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Rob Filby
(Norwich)
Plasterhands Makes Crispy Duck Pancake, 2004
12’
Crispy Duck carved up, garnished and sauced. A takeaway classic prepared by hard, plaster mittens.
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Christopher Hall and Alexander Kelly
(Sheffield)
An Acquired Taste, 2003
10’
Ever since a teenage encounter with the black stuff at The Spring Cottage in Walsall, Guinness has been avoided. A grown man, his father and a few close friends test the theory that “the best way to acquire a taste for Guinness is to drink three pints of the stuff as fast as you possibly can”
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The Cartwright Brothers
(London & Manchester)
The Heap, 2003
3’
A digital fantasy where pixel creatures wander the forest and gravitate inexorably towards the rhythmic splendour that is the quivering heap of primal matter. Creatures are drawn to and transfixed by the elemental fountain as it achieves a state of wild transfiguration. A wonder of fecundity, a myth: the spitting geyser taps deep into its mucilaginous reservoir, its ceaseless convulsions describing a natural cycle of life, death and compostation.
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Bertrand Peret
(Bordeaux)
They Decided to Change the World, 2001-2
3’
TV footage documenting an intervention along the alpine stretch of the Tour de France route. Peret painted symbols from the arcade game, Pacman on the road where he watched the race as a child, inviting people to view the results of his action via the scheduled, live broadcast of the competition.
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Part 2
Selected by Steve Hawley
Steve Hawley is an artist and Head of Art, Design and Media at Sheffield Hallam University.
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Dryden Goodwin
Ospedale, 1997
17’
Distributed by LUX
An experimental documentary exploring compressed conversations and events in a general hospital in Italy over the period of one year. Picking up on the general rhythms of the place through a series of interlocking episodes.
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Andrew Lindsay & Andrew Kötting
Donkeyhead, 1998
4’
Distributed by LUX
'I don't know where I originated from but it's like everything else nowadays; it's magic, and he's been sound in our family for years and years and years.'
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Graham Young
Accidents In The Home; No 9 Indoor Games, 1993
6’
Distributed by Lux
Graham Young presses such things as a mouse trap, a glass of water and the family cat into service in a series of elegantly edited episodes collectively entitled Accidents In The Home.
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Jake and Dinos Chapman
Sacrificial Mutilation and Death in Modern Art, 1999
5’
Courtesy of White Cube
Jake and Dinos Chapman’s studio provides the backdrop to scenes from imagined B-movie versions of the lives (and deaths) of artists.
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Jeff Scher
Garden of Regrets, 1994
7’
Courtesy of the artist
A rotoscoped animated montage - collage - collision film. A pre-apocalyptic subliminal narrative composed of over ten thousand paintings in a densely woven film about love, lust, life and regrets. |
