Victoria Arney
Anna Best
Andrea Crociani
Simon Morse
Hayley Skipper
Bettina Wilhelm
Fiona Boundy
Simon Faithfull
Goshka Macuga
Neil Zakiewicz
Gasworks presents the third and final instalment of Nights In: a series of one-night-only, silent moving image presentations, selected from open submission. Wednesday 6 June 2001, 6-10pm: Anna Best, Video Still, Stars.
6-10pm
Anna Best, Video Still, Stars
Gasworks presents the third and final instalment of Nights In: a series of
one-night-only, silent moving image presentations, selected from open
submission. As with previous selections, there’s an array of working procedures
and effects, including animation, optical illusions, and text, but all works
unified by one crucial aspect: silence.
At a time when broadcast-quality, stereo blasting, DVD producing, video
technology reaches the high street at accessible prices, artists continue to
make silent films. This selection of works for Nights In will highlight the
economic use of the medium by artists who, in making uncomplicated films, eschew
any unnecessary use of sound.
Victoria Arney, Out of Sync: A looped Super 8 film features the artist
continuously running away from the camera.
Anna Best, Stars: Aeroplanes have been transformed into flickering comets in the
night sky by ‘editing’ out darkness between the blinking of their lights.
Andrea Crociani, Archiving is a Bourgeois Art: A fast-paced animation using
diagrammatic line drawings of jet fighters.
Simon Morse, Stalwart: On-screen texts inform the viewer of the many
extraordinary circumstances of their death.
Hayley Skipper, Movie: Dorothy’s ruby shoes (from the Wizard of Oz) are
sparkling on the feet of a woman standing in a building site.
Bettina Wilhelm, Polka Dot Forever: A bouncing trampolinist wearing a polka dot
dress creates Op Art for video.
Works selected by Fiona Boundy, Simon Faithfull, Goshka Macuga and Neil
Zakiewicz.
Nights In is generously supported by Holsten Pils
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