A Study Of Relationships Between Inner And Outer Space

Study of gestures_01 is a video loop on a TV monitor. Two hands fold meticulously and gently caress a shirt. An exploration of cultural heritage, traces and resurgences through gestures. The evocations of body memory, conscious or unconscious.

"Studie II (Hallucinationer)" (Study II (Hallucinations)) (1952), comprises twelve staged scenes that were modelled after a set of drawings. Accompanied by metallic sounds, various body parts, limbs and objects form surrealistic collages against the background of a black space. Peter Weiss intended to create associative images that can not be deciphered completely. Beyond any logical interpretation, he wanted to show pure inner feelings.

Using real world locations in Essex, "(study for) Swedge of Heaven" explores liminal, transitional, and peripheral spaces and realms, navigated by a reanimated rave mascot and a wooden Neolithic fertility figure. Although from distant moments in history, the protagonists are both figures indicative of ritual gathering created by Essex communities. Within the work the figures hover in cultural/historical flux, a state of simultaneous belonging and alienation as they pass through and around places seemingly suspended on the edge of conventional time and space.

A duo of actors, who are also a real-life couple, play out the same argument over and over again, exploring whether arguments are really only destructive.

The first part (winter) of a seasonal study of the Hudson river in New York.

A reflection on the fly as both a living being and a metaphor for the human desire to reach beyond, using artifacts from hand-processing.

Suffering from deep sadness, the young K. tries for another night to get out of a magnifying glass, where the dream is mixed with reality and the fantasy with the nightmare. An exercise in three parts on the attraction of inertia and the terror of liquidity. A study in grief.

An experimental short from Oskar Fischinger

A study of the face of a man ruined by alcohol. His difficult experiences and age are well-visible. A round mark on the forehead, deep furrows, lack of symmetry of facial features. The melancholy trumpet theme is accompanied by a continuous, disturbing sound.

Entertaining Dadaist experimental short, similar to Man Ray's work, full of shifting geometric shapes, stock footage of seagulls, flying eyeballs, and glaring floating heads.

An unusual student appears in the mouse school. The beginning of the trilogy about the shy elephant based on the fairy tales of David Samoylov.

Richard Forbes-Hamilton's "(third study for) Swedge of Heaven" explores themes of liminality, transition and reanimation around locations of ritual gatherings in Essex. Starting in an edgelands underpass, we come across a Neolithic fertility figure and a rave mascot beating a drum with glowsticks. Employing 3D models of real-world sites alongside computer-generated actors, the film hovers between neon and natural worlds.

Consenting Adults A Study of Homosexuality is a 39-minute 16mm film, edited from two 30-minutes reports made for British television. Though made in the days when being gay was synonymous with depravity and vice, it tries for sympathy and understanding as two TV reports hold lengthy interviews with a couple of the Queen's queer subjects who casually discuss their secret dark existence.

The life cycle of a star.

The film captures a Singaporean zeitgeist in stop-motion sequences of impressionistic pencil drawings. Over 1,000 handdrawn portraits of real-life MRT commuters were used to create a tapestry of faces that eventually metamorphoses into a singular face as the short film provides a multi-dimensional gaze on a Singaporean identity.

Based on a mathematical equation, the work CASE STUDY OF AN EQUATION is made to ridicule the process of coping with fear, to quantify emotion in space and in relation to others. It is the full length of a 50 feet reel of super 8 film with in-camera editing, and is the result of an immediate investigation and spontaneous measurement of the haunting ghost from a past incident.

This film shows several important visual artists of the Harlem Renaissance at work.

Alice Guy films the sea.