LES FILM FESTIVAL Rick Hamner I doubtmany of the people who heard Baz Luhrman’s high-dollar, uptown production of LaBoheme wandered through much of Phil Hartmann’s low-rent bohemian circus, HowlFestival, but there was much to ponder about art then and now, and what loveand squalor it all comes from. No small part of the week-long extravaganza […]

LOOP ’00 ART BARCELONA Rita Michel  photo by Rita Mchel   LOOP’00 ART BARCELONA,"Fira de Videoart", the new International Video Exposition, tookplace from November 27-30 in Barcelona, Spain at the beautiful Barcelo HotelSants. Based upon my conversations with the artists, many of them were planningto sell work or make gallery contacts. Some of the gallery […]

INSTANT GRATIFICATION Lily Hatchett As we allknow, filmmaking is a painstaking collaborative process that takes time andeffort, spanning an extended period of time from idea to completion. That wayof working leaves the impatient, the need-to-see-it-now types out, or does it?Available technology allows us to make a movie in a day. Quick video festivalsare here and […]

Constructing A Visual Field Rick Hamner   Reading Ossie Clark, 2003, sequence from DVD with sound for plasma or projection   JeremyBlake’s "time-based painting" has been around for a while now, at theWhitney’s Bitstreams and at 010101 in San Francisco, but he’s gained much ofhis renown working with real-time artists Beck and P. T. Anderson. […]

Delicious for the brain: Godfrey Reggio Lily Hatchett Images of him and of NAQOYQATSI   So muchhas been written and said about artist/filmmaker Godfrey Reggio, especiallysince the release of NAQOYQATSI, his long-awaited grand finale to the QATSItrilogy. The outcry of joys and disappointments, amazing how much passion agentle ex-monk can arouse.   I firstmet Godfrey […]

Silent Words Tarvis Watson SometimesI wonder what was going through Godfrey Reggio’s mind during those fourteenyears he was silent. I read somewhere that the average male speaks two thousandwords a day. Two thousand words times three hundred and sixty five days timesfourteen years equals ten million, two-hundred and twenty thousand words, allunspoken by Mr. Reggio. […]

Cuba: Island Of Music Rita Michel       Documentaryfilm producer and director Gary Keys started his media career in theadvertising industry directing television commercials. This day-job gave himthe skills that, subsequently, were the tools for his creations.style="mso-spacerun: yes">  Always a major jazz buff, Gary hassurrounded himself with musicians, or perhaps one can say that […]

NATURE IN ACE����David Hatchett DA-O-BA IV, 1969   style=’font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana’>The nature of electricity ismovement and, generally speaking, when electricity is used as an element in art,it moves. Film, video, and amplified music are all "moving" arts thatare perceived over a length of time. This element of time creates a contextthat is easily assimilated into our day-to-day […]

MIGUEL ANGEL RIOS: Multiple Video Event David Hatchett style=’font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana’>Walking through Artists Space, Ihear a sound track coming from a back room. It sounds like billiard ballscolliding or airplanes sweeping in on their targets. The quick strike, theclattering of chairs exploding, an air raid on Baghdad? A sign outside the roomsays it is a film by […]

GARY GOLDBERG: GLORIOUS SILLINESS David Hatchett       style=’font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana’>Recently there was a memorial forGary Goldberg, an enigmatic artist with a dry sense of humor that was alwaysjust under the surface of his simple, plain-spoken demeanor. I have never met amore genuine dada artist. style=’font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana’> style=’font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana’>That night we were presented withglimpses of a number of […]