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Film and Video Artists

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80Juan80,: from Finland: junkies, swing sets, sweet candy and dreams of flying
Abate, Bobby: the greasy, vain, trend-obsessed chaos of the New York experience
Ahwesh, Peggy: approaching culturally complex issues and individuals with disarming simplicity and intelligence
Alperin, Leslie: carryovers from painting, feminism and film theory
Alshaibi, Usama: from Baghdad to Chicago, crossing cultural boundaries
Alston, Angela: girls, volcanos and a curious lament
Alvanson, Kristen: an american artist working in iran
Alvarez, Alfonso: cross-referencing cultures with optically-printed experimentation
Angerame, Dominic: from personal diary to passionate abstraction.
Arce, Diana: socializing with the bad kids since 1981
Arnold, Bob: Echolalia, Zeno's Paradox and other conundrums
Auger, Pascal: pour enrichir notre monde, en inventer un petit bout
Avant Media Performance,: interdisciplinary performance with film, dance, and music
Avikunthak, Ashish: clashing cultures with gestural movements and theatricality
Axmondo,: video paintings, images, sounds, a dry space beyond the tide
Babb, Jim: as much about the world as it is about itself... mediated musings
Baillie, Bruce: musings, remedies and inspirations from one of cinema's pioneer lyricists
Baldry, Kerry: body parts are isolated and used to explore aspects of the human condition
Baldwin, Craig: copyright infringement is your best entertainment value.
Barker, Hayley: the spectacle of the female body and emotional/psychological states
Barker, Phillip: capturing the soul in an image
Barroso, Andros: award-winning Cuban director of shorts, music videos and more
Barten, Rebecca: from 17 Typewriter Films to 700 Measured Sprays.
Basquin, Bill: pocket myths and range triptychs
Beauvais, Elise: meditative, thematic, rhythm-based, cyclical ways of communicating
Beauvais, Yann: slicing through landscapes and memory
Beck-Friedman, Tova: reflections/ myth / lament/ memory/ portraits
Beekman, Ren�: seeing and not seeing, perceiving and not perceiving, experiencing the grey-area in between
Behrens, Jon: atmospheric, seductively alienating and sometimes disturbing work filled with timelapse cinematography, multiple exposures and film solarization
Beloff, Zoe: getting beneath the skin of everyday life, using half-forgotten media technologies.
Berliner, Alan: films, installations, new media; mining the found and the formal for personal moments
Betancourt, Michael: artist/curator who makes visual music, experimental stories, abstract movies and static images
Bianco, Ruth: don't run over the birds, please
Biermann, Gregg: apocrypha, pseudepigrapha, or maybe the gnostic gospels of the avant-garde cinema
Biller, Anna: restaging the stagier aspects of cinema
Bjorgeengen, Kjell: the pursuit is not to accept the given - be it perceptual prejudices imbedded in language or the dominant economic/political structure
Black, Carolyn: some are taken at opportune moments with my mobile, whilst others are carefully planned and framed for video, reflecting a deep level of observation of detail and texture
Bohn, Arman: thrift store super 8 meets digital
Brabant, Chris J.: cinematic innovation created by abandoned technologies of the capitalist entertainment industry
Brackett, Tammy Renee: science's pets very often become culture's monsters
Brakhage, Stan: reviews, interviews, and articles by and about the great cinema pioneer, compiled by writer Fred Camper
Brand, Bill: a widening field of systems including the social, biological and psychological system of the body as subject
Brose, Lawrence F.: holding up a mirror to gay sexuality and plumbing its tensions with controlled image manipulation and extremely experimental hand-processing techniques
Broussard, Rene: appropriated video diaries and documentaries
Brynntrup, Michael: film diary, non-linear film for interactive media, homo erectus, loverfilms, more
bytefilms,: a London filmmaking cooperative
Calvo, Clemente: cinearte como medio en el que integrar fotografía, artes plásticas, poesía, música e ideas
Camlica, Serdar: abstract affinities, 3d fictions, artworks and wallpapers
Campbell, Chris: lively, no-budget, microcinema video stuff
Candy Eye Factor, The: a Minneapolis-based media studio which churns out a striking selection of cinematic treats
Carolfi, Jerome: humor, irony and a fluid, often jazz-like sensibility convey an intimate and connected energy at work
Caudill, Craig: controlled by bees and other living substances
Celona, Mike: video and photographic shenanigans for all occasions
Chang, Anita: always discovering ways to experiment with content and form, inspiring an active viewing experience
Chapman, Gibbs: music videos and sweaty, claustrophobic noirs
Chartier, Russell: video art and installations
Christ, Joe: for starters, try sex blood mutilation kill the pigs speed freaks with guns and communion in room 410
Chutiwongpeti, Sarawut: video art and installations from Bangkok, exploring intimacy and emotion
Cicada,: a collection of artists who work with landscape - urban, natural, constructed and imagined
Cleeland, James: experimental dreamy music videos
Clouin, Pierre Yves: always begin the workout with a short warm-up.
