Category Archives: Video

Tele Present Wind  by artist David Bowen currently on display at Azkuna Zentroa in Bilbao, Spain.

To wit: 126 plant stalks attached to x/y tilting mechanisms moving in perfect synchronicity with a similar plant outdoors fitted with an accelerometer. 

Make of it what you will.

colossal

Une Tete Disparait – a short by French director Franck Dion that explores the difficult subject of dementia (with no little elegance and empathy) though the story of a train journey to the seaside taken by the elderly protagonist, Jacqueline.

shortoftheweek

A fascinating short documentary by Nathan Truesdell about the 1986 Guinness record attempt by the city of Cleveland, Ohio to simultaneously release 1.5 million balloons – a spectacular stunt that turned into an environmental disaster as the city realised it was just littering on a gigantic, wildlife harming, health and safety baiting scale.

kottke/theatlantic