Winterwheat

by Mark Street
16mm, color, 1989

Made by bleaching, scratching and painting directly on the emulsion of an educational film about the farming cycle. The manipulations of the film's surface created hypnotic visuals while also suggesting an apocalyptic narrative.

Learning From Dynasty

by Robert Beck
8:16 min, video, 1986

Steeped in contemporary American culture, Robert Beck’s work is consequently stark, canny, violent, discrepant, and memorializing. Personal and cultural confabulations ramify in an array of mediums, including drawing, photography, sculpture, installation, and video. Misappropriating material excised from both popular and sub-cultural sources, Beck connives artworks that incorporate commonplace materials for uncommon ends. In concisely “off-register” works, phenomenology and psychology are interchangeable. Abiding themes, such as masculinity, language, epistemology, forensics, and sexuality, yield ultimately to the making of art itself, the consummate “how to”, a discourse of salvage.

Controlled Release

by Anthony Discenza
1 min, video, 2005

"I work mainly with material appropriated from commercial film and television. Using re-recording, compression, and signal degradation to break down the original information, I’ve tried to collapse this breaking down these media images, I’m trying to uncover layers of meaning not apparent in the original context. At the same time, I want to problematize the act of viewing itself, in the hopes of revitalizing our relationship to the visual." <read more about this video>

Surfin' USSR
Ballerina
Nice To Meet You

by Delaware
various lengths, digital animation, 1991/2004/2004 (respectively)

Delaware is a japanese super sonic group, designs music and musics design. Their works take on multiple forms such as recordings, visual installation, writing, web, mobile phone, poster, cross stitch, and live performance. They call themselves "Artoonist".

Security Anthem

by Kent Lambert

3.5 min, video, 2003

"An ode to flowers, fear, potatoes, and paranoia, with a special appearance by U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft."

DISCO-NNECT

by Abe Linkoln with Jimpunk and Subculture
3 min, video, analog, & digital, 2007

Experimental video podcast first 2 months megamix. Commissioned by turbulence.org.

Boop-oop-a-doop

by Sachiko Hayashi
5.25 min, video, 2004

"Boop-oop-a-doop" is an observation and investigation of our daily life and plays with 3 different elements: creation of identity, media culture, and our own desire to be somebody else. By taking up two prominent figures in mass media culture, namely Marilyn Monroe and Betty Boop, the project focuses on how these three elements intermingle with each other, re-enforcing each element each time. <read more about this video>

"Boop-oop-a-doop" is included in DVD "Personas and Personalities" published by Aspect Magazine, Boston, with a commentary track by the artist/educator Nicholas Economos. "Personas and Personalities" can be purchased from their web site: http://www.aspectmag.com

A Bay Excursion
"We embarked on many excursions, some far away, some closer to home. This time it may have been uneventful, or something may have happened. It’s difficult to tell, and depends on who is telling."
A Kiss
"Moments from the past seem much longer from here."

by Brook Hinton
1 min each , 16 mm

Tracy Garden is a series of 16mm movies that were found in a basement and reconfigured by Brook Hinton.

Surfin Movie/Blue Screen Ocean

by Guthrie Lonergan
2 min, video and digital, 2004

"My 'Surfing Video' was made by layering two surfing DVD bonus features on top of eachother. I call these features "Surfing Porn." The first was gratuitous amounts of uncut surfing footage, and the second was a bunch of fantasy surfing locations minus any surfers (just some killer waves in pretty places)."

soundtrack = 4 simultatneous hendrix midis

Legible Nature: Fate is an Afterthought

by Adam Chapman
originally 200 days, digital animation, 2006

Legible Nature is a generative video installation projected onto the ceiling in which birds fly across the sky, periodically converging to form a single letter. These letters spell out poems from the Manyoshu – an 8th century collection of Japanese poetry which employs the transient beauty of nature as a metaphor.

A traditional sculpture plinth houses both projector and computer, projecting the piece onto the ceiling. A complete iteration of poems takes over 200 days, if playing continuously, though because the work is generative, each second is unique.

Thrift Store Tape #3

by Brent Watanabe
11 min, video, 2001

"For nearly a decade I’ve been working on a “Thrift Store Tape” series. These videos are created from footage found on discarded home videotapes. On these tapes are fragments of the lives of people I’ve never met and most likely will never encounter. I’m fascinated by the fact that these memories have been lost or sold or traded, and the people that recorded these events have probably forgotten these tapes even exist. The attempt to understand or explain the people on these tapes is futile; they exist only as they filmed each other in a specific time and place. The weddings, graduations, birthdays, and everyday lives captured on these tapes have a fractured, dream-like logic. It is this meandering and seemingly aimless material that I begin with. My process for “finding” the structure of these Thrift Store Tapes is quite similar to my drawing process: I find a cast of characters, situations, and events, then arrange, distort, and attempt to distill the material down to its essence."

Cavitation Bubble Dynamics

by Andrew Shea

Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm.  Once you get that, you can’t use the wrong words…Now this is very profound, what rhythm is, and goes far deeper than words.  A sight, an emotion, creates this wave in the mind, long before it makes words to fit it; and in writing one has to recapture this, and set this working (which has nothing apparently to do with the words) and then, as it breaks and tumbles in the mind, it makes words to fit it.

Virginia Woolf
Letters 3: 247

[Ballet Modern] Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker - CounterPhrases

by Sven König and !Medienguppe Bitnik

The website DOWNLOAD-FINISHED transforms and re-publishes films from P2P networks and online archives. Found footage becomes the rough material for the transformation machine, which translates the underlying data structure of the films onto the surface of the screen. The original images dissolve into pixels, thus making the hidden data structure visible. Through DOWNLOAD-FINISHED, file sharers become authors by re-interpreting their most beloved films.