Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Saturday, December 27, 2008

it's a party!


a big thanks to those who sent us their tasety dishes!
and thank you too, those who meant to send some but didn't manage to...
and now, to the table!
(in the spirit of our non-hirarchy policy, the dishes appear in alphabetic order of their makers name)




barbara meyer cesta - ants
(now, how about this for a starter!)




barbara meyer cesta - madonna de saulcy



barbara meyer cesta- still alive




barbara meyer cesta -swiss tsunami




barbara meyer cesta - singing mountain 4274m



A homage to "I'll meet you here", a homage by David Horvitz to Bas Jan Ader from Caleb Engstrom on Vimeo.





cristina ohlmer - Sommerende 2007, ©CO2008




christoph Oertli - bayram




Henry Gwiazda - claudia and paul 7:04 am



Henry Gwiazda - claudia and paul 2:14 am




Henry Gwiazda - in bed with light





Henry Gwiazda - topless with church bell





irina birger - the end of the beginning




jan tichy - the MAM




MaryClare Brzytwa




max sackstein




max sackstein




ran slavin -Alenbi moment




ran slavin - Highway moment




su tomesen - police
The short video Police, shot at Tienanmen square in Beijing, shows a stationary police car at dusk. The blue rotating lights on the car are operating. Slowly some, in first instance curious, policemen appear in the frame.
The video was exhibited during the Videosummer in Petersburg Project Space in Amsterdam. In November Police was nominated for an Award at The One Minutes Award Night 2008 in Paradiso by jury member Hansje van Etten from Holland Doc / VPRO.





su tomesen - scraping
The short video Scraping was shot at Tienanmen square in Beijing shortly before the start of the Olympic Games. Scraping shows a small army of Chinese working at the square. They remove chewing gum and other dirt.
The video was nominated for a One Minute Award at The One Minutes Award Night 2008 in Paradiso by jury member Mieke Bernink of the Filmacademy.



tal sterngast - מכתב מנסיעה מדומה

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pffewh...

anything for desert?
you bet.
coming soon, right on new year's day.

Saturday, December 20, 2008

Saturday, December 13, 2008

the light before the light at the end of the tunnel



currently holding the record for the longest title in this blog, this video was shot in the land of tunnels, august 2008.

Sunday, December 7, 2008

stare case



communicating with a typical swiss building at estavayer-le-lac, august 2008.
yes, it was sunny, back then.

Monday, December 1, 2008

Public shower



King Leopold III is enjoying (or not) an intense beauty treatment on a Brussels sunny September day. if you wish to do the same to your favorite monument, consult this first

Monday, November 24, 2008

first snow



it was snowing today in Aalst, but this is not what you see in this video. what you see is what we saw when the light beam of the projector hit the dusty space where we were working. don't let them mislead you, these little ones can be dangerous.

Saturday, November 15, 2008

steamdish



we spend the weekend in aalst. it's not really the place to spend your spare time. but since we have to be here (working on our exhibition in netwerk) we're looking for some brighter sides of it. like this one. our favorite spot in town.

Monday, November 10, 2008

november sun



a sunset comme il faut over the ta'anakhim road in the Gilbo'a.
(just arrived in brussels today, so burning sun seems like something we're going to miss for quite a while now...)

Sunday, November 2, 2008

Monday, October 27, 2008

all together now



the third part of our mechanical music trilogy.
next dish will be a completely different story. umm, we suppose.

Saturday, October 11, 2008

having a ball



a mechanical dance (yes, that's us, those jerky pixels) at the mechanical music exhibition at the cinquantenaire museum in brussels. the music in the background is played by one of the dance organs. more from these lovely instruments will follow.

Sunday, October 5, 2008

speechless



we, too, were wondering what he was saying to our camera. but in fact, he's saying nothing, and still, it was so important for him to say it!
shot in the outskirts of bujumbura when we visited the Batwa people.

Saturday, September 27, 2008

happy new dish for the jewish new year



our best and warmest wishes for the new year "TASHSAH" (5769)
with all the respect to blogger, their flv compression suck...
for the real thing, we highly recommend to watch this video in higher resoution HERE

Saturday, September 20, 2008

white to red




no, it's not the polish flag, and even polish origins are not to blame.
it was a beautiful day here in the lowlands so we took our bikes to get some fresh air in the woods. it was a little too fresh maybe as amir's raynaud demonstrates.


Sunday, September 14, 2008

sky crackers



it was a l-o-n-g flight to bujumbura and we had to pass the the time somehow. the stewardess of ethiopian airlines weren't very happy about it. (superstitious, maybe?)
for more not-funny-jokes about airplane food, try here.

Sunday, September 7, 2008

atamato



back in the white(?) continent, and the african dishes are being baked, as promised.
it's true what they say, that africa has another pace, that things takes much longer. here's why.
this one is an "end of the workshop thank you" Burundi style.
please don't ask us what it means, we have no idea.

Monday, August 25, 2008

bzzzz


surprise, surprise, the insects in this video are not africans. they are from some light years away, switzerland. so one more video from la corbière before we enter the bujumbura-videos époque.

Saturday, August 23, 2008

olympic spirit



here's one round from the thumb wrestling championship last night at la corbiere.
wanna take thumb wrestling further?

