Movies: Grand Canal Video

  • 1992
    Trois tours et puis s'en vont

    Trois tours et puis s'en vont (1992)

    Trois tours et puis s'en vont

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    In public places like parks, squares and the cemeteries of Paris lie our fugitive fragments of memory. Our impulse to gaze with a sweeping action over these things a little invites us to play or guess at multiple histories. Time stops for a moment, c...

    Trois tours et puis s'en vont
  • 1988
    Les sept travaux d'Héloïse

    Les sept travaux d'Héloïse (1988)

    Les sept travaux d'Héloïse

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    Héloïse in her home waits for husband Abelard and accomplishes many household chores while humming love songs. Fragments of bodies and gestures like the fragmentation of certain women's lives; joy of young brides and self-forgetfulness....

    Les sept travaux d'Héloïse
  • 1979
    Memory

    Memory (1979)

    Memory

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    Memory is an attempt to reconstruct the functioning of the memory process and, in particular, the phenomenon of triggering a memory from elements perceived in the outside world. The lens of the camera corresponds to the gaze of a single subject - the...

    Memory
  • 1979
    Flippers

    Flippers (1979)

    Flippers

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    Dominique Belloir and Rainer Werbitz experimenting with the use of the video synthesizer which, by various processing, explores the fascination of an apparently harmless game, pinball-- The artificial quickly becomes pulsating, violent and sexualized...

    Flippers
  • 1996
    Binary Lives

    Binary Lives (1996)

    Binary Lives

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    A short documentary on the life and art of Steina and Woody Vasulka, produced in 1996. The Vasulkas speak candidly about their work and worldviews, and the piece features excerpts from their early works and a glimpse into their '90s output....

    Binary Lives