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Erik Bullot
Catalogue : 2014FUGUE GEOGRAPHIQUE | Experimental video | hdv | black and white | 4:0 | France | 2013
Erik Bullot
FUGUE GEOGRAPHIQUE
Experimental video | hdv | black and white | 4:0 | France | 2013
Tourné dans une chapelle transformée en studio, le film Fugue géographique propose une interprétation rythmique et visuelle de la pièce musicale "Geographical Fugue" d`Ernst Toch.
Érik Bullot est cinéaste. Il a réalisé de nombreux films à mi-chemin du film d?artiste et du cinéma expérimental. Il a publié récemment "Sortir du cinéma. Histoire virtuelle des relations de l?art et du cinéma" (Genève, Mamco, 2013) et "Renversements 2. Notes sur le cinéma" (Paris, Paris Expérimental, 2013). Il prépare un essai sur le cinéma performatif ainsi qu?un film sur la réforme de l?alphabet en Turquie. Il enseigne le cinéma à l?École nationale supérieure d?art de Bourges et dirige le post-diplôme «Document et art contemporain» à l?École européenne supérieure de l?image (Poitiers-Angoulême).
Catalogue : 2012TONGUE TWISTERS | Experimental video | dv | color | 11:0 | France | 2011
Erik Bullot
TONGUE TWISTERS
Experimental video | dv | color | 11:0 | France | 2011
"Send toast to ten tense stout saints' ten tall tents". A tongue twister is a sentence hard to pronounce. Presented as a poetic collage, alternating between landscapes and portraits, this film suggests to different models, almost all american, filmed in a studio in Berkeley, to say tongue twisters in their mother tongue or their second one : english, arabic, armenian, assyrian, chinese, korean, croatian, spanish, french, hebrew, japanese, persian, portuguese, tagalog, vietnamese.
Erik Bullot was born in 1963. After studying at the "Ecole National Supérieure de la Photographie" in Arles and at l'IDHED (Paris), he starts directing films halfway between artist film, documentary and experimental cinema. His filmography counts more than twenty titles, like "Le Jardin chinois" (1999), "Le Singe de la lumière" (2002), "Glossolalie" (2005), "Trois faces" (2007), "L`Alliance" (2010). His work has been shown in numerous festivals and museums, in particular "le Jeu de Paume", the Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), the "Biennale de l?image en mouvement" (Genève), the "CCCB" (Barcelone), the "MICEC 08" (Barcelone), La Enana Marrón (Madrid). Member of the "pointligneplan" collective, he coordinated the book "pointligneplan, Cinema and contemporary art" (Léo Scheer, 2002). He recently published "Renversements 1. Notes sur le cinéma" (Paris Expérimental, 2009. He currently teaches cinema at the "Ecole nationale supérieure d'art" of Bourge and is in charge of the post-diploma "Document and contemporary art" at the "Ecole européenne supérieur de l'image" (Angoulême-Poitiers).
Dmitry Bulnygin
Catalogue : 2006UFO in Moscow | Fiction | dv | color | 1:0 | Russia | 2005
Dmitry Bulnygin
UFO in Moscow
Fiction | dv | color | 1:0 | Russia | 2005
Bulnygin Dmitry est né en 1965. Il vit à Novossibirsk en Russie, dont il est diplômé du Architectural Institute en 1990. En l`an 2000, il a débuté une carrière de conservateur. Le premier projet auquel il a abouti a été l`organisation d`un festival international de très courts-métrages (ESF) à Novossibirsk.
Praewa Bulthaweenan
Catalogue : 2020A Real Girl | Documentary | hdv | color | 8:25 | Thailand, United Kingdom | 2018
Praewa Bulthaweenan
A Real Girl
Documentary | hdv | color | 8:25 | Thailand, United Kingdom | 2018
I began to see the complexity and fluidity of sexuality and gender in my early 20s, as growing up believing in a particular concept of my sexuality and others, I felt stuck to an idea. I wanted to be a boy and aspired that when I’m grown enough to have a job I would begin to save money for a sex change surgery. This film celebrates the transcending and inner self discovery, from there, it simplifies self-acceptance. Reflecting on my upbringing and adolescence memoir, performed by myself presenting with a humour approach.
Bulthaweenan, Praewa ‘Bink’ (Bangkok, August 1995 - present) Attended Manchester School of Arts studied Bachelor in Interactive Arts 2018, previous studies in Media, and Fine Art: Photography at Solihull college. Now based in Manchester, U.K. I work with film, writing, performance, sculptor, and ceramics. I began making short films and moving image since 2013 when I studied Photography. I’m interested in looking at ways of telling stories, ritual movements of bodies and surroundings, and using bodies as an object. My current interests is fantasing about the future that already exists in the present, a world where there are no boundaries of cultural concept.
Mladen Bundalo
Catalogue : 2020Hyperinflation | Animation | mp4 | color | 8:36 | Bosnia & Herzegovina, Belgium | 2018
Mladen Bundalo
Hyperinflation
Animation | mp4 | color | 8:36 | Bosnia & Herzegovina, Belgium | 2018
A video essay on hyperinflation, which happened to the Yugoslav dinar from February 1992 to January 1994. Passing through banknotes design, science and personal memories, we make an irrational journey to one of the worst hyperinflation in human history.
