Simon Faithfull invited me to make a work for Nights In, Artist’s Silent Film and Video. I recorded the Westbound aeroplanes at night from my flat’s window. By editing out the dark phases between their lights they became more like shooting stars.
Date
2001
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 Maçuga and Neil Zakiewicz.
Archive
Video on hi 8 tape