Art Videos

Dir: Joe Berger http://www.arnodestang.co.uk/ A little boy amuses himself on a long and boring train journey. http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/joeberger

A video project I worked on in New York Mills, Minnesota and featuring a wide assortment of my kinetic-art techniques.

"[..] 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: Jamie Rafn United Kingdom - 2003 A man sits iin a pub, soaked to the skin in Guinness. He reflects on the ups and downs of his relationship.