An interdisciplinary artist working on a visual, dialogical, and autoethnographical system addressing movement, exchange, value, inflation, temporality, compatibility, and uncertainty, as nodal categories in the experience of modern society. Participated in over 80 international exhibitions, screenings and residencies, among them are: Cairo Video Festival, 2019; Now&After, Moscow, Russia, 2018; Moving Chronotopes, Remont, Belgrade, 2017; FDTD, National gallery of Macedonia, Skopje, 2016; Videographies, Liege, 2015; KulturKontakt’s artists-in-residence, Vienna, 2012; Atelier Banja Luka, Tranzitdisplay, Prague, 2012; La Biennale du Film Exposé, Paris-Montreuil, 2011; Cynetart, Trans-Media-Akademie Hellerau, Dresden, 2010; Crazycurators Biennale, Bratislava, 2010; Fears, parallel event to Manifesta7, Trento, Italy, 2008.
Maximilian Bungarten
Catalogue : 2023The Age of Innocence | Experimental fiction | 0 | color | 20:0 | Germany | 2022
Maximilian Bungarten
The Age of Innocence
Experimental fiction | 0 | color | 20:0 | Germany | 2022
Lev works at a construction site in a new suburban residential area in Western Germany. But things change, friends will leave and the forest becomes a place of desire
Maximilian Bungarten born in 1993, in North Rhine-Westphalia, studies Documentaryfilm at HFF Munich and Université Paris VIII. Together with Camille Tricaud and Felix Herrmann, he founded the production company Benedetta Films. His award-winning short films have screened at numerous international film festivals including ISFF Clermont-Ferrand and art institutions like Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt.
Arne Bunk, Britta von Heintze
Catalogue : 2013Eine zukunftsweisende Vergangenheit | Experimental doc. | hdv | color | 15:0 | Germany | 2012
Arne Bunk, Britta von Heintze
Eine zukunftsweisende Vergangenheit
Experimental doc. | hdv | color | 15:0 | Germany | 2012
A filmic examination of school rooms in the 70s. The era`s school-architecture displays the intention of historical and educational reforms. We are interested in the Utopia written into the architectural designs and the current state of schools. Rebuilding and repurposing point to a tense area between planning and actual usage.
Arne Bunk is a freelance artist and filmmaker. In 2010 he has been studying for his PhD with an academic and an aesthetic (film) component at Hamburg`s University of Fine Arts. He holds a scholarship from the Hans Böckler Foundation (promoting German talent) and since 2006 has taught film in schools in and around Hamburg. His short films have been shown at international short film festivals (including in Busan, Berlin, Madrid, New York and Paris), and rated "recommended" and "highly recommended" by the German Film Evaluation Board.
Arne Bunk
Catalogue : 2010Bühne:wolfsburg | Experimental doc. | 35mm | black and white | 15:0 | Germany | 2009
Arne Bunk
Bühne:wolfsburg
Experimental doc. | 35mm | black and white | 15:0 | Germany | 2009
The city of Wolfsburg can be interpreted as a model of various urban planning and architectural blueprints of modernity. The film fluctuates between cinematic movement and photographic stagnation, thereby counteracting the metropolitan directive regarding mobility and acceleration.
Brit Bunkley
Catalogue : 2006Vignettes of War and Business | Experimental film | dv | color | 10:15 | New Zealand | 2005
Brit Bunkley
Vignettes of War and Business
Experimental film | dv | color | 10:15 | New Zealand | 2005
The short video vignettes use both animated environments and real footage in an attempt to blur the line between augmented realities and actual settings in order to create an ominous atmosphere of transformation and exposure. It is my intention that the videos function by capturing imagined moving images in believable but slightly skewed settings that are both convincing and unsettling that creates a context that accentuates the sinister socio-political content of the quick (TV advertising length) punch-line animations The Vignettes of War and Business are a series of recent interrelated short 3D animations woven together that obliquely refer to the US ?permanent war economy? that has been transposed into the context of modern corporate New Zealand (which, as in most countries, is often at the mercy of the ?virtual parliament? of international investors and corporations). These vignettes reflect on paranoia, beauty and terror that is inherent in the modern world both here and in the USA. (8 min 56 sec) ?Fleece Blackout?: a short video animation of a 3D model sheep that stands (mostly) stationary and statue-like in a mountainous landscape while cruise missiles fly by and the woollen fleece on the sheep slowly turns into a photographic floral pattern. ?Masquerade?: a whimsical vignette of manufactured fear -?starring? a clown based on a 19th century cast iron bank, and a news commentator in a gas mask (waiting for the WMD?s during the invasion of Iraq.) ?4 Heads?: 4 heads with balaclava-like mapping of textiles wiggling their ears and noses. (with clips morphed from the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers) ?Red Cap?: Obliquely referring to the Citizen Cain inspired lost innocence. The Return of the Body Snatchers: The Return of the Body Snatchers is a 3d animation (obliquely influenced by the original Siegel movie The Invasion of the Body Snatchers) that takes into consideration the current global social-political climate of fear. ?Girl in the Canoe?, the sheep from ?Fleece Blackout? float down a river. It is followed by an inner tube and rubber duckie. A ?girl on a canoe? is reflected on the water. An old trite postcard of a girl in the Canoe in Wanganui, New Zealand fades (and blurs) out at the end of the clip. The soundtrack is by myself and the addition of three musical clips: by Alistair Galbraith and Constantine Karlis from the CD Radiant¸ ?In Prelight Isolate? by Set Fire To Flames, from the album ?Telegraphs in Negative?, and ?Translation? by Songs:Ohia.