Colburn, Martha: a plethora of popular and underground culture�found footage, TV shows, pornography, and magazine ads, obsessively hand-painted on film
Colcord, Webster: aggressively strange subject matter
Collmer, Kim: crafting magical animation and submersive underwater video
Comerford, Thomas: searching for evidence of erased histories in the lanscape
Connolly, Stephen: inking, scraping, and scratching film to connect to the natural rhythms of the physical world
cONVENIENCE, tENTATIVELY, a: psychic slippages, conceptual ponderings, neo-cosmic blatherings and a full battery of bad puns
Crane, Cathy Lee: ficitional memoirs, colliding histories, sensual dreamscapes
Cruaud, Pierre-Yves: a kind of childbirth of the image occurs
Cseri-Briones, Pia: making the viewer a more active participant in the filmic experience via visual, emotional and mental stimulation
Cutrone, Christopher: reveries on interracial male homosexuality, enacting the imbrication of fantasy and memory
d, eddie: installations and web pages with interactive sound and images
Daniel, Bill: van-based tramp/filmmaker is screening in your backyard this weekend.
Darms, Lisa: has the world changed, or have I changed?
de los Bueis, Yolanda: work that lies in the boundaries between art, design and animation
Deal, Kevin: invoking the wonders of the natural world through cinematic ritual
Dege, Martin: work with the time and myself in multimedia; walking through one day, the four seasons and actual events of time
Deis, Eric: inspired by euphoria for the subtle peculiarities of the immediate environment
DiLillo, Lisa: videos, performances and photos dealing with themes of memory, myopia, media mishaps and much much more
Dixon, Wheeler Winston: experimentation with sound and image categorizes the emotional levels of interior narratives
Do, Ji Loan: using the personal to find larger resonations
Do, Nhieu: visual rites of passage
Doing, Karel: personal stories and poetry from Rotterdam
Dougherty, Cecilia: narcissistic transference, sexual dependency, super-models, tiny kittens, car crashes and explosions, women with machine guns, the ocean, beautiful flowers, counfounding Freud
Egan, Courtney: mucking in the swampy terrain between the psyche and mass media with cut-and-paste digital video collages
Eisenlohr, Klaus W.: film essays concerned with architecture and urban space and how they shape social and human interaction
Elroy, Atomic: an art humorist using a self-mocking approach to all artistic values and standards
Fadiman, Dorothy: radiance and the experience of light
Fadiman, Dorothy: affirming the presence of a universally shared experience
Feinsod, Mark L.: uncommonly adult and uncomfortable dissections of human nature
Filmgruppe Chaos,: a collective of Super-8 filmmakers. The group has produced short experimental and animation films as well as a documentary and a feature film
Filzen, Sean: inundating the onlooker with audio-visual expression destined to take the viewer for an emotional roller-coaster ride
Finkelstein, David: video performances which combine meticulously crafted computer-generated imagery with improvised text and music
Finley, Jeanne C.: exploring the relation between the document and the documented, fiction and fact, empathy and irony
Floretta, Edna: a seductive journey into the visions of reality and illusion
Forster, Catherine: the seductive process of searching for what underlies a look, a pose, a picture, or a headline
