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Prelude to an announced death - video

freewaves | January 22, 2015

Rafael Franca finished this video shortly before his death. The artist appears exchanging caresses with his then partner Garaldo Rivello, as the names of numerous AIDS victims pass by.

The Wake - video

freewaves | January 22, 2015

Political texts are sung and spoken as scenes of urban streets pass by.

Inter-State: Video on the Go - video

freewaves | January 22, 2015

The Revolution WILL be televised, and it’s coming soon in 3-D. After 15 years of media programming at art venues, billboards, a web site and public TV, Freewaves opens the black box. Freewaves’ premiere TV pilot follows 4 Los Angeles-based artists Rub

Interview with Rehab ElSadek - video

freewaves | January 22, 2015

Rehab ElSadek, born 1972, Egyptian artist, graduated from the University of Alexandria, Faculty of Fine Arts, emphasis in painting. Originally her work consisted of collage and drawing, and was exhibited in Alexandria, Cairo and Austria. In 97 she began to work on installations and conceptual work. These were exhibited in Turkey and London. In 98 […]

The Caguan Song - video

freewaves | January 22, 2015

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Aislado - video

freewaves | January 22, 2015

‘Aislado’ – Loneliness may be found in a desert island or in the middle of a big urban crowd.

Do You Want To Spit Out Your Gum? - video

freewaves | January 22, 2015

Gum chewing can be a very powerful tool of control.

Transgressions - video

freewaves | January 22, 2015

Identity, mixed blood and the significance of both within the context of what surrounds us specifically the US.

Riding the Big Ferriswheel - video

freewaves | January 22, 2015

‘Riding the Big Ferriswheel’ – To ascending violin notes of a contemporary chamberwork, a rhythmic and poetic long take of the Disneyland ferris wheel assumes stunning new dimensions.

Danco-Te - video

freewaves | January 22, 2015

‘Danco-Te’ – Five artist non-dancers perform a sequence of traditional Brazilian rhythms including samba, roda, baiao, xaxado, afoxe, frevo and samba-reggae revealing their unique interpretation of the choreographed movements.

Totem - video

freewaves | January 22, 2015

‘Totem’ – The artist explores multiple aspects of his persona to rhythms of electronic music and psychedelic digital effects.

The Fourth Watch - video

freewaves | January 22, 2015

The ancient Greeks divided the night into four sections; the last section before morning was called the fourth watch. In these hours before dawn, an endless succession of rooms is inhabited by silent film figures occupying flickering space in a midcentury house made of printed tin. Their presence is at once inevitable and uncanny. A […]

Lost Motion - video

freewaves | January 22, 2015

Lost Motion uses small cast metal figures, toy trains, decayed skyscrapers, and other found objects to follow a mans search for a mysterious woman. From an illegible note found on a dollhouse bed, through impossible landscapes, the man waits for her train which never arrives. His wanderings lead him to the other side of the […]

Hal Tara - video

freewaves | January 22, 2015

News headlines are read over staged and real images of violence. A scalpel cuts a flesh-like substance in what at first appears to be a grotesque surgery, but eventually emerges as the creation of a bizarre dessert resembling an American flag. News headlines and political speeches overlay this and other images. The consequences of war […]

MELANCHOLIA - video

freewaves | January 22, 2015

In Melancholia, one is immediately transfixed by the lilting, repetitive piano melody of Basinski’s “The Saddest Melody Ever Heard”. Drawn slowly through the dark veil of a lonely tunnel of trees, eventually the world is revealed, shining deceptively. Immediately one begins a bumpy journey around a dull and hollow shell, before being drawn back, away […]

The Psychotropic Alphabet from Z to Z - video

freewaves | January 22, 2015

Pharmaceutical ad copy is read over the image of a drifting woman. A still image of a woman sitting at the end of a rowboat is superimposed over a background of moving trees. A narration mimics advertising for new drugs by asking if you have experienced any of a number of symptoms. The you spoken […]

Psycho - video

freewaves | January 22, 2015

Working within the format of the video screen Paul Emmanuel uses paint in its simplest form. His compulsive real-time animation of paint on camera puts modernist ideals of paint in a context of attention disorders.

Undocumented - video

freewaves | January 22, 2015

Black and white images of the countryside accompany the story of a man who attempts to cross an international border.

Made in Taiwan - video

freewaves | January 22, 2015

A metaphoric, subtle reference – yet at the same time direct – to the ambiguous relationships between pleasure, beauty and violence, through a classic, kitsch icon: the music box. This object, however, suggests the contradictory relationships established between an already globalized tradition and the trace of violence and militarism always concealed but present throughout the […]

Thick - video

freewaves | January 22, 2015

In Kristina Faragher’s video Thick, the viewer watches a close-up of honey pouring from beyond the frame into an open, receiving mouth. As the liquid glides into the orifice in slow motion, the viewer is visually seduced by the golden substance as it glitters in the sun, running over pink flesh and teeth. At first […]

Brilliant City - video

freewaves | January 22, 2015

A manipulated video landscape offers a dream-like vision of post-modern life. An electronic soundtrack mixes beneath a shifting aerial view. Specific details come into focus as the camera lingers on a man, a building, a sporting exercise. Digital manipulation applies a futuristic, automated quality to these images.

Meridian Days - video

freewaves | January 22, 2015

Meridian Days is a poetic travelogue that stems from audio and visual material collected on a three-week ship cruise taken with the filmmaker’s 82-year-old grandmother. Through the combined use of text, voiceover and visual metaphor the film explores themes of aging, alienation, and independence. Meridian Days is a navigational term that refers to the phenome.

Guarded - video

freewaves | January 22, 2015

Guarded explores chance, accident, and our precarious relationship to expectation. Two video projectors, two DVD decks and stereo speakers are all mounted on a rotating turntable that sits in the center of the gallery space. As it turns, the projectors throw images that follow each other around the opposing walls. The projections move across the […]

la calavera - video

freewaves | January 22, 2015

la calavera turns a Gulf War flight simulator into a suitor who will lead you to the grave.