Brit Bunkley Bio Brit Bunkley is the head of sculpture and a lecturer in digital media at the Quay School of the Arts, Wanganui UCOL in Wanganui, New Zealand. He immigrated to New Zealand from New York City with his family in 1995. They became NZ citizens in 1999. Bunkley`s previous 16 years in New York as a working sculptor and photographer included building numerous commissions while also receiving several grants and fellowships such as the National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship grant and the Rome Prize Fellowship. Since immigrating to New Zealand, Bunkley has had several solo shows in public and private galleries including a recent show at Te Tuhi - The Mark in Auckland in February - April 2002 and a show at the McPherson Gallery in Auckland, February 2003, the New Zealand Film Archive Pelorus Trust Mediagallery and Lopdell House 2005. Bunkley also has been included in numerous NZ group shows ranging from St@rt up : New Interactive Media and Animation at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa to Intersculpt:2001 in Wellington and Intersculpt:2003 in Auckland (which he also curated) at the Adam Gallery in Wellington. He has recently shown digital video/sculpture installations at, the Mary Newton Gallery 2005. Overseas, Bunkley was chosen as one of the 6 ?working artists? at the SIGGRAPH:2002 digital art exhibit in San Antonio in 2002. He also recently co-chaired the Art Show of the ACM sponsored GRAPHITE: 2003 conference and art show; at the Span Gallery, Melbourne, Australia February 2003. In 2003, he exhibited digital sculpture and video at SIGGRAPH:2003 in San Diego, Expace[ex-space] project#002 video screening, Knitting Factory, NYC, Not Still Art Festival, The Micro Museum, New York City, the Transference, The Manipulation Of Vision in Sydney, Australia. He also participated in the traveling International RP Sculpture Exhibition that has been at 10 international venues including the Zoller Gallery at Penn State University, Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey, Chicago Institute of Technology, Chicago, Ill. He screened digital animation videos at the Ciberart-Bilbao 2004 Festival and art show, Bilbao, Spain April 2004, the Thailand New Media Festival in Bangkok in March 2004 and more recently at the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, the First International Festival of Electronic Art 404 /Astas, Argentina. This year he showed a video animation at Prog:ME the1st Festival of Electronic Media of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, File 2005, Sao Paolo Brazil and Not Still Art at the Micro Museum in NYC in September. This video work is an award winner at the Sarjeant Gallery in New Zealand for 2005. Bunkley co-curated and participate in ?Made Known?, a show of digital sculpture and video 3D animation, with Ian Gwilt at the University of Technology (UTS) Gallery, Sydney, Australia this September. Vignettet of war and Business recently won the top award at the Sarjeant Gallery annual award show. His work will tour New Zealand as part of the Wallace Trust in 2005-2006.
Brit Bunkley
Catalogue : 2025Natural Intelligence | Video | digital | color | 7:14 | | 2024
Brit Bunkley
Natural Intelligence
Video | digital | color | 7:14 | | 2024
This video is a scrapbook of dreams of (or by) animals inhabiting a world without humans. Natural Intelligence is “intelligence created by nature, natural evolutionary mechanisms,” - as opposed to artificial intelligence. With it, “there is a dynamic movement of natural intelligence that evolves from vague, fuzzy, and unconscious states to more concrete and conscious states, and thus realizing the essence of perception” (Perlovsky and Kozma, 2007, p. 1). It is beautiful and deeply flawed, but it levels out in the end.
Brit Bunkley is a New Zealand-based artist and videographer whose practice includes the construction of large-scale outdoor sculptures and installations as well as the creation of ‘impossible’ moving and still images and architecture designed using 3D modelling, video editing, and image editing programs. Bunkley, a NZ/USA dual citizen, received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, two NY state grants, and the Rome Prize Fellowship in the USA. He has exhibited at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa, had international screenings, including the White Box Gallery in NYC, the Athens Digital Arts Festival, at the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin several times between 2003-2024, and exhibited video multiple times at File SaoPaolo. In 2012, he was an award winner at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art for the «Now&After» Festival. He participated in the Athens Digital Arts Festival in 2017 and File Sao Paolo (2017, 2018, 2019). Bunkley screened his video, Ghost Shelter/6, at The Federation Square Big Screen, Channels Festival 2017, Melbourne, and at the Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany, in 2018. He participated in the Visions in the Nunnery at the Nunnery/Bows art gallery in London in 2022 and in 2024 at Rencontres Berlin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, and he exhibited in Artweek Gyumri, Armenia. he was the award winner for Best Art | Experimental video/film at the New York City Independent Film Festival 2024 in NYC.
Brit Bunkley
Catalogue : 2023The Peaceable Kingdom | Experimental video | mp4 | color | 5:28 | New Zealand, Spain | 2023
Brit Bunkley
The Peaceable Kingdom
Experimental video | mp4 | color | 5:28 | New Zealand, Spain | 2023
“The Peaceable Kingdom” is a deep fake ontology. It is a dreamscape of various domestic and wild animals inhabiting human architectural spaces metaphorically and physically as both totems and discrete intelligent beings. The title is taken from a series of paintings by the Quaker minister and painter, Edward Hicks.
