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Sara Fletcher and Edward Adam
(Cardiff)
A Phantom Treat Exposed, 2003
3’ 43”
A striptease in reverse order, clothes appear to fly onto the body of a masked lady so that we watch her vanish limb by limb as she melts into the background. In the final frames a dustsheet swoops down to shroud her completely.
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Nike Savvas
(London)
The Thrill is Gone, 2003
3’
Spandex, boa and tinsel curtain. The artist impersonates a cabaret diva singing the title track.
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Hanna Haaslahti
(Helsinki)
Solarium, 2002
2’ 5”
A high-energy video about the aerobics word championship. The techno soundtrack emphasises the percussive precision of the competitors as they execute choreography that makes the human body appear like a mechanical device.
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Matt Stokes
(Newcastle)
Roll-in’ Along, 2000
4’
An angelic rendition of the song “Wand’rin’ Star” from the 1969 film “Paint Your Wagon”. Lee Marvin’s whiskey sour vocals are replaced by a single chorister and the lyrics are followed by an animated bouncing ball counting out the beats to this unlikely karaoke-style hymn.
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Lapinu
(Chenu de Clermont)
The Marcel Duchamp’s Rock, 2003
6’
Lapinu is a small rabbit, a direct descendant of popular art rabbits. A prolific rodent, producing videos and drawings as well as music. In this film the six-foot white rabbit combines dungarees and dancing with art-historical burlesque and psychedelic graphics.
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Burgundy Leisure
(Susannah Hewlett, London in collaboration with Russell Purdham and Pete Beck, Norwich)
Wedding of the Year sponsored by Burgundy Leisure, 2002
5’
Burgundy Leisure is Stanley Handson’s fictitious light entertainment company promoting artistes, look-a-likes, puppeteers, strippers and cabaret acts. In this film Stan sponsors his niece, Golda Yarmouth’s wedding day. Tears, trauma and lots of cava.
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Part 2
Selected by artist, Matthew Noel-Tod
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Larry Jordan
Masquerade, 1981
5’
Distributed by LUX
“A duel scene in a snowy forest, obviously the morning after a masquerade ball. Harlequin lies dying, while red indian walks away with the wings of victory. The woman between them appears, cat masked. The mask dissolves away. Her spirit passes into the face of the sun upon the sun flower. But Harlequin cannot escape death. The blue world engulfs him” (Larry Jordan)
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Sarah Miles
Amaeru Fallout, 1997
Distributed by LUX
'amaeru(v). the attempt to draw close; depend; belong...' Two Japanese girls appear in the West country in a radio transmitter field above Eggardon Fort; they go to school in Lyme Regis; they live in the countryside; they sleep in the same bed; they explore the town; they separate. Includes PJ Harvey performing a specially composed version of the Three Degrees' When will I see you again.
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Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay
I am a Boyband, 2002
Courtesy of the artist
A cloned boyband co-opt an Elizabethan madrigal about heartbreak and lost love to a pop-synth backbeat. Nemerofsky plays all four members of the group, honeyed singing and well-oiled dance steps parody sameness in contemporary culture and mass produced articulations of masculinity, love and relationships
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Anne McGuire
I Am Crazy and You're Not Wrong,, 1997
11’
Distributed by LUX
Anne McGuire portrays a Kennedy-era singer performing in the space where theatre meets television. McGuire's Garland-esque gestures provide both a sense of tragedy and humour. |
