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PAM: Four Place Setting

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Four Place Setting is an experimental video by the collaborative team of Hillerbrand+Magsamen. Through performance, Four Place Setting examines the contemporary American family by playfully and poetically exploring perceptions of emotions, family, consumerism and media within a uniquely American subjectivity. We closely se the interaction between family members and how one person’s emotions can effect the family dynamic as identities of parent, spouse and child, through the metaphor of fog, veil and reveal one another. What appears to be a typical family dinner becomes surreal as a cloud of fog engulfs and distorts the everyday event and fluctuates between memory, reality and dream worlds.

This video forms part of A Light at the End of the Tunnel, an epic video art trilogy about the human condition which includes seminal works by 30 international emerging artists, and was curated by Perpetual Art Machine (www.perpetualartmachine.com).

The show debuted at Scope Basel 2010 (June 15 - 19, Kaserne), while premiering simultaneously on Babelgum.

To find out more, visit babelgum.com/newvideoart.
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PAM: Broken Windows
Broken Windows consists of the last footage shot with a digital camcorder - these are the dying gasps of the camera. On one level, the piece might serve as a de-mystification of the digital image itself; the degradation of the image broadly implies the processes by which the real world is interpreted as video. Video’s constitution of the world as image is laid bare, and it is disconcerting to see the torturous decay of the image as the camera fights to maintain its simulation of the world. On another level, however, the piece implies the impossible mystery of most technology for most viewers. The functioning of the camera, evident in the image only when it fails as here, is something which most of us can’t - or don’t want to - understand. We comprehend technology so little, that we must engage with it on a purely aesthetic level as a source of magic or wonder, as we do here.

Artist: Richard O'Sullivan.

This video forms part of A Light at the End of the Tunnel, an epic video art trilogy about the human condition which includes seminal works by 30 international emerging artists, and was curated by Perpetual Art Machine (www.perpetualartmachine.com).

The show debuted at Scope Basel 2010 (June 15 - 19, Kaserne), while premiering simultaneously on Babelgum.

To find out more, visit babelgum.com/newvideoart.
11:08
PAM: A Ramble with Time
A Ramble with Time chronicles the adventures of Paul Desborough, time traveller as he sets out to understand the mysterious concept of "infinity". Using everyday plastic bags as a vehicle to travel interdimensionally, he must battle against the evil time thief and time keepers who are on a quest to possess the pagan manifestation of infinity itself as described in a simple ball of thread. What he discovers along the way is truly surprising. Filmed in Berlin in 2009. Directed and edited by Shiva Lynn Burgos.

This video forms part of A Light at the End of the Tunnel, an epic video art trilogy about the human condition which includes seminal works by 30 international emerging artists, and was curated by Perpetual Art Machine (www.perpetualartmachine.com).

The show debuted at Scope Basel 2010 (June 15 - 19, Kaserne), while premiering simultaneously on Babelgum.

To find out more, visit babelgum.com/newvideoart.
03:10
Limoncello at Zoo Art Fair
Rebecca May Marston of the Limoncello Gallery talks to Bella Crane about the work at her stand at this autumn’s Zoo Art Fair.
05:00
Last Kodachrome 40 for a Nizo S800 - M.A.P. RUNNER...
Runner Up in the Audience Award category of the Metropolis Art Prize 2009.

Nature has been razed, our gaze lose in a horizon melted between earth and sky; then it pauses, hot, in front of the mirror. A last ray flares before the darkness: and the black of the present lights up the old impressions, fragments of a past time to hypothesise the future.

Artist: Davide Pepe.

To find out more, visit the Art Prize page
04:05
PAM: Exercises in Faith - Soil
Tierra/soil is part of a video series in which I do actions for the camera, exploring the subject of violence and vulnerability. Closeness to the earth implies being close to life and death, to the visceral. The landscape is source of ideas of identity, dreams of belonging, but also nightmares when confronted with the side of it that partakes in the real; when one gets too close, blurring the boundaries that keep one safe. Land has been a recurrent source of conflict and death, An image evoked with this video is that of mass graves, despite of the clean setting and white background. In the video, I take the soil trying to engage in minimal movement or expression. The openness of the mouth, however, gives a sense of willingness to receive the dirt. It is a situation that is not resolved, as the soil keeps falling and accumulating. The soil comes from above, as a kind of fate.

Artist: Julieta Maria.

