Art Videos

Three people trapped in the room of a house. The year is 1953. The address is 1953. The time is 19:53. Inspired by Jean-Paul Sartres play, "No Exit". Directed by Vivian Giourousis. Written by Skye Thorstenson based on his original comic of the same name. Starring Vonn Scott Bair as Bob, Terese Aiello as Susie, and Jade Martell as Dorothy.

"[..] In 1844, Samuel Morse invented Morse code, enabling people to communicate instantly over long distances [..] A few years later, a teenage girl called Kate Fox in Rochester, New York began communicating with the spirit of a murdered peddlar by rapping on the walls of her house, using her own crude alphanumerical system, a kind of "folk" appropriation of Morse code. [..] Her psychic activities caused a sensation parallel to the telegraph, sparking the New American Spiritualist Movement, which is still in existence today." (Oursler in Neri, 2001) source: The Presence Project: Tony Oursler, 22/09/2006 Psychic and metaphysic contacts in relation to history of telecommunications inspire Tony Oursler to create Influence Machine (2000). Oursler uses video projections of figures such as the Fox sisters or ghosts, telling stories form another spatiotemporal dimension, onto trees and smoke. tr@nsfer is a reference on Tony Ourslers work. Forests and trees, as a space of ghosts appearance, are becoming a space of

Dir: Rong / UK / 2004 A man, a poem, and a family destroyed. History has never taught us so much.

Dir: Mirai Mizue An animation using the Paradise Lost tale of Adam and Eve as the motif. http://web.mac.com/mirai_mizue/iWeb/MIRAIwebsite/Enter.html