Program 3 - Netherlands Media Art Institute, MonteVideo/Time Based Arts (presentation by Jan Schuijren, collection & presentation Netherlands Media Art Institute) 15 mins. The World of eddie d (lecture by eddie d , artist) 45 mins. 

eddie d (NL); Poem #1, Poem #2, Poem #3, Poem #4, Poem #7, Poem #5, Poem #6, Poem #8, Poem #9
Television is all talk, which is of precious little meaning. From the daily brew of sight-and-sound produced by the medium, we distill what we wish to see and hear, and totally disregard the rest. In his 'poems', eddie d has adapted the remaining dross - this ' televisual waste-in-space' - into an audio visual poem. The poems are part of a series of works to which new ones are added on a regular basis. They are all to be seen as independent works.

Jens Lien (NOR); Making Faces 1998
A man and a blind woman are walking around in a park. They are approaching a snow-covered grass field, which lies before them like an idyllic playground. The man and the woman begin to dance around each other like young lovers. The film consists of a rhythmical repetition of these scenes. The remarkable montage lifts the action out of its narrative context. The fears and uncertainties caused by the loss of one of the senses are constantly accentuated by the man. But, reassured by her rational faith in the other, the woman parries each threat with a triumphant, gentle smile.

Anders Thoren (SWE); His Masters Voice 1998
Thoren concentrates on working with existing, or 'ready made' film material. The simple act of appropriation changes its context and thus gives it new meaning. The Swedish film maker used a recording of a scientific experiment with a dog for this film, in which its ability to move about is affected by dosing it with alcohol or drugs. Thoren calls it "the restricting fear in our society of weakness and an excessive belief in authority".

Peter Bogers (NL); Video Violence 1998
A series of very short fragments taken from violent scenes in feature films and television dramas that mark time in this work through the use of the scratch technique. Isolated in this way, they embody the senseless violence which currently attracts so much indignation. After initial resistance you realize there is no escape.

Rafael Montanez Ortiz (USA); Couplet 1986
"In my video work, I seek to suspend time, to magnify beyond all proportion the fantasy, dream, or nightmare I glimpse in even the most realistic straightforward documentary footage, in even the most innocent story-line." Couplet' consists of images of a male and a female opera singer. Montanez makes apparently seamless and supple images seem shaky and uncertain, so that a single moment seems to last for an eternity.

Peter Stel (NL); Look at Me 1998
total running time appr. 65 mins.
The tension between the image and the surrounding in which it is shown is essential in Peter Stel’s work. The roots of his films lie in an anthropological fascination in the nature and incentives of human behavior. He observes scenes from everyday life that pass usby, unnoticed as common day-to-day experiences. It is particularly these ordinairy things as he calls them, which yield an inexhaustible source of inspiration, ideas, and information. The moment he isolates an image, the process of finding meaning begins.

Anders Thoren (SWE); Sugar Dad 1998
The concept of communication and meaning is explored through a fictitious dialogue of found footage. On one level a linear story of assumed hidden messages and ominous porten t, with connotations to paternal dominance and possibly sexual aggression. On another level the film presents a clash between its overtly didactic composition and a less tangible estrangement resulting from innate qualities of the materials used.

Fiona Tan (NL); Stolen Words 1991
The short tape Stolen Words reaches out as a poem, as a personal monologue that Fiona Tan recounts against the indifference and cynicism with which the mass-media 'present their report' on life. Stolen Words consists of a series of mounted 'stills' - unabashed close-ups of various people. An English voice-over, provided with original Dutch sub-titles, mouths the usual standard phrases...hinting at 'the seriousness of the situation' or 'things aren't going well', etc. They are stolen sentences

Bart Dijkman (NL); Observation #762 1997
Often without us being aware of it, our everyday actions are monitored by hidden surveillance cameras, invisibly installed in department stores, banks, museums, garages, or simply in the street. We are completely oblivious of being observed by all manner of monitoring equipment encroaching upon our privacy.

Valerie Pavia (F); De la Seduction (On Seduction) 1998
De la Seduction (On Seduction) belongs to a series of six self-portraits where Valerie Pavia creates a kind of alter ego character called Viola Tricolor. We witness an intimate situation where everything seems to be revealed, and yet you have no idea of what you are being told.

John Wood & Paul Harrison (UK); 3 Legged 1998
John Wood & Paul Harrison have been working collaboratively in video since 1991. Their work is an ongoing collection of experiments, a kind of reference catalogue of diagrams researching human size, scale and movements in relation to the immediate surrounding space and architecture.

Martin Takken (NL; Twee Meeuwen (Two Seagulls) 1998
Two Seagulls, apparently having a conversation. What are they trying to tell each other? Are they just having an informal talk, are they gossiping? Or are they just talking to themselves?