Fotopolous, James: mysticism, the paragon of animals, monster babies, snail shell textures, tumors
Fowler, Claire: exploring visual narrative devices to effect mood and atmosphere, influenced by both cinema and folklore
Fox, Robert: cross-stitching medical imagery with the human psyche
Franklin, Jody: multidisciplinary artist "renaissance man" with a(n un)polished amateur aesthetic
Friedrich, Su: exploring lesbian adolescence, marriage, fatherhood, family relations, motherhood, closeted romance and that sink or swim paradigm
Frye, Brian: an original and devotional approach to cinematic substance... to discover in the analysis of the individual moment the crystal of the total event
Fulbeck, Kip: multiracial explorations in contemporary video
Furman, Doron: video art linking femininity with social violence, technology, and deviance
Gabel, Paul: remembrance, cognition, ontology, faith, authority, presence and absence
Gallagher, Chris: application of uncommon sense to the physical artifacts of our media saturated existence
Galush, John: producing blockbusters on a shoestring
Gazzo, Monica: visual poetry, originality and intimacy while challenging issues of gender and race
Gehr, Ernie: film is a real thing and as a real thing it is not imitation.
Gerson, Barry: episodes from a secret life
Geyer, Anna: birth, rebirth, demolition and reconstruction through multi-layered imagery
Grenier, Vincent: color studies, surface tensions and material incidents
Hall, David: the physical reality of TV as a site of exchange, a creator of illusion, a channel of information, or what Baudrillard terms 'a screen of ecstatic refraction'
Halm, Patrick: how to explain telivision to a dead hare
Hammer, Barbara: making the invisible lost histories, visible; radical montage, Situationist comedy, a history lesson for all
Hanisch, Annette: videofilms, sculptures, installations; who needs a hero?
Harmon, Raymond Salvatore: light is like the formation of life... ultimately the memories you hold of who you are
Harris, Kyle: politically perverse, using experimental strategies to push power structures beyond the point of failure
Hastings, Phil: a meditation on the transitions between different creative technologies, states of being and the memories that bind the old to the new
Hattler, Matt: making patchwork video-quilts out of cultural incongruities
Herman, Todd: iconographies of absence, sexuality, disability
Higgins, Janene: videos and performance collaborations on childhood trauma, desolation, hallucinating nuns, & hair removal
Hills, Henry: keeping the rhythms irregular and the progression of imagery and ideas unpredictable, to mimic the rhythms of my own body and mind
Hindle, Will: independent filmmaker of the third avant garde
Hinton, Brook: dream-like worlds of menace and beauty
Hockenhull, Oliver: heaven and architecture, beautiful jews, and digital musings
Holmstrom, Gun: trying to understand the social - how we adapt ourself to the culture and communicate with each other
Hopkins, Daniel: organic collisions between visuals and improvised acoustic and battery-powered instrumentation
Hubbard, Jim: cinematic images do not erase life with stereotypes but let life live on, somewhere else, outside the screen.
Hull, Jamie: Ghost diaries reveal the utterances of our own annihilation and self discovery � scatological decay gives way to the degraded memories of absence, loss, and longing.
Iimura, Takahiko: playfully articulating the vocabulary of cinema through human speech.
