of people push this revolving door day in, day out in an unrelenting and dizzying ballet. The effects of superimposition and transparency applied to the video heighten this sensation of a ghostly, indifferent and endless flow.

Marry Me: Stories from the San Francisco Weddings

2004 • 58 min

A documentary that reveals the emotional tale behind four gay couples who married in San Francisco in 2004, as told in their own words. The relationships, emotions of marrying, and love stories of these couples come alive in this snapshot of a historic moment.

Manipulations

2004 • 7 min

Manipulations is a video inspired by the famous game of logic Rubik’s cube. It is a succession of close-ups of varying intensity showing a pair of hands manipulating a cube with colored faces, to a soundtrack of a regular and insistent beat, the clicking of the cubes combining at times with strident acoustic distortions. As the resolution of the logic game progresses, cubes with black faces that weren’t initially present appear, progressively replacing the colored cubes until the brainteaser becomes completely black, with the exception of a row of cubes with a white line. Meanwhile, the hands tirelessly continue their manipulations while images of the Kaaba are overlaid on those of the hands moving around and being progressively covered in black. This piece is part of a larger body of work initiated in 2004 that also comprises a series of photographs, a sculpture and a video game.

Wade

2004 • 17 min

A short documentary about Wade Atkinson, made after he was hit by an SUV while working as a bike messenger in Seattle.

Stalls

2004 • 3 min

How to beat the long lines to the women’s restroom in three easy steps.