Impressions from Bill Viola's installation for 2007 Venice Biennale. In context. Chiesa di S. Gallo.

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Sound track by Professor Jahal's Advanced Project. More on http://rememberingjackkerouac.blogspot.com/

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A new music video for an old polka: a gift to the subscribers of Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro's magazine "O Besouro" (Rio de Janeiro, 1878). Rafel Bordalo Pinheiro (1846-1905) was a portuguese illustrator, cartoonist, comics creator and ceramics designer (see, for instance: http://lambiek.net/artists/p/pinheiro_r_b.htm ). Music by J. Geraldo D. Ribeiro.

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"Into the Light", Lisbon, CCB (2004-2005), curated by Chrissie Illes (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York). "For Mirage I made a film of drawing, again and again, images on a blackboard, and then erasing them. Reading the essays collected in Spiritual Disciplines, I got another idea to use drawings, also in Mirage, which I called 'Endless Drawings' after those described in the Melukean Book of the Dead, the tribal ritual book of New Guinea. There it says that in order to go from one world to the next you must finish a drawing in sand which an old lady, the devouring witch, begins at the boundary between life and death." (Joan Jonas: http://www.eai.org/eai/tape.jsp?itemID=2791)

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Rebecca Horn's (Germany, 1944) installation "Light Imprisoned in the Belly of the Whale" (2002). CCB (Lisbon), 2005: "Bodylandscapes | Desenhos, escultura, instalações 1964-2004", curated by Armin Zweite. Sound is not always synchronous.

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A video clip for Doctor Jahal's "LonelyDivaonDrugs".

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Marilyn Monroe speaking without sound. Summer. Caution, Mr. Richard Sherman. Getty Images: http://creative.gettyimages.com/source/home/home.aspx

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An old form of animation: without film, it requires only a thumb. Music by Doctor Jahal: "Sonnerie pour Sa Majesté le Roi des Clowns (Qui Dort en Souriant)".

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A video-article on sex, violence and gaze, through the peep hole of Hitchcock's Psycho. Images from Hans Bellmer, Tintoretto, Marcel Duchamp, Allori, Buñuel-Dali and Hitchcock. Music by Marcel Duchamp.

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Rebecca Horn's (Germany, 1944) installation, "Heartshadows for Pessoa". CCB (Lisbon), 2005: "Bodylandscapes | Desenhos, escultura, instalações 1964-2004", curated by Armin Zweite. Sound is not always synchronous.

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It will work better using a SMALL SCREEN FORMAT. A fragment (going on a loop) of the film of Jackson Pollock painting - shot by Hans Namuth (1950) and released as "Jackson Pollock 51" (1951). Sound is not synchronous. Available (with another short clip and a text transcript of Pollock's comments) at http://www.nga.gov/feature/pollock/process3qt.shtm

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An early Hitchcock film (1925), coproduced by Gainsborough (London) and Emelka (Munich). You can find this clip (among others) in the italian site www.hitchcockmania.it.

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A loop projection of four 16mm films (video transfer). Original version with soundtrack. Projected on four walls. CCB's (Lisbon) presentation of "Into the Light" (2004-2005), the exhibition curated by Chrissie Illes (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York). The physicality of an idea.

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2 synchronized super 8mm films, simultaneously projected on 2 opposite walls. Dan Graham's "Helix/Spiral" (1973) in CCB's (Lisbon) presentation of "Into the Light" (2004-2005), the exhibition curated by Chrissie Illes (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York). Another side to an idea.

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2 synchronized 16mm films. Michael Snow's "Two Sides to Every Story" (1974) in CCB's (Lisbon) presentation of "Into the Light" (2004-2005), the exhibition curated by Chrissie Illes (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York).

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Hans Richter's film (1928): two clips (the beggining and the end) with Dr. Jahal Jal's music (the original soundtrack of "VormittagsSpuk" / "Ghosts Before Breakfast" was destroyed by the nazis).

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Ruttmann going from abstract to concrete, to "real image" photography, in is famous "urban symphony": antecipating Saul Bass's credit title for Hitchcock's "North by Northwest".

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