Irish, Bridget: seeing the body as terrain for exploration and provocation
Johnsen, John L.: documentaries off the beaten path
Johnson, James W.: angels in a pig's eye
Johnson, Scott: shooting, illuminating, experimentation, animating, editing picture, directing actors, directing viewers
Jones, William: pornographic yet chaste, distanced yet mesmerizing, reticent yet moving
July, Miranda: the expected is replaced by something surprising, yet remains rich with emotional resonance
Kano, Shiho: video and film art from Japan
Katz, Leandro: alternating between ephemeral evocations and documentary reporting
Kienitz Wilkins, James N.: tears for 16mm film
Kim, Susan: naming unnamed mythologies, exploring where the historical and the personal merge, as do the magical and the real
Kless, Larry: exploring the mythical frontiers of western culture and the romanticism of colonialism
Klonaris, Maria: a transcultural reflection on body, memory, ritual, dream, mythological figures
Konefsky, Bryan: Freedom Land. My parents never took me, they said it was too far.
Kren, Kurt: counteracting the mimetic abundance of cinema with brittle mathematical principles, a witty imagination and a roughly formalized sensuality
Krumins, Daina: meticulously crafted surrealist animations blending natural shapes and real objects
Laitala, Kerry: medical mischief and mayhem
Lake, Ellen: obsessions with collecting and collections
Larcher, David: intoxicating imagery taking you beyond the rational
Lattanzi, Barbara: digital movies on and off the net
Laurent La Gamba,: Camouflages and pro-cryptic installations
Lee, Bo: kicking ass and taking names
Lesser, Tom: cinema becomes the thread passing on its ghosts and providing a soul for the new digitial mediums
Levy, Ann Deborah: painterly films, set on the water, explore illusion and reality
Lewin, Anya: the subtle tones of camp
Lewis, Ryan: lingering ghosts, punk bands and dying love in the Sunshine State
Lidell, Erik: culture jamming with a variety of media
Lind, Karl: the spaces between fact, fiction, emotions and memory
Liotta, Jeanne: makes films and other cultural ephemera, media mystic, collaborator, anarchist, mother, and believer...
Livingston, Jason: combining a commitment to activism with a love of looking at the natural world
Loo, Lynn: experimental filmmaker from Singapore, currently based in London
Lord, Chip: video essays and installations on car culture and technological homogenization
Lynn, Chris: Lyrical fragments and memory impulses are explored on super8 and video.
Ma Fish Co,: faux foreign videos and diasporic tales of ancient roman curses
Machado, Pedro: contemporary dance films
Machet, Cari: ornamental bathing
Mars, Charlie: videomaker from outer space
Martijn, van Boven: works in of art in the age of infinite reproduction
Marton, Pier: from performance art to documentary essays, with an effort towards unmasking our blind spots
McClelland, Pete: grey is good, with or without bifocals
McCormick, Matt: finding meaningful art in the unlikeliest of places
McCoy, Darren: exploring, illuminating, interpreting and challenging the many notions of sexuality, fetish and the erotic through art
McDougall, Marina: If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home By Now.
McInnis, Katherin: model prisoners, and landscapes in alphabetical order
McKenna, Laurie: "You sure he's dead?" I said. "yeah he's dead, two years ago."
Mekas, Jonas: the venerable filmmaker and programmer's brief glimpses of beauty
Menkes, Nina: harrowing, hallucinatory journeys
Mercado, Marcello: polythene/within nitrogen limits/squeezing-cutting/cleaning-polishing/crushing/crack!-crack!
Metcalfe, Rohesia Hamilton: asking us to look again at things we might have thought we knew already
Michaud, Hans: involuntary jumps made by the eyes from one point to another
Miller, Dennis: high energy digital animations, graphics and music
Mingione, Meg: fun with fabricating...video and other art
Minton, Jim: a meditative state brings the most unexpected visually interpretative solutions
Miron, Francois: optical extravaganza; the process is the film, the film is the process, the two are the same
Moore, Andy: a blend of structural and personal concerns; a deep interest in the grammar of cinema and music.
