A 'reversal' of Jean-Léon Gérôme's 1872 painting Pollice Verso.
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Wax and wane until there is naught but boring pain.
Lines align during acclimated apexes, shadowy vertices, and bright burrows.
There is nothing left to do but complain.
Rather pointless, rather stilted, fetid; not what we want us going after.
(Some of us) Still run down the same [mental&emotional] streets we revered/reproached/replaced as children.
Part of a collection of restored early works by Nam June Paik, the haunting Beatles Electronique reveals Paik's engagement with manipulation of pop icons and electronic images. Snippets of footage from A Hard Day's Night are countered with Paik's early electronic processing.
Hiding inside&out, writhing about, taken out&in.
A proto-music video: three minutes of experimental animation set to the tune of Romeo Nelson's 'Head Rag Hop'.
5 minute experimental film.
Tones rise and fall as images replicate and reorder, dizzying, nauseating -- vexing.
4 minute experimental film.
"a feeling of listlessness and dissatisfaction arising from a lack of occupation or excitement."
A surreal post-apocalyptic drama by Patrick Kennelly inspired by the clipping. album “Splendor & Misery”
A hybrid artistic bet and therefore binding in which the architectural space ceases to be a scene of contemplation and awakens enhanced by the flow of dance whose impulse in a swing between the volumetry of the space and the sensitive gaze of the camera.
The final 17 years of American singer and musician Karen Carpenter, performed almost entirely by modified Barbie dolls.
A collectively made filmic opera in 35 parts. The Black and predominantly queer art collective, an evolving line up of poets and artists from across the world, abstracts and reimagines opera in any traditional conception. Set to hip-hop, blues, noise, R&B and electronica, the piece uses the voice (chanting, singing, screaming; written by poet and activist Dawn Lundy Martin) as its primary tool, verbalising centuries of alienation, vulnerability and protest in the global African diaspora through its disruptive libretto.
Naked bodies are buffeted by water accompanied by the music Il Temporale from the opera La Cenerentola and the overture to Il Barbiere di Siviglia both by Gioacchino Rossini.
A surreal musical comedy set in a world where the avant-garde and the mainstream are reversed.
A documentary that explores the challenges that a life in music can bring.
