ArtCast_video Spring 2008 Week 2

Released 17th April 2008

This week's selection explores and makes manifest tensions which arise in the relation of audio to visual, sound to movement, and vice versa. One audio and two video pieces communicate the intensity inherent in such relationships.

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In this week's ArtCast_video:

Sophie Combes: L’orgue de barbarie (2 min 17 sec)
Drawing inspiration from the barrel organ, an old mechanical musical instrument, in this video each colour corresponds to a music instrument, each point and line represent a note. Thus several simple melodies are linked to a drawing that synthesizes the town as a musical space.

Catherine Long: Scintillate (5 min 05 sec)
This video explores the relationships between the camera and body, space and sound. Using the noise of dancers to create a sense of proximity, and the nomadic camera which moves in, around and beneath the dancers, Catherine Long creates a claustrophobic and relentless atmosphere, where intimacy is too close and disjointed.

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_{Image: Scintillate a short film by Catherine Long}