This video forms part of A Light at the End of the Tunnel, an epic video art trilogy about the human condition which includes seminal works by 30 international emerging artists, and was curated by Perpetual Art Machine (www.perpetualartmachine.com).

The show debuted at Scope Basel 2010 (June 15 - 19, Kaserne), while premiering simultaneously on Babelgum.

To find out more, visit babelgum.com/newvideoart.
05:41
PAM: Il Bacio Azzurro (The Blue Kiss)
John Criscitello's selection for the Scope Basel PAM screening.

This video forms part of A Light at the End of the Tunnel, an epic video art trilogy about the human condition which includes seminal works by 30 international emerging artists, and was curated by Perpetual Art Machine (www.perpetualartmachine.com).

The show debuted at Scope Basel 2010 (June 15 - 19, Kaserne), while premiering simultaneously on Babelgum.

To find out more, visit babelgum.com/newvideoart.
03:28
PAM: Three
Musketeer hat tricks know no other beat besides the tripod's waltz on lucky clovers. Gratuitous Art Productions/Films is a collaborative effort between Jeff Burns and Cat Gilbert.

This video forms part of A Light at the End of the Tunnel, an epic video art trilogy about the human condition which includes seminal works by 30 international emerging artists, and was curated by Perpetual Art Machine (www.perpetualartmachine.com).

The show debuted at Scope Basel 2010 (June 15 - 19, Kaserne), while premiering simultaneously on Babelgum.

To find out more, visit babelgum.com/newvideoart. www.gratuitousartprouductions.com
05:00
Simple Present - Future Perfect - M.A.P. RUNNER UP
Runner Up in the Audience Award category of the Metropolis Art Prize 2009.

The camera slowly moves in the course of time describing, in a Magritte way, several heterogeneous urban landscapes. The double narrative register allows an accurate description of the environment and its temporal evolution. The gaze is wondering about the metropolis destiny.

Artist: Davide Pepe.

The winning videos in the Metropolis Art Prize 2009 will be screened on the giant jumbotron monitors in Times Square, New York, on DECEMBER 17 2009. The event is open to the public, so if you're in the area, come along!

To find out more, visit the Art Prize page
06:29
The Freedom Charter - Faith47 and Rowan Pybus
With this project Faith47 has explored the historical Freedom Charter. Taking inspiration from the political graffiti of the '70s and '80s Faith has recreated and reinvented certain sentences from the Freedom Charter in relevant urban environments. Drawing attention to the Freedom Charter document in today's society and, in so doing, highlighting some of the aims in the charter that have yet to be accomplished… The Freedom Charter, for many South Africans, formed the backbone of the struggle and, in the transition to South Africa's democracy, it formed a basis for the constitution. Yet when one looks at this document one realizes that many of the changes were only made on a superficial level, or not at all. Rowan Pybus is a filmmaker who travelled around South Africa with Faith47 as she was painting these works and created a short video piece in his own unique style, giving the project an extra dynamic. He also photographed all of the works, and some of the environmental nuances that presented themselves in the making of the project.

Faith47 will be at the Moniker Art Fair in London from October 14 - 17. Come visit Babelgum's pop-up cinema where we'll be screening The Freedom Charter, Guerilla Art and upcoming Babelgum film exclusives Beautiful Losers and Bomb It 2.
06:22
PAM: The Soft Epic, or: Savages of the Pacific West
The Soft Epic or; Savages of the Pacific West takes the form of a moving panorama to imagine the end of History. Comprised of over a hundred layers of composited images spread across multiple projections and an original surround-sound score by Bird Show (Ben Vida), the work draws upon images and effects from historical panoramas, epic sci-fi and disaster films, and the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch in a fractured, dystopic cityscape dotted with eternal flames and chimeras. These images—layered, collaged and seamlessly looped—picture the forces exerted upon collective memory in moments of cultural anxiety and the fluid relationship between Cinema and History. Hollywood splendor usurps mythological and historical narrative in service of political authority and social order.

Artists: Nadia Hironaka & Matthew Suib.

This video forms part of A Light at the End of the Tunnel, an epic video art trilogy about the human condition which includes seminal works by 30 international emerging artists, and was curated by Perpetual Art Machine (www.perpetualartmachine.com).

The show debuted at Scope Basel 2010 (June 15 - 19, Kaserne), while premiering simultaneously on Babelgum.

To find out more, visit babelgum.com/newvideoart.
 

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