Moricz, Bob: low grade high carnage action shorts
Moritsugu, Jon: mod fuck explosion fame whore
Mosvold, Frank: the agony created by internalized homophobia; the relationship between one's faith and one's sexual orientation
Motlagh, Amir: tentative years
Munro, David: Shimmering allegories for post-modern lovers. Toss another log on the fire...then jump in!
Muse, John: exploring the relation between the document and the documented, fiction and fact, empathy and irony
Musser, Jerry King: walking while thinking and the art of war
Nagler, Sol: exploring the way in which film represents our individual personas, and the landscapes that are appropriated into our self-identity
Nicholls, Graham: film, video, installations dealing with place, voyeurism, language and expression
Nieminen, Hannu: ambient films and music videos from the arctic zone
Nigrin, Al: a long-time maker and promoter of experimental film
Nishikawa, Tomonari: discovering new perceptual phenomena in film, video and installation
Odell,: blending nature, humanity and technology
Olson, Jenni: mixing landscape, sexuality, and suicide
Ortu�o, Antonio: paella and you
Ostrowski, Eric: direct animation meets direct sound
Pershall, Stacy: eating disorders activist, filmmaker, and published author with W.W. Norton
Pierce, Leighton: interest in music and the construction of emotional experiences in time
Pizzi, Peter Anthony: magical stories in personal video
Platt, Lisa: humor, camp, parody, identification... how we come to know ourselves through so many images
Plotnick, Danny: gimme Super-8 or Gimme Death!
Porter, John: a prolific super-8 filmmaker from Toronto
Post, Linda: video/audio installation influenced by structural film and post-minimalist visual art
Pound, Stuart: poetry with video
Povey, Thad: found footage and physical processes; filmmaking is a medium to articulate the unspeakable.
Price, Seth: an experiment in purposefully bad web design
Ravett, Abraham: forging intersections between personal histories and historical events
Raxlen, Rick: Victoria, BC's veteran of experimental film
Razutis, Al: persistence of the avant-garde praxis and 'anarchist' sentiments
Reeves, Jennifer: metaphor, lyricism and the subtle, often playful incongruities between superimposed images
Reilly, Jack: straddling the razor sharp edge of hollywood
Reinke, Steve: he sees with his ears, with his mouth; he applies his mouth to this footage, he gives it mouth to mouth, so now it can be seen again
Rekow, Leanne: here, there, everywhere... also
Rekveld, Joost: the technological history of media as a pool of meaningful, human motives, comparable to myths
renseiw, Sam: pataphysics, what lies beyond the realm of metaphysics, and montage voodling of desire
Renwick, Vanessa: a filmmaker by nature, not by stress of research
Rice, Terri: good stuff from planet out
Richardson, Emily: the cinematic apparatus being an extension of the body
Rodriguez, Dinorah de Jes�s: coaxing strength from the creative unconscious
Rose, Peter: Visions of darkness and light, experiments with time, subversions of language. Is there a totemics of cinema?
Rosenblatt, Jay: Finding in found footage a new resonance
Rosenthal, Ken Paul: composing time in the medium of light
Sachs, Lynne: exposes the limitations of verbal language by replacing it with complex emotional and visual vistas; her intricately layered films explode the borders between genres, discourses, racialized identities
Saks, Eric: a prank without theory is merely a hoax
Sanborn, Keith: Something is Seen But One Doesn't Know What.