Brit Bunkley is a New Zealand-based artist and videographer whose practice includes the construction of large-scale outdoor sculpture and installations as well as the creation of ‘impossible’ moving and still images and architecture designed using 3D modeling, video editing, and image editing programs. Bunkley, an NZ/USA citizen, has also been a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and the Rome Prize Fellowship in the USA. International screenings include the White Box gallery in NYC and the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin. In 2012 Bunkley was an award winner at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art for the «Now&After» Festival. He took part in the Athens Digital Arts Festival and File Sao Paolo 2017, 2018, and 2019. Bunkley screened his video, Ghost Shelter/6 at The Federation Square Big Screen, Channels Festival 2017, Melbourne, and at the Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany in 2018, Docfest Kassel 2019 and Jihlava IDFF 2021 and 2022, Czech Republic. And Video Art Miden and Video Art Projects, Municipal Gallery of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece, FILE SP 2023 exhibition and Hochkantfilmfest, Portrait -video on advertising billboards, Bremen, Germany in 2023 Recent group exhibitions include the “Stories of Rust”, Tauranga Art Gallery, Tauranga, NZ, and “Green Around'' in Taipei, Taiwan in 2019, the Auckland Botanic Gardens 2022 and “Sculpture on the Gulf” 2022, Auckland, NZ, the “2021 National Contemporary Art Award”, Waikato Museum, Waikato, NZ and “Visions in the Nunnery”, Bows Art/Nunnery Gallery, London in 2022. Recent solo exhibitions include Solo exhibitions include the Sarjeant Gallery, Whanganui, New Zealand in 2018, the Institut für Alles Mögliche/Stützpunkt Teufelsberg, Berlin 2019, The Rabbit Room, Napier, NZ 2022, at Scott Lawrie Gallery, Auckland New Zealand 2022, and aGallery, Whanganui, NZ.
Catalogue : 2019Ghost Zone | Video | hdv | color | 6:25 | New Zealand | 2018
Brit Bunkley
Ghost Zone
Video | hdv | color | 6:25 | New Zealand | 2018
Ghost Zone is an homage to Tarkovsky`s “Stalker” (1979) takes us on a journey to the original expedition into the ineffable aqueous “Zone” - where wishes may be granted to one’s detriment. Bunkley stitches together his own footage in such a way that the landscape and buildings resemble a magic realist post-apocalyptic wasteland. Photographic composites of two rural locations has been made a lot easier with the use of drone captured imagery in that they will accommodate points of view not accessible form the ground. From this data he uses photogrammetry 3D scanning to create his eerie works as “œislands of memoryâ” - akin to the islands that feature in the science fiction film Solaris (1972) by Andrei Tarkovsky. (Photogrammetry uses multiple photographs placed within software that creates 3d printable meshes.) By extracting these images, the buildings are divorced from their surrounds while the videos resemble chunks of architecture and landscape made from an indefinable material floating in black cyberspace.Ultimately they refer to eschatology - the “end of time”.
Brit Bunkley is a New Zealand based artist whose art practice includes the proposal and construction of large scale outdoor sculptures, discrete objects, installations as well as the creation of ”impossible” moving and still images and architecture designed using computer 3D modelling, video editing and image editing programs. His work explores an oblique sense of paranoid apocalyptic fear tempered with a sense of whimsy and irony. International screenings include the White Box gallery in NYC and Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin (2016, 2018, 2019), and at the Cité Internationale des Arts in 2018. He took part in the Athens Digital Arts Festival and File Sao Paolo 2017 and 2018. Bunkley screened his video, Ghost Shelter/6 at The Federation Square Big Screen, Channels Festival 2017, Melbourne and at the Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany in 2018. In 2012 Bunkley was an award winner at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art for the «Now&After» Festival, and he was again included in «Now&After» at Moscow’s Artplay Design Center February 2018. Recent solo exhibitions include Ghost Shelter 17 at Te Uru, Titirangi, Auckland, The Happy Place- Sanderson Contemporary Art, Auckland and the Sarjeant Gallery, Whanganui, New Zealand in 2018.
Catalogue : 2018Ghost Shelter/6 | Experimental video | hdv | color | 5:49 | New Zealand | 2017
Brit Bunkley
Ghost Shelter/6
Experimental video | hdv | color | 5:49 | New Zealand | 2017
Ghost Shelter/6: encompasses a variety of significant post-industrial structures all at the edge of metropolitan regions in various states of ruin. They are created from 3D scans and drone footage, rendered and animated in 3D as discrete virtual entities simulating islands of memory (as in Tarkovsky’s Solaris). 1.Chemiewerk Rüdersdorf, an abandoned chemical factory in the former German Democratic Republic 2.The Teufelsberg, a NSA listening station in Berlin built on top of a man-made hill constructed from the rubble of WW2 Berlin. 3.Immerath, a ghost town in western Germany removed in 2017 by the energy giant RWE for the expansion of their open cast coal mine, Garzweiler. 4.The Martha Project, a NZ open cast gold mine whose mining operations ground to a halt due a major landslide collapsing the north wall of the mine. 5.Domes of Case Grande, an incomplete and abandoned futuristic computer facility in Arizona. 6.The Sleeping Beauty Castle, the centrepiece of the California Disneyland Park, modelled on the late 19th century Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria, Germany.
