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Catalog Number: MC-182	Type: Shorts Compilation	Genre: Experimental
Copyright: 2003	Length: 65 minutes	Format: DVD Region: 0 (All)
TV System: PAL	ISBN:	UPC:
Label: Pharmakon

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Films In Compilation

Heatwork for Sparklers and Spycams directed by Lee Patterson United Kingdom, Experimental, 2003, DV, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:04:50 Heatwork centres on discovery of sound in objects, structures and spaces, where it's presence is an invitation to engage with the source. In this collaboration both sources and sounds are raw ...
Ugly Little Ornaments directed by Paul Cordwell United Kingdom, Experimental, 2003, DV, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:01:10 DVD is a giddy parade of sensation with the illusion of viewer control, where the order of images is secondary to their meaningless digestion. This restless smorgasbord pollutes and supersedes the ...
Shadow Songs directed by Suki Chan United Kingdom, Experimental, 2002, DV, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:05:00 This animation interprets Pliny's myth of the origin of drawing, where a young girl traces her lover's shadow to capture his presence - he later disappears and is never seen again. The sound is a ...
Heap, The directed by The Cartwright Brothers United Kingdom, Experimental, 2003, DV, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:02:00 The work is a digital fantasy: pixel creatures wander the forest and gravitate inexorably towards the rhythmic splendour that is the heap of primal matter. The creatures are drawn to and transfixed ...
Crossroads directed by Scott Byrne United Kingdom, Experimental, 2003, DV, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:07:30 Crossroads are sites of impromptu magical performance - secret spaces where indescribable events and changes occur. Here it was possible to sell your soul to the devil in return for mastery of a ...
Road Movie, A directed by Nick Jordan United Kingdom, Experimental, 2003, DV, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:03:00 A filmic construct mirroring the outcome of hand-cranked projection and the flicker of celluloid as it interleaves through the gate. A real-time loop built with the aid of bicycle, DV camera, and two ...
Dictaphone directed by Joe Devlin United Kingdom, Experimental, 2003, DV, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:02:00 Found dictaphone tape on street corner subject to removal of speech, highlights the materials used to make ...
Another Road Movie directed by Nick Jordan United Kingdom, Experimental, 2003, DV, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:01:10 Intersection of French landscape as seen from a speeding car at noon with digital arabesques generated by tape replay pressed on fast ...
X-Time directed by Kristin Scheving United Kingdom, Experimental, 2003, DV, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:04:25 Images and sound recorded in Reykjavik 10 minutes before and after New Years Eve, overlayed with audio captured from internet pornography. A narrative of expectation, sexual energy and celebration is ...
Symbolic Exchange & Death directed by Blake Quentin United Kingdom, Experimental, 2003, DV, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:01:20 Insect eyes and menu-icons, in mutual regard, form a multi-layered system. The film interprets the restless repetition and redundancy of menu and insect behaviour as typical of absurd technological ...
Object/Sound/Movement directed by Carl Turton United Kingdom, Experimental, 2003, DV, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:02:20 These three excerpts are from a collection of eight formal observations of objects. Choice of object arises from experimentation with potential sounds that can be created through physical interaction ...
Flying From the Ground directed by Jenna Collins United Kingdom, Experimental, 2002, DV, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:04:30 The aeroplane, once-potent symbol of progressive modernity, has become a problematic and contradictory motif. Concorde crashed. Warplanes are flown virtually. Return to Malaga, £35. On 9/11 planes ...
Fait Accompli directed by Ben Schmark United Kingdom, Experimental, 2003, DV, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:04:00 An investigative journey through the pipes of a failed, automated drug manufacture process. The endoscope records vapours, contours, embolisms, and various liquids or foreign matter resulting from ...
Rogue State directed by Dave Griffiths United Kingdom, Experimental, 2003, DV, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:02:20 A set of vetoed resolutions was inscribed onto tape using a magnetic quill. In the digital apparatus, these fragile, analogue impulses produce lawless sonic and visual explosions - making a fluid ...
Piano: A Sound Object directed by Mark Pilkington United Kingdom, Experimental, 2003, DV, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:04:40 12,000 pieces of wood, steel and felt - seemingly unsympathetic materials for a piano. The piece explores its construction and deconstruction by assembling recorded sounds taken from these ...
Girlz, The directed by Jenny Hallstrom United Kingdom, Experimental, 2003, DV, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:02:55 The sound is of two women who passed the artist in the street every weekday at approximately the same time for more than a month The artist and a friend, Nikki Cooper, quietly construct intriguing ...
Print Machine, The directed by Tamzin Forster United Kingdom, Experimental, 2002, DV, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:03:40 A slow pan and zoom around the mechanics of a printing press. Highlighting the duplication and ryhthmic procedures in the construction of text, the piece subtly illuminates ambiguity in language ...