Sunday, August 17, 2008

waiting for the full pull



no, it's not the midwest but the neat and clean and green switzerland. a great saturday pastime with barbara and rudi and a bunch of hardcore farmers. if we were real video artists we would have made a whole piece out of it. but we are not, we're just tourists. and the link? check this, you can try some online potato peeling here.

Monday, August 11, 2008

Sunday, July 27, 2008

lullaby



believe it or not, it was a HOT day! we are exhausted. we have a nice dish in the oven, but it's a slow cooking, will be ready, hopefuly, next week. and now, off to sleep.

Monday, July 21, 2008

The Cosmonauts



we went fishing for dishes today at the foire du midi. came back home with a full stomach (and a little headache). more to come.

Sunday, July 13, 2008

Sunday, July 6, 2008

Saturday, June 28, 2008

back from the wilderness of maramureş



so... i'm back from baia mare and all i brought you is this lousy video. these wild ducks, believe it or not, where swimming peacefully in a beautiful spot between a lake and a forest, just at the edge of the city.

Saturday, June 21, 2008

That's right folks, it is very easy to be old



well folks, the title for this post does not necessarily mean that i think this way.
it is just a nice title of a song played by The Violent Husbands, a Belgian group that we like a lot and decided to give them the speech in this week's post.
Effi is in Romania giving another One Minutes video workshop and I am in sunny Brussels and it is the longest day in the year and i am sad because this is the day winter starts taking over.

Sunday, June 8, 2008

א פערדל



a ferdl hab ich a recht
zitzn iz af im nit shlecht
vi fart men aber avek
az fun farnt iz der ek !

א פערדל האב איך א רעכט
זיצן איז אף אים ניט שלעכט
ווי פארט מען אבער אוועק
אז פון פארנט איז דער עק

to translate, try here


Monday, June 2, 2008

The Wave



This time not the famous mythologic "The Wave" movie, we all remember from the youth movement.

Monday, May 26, 2008

microsleep




too tired. had a busy busy week and here comes another one already.
we're off to sleep.

Thursday, May 15, 2008

on the fly


last week we were in amsterdam, filming the Kunstvlaai API event. that's also why we were a bit late with this week's dish. here's a group portrait of the kunstvlaai pioneers, who prepared the ground for the artists.

Sunday, May 4, 2008

independence day lesson


a special dish for the 60th anniversary of israel that will take place next week. featuring the famous independence day hammer in its inflated version (warning: image in the link might hurt some viewers' feelings (aesthetic feelings mainly))

Saturday, April 26, 2008

living particles



you just need to look around you, they're always there. these ones are from the botanique garden in bern.

Monday, April 21, 2008

if you're not in casablanca



if you're not in Casablanca these days you won't be able to see our collaborative concert with stephan dunkelman. so here's one track, "stay here", in its single screen version. hopefully soon in a theatre near you.

Sunday, April 13, 2008

hadar's magnificent marble shoot




this week for the first time we host somebody else's video.
it's hadar sackstein's marble shoot which he built in his room during four hours. we cut out some bits and added subtitles but left most of it intact. the second part is all in-camera-editing and we like it a lot. camera credit goes to max sackstein.

Sunday, April 6, 2008

over-saturated gwangju



well don't ask us what it is or what they say. we're talking about gwangju here, we have no idea. this video goes back to 2002, when we were lucky to participate the 4th gwangju biennale. (sorry, the website is nowhere to be found, overran by newer biannales it seems)

Saturday, March 29, 2008

Friday, March 21, 2008

energy



wind powered electricity generator deep in the west bank (ancient sousya, south mount Hebron),
march 2008, where we will give a 1minutes video workshop as part of B'TZELEM project "shooting back"

Thursday, March 6, 2008

concert (x2)

this weekend we'll be away and next weekend too, so here are two videos of live music for you:



first one is okkervil river playing 'for real' at stuk. yes, yes, we went to Leuven specially for that.




the second is from last november, an authentic improvised swiss coin concert at clara and valerian's place.
(unfortunately we cannot find a link to clara and valerian's work, so here's a link to haus am gern, to whom we owe this
acquaintanceship, as well as many other things...)

Saturday, March 1, 2008

tip of the day



from our (non existing, but maybe future) series "tales from under the burning sun". shot in august 2004, in israel.
another tale from the series can be seen here.

Sunday, February 24, 2008

Torso




another one from our archive, not a great video, but a very stupid sculpture. shot at the Olympic museum, Lausanne, november 2002

Saturday, February 16, 2008

vertical trip



yesterday, on the way to amsterdam for a meeting regarding a commissioned documentary about the kustvlaai/API

Saturday, February 9, 2008

a teaser



an excerpt from a video for an installation we're working on these days at netwerk. the music is from "when i was wood" of stephan dunkelman, who invited us to add image to his sound projection.

Saturday, February 2, 2008

Sunday, January 27, 2008

Saturday, January 19, 2008

McCarthy's sleeping beauty



Paul McCarthy's mechanical pig, from the exhibition Head Shop/Shop Head at the SMAK, Gent

Sunday, January 13, 2008

Saturday, January 5, 2008