Brit Bunkley’s current art practice includes public art, sculpture, installation, and the creation of “impossible” moving and still images and architecture designed using computer 3D modelling, video and image editing programs, with content emphasizing majestic landscapes, human revelry and an oblique sense of apocalyptic anxiety tempered with whimsy and irony. Brit is represented in numerous international collections and has completed a dozen permanent and temporary public art projects. In addition, he has received several grants and fellowships including a Wallace Trust grant in NZ; a New York State Fellowship (CAPS) grant, a New York State Council on the Arts project grant, a USA National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and the American Academy Rome Prize Fellowship. Recent international group exhibitions and screenings include Sanctioned Array-Other2 Specify at the White Box gallery in NYC, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid at the Centre Pompidou and at the Reina Sofia National Museum, Madrid, Spain; The Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; FILE 2012 at the SESI' Cultural Centre Sao Paulo, Brazi;, the Berlin International Director?s Lounge 2014 and the Moscow Museum of Modern Art where he won an award. Bunkley?s most recent solo exhibition, Social Realism opened at the Sanderson Contemporary Art, Auckland, NZ November 2014- with forthcoming solo exhibition November 2015. Recent video exhibitions and festivals include FILE 2015; Fiesp Cultural Center, Sao Paulo, Brazil; the International Video Art Festival “ Now&After ” MINI VIDEO'15, Schusev Museum of Architecture, Moscow, Russia, and International short- and longfilm videodays 2015 and 2016, G.A.S-station, Berlin, Germany
Catalogue : 2016Oil Petals (Pillar of Cloud) | Experimental video | hdv | color | 3:42 | New Zealand | 2015
Brit Bunkley
Oil Petals (Pillar of Cloud)
Experimental video | hdv | color | 3:42 | New Zealand | 2015
Oil, ghost towns and dust devils are aligned as tropes of climate change. Tornado-like dust devils, as canaries in the coal mine, are increasingly common in hot, barren deserts and in drought stricken areas of the world. I imagined spilling flower petals into the path of dust devil so that it would create a colorful vortex of swirling petals. I recently found a few dust devils during each of my 3 trips to the California desert, but they are fast, dissipate quickly and mostly too far off the road to catch…always just ahead of my car. When I was ready to give up looking after my third desert trip and was focusing my camera on abandoned school, a well-formed small dust devil appeared about 10 meters to my right. I turned my camera on a tripod towards it, snatched a bag of flower petals that I had bought at LA`s flower district and ran into the small vortex dumping the contents. It grabbed the petals and dumped them over a nearby road.
Brit Bunkley is a New Zealand based artist whose current art practice includes public art, sculpture, installation, and video. He designs his work using digital 3D modelling, video and image editing programs… emphasising majestic landscapes, human revelry and an oblique sense of apocalyptic anxiety tempered with whimsy and irony. Brit is represented in numerous international collections and has completed a dozen permanent and temporary public art projects. He is a recipient of a New York State Fellowship grant, a New York State Council on the Arts project grant, a USA National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and the American Academy Rome Prize Fellowship. He has completed more than a dozen temporary and permanent public art projects including the commission Hear My Train in Wanganui, New Zealand completed in 2012 and a public screening at the Oslo Central Station, Oslo Screen Festival in collaboration with Kunsthall Oslo, Oslo, Norway autumn 2013. Recent international group exhibitions and screenings include 2015 at the SESI` Cultural Centre Sao Paulo, Brazil, the Berlin International Director’s Lounge 2014 and the Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Bunkley’s most recent solo exhibition, The Happy Place opened at the Sanderson Contemporary Art, Auckland, NZ November 2014.
Catalogue : 2011Up River Blues | Video | dv | color | 4:34 | New Zealand | 2010
Brit Bunkley
Up River Blues
Video | dv | color | 4:34 | New Zealand | 2010
Up River Blues is a dreamlike series of vignettes featuring the region surrounding the Whanganui River Valley. The Whanganui River is New Zealand?s longest navigable river with rich historical significance. The abandoned Shangri-la commune of Ahu Ahu Ohu, on the Ahu ahu tributary of the Whanganui is the central feature of this video. In 1974 the NZ government found an ?Ohu Scheme? on public land to establish communes - ?intentional communities?. Most failed. This was one of the longest lasting "Ohus". A sense of apocalyptic foreboding was created through special effects including 3D animations of a stranded Russian submarine rusting on a steep inland hill and black helicopters flying over Ahu Ahu Ohu. (In fact, helicopters are a reality in this region in the government?s search for marijuana crops; the hills are indeed former sea beds.) In combining apocalyptic paranoia with irreverent whimsy the video ends with a tree disappearing into its shadow and a crop duster reversing into a cloud of dust.
Brit Bunkley, emigrated with his family in 1995 from New York City to take up a teaching position to New Zealand. Bunkley`s art practice during his 16 years in New York included building numerous commissions while also receiving several grants and fellowships including a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship grant, New York State artist Fellowship, and the Rome Prize Fellowship. (see: www.britbunkley.com) Bunkley?s work has appeared in many solo and group shows internationally and is in many public and private collections in New Zealand and the USA. Exhibitions included St@rt up: New Interactive Media and Animation at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa and SIGGRAPH 2003 , 2004 and 2006. In addition he showed artwork at Ciberart-Bilbao 2004 Festival and art show, Bilbao, Spain, Prog:ME the1st Festival of Electronic Media of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil; Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Caracas, 2005 in Paris and 2006 in Venezuela. Bunkley?s sculpture has been commissioned by the NY MTA, the Minnesota Percent for Art program, Connells? Bay, NZ and several other public and private agencies (His work is featured in the Along the Way: MTA Arts for Transit, Celebrating 20 Years of Public Art, by the Monacelli Press; 2006 and The Art of Placemaking: Interpreting Community Through Public Art and Urban Design, 2008, by Ronald Lee Fleming.) Recent shows include FILE RIO 2007 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and FILE - Electronic Language International Festival, in Sao Paolo: Brazil, March 2008; Urban Screens Melbourne 08; Federal Square, Melbourne, Australia; Eform; Beijing - Today Art Museum; Shanghai - Duolun Museum of Modern Art; Chongqing - Jinse Gallery; Migration, Völklingen, Germany; as well as solo shows at the NZ Film Archive Gallery ?A Slow Train a? Comin?? and at Mary Newton Gallery - both in Wellington, New Zealand. In 2008 he co-curated and participated in the show Terrible Beauties, at City Art Room in Auckland. File 10 Nurbs Proto 4KT, Sao Paolo. In 2010 he co-curated and participated in the exhibition Hybrids at Auckland?s MIC gallery; exhibited at the National Contemporary Art Award at the Waikato Museum of Art, NZ; Insideout, Sydney; A Light at the End of the Tunnel, Scope Basel, Basel; From the Earth to Space: Exobiology & Biodiversity, Cité des sciences et de l`Industrie, Paris; and he recently had a solo show at the Mary Newton Gallery in Wellington. He will exhibit video at the E4C: Electronic Gallery; Seattle.
