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Two films which follow the artists, dressed in rented rat and bear costumes, through their adventures from an LA freeway to a lake in the Swiss Alps.
Peter Fischli and David Weiss started their collaboration in 1979. Working with media ranging from film, sculpture of a variety of materials, photography, video and installations, they convey humor, irony and wonder through everyday objects, giving them a new meaning in the process. They have been acclaimed around the world with exhibitions and retrospectives at the Tate Modern, MoMA, and Le Centre Georges Pompidou, to name a few. They were chosen to represent Switzerland at the Venice Biennale in 1995 and 2003, winning the Golden Lion that year. They both live and work in Zürich, Switzerland.
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(DVD-Rom/2 x PDF Files)
Sequence from THE WAY THINGS GO
(2 min. 21 sec.)
| Catalog Number: MC-903 |
Type: Shorts Compilation |
Genre: Experimental |
| Copyright: 2008 |
Length: 85 minutes |
Format:
DVD Region: 1 |
| TV System: NTSC |
ISBN: |
UPC: 854565001077 |
| Label: Icarus Films |
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Films In Compilation
Point of Least Resistance, The directed by
Peter
Fischli
Switzerland,
Comedy / Satire,
1981,
Color,
00:30:00
The Point of Least Resistance was Fischli and Weiss’ first film together. A rat and a bear are out to make a lot of money in the Los Angeles art world. So when they find a corpse in a gallery, hoping ...
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Right Way, The directed by
David
Weiss
Switzerland,
Comedy / Satire,
1983,
Color,
00:55:00
In The Right Way, friendship is once again put to the test as rat and bear go hiking in the open, as-it-were unspoiled countryside, at the mercy of the elements and all kinds of miracles — and, above ...
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2008-08-25 ARTNews
By William Feaver
The best thing in Swiss art since Alberto Giacometti.
| 2008-08-25 The Village Voice
By Peter Schjedahl
They orchestrate states of hypnotic fascination.
| 2008-08-25 The Guardian
By Adrian Searle
Always worth attention! Their work is intelligent, disarming, subtle and, at moments,
unexpectedly touching.
| 2008-08-25 Frieze
By Jorg Heiser
A Los Angeles reminiscent of a third-rate buddy-cop flick!
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Way Things Go, The
MC-335, 1997
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Inside a warehouse, artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss build an enormous, precarious structure 100 feet long made out of common household items - tea kettles, tires, old shoes, balloons, wooden ramps, etc. Then, with fire, water, gravity, and... more >
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