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FUCK TV

August 2019 •English

After concluding the now-legendary public access TV series, The Pain Factory, Michael Nine embarked on a new and more subversive public access endeavor: a collaboration with Scott Arford called Fuck TV. Whereas The Pain Factory predominantly revolved around experimental music performances, Fuck TV was a comprehensive and experiential audio-visual presentation. Aired to a passive and unsuspecting audience on San Francisco’s public access channel from 1997 to 1998, each episode of Fuck TV was dedicated to a specific topic, combining video collage and cut-up techniques set to a harsh electronic soundtrack. The resultant overload of processed imagery and visceral sound was unlike anything presented on television before or since. EPISODES: Yule Bible, Cults, Riots, Animals, Executions, Static, Media, Haterella (edited version), Self Annihilation Live, Electricity.

The Phantom Harp

January 2008 •English

Super 8mm, 21 min., b&w, music by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma.

The Shining: Forwards and Backwards

March 2011 •English

An experimental film comprised of Stanley Kubrick's THE SHINING played forwards and backwards at the same time on the same screen, creating bizarre juxtapositions and startling synchronicities

Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art

November 2019 •English

Jim Moir (aka Vic Reeves) explores Video Art, revealing how different generations ‘hacked’ the tools of television to pioneer new ways of creating art that can be beautiful, bewildering and wildly experimental.

Guadalcanal Requiem

January 1977 •English

One of Paik’s most overtly political and poignant statements, Guadalcanal Requiem is a performance/documentary collage that confronts history, time, cultural memory and mythology on the site of one of World War II’s most devastating battles.

Lake Placid '80

January 1980 •English

Paik produced this exuberant, high-speed collage as a commission for the National Fine Arts Committee of the 1980 Olympic Winter Games. In a fractured explosion of densely layered movement and action, images of Olympic sports events are mixed with Paik’s recurring visual and audio motifs.

Melody

December 1971 •English

Although Gainsbourg and Birkin had appeared in a string of films since their magnetic collision in Pierre Grimblat’s Slogan, Melody was a bit of diversion from their collaborations since it’s a series of interwoven videos inspired by the Gainsbourgalbum. For '71 it’s a novel concept to bring visual life to an LP, but even more surprising are the short film’s amazing visuals that director Averty crafted using a wealth of video filters, overlays, camera movements and chroma key effects. Averty applies these in tandem with the increasing tone of Gainsbourg’s songs, which more or less chronicle an older man's affair with a young girl. Each song is comprised of steady, sometimes brooding poetic delivery, with refrains timed to the phrase repeats of each song, while Alan Parker’s buzzing guitar accompanies and wiggles around Gainsbourg’s resonant voice. The bass is fat and groovy, the drums easy but steady, and the periodic use of strings or rich vibrato makes this short a sultry little gem.

The Electronic Super Highway: Nam June Paik in the Nineties

November 1994 •English

A portrait of Nam June Paik produced as a 'video catalog' for the exhibition 'The Electronic Super Highway', which premiered at The Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with recent installations, historical background and interviews.

Continuum: 1. Initiation

January 1989 •English

Part one of the two part abstract video art-piece, with music composed by Philip Glass and performed by the Kronos String Quartet.

Driftwood

March 2024 •English

A woman enters an experimental treatment that creates a shared subconscious with her estranged husband. But when a mysterious and hostile presence sabotages the system, she must navigate a labyrinth of nightmares to save her husband and escape.

9/11 Simulation in Roblox Environment

July 2017 •English

CGI collage short film originally premiered as part of the 'Extinction Renaissance' exhibition at the Loyal Gallery in Stockholm.

Proyecciones del Limbo

April 2025 •Spanish

Das Verschwinden vor dem Inneren Auge

April 2024 •German

Memories are fleeting. They penetrate our imagination, put us in a moment of trance and then disappear again. They will never return in the same way. In the search for them, we screw ourselves into ourselves.

In the Dark

February 1996 •English

A film as part of the Spellbound installation at the Hayward Gallery in 1996 by Peter Greenaway.

Oh My God

August 2019 •English

Visual companion to the album Oh My God by Kevin Morby. Described by Morby as "half documentary and half dreamscape."

Woolgathering

May 2022 •English

A collection of interwoven images are threaded together by a string of unspecified women who roam their dreamscape which they are unable to escape. They are displaced, belonging to no particular point in time or place, and a disoriented sense of self pervades. Together, the film becomes a quietly throbbing organism of reality and unreality, and the gaps between an impending present and a perpetual past are frail.

The Fourth Dimension

July 1988 •English

Shows a couple (Adam and Eve) and various objects, simultaneously, in time, space and movement.

The Devonsville Train: Establishing Shots 1

November 2021 •English

A series of shots from six 1970s and 1980s horror films are slowed down to near-still moving images. First feature-length piece in the video art series "The Devonsville Train."

Dream Demon

October 1988 •English

As her marriage to decorated war hero Oliver draws near, well-heeled Diana moves into an apartment within an otherwise unoccupied, sprawling London house where she starts to experience strange and terrifying nightmares. But are these troubling night terrors merely the symptom of an unsettled mind, or the sign of something far more sinister at work? Hounded by a pair of sleazy journalists, Diana soon crosses paths with American tourist Jenny, who appears to have a strange connection to the foreboding house and its dark past.

Mary

September 2016 •

Moving through its five parts, the work describes a cycle of birth through to death, depicting both an eternal, universal Mary, and an earthly Mary representing human life on Earth.