Paola Buontempo
Catalogue : 2019Las fuerzas | Documentary | 0 | color | 17:40 | Argentina | 2018
Paola Buontempo
Las fuerzas
Documentary | 0 | color | 17:40 | Argentina | 2018
Las fuerzas follows a group of future jockeys. Under a school logic, with methods and forms of assimilation similar to any other kind of learning system, the material to be modeled is the body. A body that is complemented by an other, a small body that should not grow, of a latent fragility, always about to break.
Degree in Audiovisual Arts from the National University of La Plata, Argentina. Her short films Las Instancias del Vértigo (2010), Los Animales (2012), Las Fuerzas (2018) were screened at Cinéma du Réel, BAFICI, Film Society Lincoln Center, FICUNAM, FIC Valdivia, La Habana, among others. She was part of the Film Laboratory of Universidad Di Tella, coordinated by MartÃn Rejtman and Andrés Di Tella. Currently, she´s developing her first feature, The breed of swift.
Bureau Of Inverse Technology
Catalogue : 2006Lax | Experimental video | dv | color | 15:30 | United Kingdom | 2005
Bureau Of Inverse Technology
Lax
Experimental video | dv | color | 15:30 | United Kingdom | 2005
February 2004. An agent of the Bureau of Inverse Technology (BIT) transiting Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), is surrounded and immobilised by at least 16 police and airline security officials, for declining to remove her rollerblades. This refusal, seemingly trivial, precipitates the traveller across the fine line from Premiere customer to possible insane felon. The agent`s digital camera, stowed in her carry-on baggage, records the encounter. LAX captures the banality of a routine airport disaster that can be seen to exhibit a broader condition: the escalation of controls; the amendments to personal mobility; and the diffuse effects of over-policing airports in the wake of September 11. "YOU WORE YOUR ROLLERBLADES TODAY BUT YOU DECIDED YOU DIDN`T WANT TO CARRY YOUR CERTIFICATE THAT AUTHORISES YOU TO WEAR ROLLERBLADES"
Bureau of Inverse Technology (BIT) formed 1991 in Melbourne AU, incorporated Cayman Islands. The Bureau is an information agency servicing the Information Age.
Daniel Burkhardt
Catalogue : 2021Semiotics of the City | Experimental video | 4k | color | 4:3 | Germany | 2020
Daniel Burkhardt
Semiotics of the City
Experimental video | 4k | color | 4:3 | Germany | 2020
The city is not. Not because of a hypothetical, physical absence — the city is well present — but because it escapes naming. (Johannes Binotto and Andri Gerber)
Daniel Burkhardt studied Media Art at the Academy of Media Arts (KHM) in Cologne where he now lives and works. His video and audio visual installations playful and ingeniously expose human perception as the driving motor behind the construction of meaning.
Torsten Burns
Catalogue : 2008Extending Trainer:Pressure suits & Broom-crafts | Video | dv | color | 21:0 | USA | 2007
Torsten Burns
Extending Trainer:Pressure suits & Broom-crafts
Video | dv | color | 21:0 | USA | 2007
EXTENDING TRAINER:PRESSURE SUITS & BROOM-CRAFTS 21:00-STEREO-©2007 A performance (team-up) between alternative space agencies, crypto training facilities, past-regressed speculative family workshops, feline android studies, green helmets, beams of light, spectacular processed strollers, organic projectiles, arcane crew choreography, and video residency programs.
Torsten Zenas Burns received his MFA in video and performance art from The San Franscisco Art Institute in 1993. He has created & curated video and installation projects exploring speculative content, including alternative educational practices, experimental space programs, zombie relationships, and improvisational rescue choreographies. Other projects include collaborations with artist Darrin Martin, and Anthony Discenza as Halflifers. Burns` video work is distributed by The Video Data Bank in Chicago, and Lux Center in England. Burns has participated in residency programs including Headlands Center for the Arts, L.M.C.C. World Views Studio Program and Eyebeam. Burns has screened video at The Museum of Modern Art (NY), Scanners: The New York Video Festival, the European Media Arts Festival(Germany), and the Impakt Festival(Netherlands).
Torsten Zenas Burns
Catalogue : 2014FAMILIARS | Experimental film | hdv | color | 9:0 | USA | 2012
Torsten Zenas Burns
FAMILIARS
Experimental film | hdv | color | 9:0 | USA | 2012
Familiars is an experimental video project re-imagining the Skinner family Massachusetts Wistariahurst house and grounds as a fictional residency program populated by speculative Holyoke entities. Improvisational scenes include collaborations between (Kirsten cameras),(Hanne recorders), kitten & Catman super beings, living memories, baseball ramblers, silk worms, immersion Man, frozen aviary bell jar, Japanese & American mill workers, ectoplasmic typewriters, and 20th century spectral publishing entities.