Sanderson, Philip: digital videos that upset the hierarchy between sound and vision resulting in unexpected synchronisations, sonifications and visualisations
Sanguedolce, Steve: being painfully aware of my intrusion and my obsession to confront what is not mine - what I do not own
Saul, Michael: songs for a new age
Schaller, Robert: investigations into technology, culture, and history
Schell, Michael: synthesized imagery and music, exploring the relationship between sign and object in contemporary society
Schlemowitz, Joel: incantations, photochemical processes, cine-poems and eye music
Scipio, Richard: gen-x love stories, tragicomedies, gangsters
Sederowsky, Dana: video-monologues generated in automatic respone to current issues
Sell, Courtney Fathom: documentary underground filmmaking
Sharits, Paul: "one of the true masters of modern film"
Sher, Elizabeth: keeping you off balance with infusions of satire, abstraction, surrealism and whimsy
Sherwin, Guy: film changes our awareness of time
Silver, Shelly: small lies and big truths
Smith, Jack: vanguard filmmaker, radical photographer, seminal performance artist, queer saint
Smith, Lee: a one-man film factory
Smith, Michele: heavily edited frame by frame collage/montage/hand painted/ripped/cut/etched found footage
Snider, Greta: following the impulse to document/discuss ideas that may fall through the cracks, or be uncertain and fleeting
Soe, Valerie: racial discrimination, intimate interpersonal relationships and ostracization.
Spear, Chelsea: zine publisher turned filmmaker
Standfest, Ryan: child of the suburbs / student of catastrophes
Stark, Scott: urban sabotage, camera as musical instrument, and walking with God.
Street, Mark: ranging from abstract hand-manipulated material to work that recontextualizes found footage, tofilms that involve written texts
Suderburg, Erika: installation art, films, videos, text, songs, manifestos, wunderkammern, rants, photographs and domestic re-arrangements
Sunkisch,: art is trash -- trash is art
Supak, Corbin: live porn chat, NASDAQ arcades, rogue indie bands, apartment cafes...
Sykes, Barbara: video poems blending with ethnographic documentaries, exploring Hinduism, holy men, spirituality and transcendence
Taleb, Aziz: penetrating video art from Morocco
Talukdar, Shashwati: journeys of an amused and horrified postcolonial lady
Tape-Beatles, The: audio and visual playfulness, all created from found sources
Tarr, Simon: anxiety about people and technology
Tartaglia, Jerry: gay consciousness, sexual representation, self-identity and visual metaphor
Thomadaki, Katarina: a transcultural reflection on body, memory, ritual, dream, mythological figures
Thornley, Kreg: stain breakage and more
Thorstenson, Skye: blogs, baghead boys and burnt norton
Tierney, Moira: from Dublin to Dumbo, whooping it up and keeping it down
Toman, Mary Ann: the inherent strangeness of the mundane and the given, exploring language, gender and everyday landscapes
Tucker, Chantelle: film as therapy through neurofeedback
Ungerer, Walter: 50 years as a filmmaker and media artist
Useros, Pablo: discovering new paths for video-art, found footage and hand painted films
Valdes, Virginia: looking at the happiest day of your life
Varela, Willie: sublime super-8 and more from one of the masters of the medium
Walsh, Jack: fan letters to Rock, retelling of Christian myths, working class chronicles
Weaver, Deke: An intimate theatrical carnival ride of human sacrifice and romance. In a tent.
Wellenstein, Denise: the mother, the muse, the memory, the succubus
Welsby, Chris: the mechanics of film and video interact with the landscape to participate in the process of representation
Wet Gate,: the All-16mm Projection Ensemble
White, Lili: personal journeys through the realm of the unconscious, using symbols, gestural movement and animated props
Whitehead, Oliver: film/video, installation, drawing, photography
Williams, Lloyd: dreamy images from the dark corners of the mind
Wilson, Michael: Muybridge and aerial elegies
Wondra, Janet and Walker, Jeff: spy stories, extraterrestrials, Southern politics and darkly poetic tall tales
Woodman, Charles: installations using visual rhythm, looping, repetition, pattern, symmetry
Woods, Mark Kenneth: prolific, political and queer
Woods, Vanessa: documentary, diaristic, and fictive universes that push the boundaries of the narrative form
Wrbican, Sue: storytelling, heartfelt prose and artful videography coalesce into an original and compelling web site
Youngblood, Kent: fascinated by the psychological power of the medium, exploring the depths of the human psyche
Zedd, Nick: transgressive cinema seething with the effervescent incandescence of underground life forms
Zero, Neal: looking for absolution