Torsten Zenas Burns is an artist, curator, and media arts educator living in Holyoke, Massachusetts. He received his BFA in video art in 1990 from the New York State College of Art & Design at Alfred University, and his MFA in New Genres: video and performance art from The San Francisco Art Institute in1993. He has created & curated video, photo and installation projects exploring speculative content, including re-imagined educational practices, experimental space programs, zombie / afterlife relationships, post-human fictions, and improvisational (splatstick). Other collabotronica projects include collaborations with Anthony Discenza under the name HALFLIFERS, Darrin Martin, and VIROCODE. Burns` selected video work is distributed by Vtape, (Canada), Video Data Bank (USA), LUX (England) and EAI (USA). Over the past 19 years Burns has participated in nine residency programs including Headlands Center for the Arts (CA), Experimental Television Center (NY), L.M.C.C. World Views Studio Program, and Eyebeam (NYC). Burns has had video work screened at the NYC Museum of Modern Art`s Video Viewpoints and Premieres series, The Whitney Museum of American Art (NYC), The Pacific Film Archive (CA), SF Cameraworks (CA), Dumbo Arts Center (NY), Video_Dumbo (NY), Aurora Picture Show (TX), Migrating forms (NYC), Krowswork Gallery, (CA), The Chicago Underground Film Festival, The European Media Arts Festival (Germany), The Impakt Festival (Netherlands), The Melbourne International Film Festival (Australia), The Oberhausen Short Film Festival (Germany), The Busan international video festival (South Korea), and The Stuttgarter Filmwinter: Festival for Expanded Media (Germany), In 2011 HALFLIFERS was featured with an artist page in the book Radical Light: Avant Garde Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-2000. In 2012 he curated BODYRADIO for Parsons Hall Project Space in Holyoke, Massachusetts. In 2013 Burns & Discenza as HALFLIFERS co-curated a group exhibition and performance series called: I think we?re ready to go to the next sequence: the legacy of HALFLIFERS at Gallery 400, Chicago, IL.
Torsten Zenas Burns, Darrin Martin
Catalogue : 2025Generalized Hospitals: The Luke Luke and Laura Laura story ...Just one more thing! | Video | 4k | color | 59:0 | USA, Finland | 2024
Torsten Zenas Burns, Darrin Martin
Generalized Hospitals: The Luke Luke and Laura Laura story ...Just one more thing!
Video | 4k | color | 59:0 | USA, Finland | 2024
Generalized Hospitals: The Luke Luke & Laura Laura story …Just one more thing! VILM, Stereo, Color, 57:30, DCP, 2024 Generalized Hospitals: The Luke Luke and Laura Laura story …Just one more thing! is the latest collaboration by Darrin Martin and Torsten Zenas Burns reframing elements of nostalgic popular culture into contemporary dialogue with soap operatic tropes, fictional televisual humor, and interspecies relationships. Characters from daytime drama, 1970's children programming, gameshows, and sequential art history are reimagined and re-contextualized to consider new potential mutations and cohabitations to thrive in a changing environment. Transformation is unboxed, and memory solicited through easter eggs, lidar animations, appropriations, and original videos interweaving recognizable characters from television commingled with their new doubled variants. Just one more thing…. Our forecasted performative rituals may suggest ways that these characters merge human and non-human characteristics of past trauma into new bodies of possibility.
Burns & Martin both received BFA’s at Alfred University. Burns received his MFA in video and performance from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1993. Martin received an MFA in media and sculpture from The University of California, San Diego in 2000. Together, they have based their videos and installations on their research into diverse speculative fictions including re-imagined educational practices, appropriated horror genres, animation choreographies, soap-opera cosplay, and cryptid human love stories. Selected videos are distributed by VTape, Ontario, Canada and Video Data Bank, Chicago. They have participated in residencies at Eyebeam, Signal Culture, and The Experimental Television Center. Their single channel videos have screened at venues including The Museum of Art & Design, Pacific Film Archive, Aurora Picture Show, Migrating Forms, Video_Dumbo, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Madrid Museum of Contemporary Art, Stuttgarter Filmwinter Festival for Expanded Media, Oberhausen Short Film and Video Festival, European Media Arts Festival, Spectacle Theater, 18th Athens Digital Arts Festival, and the Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival. Their installations have exhibited at venues including Eyebeam, The Lab, Krowswork Gallery, Fosdick Nelson Gallery at Alfred University, Hobart and William-Smith Davis Gallery, Zhangzhou Museum of Art in China, and The Tack Room Project Space in LaVerne, CA.
Bill Burns
Catalogue : 2023A Chant for the Bees | Experimental film | super8 | color | 7:27 | Canada | 2022
Bill Burns
A Chant for the Bees
Experimental film | super8 | color | 7:27 | Canada | 2022
A Chant for the Bees is a film about everyday events: a visit to a nearby copse by the creek, some goats at the farm, some young tennis players volleying and breathing heavily on a summer's day, a young family preparing to embark on a ferry, a visit to the seals at the aquarium, some amusement park rides, the neighbour’s cat on the front porch, a stroll past the supermarket on the high street, a view of some ships at harbour. The original music is composed by Alan Gasser. The libretto is based on a list of the 100 largest companies in the world from Fortune Magazine. It is sung as a Georgian Chant by Alan Gasser and Emma So.
Bill Burns comes from a bookselling family in Saskatchewan. He learned about art and tractors from monks, poets and farmers. He is artistic director of the Big Pond Small Fish Laboratory in Toronto. His works are included in collections at the Museum of Modern, New York; Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz; Tate Britain, London; the Getty Center, Los Angeles; Remai Modern, Saskatoon; and the Cabinet des estampes, Geneva. His published books and essays include When Pain Strikes, a scholarly anthology, (University of Minnesota Press, 1999: Minneapolis) ; Bird Radio, (Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Koenig and KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 2007: Berlin) ; The Guide to the Flora and Fauna Information Service:0.800.0FAUNA0FLORA, (Institute of Contemporary Arts, 2008: London, England) ; Three Books About Plants and Animals and War (Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Koenig 2011: Cologne). His two most recent books are Hans Ulrich Obrist Hear Us, a memoir about his life as an artist (Black Dog Publishing, 2016: London) and Bill Burns: Three Short Films and Some Happenings about Donkeys, Goats, Cowboys and Container Ships (Griffin Art Projects: 2023, Vancouver). He studied at Goldsmiths’ College, London (MA) and lives in the trees at Toronto.
Peter Burr
Catalogue : 2010junk spirals | Animation | dv | color | 5:30 | USA | 2009
Peter Burr
junk spirals
Animation | dv | color | 5:30 | USA | 2009
Michael Busch
Catalogue : 2021How Long is Now | Experimental doc. | 4k | color | 84:32 | Germany | 2020
Michael Busch
How Long is Now
Experimental doc. | 4k | color | 84:32 | Germany | 2020
The human being in the net, an image that is paradigmatic for the entire work: Laocoon, the warner in front of the Trojan horse, as a sculpture he is already constricted by the snake, the snake connects him with his sons, together they form an ensemble of powerlessness. The warner in front of the poisoned gift of the future repeats what Pandora’s box has brought over mankind. The future that points out from this present holds dangers and hopes in equal measure. In HOW LONG IS NOW the spider’s web appears in a variety of ways. It is the imperial railway network that spreads colonialism, it is the data cables that lie in the sea between the continents, it is the algorithms that dominate trade and stock exchange, it is the gps system, the face recognition software, the distorted maps of the world. The human being in it struggles with his mortality, struggles with language, the concepts that shape thought and action, struggles with morality and struggles with its expansion in the technosphere. The film makes shameless use of the image reservoir of the twentieth century, casually quoting the history of the moving image and the history of its progressive virtualization. The image plane sometimes nestles close to the spoken narrative of the lectures, then again it expands the space of discourse, adds associations and situations, and networks itself with the heritage of the expanded present. For four years I have been participating in these events and produced a series of short cinema trailers to promote them. The clips are 30 second long experimental films in a stream of consciousness manner. With the visual archive that was created along these productions and the possibility to use the HKW archive, the idea arose to develop a long, full-length work from it. I wanted to create a space of possibilities in which questions about our present can be articulated, beyond the quickly googled answer
studied applied theatre science at Universitiy Gießen and fine arts and experimental film at University of Fine Arts, Berlin. Makes films and film performances. Worked as a film curator for Volksbühne Berlin theatre between 2003 and 2017, held a professorship for experimental film at University of Art, Berlin from 2007 to 2013. his works have been shown at International Film Festivals like Berlinale Forum Expanded, at Centre Pompidou, Paris, at Reina Sophia, Madrid, at Art Biennale Sao Paulo, at Torino International Film Festival, San Francisco, Edinburgh.
Michael Busch
Catalogue : 2015Buch Der Gesichte, Kapitel 1-5 | Video | hdv | color | 15:0 | Germany | 2014
Michael Busch
Buch Der Gesichte, Kapitel 1-5
Video | hdv | color | 15:0 | Germany | 2014
"Gesichte" is an old fashioned german word, close to "Gesichter", which means "faces", but these faces are more of a vision, an image from a dream or a hallucination, it is about inner landscapes. The one who sees these phantoms is in a transcendent room, an undefined in-between. "Gesichte" also appears in the japanese Noh theatre plays, where real people meet ghosts, souls of the passed, that find no rest. The Visions Book - in Germany nearly a translation of "facebook" - is a collection of my obsession of this worlds in-between, merging worlds, overlapping worlds, overlapping like two green screen video images, not accurate enough to avoid the light greenish shimmer in the hair of the teenage model. The basis of this collection is the photographic still image, the frozen pose. The film is like a photobook in time, the "book" like part of it like a page of a facebook chronical, a pile of short clips, pix, texts, comments, in a boundless subjectivity.
Born in 1965, artist, filmmaker, he studied fine arts at University Of Fine Arts, Berlin 1993-98 and graduated at the class for experimental film and arts of Heinz Emigholz, 1999. From 2006 to 2011 he has been teaching film at Filmakademie Ludwigsburg. From 2007 to 2012 he held a professorship at University Of Fine Arts, Berlin in the "experimental film" class and works as a film music composer, script writer, editing consultant. His own films include WORDS FOR WINDOWS (1996, 15 min. WP Int Forum Des Jungen Films, Berlinale GER) HYPERBOOKS (1999, 38min, WP Int. Short Film Days Oberhausen GER) VIRTUAL VAMPIRE (1999; 92 min, WP Max Ophüls Prize,Saarbrucken, GER) SEVEN HEAVENS (2005, 92min,WP Torino Int. Film Festival, I) THE ELECTRIC PARADISE (2010,208min, WP Int. Forum Expanded, Berlinale; GER) ERSTER SCHNEE (2014, 27 min, in postproduction) and the project VISIONS BOOK (2012-2014) Michael Busch lives and works in Berlin.
Michael Busch
Catalogue : 2013Strange Matter | Performance | | | 45:0 | Germany | 2013
Michael Busch
Strange Matter
Performance | | | 45:0 | Germany | 2013